It took Apple 45 years to even come close to this.
Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad MIT thesis was covered by Create Digital Motion after I posted the video clip from MIT’s New Media Reader featuring Dr. Alay Kay from Xerox PARC give a lecture on Sketchpad. The video clip has since garnered over 10,000 YouTube views and [...]
Sutherland: “Back to the future”
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
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Flash for iPhone: The Missing “Middle” Flash Product is in the AIR
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Launches of iPhone SDK and Adobe AIR Foreshadow Possible Strategy
Steve Jobs “just says no” to Flash on iPhone. Well, on first glance, that’s just what he says now, and we all know, like a good episode of Lost, there’s always more to unpack and nothing is what it seems. Considering Adobe’s product line, the [...]
Tags: Technical
YouTube plugin for Mobile Safari Suggests No Flash in iPhone 2.0
March 31st, 2008 · No Comments
Specula-palooza Rocks On
The latest in Flash and iPhone rumor-mongering suggests a YouTube plug-in for Mobile Safari will accompany this summer’s Touch OS 2.0 update. An uncorroborated claim indicates that this plug-in is contained within the recently seeded developer iPhone SDK 2.0 beta firmware.
This would theoretically enable embedded YouTube movies to work on the billions of [...]
Tags: Technical
Updates to Academic Site
March 20th, 2008 · No Comments
No recent posts as we focus on Professorial site
It has been awhile since posting to mercurious. However, we’ve been hard at work updating our academic site. This site now documents recent student work:
Freshmen Processing work
Muzzi, the digital pet —music player hybrid
Info Wraps, a mobile informatics research project
It also now features a commercial work samples page [...]
Tags: Design Project
Applism
October 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Hyperbole Essay Muses a Protestant Split Over Jesus Phone
Release a breakthrough product, ready the defenses. Slash prices within 60 days of its release. Pre-test an elaborate consumer store credit program. Maintain control of user experience, revenue streams, and product integrity. Expedite firmware drops to shore up security against an unpredictably vigorous, [...]
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