Information Everywhere: Interactive Display and Twitter Update
In this podcast, Nora Young highlights this New York Times write-up on Adobe’s planned new interactive animation display which will be on a wall in Union Square, in Manhattan. Nora sees it as part of a growing trend towards interactive displays that incorporate ‘virtual’ information into the real world.
Meanwhile, Cathi Bond encapsulates Technology Review’s conversation with the creator of Twitter. That sets Cathi and Nora off on a chat about what’s great and what’s not about Twitter, and the future of continuous ambient information.
Plus, a propos of nothing, Core 77 has this look at aromatherapy pencils!
August 14th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I’m being trying twitter the last little while, but so far it’s just been a slick way to follow the geeky adventures of my favourite geek Merlin Mann. Like you, I don’t have any friends using it.
What I’d like twitterific to do is interface with Facebook’s status pane …. I know lots of FB friends who update their status in the same sort of fashion as twitter-users use that service. If the two could meet in some intelligent fashion I could see it taking off in a big way.
BTW, this site has been doing weird things with the Header/footers in both Safari and FF.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:26 am
Yes, I’ve noticed the FB status updates thing too. People seem to enjoy posting weird cryptic updates or fun comments. It’s also nice keeping tabs on when people are in or out of town, say. We all seem to be so busy.
I don’t know what the heck is going on with the headers! I’m using firefox and I see what you mean. I’ll nose around.