This month’s NY Tech Meetup was titled Rally for the Future. With almost 700 people in attendance at FIT’s Haft Auditorium, NYTM veered off its typical format of 7 presenters for 5 minutes each. Instead a wide variety of people gave impassioned arguments about how to bring New York to the forefront of the technology [...]
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NY Tech Meetup — February 2010
February 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Events, Technology
Tags:Events·Innovation·New York·Twitter
Do you know what you’re designing for?
April 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Technology
The world is rapidly changing. Do you realize what is happening around you? Do you understand the context in which the products and services you help to create will be used, reused, and repurposed? Ecosystems are paradigms are shifting so dramatically that the research you do at the beginning of a project may no longer [...]
My high school computer science homework
March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Digressions, Technology
As some of you may know, I was computer scientist before I was a user experience designer. Because I was always on the computer, I was persuaded by an 8th grade teacher to enroll in the one high school computer science class when I entered the 9th grade, and I loved it so much that [...]
Tags:Career·History·Pleasure·Technology
Future of Web Apps — Miami 2009
February 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Conferences, Technology, Web Development
Last weekend, Orian and I flew down to Miami for BarCampMiami and Carsonified’s Future of Web Apps (FOWA). Unfortunately I caught a cold and we missed most of BarCamp, but at least we made it to Fraser Kelton’s presentation on AdaptiveBlue’s Glue — a browser add-on that lets you see what your friends think about [...]
September 2008 IxDA NYC: Dan Saffer’s Tap is the New Click
September 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Events, Technology
In the midst of everything last week, I attended Dan Saffer’s presentation Wednesday night at the IxDA NYC monthly meet-up, hosted at the beautiful R/GA offices (I particularly like the gated courtyard/parking lot in front of the building).
Dan gave the same talk at Web 2.0 Expo NY earlier in the day, but I had missed [...]
