ffffind something for ffffacebook
A few months ago I began a flirtation with ffffound after receiving an invite from designer Keita Kitamura. It’s a neat little image bookmarking service created by Keita and Yosuke Abe in Yugo Nakamura’s Tha ltd web design shop. Check out a bit on Yugo I did as part of the Creativity 50 to learn more about them. It’s gotten a great group of beta testers who’ve bookmarked some zany stuff out there. (Though the beta has grown rapidly and now includes lots of random photos of tits off Flickr.)
After playing around with it for a while I figured it’d be excellent if we could get the images to go on Facebook, to spice things up a bit here beyond hatching eggs and super wall videos. So I drew out a little plan of what a simple Facebook ffffound app would do.
Problem is, I’m just coping with English; communicating with Facebook’s guts is a ways away for me. Luckily super Aussie Arnold Almeida found me after a desperate post on a ffffound appreciation group here and whipped up a spiffy little app according to my basic specs. And he’s been awesome enough to maintain it through several ffffound code changes since.
If you’re on ffffound already, now’s your chance to show off all the freaky nonsense you pick up on the web to your facebook buddies. If not, the app will still work! You can put in any user, like ‘yugo’, who’s always got interesting new stuff, which will then show on your page. (Or me, ‘paryshnikov,’ but no guarantee my bookmarks are interesting or new.) Cruise around, have fun, and look at interesting images.
Meta-WTF?
Oh Wighnomys.
My favorite technarchists from Jena are back with a great mix.
But Metawuffmischfelge? What does that mean? Well, it doesn’t hurt to ask (along with a technical Q):
from Wighnomy Brothers
reply-to Wighnomy Brothers
to nick
date Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:59 AM
subject AW: a quick question for Gabor…good morning nick …
i recorded the vinyls but i mixed the hole stuff in the computer!
metawuffmischfelge? it´s a fantasy word!greetings!
robag
…in other news…a cool change at earplug; DJ charts now include bits about the records written by the DJs charting them. And no one knows why dance records work better than those playing them to make people dance. The linked installment is from Justin Simon aka Invisible Conga People (on Italians Do It Better). Don’t confuse him with Mike Simonetti, IDIB’s founder (and I’d say one of the people instrumental in getting those punk kids dancing when he was doing Troubleman). One of my favorite reads, Cosmic Disco, did an interview with Mike and is hosting a guest mix I’ve been enjoying. Check ‘er out.
Stud Farming
Here’s a piece from the June issue of Creativity I feel came out quite well. Pulling in young talent is a constant source of gnashing whether you’re blogging or running a basketball franchise–but as far as digital marketing goes, it’s time to take the next step from hiring designers and coders who can make things look cool to hiring developers who can form concepts and bring together a team with knowhow to execute higher level things. Software tools. (Like, imagine if Chase built Mint.) There aren’t any great case studies yet as to how these things will look but smart agencies are already thinking beyond microshites to applications.
Here’s the full thing; poke around on the site for more goodies–we were all really proud of the June issue (let me know if you’d like me to send one). I’ve also pasted it below for convenience (erm, and search engines).
Making moves, never movies
At Soul Skate, originally uploaded by nparish.
I can easily award my ‘favorite weekend’ crown to Memorial Day; since the inception of Detroit’s electronic music festival, whatever you might call it (DEMF, Movement, Fuse-In) I’ve been in town catching up with lovely friends and family, hearing amazing artists and stomping around one of the world’s most intriguing cities. I take a little pride in only missing one festival, in 2001, and have seen it go through all sorts of changes. Compared to previous years, 2008 was professional in concept and execution, with Paxahau, the party promotion company which took reins over last year, honing an already strong element of expertise to managing the three-day event. Each year is a little different, but this was on balance one of the best yet, with a huge array of options.
Read at work, corporate drone style
Some Flash genuises in NZ have turned classic boox into PowerPoint and mocked up a Windows interface to make it look like you’re absorbing chartjunk while reading Animal Farm. Splendid.
Readatwork.com
Going Yard
Going Yard, originally uploaded by nparish.
A small group of us stopped by The Yard Sunday for the Sunday Best series and caught King Britt (seen here concentrating) at the party’s second week. The lineup is stellar: Stefan Goldmann, Trusme, Bambaataa, Rick Wilhite & Jerome Derradji, Riton, Kevin Saunderson, Move D, the Wurst guys, Tejada, Pilooski, Joakim, Metro Area. Phew. And that’s only leaving one or two weeks off.
It looks like all Sundays are going to be $8, in which case I’ll be there every weekend I’m in town–the spot, on the banks of the murky Gowanus (which Luis describes as a “disgusting trickle”) is perfect place to spend a sunny afternoon. Cross your fingers it stays off Euro-tourist radar, at least for this year.
The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine
This story is a great primer in how Google actually makes money.
Originally from NYT > Technology
reBlogged by Nick on Jun 2, 2008, 8:32PM
Originally by MIGUEL HELFT from NYT > Technology on June 2, 2008, 1:32pm
On Demand
set lag: The feeling you get when forced to watch one episode per week after watching several seasons on DVD to catch up to a series.
Man, I was watching three Battlestar Galactica episodes a night, now that Season 4 is on, I’ve got major set lag.
Ain’t no politics like Detroit politics..
…cause in Detroit politics when you talk mess to the mayor, you get canned.
This came in over the email transom today from a friend of a friend…I haven’t asked around to follow up yet, but comes through a pretty reliable source and is interesting either way.
Apparently, this gentleman, who worked in politics, encountered scandal-collecting Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in Reagan National in D.C. and had some words with hizzoner. Read on.
A Super Tuesday Primer
Don’t listen to those public endorsements–check this handy guide to see who donated what to which candidate before you make your Super Tuesday choice.
In the great American political tradition of voting according to the opinions of famous people who know nothing about you and most likely have a terminal disconnect with your entire paradigm, I proudly present a terribly Photoshopped gleaning from about a half an hour putzing around at this campaign donation tracker. Of course, these aren’t actual endorsements, but really they’re better, and maybe offer some real insight into politics if you squint really hard. The celeb nominations are clearly partly motivated by hobnobbing (want that chat with Barack? It’ll cost you at the fundraiser–incidentally Barry Manilow donated to EVERYBODY, I just threw his Paul contrib. up to shore up support for Dr. Ron), but the few normal folks, in this case, self-identified as janitors, feel utterly sincere. Seriously, the guy cleaning up at El Azteco II donating $459 to Ron Paul? I’ve been to the original El Azteco, in East Lansing. Friends used to sling frijoles there in college. You can practically see Mr. Darling licking the envelope after saving up tips for a month.