Russell Davies of R/GA gave a superb talk at the RSA which was broadcast on the BBC, where he discussed the world of personal expression as it moves one step beyond blogging. His premise is that personal creativity is about to grow by leaps and beyond, he referenced the early and surprising growth...
On Saturday, I was fortunate enough to participate in the nycfaminehackathon for 5050good (50 projects in 50 days to raise funds for East Africa famine relief) which was brilliantly led by Farah Bostic and Stuart Eccles of Made by Many, at Grind, who generously donated their amazing co-working...
Some good insight provided by Hugh Pickens on Slashdot of how Facebook ships code. It gives us a bit of a window into how Facebook's hacker culture works.1. All engineers learn the system at boot camp- 4/6 weeks of fixing bugs2. Engineers get access to the live database3. New feature ideas can be...
On the surface, Make could look like just any other media property with a magazine and a website, but when you scratch underneath the surface it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to it. Make is a leader of a movement and someone that understands how media needs to behave in the new...
There's a great interview in Mobilecrunch with one of the members of the iPhone Dev Team. This is not a unit inside Apple responsible for updating the phone software, quite the opposite; it's a team of unpaid renegades who are tearing up the phone and hacking it to pieces. These are a group of...
I am interested in the idea of brands delivering something in their products that I am terming- malleability. Meaning, do they allow themselves to be easily adapted and changed for new uses?This is basically hacking. The Wii is one of the more interesting ones of the moment because of its cultural...
One of the more colorful aspects of the 2.0 world of blogs and unbridled consumer creativity is finding the occasion when a random individual picks on a brand, creates a space to play with it and stretches it above and beyond the original attentions of its owners. A great example of this is...
In their original incarnation, brands were signifiers and guarantees of quality, something consumers could rely and depend upon. In the later part of the C20th, two forces emerged that changed branding.The first was the drive by marketing experts and ad agencies to suggest that brands needed...
Make magazine is one of Influx's favorite brands. Last year they took their brand live with a Fayre in San Mateo that attracted 20,000 people. The event is a chance to meet and interact with an extraordinary group of hackers and creators. You can see some of the flavor of the event from these...