What started as a crazy idea I had because I’m now not-so-secretly-obsessed with superspy films and the luxury aesthetics of the Craig-era James Bond is currently battling Google Wave for the top spot on Twitter’s trending topics. By just about every metric I know, Spymaster, a game I built with my colleagues at iList, has become a wild overnight success. Read more…
Ever since I’ve been in Silicon Valley, I’ve found myself woefully maladapted. The complete change in culture, climate, geography and my forced redefinition of what it is that I was to now consider home never sat well in my heart, and I found myself in some type of inexplicable identity crisis, an outsider in a circle, oddly in a place where I found I had more in common with people than not. Read more…
There’s a common theme in design circles of the ability of design to save failing products. Can design save our flagging sales? Can design save an industry crippled by a recession? At some point in the near future, we’re most likely going to be asking if design can save our very souls. Read more…
This Mangarosa conversation is going downhill fast.
Eston Bond is a 23-year-old
interaction designer currently working as the Design Director
for classifieds startup
iList, Inc. He graduated from the
University of Michigan in 2007 and has been writing commercial
software since age 16.
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A PHP5-based, fully modular, standalone activity stream engine built during SXSW Interactive 2008 to be a base for hackers and developers, powering the activity stream on estonbond.com. The Mélange lifestream engine exists as a framework for activity aggregation of any type — just write your own logger class and off you go.
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Hands down the best blog I have come across in years.
"It seems like Kiefer Sutherland is taking his role of Jack Bauer on "24" a little bit too seriously these days."
Probably the most useful blog I've read in some time. Here's a quick tutorial on HTML 5 link relations.