AlphaDesigner Blogue

A new technology enables advertising billboards to collect data from the people that pass by. They are already able to make approximations about people’s age and sex relying on built in cameras.

Jakob Nielsen calls the contemporary web user “selfish”, the BBC reports. I call Jakob Nielsen a slightly confused old man. Is this polite enough?

A couple of friends and I began to make a list of suspicious search requests, taken from our own online statistics. Needless to say, we were amazed at the results. It made me scratch my head and think about the future.

Every once in a while something reminds me why the online revolution is such a great, fascinating thing. I’m not talking about the next social networking service or search algorithm. Leave that to Microsoft. I’m talking about phenomenons like Wikipedia and Creative Commons. There’s been a lot of time since those came to be, so [...]

Blessed America Vol.1, originally uploaded by ArtWerk.

I had my share of thoughts about Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo but I guess they weren’t quite original to deserve a separate post. Until I read this article. It shifted my interest in bashing on monopoly-hungry corporate colossuses to contemplating about online advertising in general. After all, this is [...]

IMG_1020photocopy, originally uploaded by Mitchkitter.
Scientific American reports of a very interesting research. It seems that some scientists are so fed up with the elusive nature of God that they decided to solve this mystery once and for all.
The beginning of the story resembles a stunning masterpiece of pure decadent horror adorned with film noir [...]