4 month ago
Andy Baio : Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype - their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network
Rod Begbie : Olinda - Schulze & Webb's hardware prototype of a socially-networked open-source digital radio. Some excellent ideas for internet-enabled physical objects in the pamphlet. #
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5 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Ignite ETech 2008: Matt Webb - Matt's fun five minute whizz around fictional versions of the solar system. Wish I'd been in San Diego and Austin this past week.
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philgyford : Impro (9 February, 2008, Interconnected) - Matt Webb's notes on the 'Masks and Trance' chapter of Keith Johnstone's book 'Impro'.
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12 month ago
Andy Baio : Schulze and Webb on Olinda, their digital radio for the BBC - not a concept piece, but a "standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio"
Simon Willison : BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware - BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware. Schulze and Webb made a social radio prototype for the BBC; the IPR will be under an attribution license so manufacturers can run with it without asking for permission first.
Rod Begbie : BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware - Schulze & Webb are working on an open, social digital-radio-plus-wifi prototype for the BBC. Fascinating the way they hope to apply "open source" to hardware design. [via] #
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13 month ago
philgyford : Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph - Schulze & Webb getting some press coverage. I can't even imagine what Matt and Jack will be doing in years to come.
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15 month ago
philgyford : Mark Fowler's Journal - Plain Text Wiki, Reworked - A change to Matt Webb's plain text wiki in TextMate thingy, to make links [[like this]]. (via Blech)
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15 month ago
philgyford : Plain text wiki (20 May 2007, Interconnected) - Great idea from Matt Webb: make wiki-style linked pages in TextMate. I think I've wanted exactly this without realising it before.
43folders : plain text wiki (20 May 2007, Interconnected) - Matt Jones has released a clever little TextMate bundle that turns a Folder/Project into a lo-fi plain text wiki. So cool.
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16 month ago
Richard Rutter : Matt Webb on jetlag - Observations of a body at work.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : going fulltime on Dopplr - great app for the jetset, like plazes with premenition
plasticbag : Matt Biddulph has gone full time as CTO of Dopplr... - I'm very happy for Matt—and love dopplr—just can't help feeling a little bit sad that we're not working with each other, which is something I've wanted to do again pretty much immediately ever since we both left the BBC... Miss Webb as well...
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17 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Webb performs his latest opus at ETech 2007... - I imagine a form of viral consciousness that finds a sympathic mind on earth, and then seeks to propogate itself through the conference circuit via slides, strategic pauses and enforcing hand gestures...
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17 month ago
Simon Willison : From Pixels to Plastic - From Pixels to Plastic. Awesome talk given by Matt Webb at ETech, on the emerging culture of Generation C, cheap hardware prototyping and physical extensions to the online world.
Rod Begbie : From Pixels to Plastic (Schulze & Webb) - Matt Webb's talk from ETech -- Encouraging us to use physical hardware to extend the online experience. Interesting stuff. [via] #
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18 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Webb in early 2005 was trying to work out what to do next with his life, and I'm guessing in retrospect feels good about his decision... - I wonder whether I'll be the same.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : I'm having some fun playing with IMified, a range of IM bots that perform productivity tasks for you... - I can't help but miss Matt Webb's Googlebot IM search interface. That was really nice. I've rather missed that.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Webb's keynoting at ETech. That's going to be fun. - Lovely topic and one which he's going to knock out of the {insert sporting metaphor}.
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Schulze & Webb articulate some provocative design ideas around the future of meat - Difficult to explain. Sort of brain-expanding and eye-opening while simultaneously quite funny. Makes me simultaneously sort of hungry and slightly queasy. I quite fancy eating a Pink Panther.
deusx : Lab-Grown Meat (Schulze & Webb) - "While at the RCA, Jack took part in a brief run by Tony Dunne on the industrial future of food and lab-grown meat (a staple of the newspaper columns in 2005)."
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Webb has relaunched his 'dirk' project on the interconnectedness of all things - I remember this from the first time around when he launched it in 1996 and promoted it on Lance Arthur's glassdog.net webnerd artistic community. This time I believe it's built on Ruby on Rails. If you think about it, it's sort of a proto-anti-tagging...
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26 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Biddulph's been playing with GPS and Google Earth Assistant - I just bought a little GPS thing. Lessons I've learned with GPS - it's a good rule of life to watch what Matt Webb's doing now and then make it comprehensible to real people three years later...
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28 month ago
plasticbag : Matt Webb's done a pretty brain-melting presentation at Goldsmiths on fictional futures, design and sci-fi - Wait until you get to the illustrations of super powers he'd like to have (which would be better phrased as way-out body mods). The third is extraordinary...
Milo Vermeulen : 50-page slideshow by Matt Webb on fictional futures, design and sci-fi - awesome 50-page slideshow by Matt Webb on fictional futures, design, sci-fi and all sorts of things [via]
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30 month ago
plasticbag : April 11, 2002 - Matt Webb proposes that Google's implementation of a SOAP API represents the first step in a recombinant 'level 2' web... - Smug bastard. That's what I'm talking about on Wednesday at ETech. Grrrr. We'll all be using playsh in 2010...
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34 month ago
philgyford : Pricing (27 October 2005, Interconnected) - Webb again on how to charge for freelance and consulting work. Brilliant, without having to mention embarrassing figures.
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34 month ago
kellan : New Puritans, a Hero generation of civic minded shock troops, the Unravelling - Matt Webb, for the your daily quota of gnomic, pithy, and mind-bending #
philgyford : New puritans are the (26 October 2005, Interconnected) - Matt Webb on the New Puritans being a sign of impending societal collapse (although I lose him a bit towards the end).
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36 month ago
philgyford : Open Tech 2005 - a photoset on Flickr - Lovely medium-format photos of geeks by Matt Locke. Includes me, but my favourites are: Coates, Hammond, Nelson, Webb.
plasticbag : Matt Locke does some black & white portraits of the usual suspects (plus Ted Nelson) at this year's Open Tech - Webb comes off looking best, as usual. I look like a dribbling freak...
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Mr Webb takes the Musical baton and writes a huge, epic, rambling and rather gorgeous post about books instead - Typically contrarian and typically engaging - well worth a read...
philgyford : Tom coates passed me (2 June 2005, Interconnected) - Matt Webb on his book collection. Great stuff. At least as interesting as Nick Hornby's fun 'The Polysyllabic Spree'.
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41 month ago
jkottke : Watching TV in bed with an iSight, or "a webcam is basically a light cable with a wormhole in the middle" - Matt, take a picture of Vega for me as it flies by.
deusx : joy (4 April 2005, Interconnected) - "Later that night, we watched TV by sending it upstairs using the camera and one-way video chat (in iChat). Really."
plasticbag : Mr Webb is using his new iSight to watch TV in bed - Glad you like the toy, old chap. Missing you already.
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42 month ago
plasticbag : It's not funny because it's rude, it's funny cos... - Well because it looks like it's funny because it's rude...
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