Disqus - Friends of jberkel

Re: Out of Five - Conventions

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:18:20 -0000

That's a top idea... I've also been working on a little Twitter direct message thingy to allow you to correct your own reviews. It might work something like "d oo5 u Haddock is a band" or "d oo5 u Haddock=band". I think I might prefer your suggestion though.

Re: Out of Five - Conventions

Mike Stenhouse — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:51:24 -0000

Hmmmmmm, so it is! I think I know how to cure that.... I'll take a look.

Re: Out of Five - Conventions

Mike Stenhouse — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:12:12 -0000

Ah, timely reminder! I almost added video games but got distracted. I'll add both of these to my todo list...

Re: Nokia Oyster Card

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:06:26 -0000

"I need to check the tech but I would imagine that if two handsets ‘touched’ each other - you could pass on your business card or your social networking profiles"

In the meantime, you could buy a Poken and some epoxy...

Re: Nokia Oyster Card

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:40:00 -0000

But epoxy is for l33t hax0rs? I've actually got quite a few friends who've got 'em, none of whom are 12 or at school. If you're less inclined to toys there's always E too. Same requirement for adhesive though. The market's already filling up with NFC devices... Nokia seem to have a fairly rocky track record with openness, although separating protocols from the reader is a great step in the right direction. What are the chances of them bringing out something that would work with other devices? Or will that be in the hands of the network providers?

Did you see the Oyster credit card (Barclays?) that came out a few years back? Also interesting - rolling all your payment methods into a single card.

I'm still a bit leery of NFC devices. The potential is incredible but so far the big companies (and countries!) haven't done a particularly good job of protecting their devices:
http://www.engadget.com/200...
http://www.theregister.co.u...

Re: Posts

Mike Stenhouse — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:29:22 -0000

Heya! I'm running a little thought tool/influence experiment called Elect or not? I'm trying to gently nudge people into thinking about why they vote for who they vote for and hopefully gather some data on the halo effect while I'm at it.

Out of curiosity I just worked out the opinion polls for the top 3 parties based on the results I've had so far and thought I'd share... This is people saying who'd they vote for based on looks alone, without knowing who the candidate is, who they represent or what their policies might be...

Conservatives 32%
Labour 25%
Lib Dems 24%
Other 19%

These numbers don't seem to be too far removed from your own predictions, the YouGov or the Times ones. A little bit interesting and a little bit scary... Check out the results at http://electornot.org.uk/pa...

Re: Web Typography Collection – Great Tools, Books, Resources and Articles

Mike Stenhouse — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:32:25 -0000

I've been building a catalogue of font uses: http://typ.io. It's early days but you can browse samples of font combinations for inspiration or see specific pairings if you already know where you're starting. Here are a couple:

Proxima Nova:
http://www.typ.io/fonts/pro...

Brandon Grotesque:
http://www.typ.io/fonts/bra...

Any feedback welcome!

Re: PhantomJS with Webfonts Support - Binary Build - Arunoda Susiripala - Web Geek

Mike Stenhouse — Wed, 22 May 2013 19:07:51 -0000

Thanks for this! It seems to work for Google Web Fonts but not Typekit. Shame. Fingers crossed for a fix in Phantom soon.

Re: Experience matters – schyouknowwho

sermad — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:33:08 -0000

Hey Lisa - Great you spotted this - Actually I think it was Anorak who did the work. I would love to know if the campaign is going to be extended further online.

Re: Nokia Oyster Card

sermad — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:15:11 -0000

Poken are wicked if your 12 years old and a Japanese school girl.

Re: This years identity project

sermad — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:55:20 -0000

this is going to be very special.

Re: Creative teams of the future

sermad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:12:40 -0000

I couldn't agree more Ben - the art of storytelling has to run through the core and brilliant writing will be at the heart of it.

I just wanted to hammer home that writers and art directors can't cope in the new media landscape without help - embrace us and we'll make your life easier and better.

Re: Why advertising agencies need to be salmon not sharks.

sermad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:18:09 -0000

I'm being slightly tongue in cheek here but the bears should really be the clients - The ones that view you as the 'ad guys' and never let you change. I think thats a whole new debate...

