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Archive for May 2007

Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web

In Design Discourse, Game On on 18 May 2007 tagged games, iminlikewithyou, twitter with 12 comments

A friend of mine pestered me to join a new site about a month ago. I had heard of it. From what I had heard, it was a new dating site with the worst name: iminlikewithyou (iilwy). As in “I’m not in love with you but maybe I’m in like with you.” The name alone [...]

Spider-man 3

In Mini Movie Reviews on 17 May 2007 with no comments

Wow, how can the same director do two movies that are so different in the same series? Spider-man 2 was a great sequel in the franchise and showed that a superhero franchise didn’t have to get progressively worse. Spider-man 3 could easily have been two or more separate movies but they did what Batman did [...]

28 Weeks Later

In Mini Movie Reviews on 17 May 2007 with no comments

28 Days Later is one of the best horror movies in recent years. Danny Boyle unfortunately, or fortunately, takes that and uses the same formula and dials 28 Weeks Later up a notch. While reasonably predictable, the drama, score and direction all contributed to an intense experience. I’d call it a rollercoaster but it’s not. [...]

Twitter Answers

In Geeky on 9 May 2007 with no comments

In response to danah’s survey on Twitter (if you don’t know what Twitter is, go check it out - it’s in a nutshell a way to send micro updates to anyone that cares to listen by phone, web or IM):

First, the practical question. Can i quote you? [x] Yes, and you must use my real name [...]

Open Hack Day, UK

In Geeky, Man at Work on 1 May 2007 tagged hack, yahoo! with no comments

Beck at Yahoo! Open Hack Day by Laughing Squid / Scott Beale

Last October, Yahoo! held an Open Hack Day where we brought in developers and designers in the Bay Area to work on whatever they wanted to, and invited them to utilize Yahoo! APIs to make cool hacks … and that’s what people did. From [...]