Det er hundetasken.

Her er slides fra min præsentation på ITU i sidste uge, hvor jeg talte længe og næsten uden pause om at lave mashups, og hvad jeg kom ud for mens jeg gjorde det.

De understregede ord i præsentationen kan klikkes på, og vil lede dig direkte til det omtalte mashup. Den fulde liste er også her.

I’ve taken a few of my favorite feeds with screenshots and collected them in a public Google Reader page.

Below are the feeds currently in it. Please suggest more.

Contact receives invite. Contact views invite. Contact clicks email link. Contact fills out registration form. Contact finds friends. Contact invites new friends.

There’s a human-made path next to the paved one. Even though dogs seem to like it, it might be made by runners in hard shoes.

Visiting someone here? According to the wear on the doorbell, there’s a good chance you’re here to see Øresundshuset.

Not sure which ice cream to choose? Take the most empty one for a popular choice

In the physical world, we’re able read hints of usage by how worn out things look. On the internet, everything is new all the time.

Here’s what a worn interface could look like. Notice the heavily used support area. Hm.

or, simply reversed, people’s clicks (or fingers for touch interfaces) that actually clean up the most commonly used areas of the site.

I’ve played around with Flash lately. I wanted something cool for my Chumby Flash player clock radio to wake me up with. Here’s a few experiments that turned out to work quite well on the desktop, too:

My50 plays music videos by your favorite artists from last.fm

Concert tube plays music videos by bands playing in Copenhagen this week (and month, well, whenever, really, but next up is first up)

Video Netradio takes the ‘now playing’ from DR Netradio and finds the corresponding music video on YouTube.

Now playing shows an image of the artist currently playing on DR Netradio

So you’ve clicked the heart icon in the last.fm player and ever since wondered how you were to listen to those songs again. Favtape plays them on demand, full length. Somehow off topic, they also play the full iTunes top 100 and, back on topic, other people’s Last.fm playlists, which of course is the most interesting part about this service.

Quickly discovering an artist can be tedious and involves a lot of waiting. Mixturtle is amazingly fast, plays full length, and finds a lot, including rare recordings.

You might think it would be cool if it happened to you, but please think twice on this one. Having your blog hacked is extremely cool, but it also causes a lot of trouble.

Personally, I’m happy that Site5 finally treated me with a nice surprise. They simply restored backups and set me back in time before I got the weird hello from the Middle East.

My only concern is that I’ve lost all the Danish æøå’s that were previously in the database. They’re now weird characters. One of them is the Yen sign.

Kristina Just

alle klicheer om afrika passer her, der er trommemusik overalt og folk dasker og klapper og råber msungo, hver gang de får øje på en ikke-afrikaner

12.44

Morten Just

ha, hvad betyder det? “hvid”?

12.45

Kristina Just

ja eller asiat, mest hvid tror jeg

msungo, sister, how aaare youuu

nogle gange vil de gerne sælge noget, men for de meste vil de bare gerne sige hej

ugandere elsker at hilse

jeg stod i kø til en ATM og hver gang der kom en ny i køen, vendte alle sig og hilste på den nye person

efter tre gange begyndte jeg også at sige hej til de nye i køen

Det er Claus. Han laver laser om natten, når månen er.. osv.

Your iTunes library sucks and you head off to the mp3 blogs for inspiration. But they only play one track at a time. Enter the Y! Player as a bookmarklet:

That’s clever. I used to like minimalistic del.icio.us Playtagger, but this one surely takes clicks off your back. Of course, to do the same trick, you could go ahead and get the Firefox for music, Songbird, but it’s just not as elegant as this.

Here’s how to put the player on your own site.

By the way, isn’t the lead singer in this song the guy from The New Pornographers?

While we’re dreaming about it,

The Japanese are using it
(via koolhunting.dk)

This is how an irreversibly bricked Chumby looks. It now serves as my backlit Koolhas EU flag.

How I bricked it? Simply updated its software. “If it’s an alpha unit, you will not be able to use it again”, the help person told me last night. I went to bed, and the Chumby did not wake me up this morning.

I hoped they would make an exception to their US-only policy because I did own one already, and didn’t get a “you upgrade, you brick” warning. No luck.

UPDATE: As Steve points out in the comments: This is an officially non-supported alpha unit that I got for free years ago. Current Chumbys can of course handle updates. I just miss mine, that’s all.

I was in a long meeting yesterday. Two hours, felt like four, clock reported just one. But one sentence kept popping up: “it’s the death of the dumb icon”.

Not being spectacularly novel in itself (I mean, look at your iCal icon, it shows the date, a PDF icon shows the file itself - which is annoying, but still), it had me thinking. An icon is not an additon to an icon-based interface, and everyone knows how to use it. But tiny simple changes can hint or even message a calculation done by supercomputers on a space station, or species. Such as DNA icon.

How much is it used today? Let’s look at my dock.

(click to enlarge)

Out of 27 icons, in my current view, four are not dumb.

Adium shows new messages (but not the face of the latest sender), iCal shows today’s date (but no indicator if I have events), next to the recycle bin, the Downloads folder shows a) that there is more than one, and b) the latest is a PDF, and the recycle bin shows that it is not empty.