links for 2009-6-8
June 8, 2009
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A fantastic journey through the history of information…
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A sensitive yet timely insite into contingency planning…
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Design. Debate…
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Word on the street that Microsoft will leapfrog Nintendo with Project Natal…
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Loving it – results in rows and columns…
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Old but good – insight into IDEO’s Deep Dive approach…
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Campaign reveals a new advertsing platform…
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Insight into the impact Google Wave will have on us…
links for 2009-2-11
February 11, 2009
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Thousands of individuals, including artists, non-artists and youth, are invited to participate to collaborate in the making of what promises to be Canada’s largest “contributive” digital artwork.
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I love Lego. I love NYC…
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Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.
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but not soon enough – I want one…
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The video on this post highlighting the ‘golden triangle’ is worth a watch…
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Some insight into good social media practice…
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Uncontrolled aggregation…
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Interesting post, fantastic debate – a must read…
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Easily said – much more difficult to implement…
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Even though almost 100 million viewers in the United States watched 5.9 billion YouTube videos, TV is not losing out…
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Fantastic. I haven’t tried this out yet, waiting for a good reason to…
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Another great example of the underestimated power of social media…
links for 2009-1-20
January 20, 2009
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One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn’t Pandora or Facebook: It’s recipes and shopping lists for Kraft singles, Jell-O gelatin and Minute Rice.
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It’s a big topic – something we’re on to. This is an excelent summary from Tom O’Brien
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A preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship…
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Cliqset is an exciting new way to create and exchange social information on the web. Unlike other social platforms, we’ve created a completely open ecosystem that gives the developer full control and puts the user at the helm.
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John Battelle’s predictions for the coming year…
links for 2008-11-24
November 24, 2008
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The internet makes up over 19% of ad spend in the UK, according to a report from Ofcom.
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n the heyday of rock music, no stadium gig was complete without a slow number that prompted the crowd to hold aloft their cigarette lighters to create hundreds of flickering points of light. Now the same effect is created by hundreds of people holding up their mobile phones as the audience takes photo after photo to prove they were there.
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We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months – adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) as well as user comments.
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When it comes to emerging markets, there’s been a lot of talk of how the mobile web will be the dominant way that people access the internet.
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Most people have heard the KISS acronym (Keep It Simple, Stupid). There is a very good reason for this. If you keep something simple, it is hard to mess it up.
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YouTube has quietly started testing out real HD quality videos on a smattering of its content, a development that is getting attention from viewers in message boards and blog forums this week.
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Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is coming to Hollywood. The largest phone maker in the world said it is opening a new research lab in Hollywood, which will work with people in the media and entertainment industry.
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The Emergence Project [emergenceproject.org] is a “software art” installation exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center’s digital building facade gallery.
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fLux, binary waves [lab-au.com] is an urban visualization installation based on the measurement and real-time representation of infrastructural (passengers, cars…) and communicational (electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones, radio…) flows.
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Senor Gruber has uncovered a trick inside Google’s Mobile app that uses an undocumented method to access the iPhones proximity sensor.
links for 2008-11-18
November 18, 2008
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The concept of a workweek starting at 8 a.m. on Monday and concluding at 5 p.m. the following Friday is cute, but not all that realistic in most cases.
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At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple’s Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard and iPhone/iPod versions (unlike other browsers, you don’t have a choice).
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Despite the on-going success of the BBC’ iPlayer and other VOD services from BT (NYSE: BT) and Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED), online TV will make up less than two per cent of total TV revenues in the UK by 2012.
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Twitter is considering charging companies for access to its users as a way to make money, and delay having to raise another round of capital in these tough economic times, reports Bloomberg, which talked to Twitter’s CEO Evan Williams.
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In addition to generally kicking ass, James Bond is famous for his refined taste, his penchant for seduction and, of course, his bad-ass cars. The tradition continues in the lastest Bond flick, but for the first time in 46 years, our hero goes – dare we say it? – green.
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Sprint introduces a huge widget mosaic dashboard [sprint.com] that attempts to document the “now”.
