Hey! I'm Karl Freeman currently a London based Freelance Flash Developer, Blogger & all round Web Enthusiast. Dabbling with AS3, Flex, Air & Processing to hopefully create awesome online and offline experiences.Get In Touch (Will be available again in July)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
→ Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned
Great couple lessons to take on board for those looking at startups
Ryan, you’ve just convinced me to buy the book. Fantastic eveulation of forces and contexts which effect design
→ The List of N Things
A great explanation of why the culture of list writing is so prevalent online.
I really like the way that this is piggybacking on data from existing infrastructure and adapting every day behaviour to turn something mundane into a game.
“Chromaroma by Mudlark is a game that shows you your movements and location as you swipe your Oyster Card in and out of the Tube.
It connects communities of people who cross paths and routes on a regular basis, and encourages people to make new journeys and use public transport in a different way by exploring new areas and potentially using different modes of public transport.”
Find out more at www.chromaroma.com.
This has just made my day, New York gets invaded by 8-Bit creatures. Stunning graphics and extremely well executed.
Fred Wilson, You’ve read my mind. His list of 10 principles for successful web apps is, well. Golden.
A fantastic example of how technology can enrich what is essentially ‘old’ media. Imagine a storytelling book like the one used in this video telling the story of some Roald Dahl classics. Looking forward to this :)
Multi-touch is so 2009. Welcome Interactive 3d depth sensing.
When a problem arises, it’s worth asking whether the problem can be addressed by rearranging the starting blocks rather than interfering with the race.
Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist
Interesting concept for an interactive screen that helps navigate your busy lifestyle.
Just one of many examples of how breaking out of doing *just* web development should be something to aspire to :)
An oldie but I just revisited my vimeo fav’s and stumbled on this. Amazing technology going on here.
If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises they lose all heart. If the young merchant fails, men say he is ruined. If the finest genius studies at one of our colleges, and is not installed in an office within one year afterwards, in the cities or suburbs of Boston or New York, it seems to his friends and to himself that he is right in being disheartened and in complaining the rest of his life.
A sturdy lad from New Hamsphire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not “studying a profession,” for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
