Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

We might not like to admit it but deception is deeply en...
To fill the gap, darkpatterns.org was created in August ...
If we put aside our moral quibbles let’s put ourselves ...
Let’s continue a while as evil web designers: perhaps ...
... ominent

So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now.
It's a lot of this sort of thing.
As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Futur ...
My problem is the opposite, really — this vision, from ...
... or anything. I just hope to suggest

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w...
But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ...
Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

Diffusion of Innovations is a theory that seeks to expla... what rate new ideas and technology spread through cultur... a professor of rural sociology, popularized the theory i... Diffusion of Innovations. He said diffusion is the proce... innovation

Rogers' bell curve
The technology adoption lifecycle model describes the ad ...
The demographic and psychological (or "psychographic") p ...
The report summarised the categories as:
... , had small farms and capital, oldest and least educated

Everett M. Rogers is widely known as the inventor of the... Innovation” theory from his research on how farmers ad... innovations. After pursuing a degree in agriculture, Rog... in Sociology and Statistics at Iowa State University (19...
Rogers revi

google self-driving robotic car
Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are ...
Google's fleet of robotic Toyota Priuses has now logged ...

The Funf Open Sensing Framework is an extensible sensing... processing framework for mobile devices, developed at th... The core concept is to provide an open source, reusable ... functionalities, enabling the collection, uploading, and... wide range

Remember the days before you could pull your smartphone ... and get instant directions from your current location to... world? It's kind of foggy for me, too.
In fact, I'm so used to relying on my smartphone that I ...
The answer is "yes," of course. B

However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumb...
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Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :)
... and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates.

Did you know the emoticon is almost 30 years old? Twenty...
Fast-forward and the simple smiley has evolved — some ...
To mark this anniversary, we’ve taken an abridged look ...
1. The Olden Days
... Thumbnail image courtesy of Laihiuyeung Ryanne

Copy, moving, renaming and deleting make up around 50% o... usage according to Microsoft’s Windows 7 telemetry dat... 8, we want to make sure that using these core file manag... which we collectively refer to as “copy jobs,” is a ... experience,

Broadband communications and Global Positioning Systems ... technologies happily used by many walkers as navigation ... the still essential map and compass.
And - as many smartphone users will testify - these two ...
But this could change if a new 4G m

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... http://billbuxton.com/LincolnLab.pdf

A friend of mine called Mark Alexander is in prison, wro...
He’s been in prison for quite some months (good lord, ...
(Andy and I have been discussing related issues of laten ...
Email A Prisoner is a nice service, and has been complem ...
So I was ab

In response to a threatened protest in its subway system... authorities temporarily shut down mobile phone service i... stations of the Bay Area Rapid Transit District, known l...

Skinput is a technology that appropriates the skin as an... analyzing mechanical vibrations that propagate through t... Specifically, we resolve the location of finger taps on ... using a novel sensor array worn as an armband.

Pass-Them-Around is a phone-based application that allow... collocated people to share photos using the metaphor of ... photos around. The prototype encourages people to share ... use them interchangeably while discussing photos face-to... prototype s

Your social motivation network to explore, create and sh... happiest experiences

Two years ago, the technology blogger John Gruber presen... Auteur Theory of Design,” at the Macworld Expo. Mr. Gr...
The auteur, a film director who both has a distinctive v ...
“The quality of any collaborative creative endeavor te ...
Two years a

In 2008, the number of devices that connected to the Int... number of people. That number continues to rise, thanks ... number of connected devices and gizmos, ranging from tel... machines. Folks at Cisco have put together this infograp... the growth

Facebook Export uses the Facebook Open Graph protocol to... Facebook data to an xml file. Facebook Export does not s... about you. You can then use this xml file to import your... services and websites that support the Facebook Export (...

An individual is the only ethical integration point for ...
Our purpose is to catalyze a Personal Data Ecosystem whe ...
The Startup Circle - for startups committed to putti ...
1 Million People for Personal Data - gathers people ...
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WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suit... make Web content and Web applications more accessible to... disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content a... interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript... technologie

So all those companies advertising for a Data Scientist,... this to say…
You want a Dancer not a Scientist.

On March 21, 2011, my MacBook was stolen from my apartme... I reported the crime to the police and even told them wh... they couldn't help me due to lack of resources. Meanwhil...
Update: (May 31, 8:37 PM PST) ARRESTED! An Oakland polic ...
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