Links for 30-10-08

I've been catching up a bit this week after my recent holiday so there are quite a few links...

First, a batch around social web design...

/Message: A Social Interaction Design Primer
Some thoughts on social interaction design - "We can see this on twitter, also. Some users post to their audiences about themelves. Some, finding this weird, read first and are inclined to respond. And others get into rounds of conversation, often including their friends by @naming them in their posts."

slides from my FOWA talk on social web application design
Gavin Bell's talk from the Future of Web Apps on designing for the social web.

zengestrom.com: Social objects, power, stickiness, and love
Another great presentation on social objects - this time focusing on power, stickiness and love.

Lost Garden: The Princess Rescuing Application
Applying theories from game design to web applications.


Some environmental reading...

Current Cost Home - Current Cost
A wiki for notes and links about the Current Cost energy monitor.

DanielW’s Blog » Blog Archive » It’s getting cold: Measuring gas usage with S60 camera phone
"The plan was to have the camera of a mobile phone looking on the burner and recognize if the flame is there or not. That should work under the assumption, that the burning duration is directly related to the used gas volume.". Very innovative.

Begone denialists and crusties - Climate Change for the rest of us
A new campaign on climate change - "Sigh.It’s bloody obvious we need to do something pretty serious about climate change, but everyone campaigning on the issue seems so… hopeless."


Some media-related items...

iPlayerlist map
Nice idea that uses OpenCalais to extract geographic information from programme synopses and add iPlayer programmes to a map. Nearly works.

More than just watching TV
The BBC Internet blog highlights some good design research on the ways that people find and consume TV (and radio). Nice illustrations too.


And the most interesting, harder-to-pigeonhole, connecting-the-dots, and indeed longest items last...

Where I’m actually living in augmented reality, Jefferson Airplane and what does this mean for photos. « geobloggers
This starts off with the RjDj application for the iPhone that samples your environment to create a whole new soundscape but then moves on to much more - "What I’d like, is to be able to walk along the beachfront from my childhood and be played snippets of sounds from when I was young, superimposed with old family photos, mixed in with music generated from the sounds of the waves, and my own and other peoples photos being pulled in from having been taken at the same point, but in a style I happen to like. " Loved this. Trying RjDj out now.

Edge: ECONOMIC DIS-EQUILIBRIUM By George Dyson
"Derivatives are the equivalent of splitting off (and selling) further copies of the same stick—or the "clipping" and debasing of coinage that led Isaac Newton to spend the later part of his life reforming the financial system as Master of the Mint." I thikn I almost understood this and it reminded me of Neal Stephenson's Baroque cycle.

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