Swim – the game
Dan Ha recently uploaded a fantastic game called Swim, that he built with Nicole Roach and Cameron Teitelman. Complete with nicely-illustrated instructions! When I asked him about it, Dan said: The...
View ArticleSuper Disco Sketchin’– It’s all about the process
Part of what I love about Studio Sketchpad is that it’s an environment for creating digital animation that is focused primarily on process, and only secondarily on the product. When you find yourself...
View ArticleForget UserVoice and GetSatisfaction. Send me your feature requests through...
Dennis Daniels is more effective than you are at getting his feature requests heard. Why? Because every one of his requests comes in the form of a screencast video uploaded to YouTube. He has,...
View ArticleToss that sketch over the wall
One of the great features of Etherpad is that you could create a new document with one click on the homepage, and share it with others by mailing them a URL. No signup hassle, no up-sell, just click...
View ArticleUnlocking compliments with Google Translate
I just added a new sketch by Ari Prasetyo to the Studio’s gallery. If you look at the source code of this sketch, you’ll see that all of the comments and variable names are written in Indonesian. A...
View Article“What I cannot create, I do not understand”
On the last blackboards of Richard Feynman: [more] Consider, for a moment, the core verbs of participation on the web today. I’m not talking about GET or POST. I’m talking about CREATE, REMIX, SHARE,...
View ArticleMiniSketches
In an attempt to have something tangible to show for my time spent on Sketchpad, I picked a few of my favorite canvases from the Studio Gallery to print on a deck of MiniCards. A small box of sketch...
View ArticleInspired by a deck of cards
Viewing sketches created by people in the Studio was always possible, but wasn’t pretty or easy. Here’s what you had to work with: In stark contrast to this, I have a beautiful little deck of cards...
View ArticleBuilding four communities for learning, tinkering, and remixing with code
Update: Video slides from the presentation are now at the bottom of this post. I’m excited to be participating in a panel discussion at the Digital Media and Learning conference in March to talk about...
View ArticleSketchcasting: Next-generation screencasting for code
This post is drawn from a longer post on my twosigma blog. Thanks to a flash grant from the Shuttleworth Foundation (via Philipp Schmidt of P2PU fame), I was able to take a few weeks off between my...
View ArticleGartner thinks Sketchpad is “cool”
I was pleasantly surprised to hear from a Gartner analyst last month, who got in touch to share that Sketchpad is being featured as one of Gartner’s four Cool Vendors in Web Computing in 2013. I’d...
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