- Microsoft Kin One and Two review — Engadget
Engadget on the Kin and its ill-thought-out user interface: "Oh, and down in the middle of the phone is a little dot called the "Spot" — let's try and explain what that does. [...] The Spot is meant to be a point on the device where you can drag all manner of content, and then share that content with friends. [...] It's actually a really cumbersome way to communicate — dragging one abstract thing towards another abstract thing doesn't make more sense than deciding to send an email, typing a few addresses, and throwing some pictures or links into the message… it just doesn't." (microsoft phone smartphones kin review )
- James Governor's Monkchips » The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database
"What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today." (databases data_journalism presentation guardian )
- @sternshow: digital farts « BuzzMachine
Jeff Jarvis is impressed with the benevolent dictator of IBM/Lotus compared to the anarchic, open Internet: "Only thing is, IBM had to essentially recreate the internet and all these functions to do that, both so they could integrate it all and so that it could operate behind corporate firewalls. We internet snobs make fun of that, but I understand why they do that. But as we talk about how our internet should operate — how open standards for identity, for example, should work — the irony is that we could look at the interlocked IBM platforms to see the promise of it. It’s closed, for a reason, but it shows what an open structure would look like if it operated on truly open standards." (ibm lotus open_standards )
- Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Facebook’s Open Graph Protocol from a Web Developer’s Perspective
Explanation of Facebook's Open Graph, and the return of the semantic web. (facebook metadata open_graph rdf semantic_web )
- How print dominates the design of newspaper websites | Reportr.net
"Nuno Vargas, University of Barcelona (Spain) talked about how news and information is graphically presented online. [...] He found that newspapers still approach the web from a paper-based concept, rather than as a dynamic medium." (design newspapers )
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