Dan Marovitz Shows his Zeal
The more I get to know Dan, the more I like his zeal. Not just his entrepreneurial zeal — which is fantastic by itself — but his zeal for life. Both are reflected in his new post on the buzzumi … Continue reading →
Connect.Me: One Month In
Trust is a very delicate matter — especially online, where most if not all of the cues (location, appearance, diction, body language) we use to make trust decisions in the physical world are absent. To make matters worse, the rampant … Continue reading →
Connect.Me: A True Test of Online Trust
When it happened the first time, it was so ironic that it was almost laughable. The second time it is much more serious. In fact, it is turning into a true test of the online trust fabric that Connect.Me is … Continue reading →
Update on Personal Event Networks: The Evented API Spec
As a follow-on to my post about Personal Event Networks last week, Phil Windley and Sam Curren have published the Evented API Specification. Phil’s blog post about it gives a good summary, but if you’re a developer just go straight to … Continue reading →
Phil Windley on Personal Event Networks
Phil Windley has a new post called Personal Event Networks: Building the Internet of Things. The idea is simple but highly compelling: what if the range of products and services you used could actually talk to each other, over the … Continue reading →
Steve Jobs & The Courage of Great Design
There have been many tributes to Steve Jobs over the past few days but I found this short one by Bob Blakley to be particularly eloquent. All I know is that the company headed by this man has created the … Continue reading →
On KISSmetrics
I think Hiten Shah, CEO of KISSmetrics, is too distracted with recent lawsuits to understand the mistake his company made: not looking out for their customers. Legality of using ETag for tracking or reusing same ETag hash across domains is … Continue reading →
Cinemetrics
Cinemetrics is a promising example of Identicon IMO. Similar efforts have been made audio clips. Cinemetrics aims to create a visual “fingerprint” for film using the editing structure, color, speech and motion. Design challenge in generating interesting ‘fingerprint’ depends largely on the … Continue reading →
A Love Letter to J.K. Rowling
For me, it all ended — magnificently — in the cozy confines of the Empire Theatre on Block Island, RI. Having raised our two boys reading Harry Potter books out loud, and seeing several of the movies on various July … Continue reading →
Identicon and Robohash
This post is a dump [for archival purpose] of exchange between Colin Davis, creator of Robohash, and I that took place in context of a Hacker News about Robohash. Colin: Identicons are a great idea, I really love them.. They’re … Continue reading →
What is Identicon?
Word identify has two meaning: Establish or indicate who or what (someone or something) is. Recognize or distinguish. I chose the name Identicon with second meaning in mind to convey that Identicons’ intended applications are in helping users recognize or … Continue reading →
Identicon and QR Code
I was recently asked to provide some information on identicons, a good excuse to restart blogging. This post, more like notes actually, compares Identicon to QR code which may seem similar visually but are not. WARNING: I think in random … Continue reading →
