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We’ve come up with a new name and moved our blog to http://2×5.in.
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It’s our new name for our company 2×5 INteractive (two by five = 2 hands and 5 fingers). Xtepz is the name of our super duper exciting project and this site will give you more information [...]

Track Your Spending with Gmail and Google Docs [Money]

Here is a tip on how you can use Google Docs Form and create a link in Gmail to add custom data collection tools for yourself. 
 

If you’re looking to keep a closer eye on your finances this year and you live and breath Gmail, reader Nick Espinosa has developed a clever method that may be [...]

Video: Merlin's Talk, "Toward Patterns for Creativity"

Whenever I watch this guy I realize that everyone seems to be struggling about the same thing, life. I always enjoy the way he speaks. Very straight forward and frank about everything, especially how he feels about them. Here is a video of him speaking about Design Patterns. This is a subject that I am very very interested [...]

aMap: Mapping Complex Arguments in a Visual Format

this looks like a cool form of information mapping, and decision mapping online and collaboratively. Flow chart and information mapping is something I’m really interested in so I played with this a little bit. quite limiting to be a real application, more of a cute design item you can play around with.
I was very intrigued [...]

Modista: Online Shopping by Visual Similarity

This brings shopping aggregation to a new level. All shopping should be this way online. 
 

The new online shop called Modista [modista.com] collects inventories across multiple retailers, and organizes items according to their visual similarity using digital image processing and machine learning algorithms. The horizontal axis orders products by shape, while the vertical axes ranks them by color.
Currently [...]

Automatic Blogging

I’m starting to get the hang of this blogging thing a little bit now. There are many rough edges and many new things I would like to explore, but one of my first things to set up was to make the process of writing my blog post as fast and streamlined as possible.
I look at [...]

Making a Monkey — Jessica Joslin shows us her workspace

 
I’m interested in artists’ and DIYers’ workspaces. I like to find out how they organize their tools and supplies, and how they set up their workbenches and drawing boards. When I went to sculptor Jessica Joslin’s fantastic show at Billy Shire Fine Arts last week, I asked her about her workspace. She kindly had some [...]

Flowchart Decides Which Chart Style is Best for Your Data [Charts]

Great data deserves an eye-catching presentation, but most charting and graph-making software offers an overwhelming array of options. Andrew at the Extreme Presentation Method blog offers a flowchart to pick the wisest choice.
Andrew’s flowchart, available as a JPEG or PDF, starts with the question “What would you like to show?”—comparison, distribution, composition, or relationship—and drills [...]

TechCrunch’s internet tablet gets a new protoype

TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington has pulled together a squad to make this whole simple, cheap, internet tablet thing he started talking about in July, 2008 happen for real. Their goal is to make a tablet that browses and plays flash videos really well (pretty simple stuff) that costs around 0. Built by a team led by [...]

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Whuffie is the ephemeral, reputation-based currency of Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

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