Iain / October 20, 2008, 4:39 pm
This past weekend was the Rails Rumble and a team of intrepid blenderbox developers hunkered down in our Brooklyn headquarters and, in a mere 48 hours, produced a slick new web app: Compost.
Compost is the simple way to post, share, and present your design comps.
More than just a slideshow, Compost allows you to control your presentation and your message. Now your clients see what you want them to see, when you want them to see it.
Sharing comps is easy:
- Post. Give your gallery a name and upload your comps. Upload as many images as you need – all at once.
- Share. Invite people to view your new gallery. Emails are sent to your clients with a unique URL for their gallery.
- Present. Control your viewer’s experience in real-time – remotely! With complete control of your presentation, you decide when, and for how long, each image appears on-screen. The viewer – your client – sits back and watches the show.
Try it yourself.
Iain / May 22, 2008, 12:46 pm
Andy Baio of waxy.org fame digs into his old server logs to chart the spread of the classic Star Wars Kid video and subsequent remixes. This is a fascinating analysis of how a viral idea – or meme – makes its way across the internet.
Iain / April 3, 2008, 8:31 am
An excellent review of Outside, billed as the the first massively multiplayer game.
The physics system is note-perfect (often at the expense of playability), the graphics are beyond comparison, the rendering of objects is absolutely beautiful at any distance, and the player’s ability to interact with objects is really limited only by other players’ tolerance. The real fundamental problem with the game is that there is nothing to do.
Iain / December 13, 2007, 5:58 pm
The yearly Google Zeitgeist is always a great read (in a dorky sort of way).
Iain / December 11, 2007, 6:22 pm
Posts like this are one of the reasons David Byrne is one of my favorite bloggers.
Iain / December 5, 2007, 1:10 pm
A List Apart has a great writeup on the forthcoming HTML5 specification.
Goodies include customizable inline audio and video players built right into the browser (goodbye, flash video players), and much cleaner HTML due to the use of new tags (HEADER, NAV, ARTICLE, SECTION, ASIDE, FOOTER = goodbye DIV).
The bad news? It’s still 10-15 years from fruition.
