ProphecyBoy

F8 was actually better than the after party so far. The sitar music is better than Thievery Corporation, for sure. #f8 - more on Twitter
June 11th 2007
Tags: Apple

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Safari on Windows

Safari now runs on OS X, Windows, and soon the iPhone. It may be a relatively boring announcement for Mac users, but Safari on Windows is a big step toward Apple platformizing their web browser. The more people who use it the more web developers will write for it (which is ...
June 11th 2007
Tags: Apple

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My WWDC Leopard Write-up on Cool Hunting

...is here.
January 12th 2007
Tags: Apple

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Will the iPhone’s lockdown drive web-based software usage?

I've been thinking something Merlin Mann just mentioned: even if we can't install applications or widgets on the iPhone, it does still have a web browser. If Apple keeps the loop closed for long, I'm betting it will help give a big kick in the pants to web-based software. Notice ...
January 8th 2007
Tags: Apple

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Last-minute predictions

Update: Well, it happened, and it does support widgets, which even show up as normal apps on the home screen. While I'm fairly certain this means the iPhone will support any widgets through syncing, that hasn't been confirmed. And Dashcode tells me that widgets can run Java, which suggests that ...
September 15th 2006
Tags: Apple

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I’ve got a computer again! …and why Steve Jobs programs the universe

I've got my computer back (again), and here's hoping this logic board will last more than a few days. There have been announcements Apple and Wii recently, and while I'm still excited about the Wii, I'm more interested in all the crazy new theories flying around about Apple. Cringely has this ...
October 26th 2005
Tags: Apple, Politics

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Apple sendoff to Rosa Parks

Apple's homepage right now is a Think Different ad with Rosa Parks. It doesn't rotate out if you refresh, it's just a big tribute to Rosa that clicks through to an article on her activism and her life. No plugs of Apple products. I wonder if that ad was part of ...
October 14th 2005
Tags: Apple, Exploded Media

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iTunes levels the video playing field

Remember the Sony Watchman? It let you watch television (and radio!) anywhere you went, in glorious 2.5" black and white. And now the iPod lets you watch television (and podcasts!) anywhere you go, in glorious 2.5" color. Just sayin'. The iPod is nice, but will take a year or so to penetrate ...
January 26th 2005
Tags: Apple

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Apple de Luxe

Oftentimes Apple has been referred to as the BMW of the computer world - high quality, stylish, and expensive. And for anyone that's ever unpacked an Apple product, dealt with Apple technical support, or even visited an Apple retail store, it's blatantly obvious that Apple wants you to feel like ...

Colophon

Turning coffee into feats of intellectual derring-do since 2001

Hi there, I'm Adam Simon. I'm currently finishing up my masters at NYU's ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program), doing research in large scale game design, social networking, urban computing, performative technology, and networked objects. You can find info on my thesis here, and a big list of all my ITP-related posts here

I sometimes work at area/code.

Projects that I've been a part of which you might have heard of include Socialbomb, BootyDialer, The Invention of Murder, Rumplestiltskin (An Aretefactual Performance), & Sharkrunners

You can email me at adam @ [the name of this website].

Syndicate

April 14th 2008
Tags: Social Facts, Social Software Studio No Comments

Crazy Blind Date: A Quintet for Human & Computer

The appeal of Crazy Blind Date\ is immediately apparent, and seems custom-designed for busy city folks: “on very short notice we can set you up on quick dates with total strangers at public places like bars and coffee shops. You're not allowed to see their picture or even communicate.” Created ...
March 29th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis 2 Comments

Social Heroes

My thesis has split into two ideas, something which was foreshadowed at the end of my midterm presentation. I mistakenly assumed that one of the ideas would seem obviously better than the other, but that hasn't happened. Rather, I'm stuck with two ideas which I think explore the ideas I'm ...
March 16th 2008
Tags: ITP One Comment

PCBs from Eagle to Production

In this post I'm going to explain how to output files from Eagle PCB in order to send your designs off to be professionally fabbed. There are two major steps before this in the process: creating the electrical schematic, and moving from that schematic to a board layout. I'm not ...
March 14th 2008
Tags: Social Software Studio, Thesis One Comment

Thesis: midterm presentation & playtest

| View | Upload your own ITP Thesis: Midterm presentation (with notes) (PDF) Here's the midterm presentation I just gave in my thesis section (the PDF includes the presenter notes, and is perhaps more comprehensible). I felt like this presentation was a return to form for me - lots of photos, ...
March 11th 2008
Tags: ITP, Network Effects, Networked Objects, Socialbomb One Comment

Socialbomb was at ETech

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Socialbomb unit, originally uploaded by doryexmachina. Last week we took Socialbomb to O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. We held a BoF session on getting social games away from the keyboard, and ran ...

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