Monthly Archives February 2008

O’Reilly ETech!

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 [...]

Eclipse is happy now

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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 [...]

Prouder than a new father

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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, [...]

Design Treatment

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 [...]

User Scenario

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 [...]

Thesis Work Plan

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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 [...]

Socialbomb marches on

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 [...]

Happy V-day.

 
<3 nerd love.

Reading.

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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. [...]

Aichen narrates on glass

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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, [...]