007: Messaging

Our human brains can't handle it. Messaging, the Nike FuelBand, the Apple Watch, Emojis, and sadness all play a part in this week's episode.

Episode 007: Episode

In This Episode:

Continuing our series inspired by stock iOS apps, we tackle messaging and how our human brains can't handle it. Sean explores the world of sensors and the additional contextual information they provide, while Sam is obsessed with emoji. We get deep with Bryan and how we are constantly connected. We don't mean to make you depressed, but it might happen. Oh, and Pokémon.

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Intro

Weather in Columbus on January 6, 2015
Norman Rockwell
Sean’s Awesome Snow Shovel w/ VersaGrip
Nike+ FuelBand First Generation
Nike+ FuelBand Firmware and Jan 11, 2015 Screenshot
FuelBand Engineers Laid Off

Sean: Messaging with Context (Starts at 2:05)

Apple Watch
Sean’s First Thoughts on Apple Watch
VIDEO: Lil’ Flip — Sunshine
APP: MessageMe — Lots of Context
VIDEO: Demo of Apple Watch sending heartbeats
Understanding Video Conferencing Latency
Visual Feedback to Reduce Influence of Delay on Video Chatting
VIDEO: King Of The Hill — Sticker Price
Facebook Ads Opt Out

Sam: Emoji and Unicode (Starts at 10:20)

History of Emoji
The Original 150 Pokémon
VIDEO: Pokémon Rap
Pokémon Trading Cards
Pokémon Tournaments
AOTA: The Walking Dead Scenario (near the end)
Game Boy Color — Limited Pokémon Edition - Yellow
ISO/IEC 8859
Unicode 6.1.0
BETA Unicode 7.0
Apple and Google engineers are trying to make emoji more diverse
The Diversity of Japanese Culture, 1998
CIA: The World Factbook — Japan
How Emoji Conquered the World
Emoji++: The Fast Emoji Keyboard for iOS 8
VIDEO: Siri Explains Emojis
VIDEO: How to type Japense on your iPhone
Emoji, Emoji, What for Art Thou? Providing History and Context for Emojis
VIDEO: @Midnight — Sweet Emoji
APP: Emoji Game!
PODCAST: IRL Talk
TWITTER: Faith Korpi
Faith Korpi’s Movies in Emoji
Chrome
ASCII
ASCII Art
EMAIL: 💩🐉🐉🍣@icloud.com
EMAIL: [email protected]
💩.la
Register an Emoji Domain
List of Top Level Domains (TLDs)
Recognition Versus Recall
The Three Japanese Alphabets
Japanese Writing System
Chinese Characters
Chinese: Tree + Tree + Tree = Forest
Korean Word Structure and Basic Letters
VIDEO: World’s Easiest Writing System
SHOW NOTES: Pinterest
VIDEO: PokéRap (With all 718 Pokémon)
LIST: Lazy New Pokémon
Vanillite, the Ice Cream Cone Pokémon
Obake

Bryan: Constantly Connected (Starts at 28:01)

BOOK: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris
Mobile Phone and Society — How Being Constantly Connected Impacts Our Lives
University of Missouri — iPhone Seperation Anxiety
Swanson Pyramid of Greatness
Paul Miller: I’m Leaving the Internet for a Year
Paul Miller: I’m Still Here: Back Online After a Year Without the Internet
VIDEO: Paul Miller: A Year Offline, What I Have Learned — TEDxEutropolis
Shifting Baseline
PODCAST: 99% Invisible — Episode 146: Mooallempalooza
Evidence Suggests that the Internet Changes How We Remember
Netiquette: Rules of Behavior on the Internet
Sheriff: Taunting Post Leads to Arrests in Rebecca Sedwick Bullying Death
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Computer-Mediated Discoure
VIDEO: J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
Thinspiration Blogs
Fighting FOMO: 4 Questions That Will Crush the Fear of Missing Out
IMDB: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
VIDEO: Siegfried & Roy’s White Tigers
F#$% Lapras
Correction: Sean meant to say confused, but it’s roughly the same thing as paralyzed.

Join Us Next Week:

Episode 008: eBooks, with Connor Mason

We will have our first guest on the show, Connor Mason!

He’s a copywriter at Punchkick Interactive in Chicago, and he’s actually written two eBooks within the past year (iOS 8 in Context and CarPlay for AutoMakers), so we couldn’t think of a better person to help us tackle our next topic: eBooks.