My little boy is six months old tomorrow. I’ve been thinking a lot, since he’s been around, about what the world looks like to him now, what it might be like in the future, and trying to understand how his little brain develops and turns him into a real little person (incredibly quickly, as it [...]

Fruitful Seminars: Making Social Tools Ubiquitous
But what do you do if you don’t get the level of engagement you’d like? And how do you progress from a small-scale pilot to widespread adoption? The first ’social’ seminar hosted by Fruitful Seminars with Suw Charman-Anderson.
(tags: fruitfulseminars socialnetworks)

Jeff Jarvis: Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine | Media | The Guardian
Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter… Summize, and other social-media services… for news catchwords such as “earthquake” and “evacuation”…
(tags: twitter socialsoftware ambientintimacy)

Mental Models workshop with Indi Young | Clearleft
I’m looking forward to going along to Indi’s workshop - finally! Have been meaning to catch this one for ages. If you can get to Brighton for this it will be well worth your time.
(tags: training workshop indiyoung mentalmodels)

YouTube - Twitter in Plain English
life happens between blog posts and emails
(tags: twitter ambientintimacy)

I’m Over Twitter (Three Minds On Digital Marketing @ Organic)
for three reasons: most people are not that interesting; twitter takes bitesized content too far; twitter feels distancing even as it connects me.
(tags: twitter ambientintimacy)

Friending, Ancient or Otherwise - New York Times
Academic researchers [...]

Tim’s Musings: User Research as a Commodity
“The Product Manager and I were convinced that we needed to expose our work to end users prior to going live, and we could see there was no way we’d get even a week out of the schedule. So we decided to try something new—prescheduled testing.”
(tags: agile user-research ucd [...]

Johnny Chung Lee - Projects - Wii
Using an LED array and some reflective tape, you can use the infrared camera in the Wii remote to track objects, like your fingers, in 2D space.
(tags: wii gesture hack)

BarCampLondon3 video: DIY user research - A Consuming Experience
oooh look - someone took some video of my presentation at the last London Barcamp
(tags: research user-research ucd barcamp)

Twitter and Ambient Intimacy on MIT Technology Review
I’ve been a bit late bookmarking this one but it is worth a watch
(tags: ambientintimacy twitter socialnetworks)

YouTube - Twitter in CSI
Similarly, a little late bookmarking this one too, but here Twitter makes an appearance in CSI… I rate CSI all the more highly for going Twitter and not [...]

The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times
Mainly, [Twitter and Tumbler] describe the minutiae of their day, but when their lives take more dramatic turns, they often take the network along in real time.
(tags: ambientintimacy)