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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Show Notes & Links:
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: alloftheabovepodcast@gmail.com
- 💩.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:
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.