Evan Williams on Twitter’s principles (April 24th, 2010 - 928 views)

Twitter just passed the 140 employee mark, an important milestone for the company that was founded based on the constraint of 140 characters. As they continue to raise the intensity it is interesting to look at the direction that has been set by CEO Evan Williams. When Ev spoke with Umair Haque at SXSWi 2010 [...]

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My university commencement speech for 2010 (March 1st, 2010 - 1,118 views)

This week is the beginning of university life for thousands of recent high school graduates. There is lots of fun to be had, lots of learning, and time to build the vision of where you want to be in the next few years. I have been asked what I would recommend doing – I don’t [...]

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Filtering the web of social data (February 9th, 2010 - 734 views)

The increase in connectedness combined with the torrents of realtime data that are spewing from our personal APIs means that there is a huge amount of data flying around, leading inevitably to overload. This creates a space for both technical and intuitive filters to emerge to help us navigate through the masses of social messages, [...]

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Your Personal API (February 6th, 2010 - 981 views)

Everyone has a Personal API these days. I put my photos on flickr, my messages on twitter, my location on dopplr, my places on foursquare, my bookmarks on delicious, my music on last.fm, and they’re just the regular ones let alone everything else. Your mix of APIs might look slightly different, but that is what [...]

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Augmented Reality is here (August 25th, 2009 - 1,231 views)

Wherever we go, there is always a huge amount of meta-information around us – it’s just not visible without a medium to show it. The hardware necessary for augmented reality is finally in our hands thanks to the iPhone, the PSP, and many other new phones. The basic concept is that the camera in the device takes [...]

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