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Hi, I'm Matthias • I love music, a good laugh and a new pair of sneakers • I hate people who take life seriously • I craft interfaces and experiences with passion • You're looking at a backup of my thoughts. This tank is full of random things I witness and enjoy • Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Never settle.
5. April 2009 • 11h
“True to its core, Apple has always tried to be on the innovative side of software introductions. It is this kind of company that claims innovation as their DNA. Add style, a great sense for user experience and ignorance towards customers, and you got a good idea of what makes the Apple brand successful.”
– corebasis.com: The Web browsing experience: First impressions with Safari 4.029. May 2009 • 9h
Google Wave seems to be awesome. Not just the product but also the ecosystem around it. Could we please finally get rid of email! What do ya think?
12. August 2009 • 0h
Kind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis
27. September 2009 • 17h
Scene from the show “Mad Men”: Nice storytelling “This isn’t a space ship… it’s a time machine.” (via boing boing)
23. October 2009 • 16h
This bag dissolves in water: Newsstand copies of the November issue of Creative Review come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill.
4. November 2009 • 9h
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
Good to know (via jeffreysambells)
14. November 2009 • 22h
Vega - An Android-powererd 15.6” touch device (via createordie)
15. November 2009 • 10h
The litl - A startup from boston delivers a fresh netbook design approach.
It runs a custom (Gnome based) Linux with a slick interface shaped by Pentagram. Basically all things on the litl happen in the browser and live cloud.
I really like its elegant simplicity. It takes a lot of work, nerves and guts to deliver such a simple interface.
(via kottke)
23. November 2009 • 9h
Best of Twitter tunes album released
“The trend started earlier this year when Dan Stowell, a composer and computer scientist at Queen Mary, University of London, encoded the sound of waves crashing on the shore using the programming language SuperCollider and then tweeted the results.”
This is freaked out and small! The phenomenon follows the same patterns like #tweetcoding (“Code something cool in <=140 characters of AS3”). It’s interesting to see the creativity that can arise out of 140 characters.
Creativity loves constraints.
23. November 2009 • 22h
“I just get frustrated by all the money that’s being spent to stop good ideas. California has 8 times more lobyists than they do have law makers and legislators… So I think it’s time for some damn leadership. And some courage to be demonstrated.”
– Gavin Newsom (mayor of San Francisco) talking about how to make your city and your politicians greener during a live webcast (via inhabitat.com)3. December 2009 • 10h
Big news overnight is the launch of Square, a mobile app supporting multiple devices that enables anyone to take credit card transactions without the hassle of merchant accounts or complicated fee structures. It’s the brainchild of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey and with the likes of Buzz Andersen involved, it’s going to be huge. Impeccable website design by Bobby Andersen.
14. December 2009 • 9h
The JooJoo finally ready for launch? Booting in 9 secs and living on the net. (via engadget)
