Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me
Great song. Even better video. Download here.
July 29 2010
Watch Rear Window tonight in Brooklyn Bridge Park for free as part of the Movies with a View series!
Going to this tonight, can’t wait!
Via BlackBook
July 27 2010
Redesigning the New York City subway map
Maps are one of the most basic data visualizations that we have; we’ve been making them for millennia. But we still haven’t perfected them as a tool for understanding complex systems — and with 26 lines and 468 stations across five boroughs, the New York City subway system certainly is complex. The KickMap is the result of my quest to design a more effective subway map, and ultimately to encourage increased ridership.
July 23 2010
Cow Clicker is a Facebook game about Facebook games. It’s partly a satire, and partly a playable theory of today’s social games, and partly an earnest example of that genre.
You get a cow. You can click on it. In six hours, you can click it again. Clicking earns you clicks. You can buy custom “premium” cows through micropayments (the Cow Clicker currency is called “mooney”), and you can buy your way out of the time delay by spending it. You can publish feed stories about clicking your cow, and you can click friends’ cow clicks in their feed stories. Cow Clicker is Facebook games distilled to their essence.
Click on for the how and why. Great read.
“It’s one thing to express a distaste for social games, to consider them bad art and to opt out of them. But one also cannot ignore their popularity entirely, nor leave it to the mere whims of personal taste. In addition to being bad art, social games are also troubling specimens of human tragedy. For one part, they threaten us with the negative future of games. But for another part, they also act as a talisman that might help us see our future perceptions of the present. What will we have thought of ourselves?”
This has the potential to become the next FarmVille.
July 22 2010
July 15 2010
Apple to Hold iPhone 4 Press Conference, But Will They Hold It the Right Way?
Headline win of the day :)
July 14 2010
How Will M. Night Shyamalan Disappoint Us This Time?
I just watched the latest trailer for Shyamalan’s new thriller “Devil.” It’s a great trailer and has everything I look for in the thriller genre — people stuck in elevators, people who have secrets, large block letters floating above upside-down cities. I want to like this movie SO bad, but Shyamalan hasn’t had a good movie since The Happening The Village The Lady in the Water The Sixth Sense. So the real question is: How will Shymalan’s big twist ending ruin another interesting thriller premise?
My guess? The elevator strangers were dead the whole time.
July 12 2010
May 29 2010
Three Necessities for Start-up Success (Video starring Marc Andreessen)
Andreesen’s points are great.
- Creating companies is hard, generally new companies shouldn’t exist. Companies have to be creating products that are so much better than what exists that you can punch through status quo
- Markets are more important than product quality.
- Three criteria for predicting success: Market, Team, Product (in order of importance)
Working in and among startups for the past few years, I couldn’t agree more with these points. Well said.
Via Inspirational
April 28 2010
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