http://www.eightshapes.com/blog/2011/08/19/sharing-sketches-remotely/ 

Pretty great methods here, would love to grab one of these IPEVO cams ($70). 

We struggled with a webcam and tripod to do remote mobile demos, and this would do the trick ideally. Along with the added benefit of easy capturing a whiteboard or tabletop sketches. 

A pretty interesting new logo for Windows 8. I like the simplicity, a bit of perspective, clear reference to new Win8 UI tiles, and most for the reference to the Windows 1.0 logo. Nice work Pentagram. 

#lazyweb inforgraphic

Interesting post and info graphic: http://www.fastcodesign.com//1664402/infographic-of-the-day-how-twitter-exposes-googles-limits

I’ve done this before, just posted a questions to my Twitter/Facebook feed, hoping for a good recommendation on a restaurant or product purchase.

As I comented on the post:

#lazyweb is part of it, but, as you note, I’d propose it’s something like the #humancuratedweb that’s prompting these requests. What’s more motivational, a fairly impersonal google search leading to diggin in to reviews by distant strangers, or a quick request to my somewhat nearer friends and strangers on twitter? The social network layer and behavioral patterning) is the Google 2.0 – adding my friends thoughts and preferences to my search.

But again, as Netflix seems to have discovered, my friends preferences aren’t necessarily mine – better recommendations are based on my actual behaviors and contextual goals.

The social and behavioral layer to my web experience, be it search or otherwise, is emerging as an “expected feature”, moving from being a “pleasing moment”.

It will be interesting to see what Google+ does to search and any other linked Google app/element by adding the social/behavioral layer to the experience.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/08/apple-icloud-google-cloud/

With iPad/iPhone and now OS X Lion, you don’t save documents anymore. They save automatically — but an easier way to think about it is that they just exist, as is, in realtime on all your devices. … They just exist. Who cares where as long as they’re right there on all your devices when you need them?

Jobs is right on track. The value that the user doesn’t need to know how it works, or where it goes, or what it does, they just need to USE IT is key. We DON’T CARE where, as long as it’s there when I need it – it just is.

Great read and perspective on the future of computing.