Here is the slide deck and audio recording of a recent lecture I gave to my NYU ITP2800 students. The topic was “Building an Effective User Experience for Mobile Smartphone Applications Used Under Duress”, with the ideas and content coming from an earlier blog post / crowd-sourced effort on this topic. I still consider this [...]
Below is my rough statement for the US Helsinki Commission “Twitter v. Tyrants” hearing this Thursday. I would greatly appreciate any of your comments and feedback, as I will be polishing this up a bit before the hearing Thursday and before I formally submit it into record. I mostly wonder whether I have made to [...]
Homework for Week 5
Catch up on previous weeks’ readings and homework that you haven’t turned in yet
Continue to develop and plan your cause with a target on being able to concisely explain it for your midterm and the next Speed Geek!
Review the content presented in class and decide on the approach (server vs client or [...]
Homework for week 3:
Readings:
“Of Secret Codes, Abbreviations, and Knowledge Lost and Gained” http://blog.thehenryford.org/2009/05/27/of-secret-codes-abbreviations-and-knowledge-lost-and-gained/
RNC 2004 in 160 Characters – http://www.scribd.com/doc/5403691/RNC04-in-160-Character-Bytes
TXTmob: Text Messaging For Protest Swarms http://web.media.mit.edu/~tad/pub/txtmob_chi05.pdf
MobileActive: Mobile Apps for Data Collection: http://mobileactive.org/wiki/Mobile_Applications_for_Data_Collection
Tasks
Listen to an online police or fire scanner stream for two hours and document what you hear. Specifically listen for codes, protocol and [...]
Here are the captured whiteboard brainstorms, audio (first hour only due to technical glitches) and my slides for the week 1 class of ITP2800. All of this content is hosted and available on http://drop.io/itp2800, with class bookmarks and homework reading assignments posted at http://delicious.com/nathanialfreitas/itp2800+week1. Week 1 homework assignments are listed at the end of [...]
I’m going to get down to business here without too much editorializing. The only prereq is that you have an Intel-based Mac and a medium level of skills with text editors or visual web page designers. You don’t need to know how to write Objective C or any other complex “Native App” skills. I’ll take [...]
This is pretty amazing and hilarious… it plays like an airplane safety video, but includes tips like “Avoid delicate conversations in your home due to the possibility of wiretaps” and “the regime you are opposing will try to provoke you into violent response”.
Eric Mill, of Mill Industries (a personal blog that has nothing to do with heavy machinery), attended my session at MobileCampNYC3 yesterday, and posted a positive note about it:
The first session I went to was awesome, about the Twitter Vote Report, which was actually not just a Twitter thing at all. Via SMS, calling in, [...]
Earlier this yaer, Joe Hewitt released a great library named iUI for easily developing iPhone-friendly mobile web applications using a basic set of HTML tags. Here’s a brief rundown of what it does:
* Create Navigational Menus and iPhone interfaces from standard HTML
* Use or knowledge of JavaScript [...]
Email to SMS Technique
Originally uploaded by nathanialfreitas
I recently had someone ask about sending video download links to mobile phones. Mux does this using the “your phone number”@”your mobile carrier”.com approach, otherwise known as the SMTP Email Gateways.
Every carrier has a different way to do this, with different limitations, but it does essentially work, and as [...]