Oddcast just developed site avatars with articifial intelligence. It’s very exciting, I highly recommend you spend some time with it.
This form of AI (asking questions to feign intelligence) was pioneered by Joseph Weizenbaum when he developed ELIZA, a piece of software that would act similar to a therapist by rephrasing a patient’s answers in [...]

I’m bullish on the HCI concept of link scent.  I first learned about it when a co-worker of mine at Homestead.com when to User Interface Engineering (UIE) conference in San Francisco and reported back on what he learned.
The idea behind link scent is simple.  Users don’t click on the best link on an interface to [...]

This months NewTech Meetup was held at Google. They built a beautiful, yet typically Google, office space at 9th and 15th. Just getting to see the new Google building was worth the price of admission. Here’s a quick summary of the presenters:
Allison h. Fine - Momentum (a book): She discussed how social media [...]

David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners got 15 minutes of my time today, as I worked my way through this puzzle:
My wife and I went to a dinner party with four other couples. At the beginning of the party, some people shook hands. (Obviously, no one shook his or her own hand or spouse’s hand, [...]

I attended ad:tech today at the Hilton New York. It was very entertaining to watch advertising experts advertise to other advertising experts. The walls, hallways, tables, escalators, food, couches, and even people were saturated in advertising.
The advertising was so dense, that the lack of advertising actually made a booth stand out significantly. For [...]

This is a total reBlog, so begin ignoring if you’re anti-reBloging. Found at Make: blog.
Make a mailable mosaic of a significant picture to send to someone over 24 days. Slice it and dice it in photoshop, then print it out. Easy as pie, beautiful, creative, and bonus points for the extended time [...]

During the ‘04 election, a terrific site emerged for tracking the movement of the polls as the election approached: Electoral-vote.com. It’s a terrific, unbiased source of election poll data. Furthermore, the presentation of the information is clean and tightly integrated with a map.
I have been following the site for the last [...]

I am stoked for Spore, the latest creation by Will Wright.
I had to pleasure of hearing Will Wright speak on the subject of emergence and how it affects his game design. He uses cellular automata to model addictive gameplay and then builds graphics and control schemes on top of the cellular automata game from the [...]

On Nov 4th I put in my $0.02 regarding Amazon Web Services (AWS). At the time I had not read Read/Write Web’s coverage on the subject. Alex Iskold, the Read/Write Web contributor that wrote this article on AWS, does a great job.
My favorite part of Alex’s post is the way he outlines AWS [...]