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Further reading Arabesk book (it does have 850+ pages), I’ve stumbled upon another concept – emotional institutionalization. The idea is that, together with assimilation with local culture, you also have to change the way you perceive your own emotions in relation to what’s happening in your new world. The reason for this concept in the book is that […]
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Developing Umbrella service for Koornk, got me thinking, how could I expend this service even more, to give it more meaning? What I came up with, is a simple extension of existing data-sets that had to be acquired already to make the basic service work. Inspired by all the talks of Widgets in recent times, […]
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While writing my Pepsi post a few days ago, I stumled upon this incredible picture of Nescafe and Pepsi headquarters somewhere. Immediately I started to think how what is the experience of working in an office building with a huge Coffee Mug on top of it, and how does it feel to hang out with […]
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Brands are something that in today’s modern world give us meaning and legitimize a lot of our actions. Well, technically is our outlook, as in it’s strange to be out on a street alone in neighborhood, just walking around, but it becomes perfectly fine when you have a baby cart (with baby in of course), […]
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Take a look at this video that was recently sent to bloggers, together with a pack of old and new Pepsi cans. It shows the Pepsi logo/branding changing over time. While I understand that it’s important for brands to update their image, typography and similar together with times, it still seems a bit often. Especially […]
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After being accused of not blogging enough to actually fully appreciate subtleties of Zemanta, I decided to start blogging regularly to see what I can learn and how my feelings towards the blogging recommendations will check as I become true power user, and not only interface developer/QA guy. For now it’s going extremely well, with […]
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One of my favorite Science Fiction authors is Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Reading his Arabesk triology, I’ve stumbled upon a new concept, called negative capability. As always, the ultimate storage of all knowledge, has more to say about this: [..] I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts […]
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For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by a concept of social objects. The idea of social objects on Internet is that they’re objects around which conversation happens, they’re shared and interacted with. The most common example is Flickr, where they’ve turned images into something more by giving community ability to comment, tag, share, embed, […]
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Running in a flat city is great and you soon discover a spirit for it, but then once in a while you have to change the scenary for something with more hills so you get the full muscle workout. Since I don’t get out of the city much, I took the opportunity to go picking […]
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Thanks to a nudge from Tomaž Å tolfa (via his blog post), I decided to dive deeper into Mobile Attentive Interface, next generation of smart User Interface for your mobile device. The idea here is simple, we have lots of image and video processing power that we can then pair together with different geo-positioning techniques and […]