Over ale at Steelhead Brewery in Burlingame last night, I traded startup war stories and tech anecdotes with Posterous founder Garry Tan. In a similar position with his recent Series A, Tan and I found that there’s an interesting difficulty in a place oft neglected. Read more…
The Moleskine’s cachet is comparable only to that of the Apple computer in creative circles; many creative-types have been lured into appeasing their fantasies of writing down creative thoughts in the same pads that recorded the legendary writings of travel writer Bruce Chatwin and author Ernest Hemingway. Read more…
There’s a common theme in design circles of the ability of design to save failing products. Can design save our flagging sales? Can design save an industry crippled by a recession? At some point in the near future, we’re most likely going to be asking if design can save our very souls. Read more…
@antifreeze I didn't see you out last night @ Whiskey Thieves
Eston Bond is a 24-year-old
interaction designer currently working at
isocket.
He lives in Burlingame, California.
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A PHP5-based, fully modular, standalone activity stream engine built during SXSW Interactive 2008 to be a base for hackers and developers, powering the activity stream on estonbond.com. The Mélange lifestream engine exists as a framework for activity aggregation of any type — just write your own logger class and off you go.
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"If you cannot afford it, just forget about it. Don’t use it as an investment piece to show people how rich you are. Use it like a cheap knitted thing. It’s like a big stone. Lucky you that you can have a big stone, but if it troubles you financially to have the stone, don’t have the stone."
"The games medium makes the mathematical concept of a fourth dimension easier to understand by allowing to experience it first-hand, using trial and error, as opposed to being told about it."
"Desktop OSes aren’t optimized for concentration."