Thursday, February 28, 2008
We Socialbomb folks (Adam, Scott and I) have been quite busy lately, making prototypes, writing proposals and presenting things at various places. So far, the latter point has mostly involved the Stern Business Plan Competition, which we are Semi-Finalists in (and still in the final running), but it’s about to lead us to San [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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In other happy prototyping news, I finally got Eclipse up on my machine and happily running Processing sketches (thank you Adam Parrish). So, I can now do [...]
Sunday, February 24, 2008
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The new Socialbomb boards have been prototyped, printed, and soldered up — and they work perfectly! Adam, Scott and I are working on some backend changes now, [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
As I’ve noted in earlier documents, my thesis plan is to create a series of devices which allow people to explore the urban spaces around them through the use of ambient monitoring devices. These devices will be built, tested and disributed to users in stages — partly so I can start with lower-tech ideas [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Jay
Jay is a 31-year-old chef who lives with his girlfriend in the Upper West Side section of New York City. He works a hectic schedule at a French bistro across town on the east side, but he loves the work and his city life in general. He’s found himself more tense lately; more [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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I’m know I’m quite far behind in posting my thesis thoughts and progress, but I’m behind in everything these days, so here we are.
What you’re looking at here [...]
Monday, February 18, 2008
So I’m not sure I’ve mentioned this here in any detail, but Adam, Scott and I are taking a revised version of our way-fun Socialbomb game pieces to O’Reilly E-Tech this year (err, in two weeks). We’re absolutely thrilled and honored to be part of such an amazing conference, and stoked to get to head [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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Lots and lots of reading.
It’s good, now that I finally feel like I’m working on something I really want to do, and I keep finding more relevant reading. [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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What do you do at ITP when you don’t like computers? Why, you write on windows, of course!
(Kidding, it was something she, Ruth, Greg (and possibly others, [...]