TXTTONE is my final project for Live Web.  It’s a web browser and SMS-based collaborative musical instrument that is meant to be performed in a room full of people with laptops and cellphones.  I wanted to create an interactive and collaborative musical experienced based on the ubiquitous technologies that we normally have with us at [...]

Here are a couple “brotastic” pics from birthday party last night at XR Bar.  Photos courtesy of Catherine White, who co-hosted the party, and whose real birthday is in January.
In other news, the SokoSquare team has made it on to the Semi-Finals of the 2009-2010 NYU Stern Business Plan Competition.  A wonderful birthday [...]

Continued from Part 2: Monkeys Watching Monkeys
Monkey Think
Monkeys often evokes a strong emotional response among people. Monkeys as symbols are also charged with social and political meaning.  We often anthropomorphize monkeys and project our own human anxieties onto them. Monkeys drive us bananas. They are Curious George one minute and the next [...]

Here are some juicy stats and research results I found while doing my homework for Designing The Future of TV:
13.4 million Americans watch some form of mobile video each month, and of those 13.4 million people, each watched an average of 3.5 hours of mobile video per month.  By comparison, the average American watches 153 [...]

This past weekend the New York Times published an article called “In a Digital Future, Textbooks Are History” by Tamar Lewin.  The article profiles the increasing adoption of digital textbooks by school districts as a way of cutting costs and as a way of updating pedagogical methods in response to technological and social advances.  Lewin [...]