Back when I started using Twitter, my first instinct was to use my first name + my last name as my handle: @diegopulido.
Once I found myself using Twitter more often, I became more aware of the character limitation. This made me want to shorten my handle to allow for more writing space. @Diego was already taken by then, so I started thinking of other options.
FROM MY REAL NAME TO @ixDiego
This was happening towards the end of 2008 –right around the time I found a vibrant UX community that was highly active on Twitter. Since most of my followers (and people I followed) were primarily user experience/interaction designers and I had been an IxD myself for a couple of years, it didn’t take long before I turned the last letter from the “Interaction Design” acronym and the first letter of my name into my new twitter handle: IxD + Diego = @ixDiego
This is the handle everyone on (and off) the Twitterverse knew me by. Often times other Twitter users would approach me at conferences, parties or other events and say “oh yeah, your “ixDiego“.
It is truly remarkable how it almost became my “true” identity to many others. I’m sure many of you reading this can relate.
I have changed my Twitter alias -my unique “@ pseudonym”.
Over a year ago, I changed my original Twitter name: @diegopulido to @ixDiego, mainly because it was shorter than my full name. As you may well know, the number of characters is limited in the Twitterverse.
The other main reason behind @ixDiego was clearly to have an amalgam of the acronym for Interaction Design (IxD) with my first name, which makes sense in retrospective.
Here they are: all the videos I recorded at Lollapalooza 2010. All 34 of them.
This may have been the music festival where I recorded the most videos. This is the time where I also realized how horrible my Sony DSC-T900 handles audio –especially when recording relatively close to the stage.
In the end, I was left with a collection of videos in rather decent 720p HD quality, but with extremely saturated audio (most of them, unfortunately)
If you’ve got any good recommendation on HD cameras that don’t turn mild bass sounds into muffled noise, please let me know.
Nevertheless, here they are. I’ve sorted them from top [best footage, most watchable] to bottom [least audible], starting with this one from MUTEMATH (the highlight of the entire festival for me –especially the last couple of minutes):
The latest TaskFlo.ws post is dedicated to a rather interesting situation that unfolded earlier this week, involving Twitter, unpleasant surprises, and a 17-year old kid named James Cunningham.
If you are active in the Twitterverse, you may have come across something called Twifficiency –a site that offers to calculate out Twitter efficiency percentage based on how you interact with the world in 140 characters or less.
The post highlights some observations I made after (seemingly) accidentally tweeting my “efficiency” score to all my followers on Twitter via Twifficiency’s web site. It addresses a couple of issues that are relevant to user experience design on the web and clearly haven’t yet been entirely solved.
Interesting related anecdote: The entire post was completed –and lost once I finished writing it because I selected the “Save as draft” drop-down menu option without actually clicking in the “Save” button (in Tumblr), to my utterly gutting surprise.
As I waited for some of my mates to join me at one of my new favourite bars in the city centre last night, I could not help the urge to try and rewrite the post while the ideas were still fresh in my mind as I sipped on a fully-loaded Mojito. For this used the always practical Evernote iPhone app and got to more than half of what is now the final post in TaskFlo.ws.
I must remember to type everything into Evernote first –for security/posterity purposes.
The latest TaskFlo.ws post is dedicated to Fake: a great browser application for Mac OS X that allows for easy web automation.
In the post, you will find a brief description of the capabilities of this awesome tool. You will also find instructions on how to use Fake to have a You Tube video play repeatedly without having to manually reload the page every time.
If you are the kind of person who likes certain songs so much that you can’t stop listening on them on “Repeat 1″ (like me), then you will find the instructions rather useful.
The latest TaskFlo.ws post is all about HelTweetica: a rather simple, yet nicely made Twitter app for the iPad.
At first, this free application may look like it hasn’t got much to offer compared to many of the other apps available –but I find it excels in its simplicity and reliability. This is unless, of course, I am the only one that suffers from most other Twitter iPad apps crashing every now and then… (*cough* TweetDeck).
Or you could use Formspring, a web site dedicated to questions and answers.
Just as the Internet continues to fill with “sharing/social-type” web sites, anyone thinking of launching a new service must make it stand out in some particular way –or it will succumb to the social powerhouses of today: Facebook and Twitter.
This is an iPhone application for reading the RSS feeds in your Google Reader that truly takes aesthetics, user experience and interaction design to a new level. It made it desirable for me to read blog posts in a small screen.
Not too long, the Swiss developers behind this excellent application released “Reeder for iPad”. The result? Another sleek product that is truly rewarding to use.
I like it so much that I’ve dedicated the latest Taskflo.ws post to it –with photos and a video to go along!
Exactly a week ago, I traveled to New York City with the sole purpose of seeing Massive Attack in concert. I had seen most of their performance during the Coachella music festival in 2006, so I knew this show was worth the price I paid for the ticket + the price of the AirTran flight that I took + any other incurred expense.
Here’s a collection of some of the best photos I took during the show:
I had read nothing but great reviews about Tumblr before. From the engaging flow of the sign up process to how easy it was to share just about anything. I knew about it for a while, but never really bothered to try it out.
Some time ago, when I created TaskFlo.ws I was set on the idea of using WordPress –much in the same way I use it to write what you are reading here. Taskflo.ws is intended to be a blog that is updated somewhat regularly, unlike this one. Unfortunately, with WordPress: more post = more spam. There are ways to prevent the industrial amounts of spam that fill my email inbox just about every day, but I simply can’t be bothered looking for more filters and plugins to add.
Then, one day I read a what seems to be John Mayer‘s last Twitter update, in which he explains that he was quitting Twitter and joining Tumblr –mainly because he reckons “Twitter’s dying” and sees value in being able to write his “thoughtful” thoughts in more than 140 characters.
