Holy Shit. Look at this lobster roll (from Arnolds out on Cape Cod - Mom & Dad sent this to me). Montauk, you should be ashamed of yourself.

While I expect Nielson to say that, what I didn’t expect was that they would show mobile viewing on par with internet viewing. That is certainly suspect and looking a bit more closely at their charts it makes more sense.

The top chart indicates that people watch as much on their mobile phones as they [...]

As a follow up on this old post about what we were working on some months earlier… 
Formally known as ‘Art Jam’ (working title), now it’s officially known as Sound Playground installed in the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford, CT:

Instead of explaining what it is, here is the link to the description and video of some [...]

““I mean, I don’t’ give a sh*t how they’re tweeting in the newsroom… this is a dying industry… how is the NYTimes replacing thousand-word [pieces] with 120 characters?””

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Pat Kiernan on the 140 Characters Conference panel on Twitter in the newsroom. (via gillianmae)

My buddies Josh & Tarikh from Uncommon Projects are working on some super slick “what happens when you mount your iPhone on your bike” apps. First up = Bikenik (coming soon). Think: Nike+ with handlbars :):

Sent from my stoopid iPhone

“Download a map to get started mapping this area from street level. Add details like businesses, parks, schools, buildings, paths, post boxes, cash machines and other useful landmarks. When you’re finished, post a scan of your annotated map to trace your handwritten changes and notes directly into OpenStreetMap.”

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Aaron Cope going guerilla + low tech with user-generated city guides.  I heart this so far.

Peter Belanger | Blog | WWDC videoAwesome real-time app-buying visualization from the Apple Developer's Conference.
Oxo Redesigns the Common Syringe | Design & Innovation | Fast CompanyLove this stuff. Reading pieces like this always make me want to turn back the clock and study industrial design during my formative years.
UNITiD | Interaction Design & Usability » [...]

want to come to my birthday party? (saturday! june 20! 9p! nyc!)

Dearest friends,

Why hello there! So, Friday is my birthday. #33. Holy. Temple. Of. Doom. Want to come and grab a drink and maybe a lil’ hip hop dance party?

WHEN
Saturday June 20
9pm… ‘till when me & my brother (and prob WillMcDz) take our shirts off

WHERE
Destination <—- Dan Maccarone’s (from Hard Candy Shell fame) brand new bar!
211 Avenue A
@ 13th St
New York, NY
playfoursquare.com/venue/51737

Special Guests: Mom + Dad!!!

… also going trying a little experiment courtesy of Rachel Sklar’s “Chartini” idea ( charitini.com )… instead of the bountiful gifts and birthday drinks I’ve come to expect from you all, please make a donation to Goods4Good (the charity that Soraya, Meghan, Courtney, Chelsa, Mary & Chrissy are all actively involved in). Goods4Good takes excess goods from the US and delivers them to vulnerable children in the developing world.

There will be a donation box at the bar (PLEASE DO NOT POUR DRINKS INTO THE BOX) or, if you can’t make it on Saturday, you can donate online here:

goods4good.org/charitini/denniscrowleybirthday/ <— I didn’t choose the pic, I swear!

Hope to see you all next Saturday!

Oh yeah, special guest DJs may-or-may-not include the following: DPS97, K-to-the-K, McDeezNuts’ iPod, JJ Kittenz, BopGunRainert & the legendary Rundy (aka RanDiesel)

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vi(v)a Le Flickr!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/3629791190/

Not just the Lakers game, but this Samsung TV that sucks in web content (weather / news / sports) which displays on-top of Live (content is generate by the TV, not the set-top box. Ethernet plugs into the back just like an AV cable). Rad.

Overlaying data on top of Live TV = very tricky to do (esp w/ transparency + rounded corners). I’ve always thought that TV + internet overlays would come from the set-top boxes, but all the cable companies are drrrraaagggingg their feet.

So these Samsung widgets are pre-defined (read: I can’t make my own Twitter widget and then add it to the screen) tho it looks like Samsung and Yahoo are working together to bring the Yahoo Widgets system to the display (bypassing set-top box)

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2337846,00.asp

Real curious to see how this would work… some kind of widget catalog baked right into the TV? Can I push my own widgets to my TV? To your TV? Hmm..

BTW, Verizon has been talking about doing this w/ an API for their new FIOS boxes…

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343080,00.asp

… but I’m real surprised to see this come from TV manufacturer first instead of the set-top / cable companies. Very slick (will def sway me in my next TV purchase)

ps:  Samsung UN46B8000 46-Inch LED HDTV with 1080p Resolution  ($2400)

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN46B8000-46-Inch-1080p-Resolution/dp/B001ZUZ10I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1245031242&sr=1-1

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Gap runs contest for iPhone app developers – Mobile Marketer – Software and technologyGap takes an interesting approach to getting an iPhone app built. The answer? Have others build it!
The Google Wave Highlight Reel | SmarterwareFinally, a place to get a more concrete sense of what Google Wave actually is.
Nick’s User Experience Tools | Blog [...]

“The Babylonian calendar as it stood in the 7th century BC assigns each month a constellation, beginning with the position of the Sun at vernal equinox, which at the time was the Aries constellation (“Age of Aries”), for which reason the first astrological sign is still called “Aries” even after the vernal equinox has moved away from the Aries constellation.”

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Zodiac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sklar pulled out her Blackberry and noted her arrival at Balthazar on a new social media site she’s using called FourSquare.com. It tracks your every move - not kidding - and when you tell the site you’re at Balthazar, it alerts your network - in Sklar’s case, about 50 friends. They comment, say hi, and send you advice about the menu, service, that kind of thing.

“It’s making me much more social,” she says, though Sklar does not appear to need it. (Her Facebook page, which I checked out, features photos of her and friends at New York Internet Week that looks like a page out of Sex and the City. But I digress.)

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From The Huffington Post. Sharon Waxman: Eat the (New) Press: Breakfast at Balthazar’s

Spotted on Megan Terry’s Flickrstream a few weeks back (May 27).

For anyone flipping thru this week’s NY Magazine, I’m sure this looks familar.  :)  (June 15, pg 61)

(photo credit goes to Megan Caponetto)

Boone Oakley: The Agency That Lives on YouTube – mediabistro.com: AgencySpyBy now everyone has seen this but in case you haven't, here you go. While lots of companies will pratter on about how much they get it, this is what it looks like when you "walking the walk."
INSPIRE – A publication from the Adobe Experience [...]

i wish firefox would keep paying attention to most often visited sites…

i was on half.com today, buying quantum of solace, and i decided to browse textbooks and see if there were any cheap design books that i could start reading.
these are the top three results for textbooks>art>design on half.com

well done.

Guess who just got a Family Feud payday??? ($4208 each, pre-tax tho)

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Jealous.

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Seen at Kirkwood, where you can buy a “Premium Pass” that allows you to cut everyone else in the lift line.  Ha!

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From EV Grieve (a great East Village Blog):

The Lower East Side — There goes the neighborhood

That’s the headline for the May 28, 1984, New York magazine cover story that I recently came across. The piece begins in the early 1980s with the rotting hulk of the Christodora and the young man eager to own it, Harry Skydell.

You can read the article here.

If you click thru that link you can read some pages of the NYer from 1984… I didn’t move to NYC in 1998 and even when interning in 96/97, I thought “Alphabet City” was too dangerous to go exploring in (Mike Shapiro!).

And btw, entire Christodora building (that tower on 9th and B) for $62k is just bananatown.