The Road Witch Trial
Road witchery is DIY traffic-calming. The folks behind this site experiment with non-destructive legal and quasi-legal ways to alter traffic patterns in their neighborhoods, slowing drivers down, by focusing on the driver’s experience.
(tags:
art
community
creativity
design
diy
environment
transportation
cars
safety
activism
)
Want to Make an iPhone-Killer? Think This Over. (the product usability weblog)
Jasped van Kujik makes the obvious point that is somehow lost on most directors and above: making an exceelent product, an “iPhone killer” or something else more “like Apple” requires both investment and commitment. Time, money, people, and will.
(tags:
business
design
devices
apple
iphone
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Progress
I’ve recently spent some time using
Wesabe
, during which one
Andre Arko
implemented one of my wishes (“archive” an account), and mentioned that he’d be working on the transaction view in the near future. Excellent. Transaction view is where I spend the most time in Wesabe, having not yet dug in to the social components. […]
Trapped on Palm?
My
Twitter
question about money management alternatives for iPhone hasn’t exactly borne fruit, but there are buds on the tree. I’ve been a loyal but increasingly less-satisfied Palm user since the
Palm III
launched in 1998. All that is preventing me from ditching Palm OS and getting an iPhone is my personal finance […]
Congressman Xavier Becerra’s web site was recognized as best among the house membership by the Congressional Management Foundation. Heady stuff. Mr. Becerra is proud enough of this fact to trumpet it on his quarterly (print) newsletter, so I decided to have a look, navigated to said website, and fired off a message via the handy […]