Re: London Cycle Hire Seats – Better experience?

sermad — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:57:46 -0000

I guessed as much. I still think something on the seat giving you an indication of roughly were to put it is good. Rather than setting the height, getting on it, getting off, changing it, getting on / off / on / off etc etc.

Re: IDEO – The future advertising agency?

sermad — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:47:36 -0000

I think I got muddled between on your actual comment - I took 'visionary' as' 'designer' which was incorrect!

I had forgotten about that further Apple insight - Thanks for reminding me and thanks for taking time out to feedback.

I'm just so curious how I can take different approaches to 'creating things' and try to apply them in 'incorrect' ways.

Re: Waitrose using QR Codes on TV

sermad — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:28:12 -0000

Only just saw this post mate. It is total shite user experience. Stop being so polite. :)

Re: What is a creative technologist?

sermad — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:15:55 -0000

Thanks very much.

Feedback was very good so far but actually showing what I do is working more than telling people.

Re: What is a creative technologist?

sermad — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:55:02 -0000

I sit with all the creative teams so that helps loads stimulating ideas between us. It's already got two new projects off the ground by just chatting to people.

I'm about 50% working on briefs as a 'creative' - about 25% R&D / innovation and about 25% working with various teams (creatives / planners / etc) to try and add something to what they are doing.

The guys who put me on projects really let me tell them if I have time or it is right (I kind of manage my own time) it is really working well so far.

Re: What is a creative technologist?

sermad — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:28:06 -0000

Evangelism is a small part of the job but only if you have a hands on understanding about what you are talking about.

Re: spotify.fm

sermad — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:43:20 -0000

Hey Jonty - It's funny because I asked around before doing my mashup if they had seen anything similar and nothing came up.

Great work for getting there first.

My version is centered more on what your friends are listening to - I really hope spotify have the ability to open this up inside their application.

Hopefully say hello at hackspace sometime.

Re: Why We’re Not Hiring Creative Technologists

sermad — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:27:20 -0000

Adding my own personal POV here -

http://www.sermad.com/2011/...

Re: Why We’re Hiring Creative Technologists

sermad — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:18:47 -0000

Hi Guys,

Thanks for taking the time to read the article.

I do agree it is all semantics but I've seen way too many flash developers change their job titles to creative technologist who haven't shown any tangible creative outputs. I've seen less non-coders who are creative techs so I thought Igor just pushed his concept of what a creative tech too far into this 'must be an amazing coder' camp. I really don't buy this.

I look at those schools like the RCA and the concepts coming out and they are mindblowing. Great ideas coupled with people who've made those ideas. That's my own take on what a creative tech is. More of a fusion of art and technology.

But anyway. We could debate this forever.

I'm off to make something. :)

Re: The magic of foursquare discovery, now on your big-screen devices. #new4SQ

sermad — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:38:47 -0000

I think this is really cool. May I add a feature request for my use case.

I use 4sq explore BEFORE I go places. Because New York is always full if you just turn up. So say I want to go out in the east village and I know I want to eat japanese. I use the mobile app and I set explore to 10km radius and search.

It be really really nice if I could do this on the 4sq website. You kind of have it with the new map on the homepage but you don't have the ability to 'search' using the explore interface - no filters or choices.

So really I'm asking for a way to use explore for a place I'm not at. Hope that makes sense.

Re: Anywhere in the world, foursquare Explore can find you something interesting (now on your computer!)

sermad — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:10:14 -0000

Amazing this is exactly what I've wanted for a long time.
A feature request for the system to colour differently that places that are on your lists. I think this would be valuable.

The 'popup' window every time you visit explore is also unnecessary and I would suggest this be removed soon?

Re: Anywhere in the world, foursquare Explore can find you something interesting (now on your computer!)

sermad — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:32:21 -0000

Amazing work. So cool.

A suggestion perhaps? The popup dialog when you arrive at 'explore' is a tiny bit annoying as I can't skip past it. I have to 'type something' in there but I like to use the map on the next screen to do my exploring.

Also it would be cool to colour code places that are in your lists.

Anyways. Amazing work. Love it.