MiLK
Interaction Designer, Photography Enthusiast, News & Google Reader Junkie, Fitness Freak (some say vain), Outdoors Person, Appreciator of All Things Beautiful.
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It would appear from the video that Google has made it really simple for anyone to construct a network solely around their site. First there were the big networks where anything goes (facebook, etc), then came groups for the sites. As of late there have been an increasing number of more personalised networks. In fact, this morning was the first time I read about Twingr.
With this, Google could possibly be the opening of the floodgates to more personal social network platforms that are tailored to meet requirements or are targeted at very specific audiences, something that Ning could probably be credited with starting. This could be very useful for bloggers and small businesses who want to build a great sense of community around their small part of the web without having to go through all sorts of trouble.
Alternatively, we could all end up with community overdose. Too much information coming from everywhere. I guess with everything it's about proper application. Too much of anything can be bad.
Not too long, the big draw for products was that customisability. We were provided with empty shells to personalise with stuff we like. Think the iPod, Flickr, Youtube. Now that the internet has gone into mashup phase, it seems like the next big thing for devices will be hackability. The EEE, Wii, Xbox and a whole slew of other devices have attracted a following of early adopters and other people itching to repurpose the devices for something other than their creators intended and with great success. What next after hackability? Maybe with new technologies coming out all the time, hackability is something that won't go away. It will evolve. stimulant.io
Images of building stitched together into improbable, but not necessarily impossible forms.
The incredible work of Filip Dujardin via BLDGBLOG
Yesterday it was Google reader's auto translation, which in itself was quite a clever idea, although admittedly quite uneffective when it comes to asian languages. And when I got up this morning came Gmail video chat. I've been through MSN video and Skype and not found one with a satisfactory video quality/performance balance. With MSN it was poor quality video but relatively consistent connections and with Skype the video quality was marginally better, but the connection kept dropping out. This morning I gave Gmail video a go, I found that my Gmail chat kept getting disconnected.
Turns out that today is Pepero day in Korea. Sang Boon bought me a box of pepero to celebrate.
I recently downloaded a Ping.fm plugin for Wordpress that allows me to send my post to just about every single social network I've signed up for, and some others that I eventually signed up for just so that I would be able to stake a name on my usual username. In addition to this, I've signed up for FriendFeed. This allows me to keep track of my friends who have signed up for this service across a variety of other social networks, and them to keep track of me as well.
I was feeling very lazy on Saturday morning, but somehow Sang Boon managed to convince me to go to Harbour Town...
