Facebook Owns You (and Your Content)

This is something that I’ve always known about (and most of you), but it has come to a point that its significance has changed my actions.
If you follow the Terms of Service on Facebook, it states:
…By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you [...]

Still Here, Except Not

So hello again. I feel like we’re strangers again. Let’s start over…
Hi, my name is Kevin. What’s yours?
As everyone and their mother knows, summer is nearing an end and I have yet to write anything about it. This will be a preamble if you will of future posts. First will be a quick [...]

Greetings From Germany!

Hello dear friends, I am writing to you from Munich Germany.  It’s day 8 now and it has been a complete blast so far.  The culture here is wonderful. There’s so much about Europe in general that makes me happy. More specifically, everything is a lot more cleaner and effiencient here. The train system makes [...]

Fun With The iPhone

I’ll keep this brief since you can find a lot of this information on the interweb. It’s all over the place, trust me.

Anyways, so I got off work a little early to check out the University Village Apple store to check out the crowd during the unveiling of the most highly anticipated/marketing/sought-after/lusted/flamed/beautifully-built consumer device known [...]

Life After Graduation

Three weeks have gone by quickly and already so much as happened. Even more exciting are the things that will be coming up. More to come on that later.
Since graduting from the wonderful University of Washington, everything seemed to just cruise along. I’ve moved back home over on the east side and it [...]

A Little Portfolio Demonstration

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
A lot of people don’t know exactly what I do. What is Informatics? What is Interaction Design? You’re artsy fartsy (wrong, but I do love art, and especially great design). So on and so forth. Well it occurred to me that while I have spent my long summer hours [...]

iPhone Technology Visualized

It’s not often that you find informtion about how technology really works with uber nerdy device, or how it all seamlessly works together, in a simple way without all the text. Well I just stumbled upon Apple’s iPhone site again after reading about their new announcement on battery life and their move to glass from [...]

Observation: Increase in DSLR Market

Is it just me, or does anyone else notice the growing DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) community? I’m just sitting here at Cafe on the Ave and I think I just saw four different people with DSLR cameras. Three of them had entry level cameras: Canon EOS 400D and the Nikon 40Dx; while [...]

Health and Wellness: Sketches and Mock Ups

So our group decided to go with the shopping idea. Instead of having the user tote a list around, the list would be generated and remembered through a USB keychain. This keychain would be able to store, transact and record information the person’s consumption and purchasing habits. As a result, we can solicit [...]

Tabletop Touch Screen Brainstorming

Now this is useful:

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