Re: [IxDA Discuss] Seeking: Confusing/misleading signs, hard to use devices, etc

2010-02-11 Thread Tim Lynch
As Jack mention, This Is Broken shut down, but the associated Flickr group continues to add photos (some of which might be appropriate for what you're looking for): http://www.flickr.com/groups/thisisbroken/pool/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Future Interaction: The application of IxD to science fiction.

2008-10-21 Thread Tim Lynch
I've recently become a big fan of Vernor Vinge's work, specifically "A Fire Upon The Deep," "A Deepness In The Sky," and "Rainbow's End." He really has a knack for realizing some "far out" systems...the first two books are set way way in the future, but Rainbow's End takes place in a near future,

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Visualizing Connections on Social Networks

2008-07-14 Thread Tim Lynch
There is a Facebook app called Nexus (http://nexus.ludios.net/) that creates a "graph" of your network. The demo shows a bit more: http://nexus.ludios.net/view/demo/ I've installed it on my Facebook profile, but find it has limited value...in that it seems to be just an interesting view of your

Re: [IxDA Discuss] IxD Podcasts...sugestions?

2008-06-15 Thread Tim Lynch
A few that I listen to that I didn't see mentioned above: IT Conversations (a wide array of topics, some IxDA-related, some interestingly tangentially related): http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/ BoagWorld (more general, but some good related topics & interviews): http://www.boagworld.com/podca

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Fighting trolls

2008-03-27 Thread Tim Lynch
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For #3... How do we force new users to search for answers before > creating a duplicate thread on issues that has been addressed already? An interesting method implemented by Metafilter (mentioned previous in regards to their banhamm

Re: [IxDA Discuss] can you please discuss the effect of the US recession

2008-03-25 Thread Tim Lynch
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Raminder Oberoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Report: Despite Economy, Web Will Grow in '08 > > http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003727162 I can't speak directly to the impact the current economic "situation" is having on the co

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of web-based drag and drop functionality

2008-03-19 Thread Tim Lynch
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Fine, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for public internet based websites (not fat client) that > feature drag and drop functionality. Anybody have any favorite examples > to share? > Similar to iGoogle, there's Netvibes (my start page of choice -