Last month I got an email from Jonathan Berger, whom I had met briefly at NY Tech Meetup several months back. He just launched an online vintage marketplace called Market Publique and wanted to spread the news (I’ve already bought two items from it and it’s actually pretty rad). I get a lot of emails [Keep Reading…]
Video of Dan Saffer’s talk “Tap is the New Click” at IxDA NYC
In September, I posted my notes from Dan Saffer‘s fantastic talk “Tap is the New Click” at the monthly IxDA NYC event. R/GA, the hosts, filmed and edited a video of the presentation, which has now been made available on Vimeo. If you are interested in gestural interfaces or designing kiosks, tablets, or any non-keyboard-and-mouse [Keep Reading…]
Congrats to the winners of Mashable’s 2008 Open Web Awards
The winners of Mashable’s 2008 Open Web Awards were announced today. Congratulations to everyone! Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks Winner: Netlog Runner-up: Platinum Lounge Embeddable Widgets Winner: Qoof Runner-up: Sprout Blog Plugins Winner: ShareThis Runner-up: AddThis Social News Winner: Help a Reporter Out Runner-up: Hubdub Social Networking Applications Winner: Artition Runner-up: Digsby Social Bookmarking [Keep Reading…]
“Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy” webinar with Indi Young
Do you know about the new webinar series co-produced by Rosenfeld Media and Smart Experience called Future Practice? It’s a great new series with some of the best voices in user experience talking about how they see best practices turning into next practices. The first webinar was “Modern Web Form Design with Luke Wroblewski” and [Keep Reading…]
Final Round of Mashable’s Open Web Awards
As I’ve mentioned before, Pleasure and Pain is a blog partner for Mashable’s Open Web Awards. The final voting round started yesterday at noon ET. You can vote anytime until 11:59pm ET on Sunday, December 14. Mashable Open Web Awards Final Voting Round – Top 3 Mainstream & Large Scale Social Networks Name: URL: Netlog [Keep Reading…]
Mashable’s Open Web Awards – Voting Round 1
As I announced on Nov 5, nominations for Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards were open until last Sunday. On Wednesday, the first round of voting began (sorry for the delay in posting this). Vote for your favorite site using the widget below until November 30th at 11:59pm Pacific Time. Some ground rules: One vote [Keep Reading…]
Mashable’s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards: NOMINATIONS OPEN!
Pleasure and Pain is proud to be a blog partner of Mashable‘s 2nd Annual Open Web Awards. This is a unique opportunity for the world’s best websites and services to be recognized for their accomplishments through an open voting system appearing on blogs all across the web. Nominations are now open! The 2nd Annual Open [Keep Reading…]
September 2008 IxDA NYC: Dan Saffer’s Tap is the New Click
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 [Keep Reading…]
Helvetica & Lessons for Experience Designers
I just finished watching Helvetica, a documentary film by Gary Hustwit. I’ve been dying to see it since it was released, and finally got around to it this afternoon (I had convinced myself it was a daytime movie and not meant to be watched at night). Less than two minutes into the film I realized [Keep Reading…]
NY Tech Meetup — June 2008
Internet Week New York edition Last night was the monthly NY Tech Meetup at IAC. Instead of the typical 5-minute presentations by new start-ups getting their feet wet, this month was a rather impressive line-up of successful Internet companies operating in New York. As always, it was a sold-out room of 400+ developers, designers, entrepreneurs, [Keep Reading…]
