Jonathan's Card : A social experiment

So, Jonathan Stark made this cool app that gave away free coffee at Starbucks.  He took an image of his Starbucks gift card, and told people use it or reload it as they saw fit.

Some people gave away money.

Others got free coffee.

Still others (like me) made smartphone or web apps based on the image and API.

One dude decided to siphon money from the account and brag about it on his blog.

This card has its own Twitter and Facebook pages.

Alas, it wasn't meant to last.  Jonathan's Card was deactivated on August 12, 2011.

The time has come for this wonderful experiment to make a transformation. Starbucks has informed me that they will be shutting off the card at 10pm ET tonight (Friday, August 12, 2011).

At least it was fun while it lasted.

EDIT:

As far as I can tell, there are five competing services that have sprouted up after Jonathan's Card was deactivated:

• Adam's Card
• Craig's Cup
• Paying it Forward
• DC Cup of Joe
• Don's Bin

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Adams-Card/179071545494267
http://www.facebook.com/Craigscup
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Paying-it-Forward/118578998240458
http://www.facebook.com/dccupofjoe
http://www.wireshout.com/dons-bin

I'm not seeing any tracking options like Jonathan's Card, but I'm trying to pay attention to this.

The Developer Experience

Here is an excellent talk from WDCNZ about the developer experience, courtesy of Pamela Fox:


The Developer Experience (Large Video) from WDCNZ on Vimeo.

Here are the slides, courtesy of Slideshare:

The Developer Experience

View more presentations from Pamela Fox

History of programming: An infographic

Check out this excellent infographic about the history of programming languages, courtesy of Rackspace.

Android History- an Infographic

Infographic by Android Developers at [x]cubelabs

July NEWLUG meeting: Google+

Here is the video from the July meeting of the Northeast Wisconsin Linux Users Group. The subject is Google+:


The slides (written by Vincent Wong) are available here.

Flow: ChromeOS on your own laptop hardware

An enterprising young programmer who goes by Hexxeh has packaged up a pretty straightforward way to run the Chromium OS (The Open Source version of Chrome OS) on your own laptop.  The site has packaged up a bootable USB image to allow you to try the OS on your laptop without having to mess around with your existing OS install.

Here is a video of an Eee PC loading Flow:


The website is http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ -- check it out!

Android running on a 32 inch multi-touch display

It is really cool that a company came up with this. Perhaps we'll see more of this in the future?