Tagging: Technology

  1. Pave the cowpaths

    Interesting to see Monzo releasing fully-fledged saving products within their app based on user-generated IFTTT recipes using their API. Leveraging interoperability as a way to innovate is a smart move. This https://ifttt.com/applets/GutUrxFv-take-on-the-1p-savings-challenge has become this https://monzo.com/features/1p-saving-challenge

  2. Watching Async: How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

    Watching @rem@front-end.social and @adactio@mastodon.social walk us through building the World Wide Web in five days, from the comfort of my own home. We’ve come a long way! Thanks to Async for livestreaming! Do I spot @markboulton@typo.social and @briansuda@loðfíll.is in that pic too? Watch along here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XONerj4rE2I

  4. Novara Media 2024 Round Up

    I’ve grown very fond of the Novara Media journalists. I particularly liked Ash Sarkar’s closing hopes for 2025.

    Thinking about human relationships and our experience of each other and our experience of the world and how corroded it's been by various logics of disposability and so this is thinking about consumerism and thinking about what does it do to us to buy so many items which are designed to be thrown away what does that make us feel about our own labor what's our relationship to our own labor.

    There are so many technological means of which are supposed to Foster human connection which are based on the the idea of throwing people away it's just swiping infinite swiping infinite scroll like.

    I found it really depressing when I was on dating apps I haven't been on dating apps for a while but when I was on them just like looking at all these hopeful faces and just being like “nope”. I don't think that's good for us I don't think it's good for us mentally I don't think it's good for us politically.

    I think that there maybe some lines of connectivity that you can draw between the production of things um our economic conditions our working conditions our social conditions and our mental conditions as well.

  5. What are we doing?

    Social media platforms have suffered the same fate as Slack groups. The same people posting the same content across multiple platforms. So much wasted time, effort and energy. What are we doing?

  10. Disrupting Japan Podcast: How to sell innovation in cut-throat, low-margin industries

    A fascinating conversation with the Elephantech startup that is changing the manufacturing of printed circuit boards (PCB) from a subtractive to additive by using ink-jet printing process; reducing waste and manufacturing costs and helping to make a much-needed decarbonisation shift in the tech industry.

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