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Week’s Wunderkammer

21 Aug 2009, Posted by Matthew Reinbold in Wunderkammer (the links), 0 Comments

Week’s Wunderkammer


Lot’s of interesting things drifted across the feed reader this week. Here’s the links drudged up by the great, roving autonomous eye:

  • ECONOMICS IS NOT NATURAL SCIENCE – Dyson’s Response: “How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. And don’t call it a bank. Launch a new financial medium that is as open, scale-free, universally accessible, self-improving, and non-proprietary as the Internet, and leave the 13th century behind.”
  • InfoQ: RESTful HTTP in practice – Excellent introduction to REST practice, style, and development of remotely available applications.
  • Top 6 Augmented Reality Mobile Apps – A nice roundup of what people are attempting to do with simple mobile camera phones by mashing-up available information around them.
  • The Secret of Success: Suck Less – Every once and awhile a piece comes along and states a simple truth so elegantly, so matter-of-factly, that its hard not to share.
  • How Do You Market Yourself as a Designer? – While written for Designers, could be just as applicable for any independent creative professional.
  • Network Strategy and the Anti-Defense – Explanation of Anti-Defense in an age of ad-hoc, distributed networks. Simply: form rough alliances around a flexible, general message, de-centralize everything, and reduce the marginal costs of existing in such a state to zero.
  • Towards A Single Page Application Framework – Fascinating piece that explores the single page application forged by a niche class of applications – including the hacks necessary to read/write to the file system from the browser (yes, that’s possible).
  • Imogen Heap is interactive queen of digital age – Detailed article on how Imogen Heap is utilizing interactive technologies to forge new artist/fan relationships. The verdict is out, however, as to how directly this will translate to sales both now and over the course of a career.