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The design of a new commemorative 5 Euro coin [pythonide.blogspot.com], also called the The Architecture Fiver, based on the subject ‘Netherlands and Architecture’.
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An interactive hurricane tracker, built with MSNBC’s Paige West to track major storms. Built using Modest Maps and Microsoft’s excellent Virtual Earth tiles, the project allows for interactive investigation of both live and historical hurricane paths, wind speeds, and forecasted routes.
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Design books are often expensive and contrary – sometimes the book is worth having for the physical production values alone, sometimes for the images, sometimes for the words and, occasionally, for all three. We wanted to cover those elements in our reviews so that you know whether it’s worth owning.
links for 2008-10-2
October 2, 2008
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This weekend the Museum of Arts and Design opens the doors of its new home at 2 Columbus Circle following an extensive redesign of the building by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture. The museum’s new graphic identity can already be seen throughout the city, on the sides of buses, on street banners, in print ads and in the subways. The geometric-based mark reflects the circles and squares present in the building’s shape; its location, on Columbus Circle; and the building’s iconic “lollipop” columns retained in the redesign. After the jump Michael Bierut discusses creating a graphic identity for the one of New York’s most anticipated reinventions.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc has signed a deal for Hollywood director Zack Snyder, who made the hit 2006 film “300,” to help develop video games, some of which may someday become movies themselves.
The agreement, announced on Monday, calls for Snyder, who also directed 2004’s “The Dawn of the Dead” and is working on a film adaptation of the “Watchmen” comic book series, to develop three original games for EA.
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In the perennial fight against ad drop off during commercial breaks, tech and video firms are coming up with new ways to force viewers to watch advertising. Over in Britain, BBC competitor Independent Television (ITV) is begining tests of “automatically placed overlay advertising.”
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the architecture of the narrative present in the movie “Fight Club”, completely built with Lego blocks. the red rectangular borders divide the space in sequential chapters, the colors of the bricks depict the different movie characters, time flows from left to right, the movement up or down indicates character movement & height indicates intensity.
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Ivan writes to tell us about Patrick Buckley and Lilly Binns’s new book,The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies :”It’s for gadget-loving gastronomes. For people who really love to play with their food, who make their kitchen into a lab and a workshop.
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Transferring large files on the web has always been a hassle, especially when you need to do it frequently. One field especially prone to this problem is the music industry – artists often collaborate with eachother by sending rough versions of tracks, but have to rely on clunky services like YouSendIt or FTP servers.
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Here at TechCrunch we’re big believers in mobile social networks. In February I wrote about how the iPhone is the perfect ecosystem to have it’s own social network (awesome device and software, location aware, elitist users). And in April I showed a teaser of an upcoming social network from Loopt that did everything I had asked for: iPhone only to start, location aware so that you could meet new people around you.
links for 2008-9-24
September 24, 2008
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Songs that refer to products and brands have been with us for years. Conscious of the branding value such mentions can bring, some artists have gone so far as to approach companies with offers to include brand and product names in their song lyrics. But a wayward email from Paul Kluger of the Kluger Agency, which performs such product placements, provides a rare glimpse into this secretive market.
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After participating in two panels and seeing others in the three-day Blog World Expo this weekend, there were a number of repeating elements. First, Twitter has recovered from its near-fatal issues and is becoming a must-use tool for more attendees, who are using it for conversation and news discovery. Second, a concern that while we may be using services for microblogging, life streaming, videocasting and news aggregation, that we are the odd ones, and that the services we like are nowhere near the mainstream.
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RunKeeper Lets You Run With Your iPhone [TechCrunch]
Although logic dictates that smaller is better when it comes to running gear, RunKeeper, a cool iPhone app that tracks your treks via G.P.S. adds a compelling exception to that old adage. -
CBS on Monday announced that Eyemobile for iPhone is available now in the iTunes App store for those users that want to submit photo and video content to the company’s new citizen journalism site, CBSeyemobile.com.
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Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently.
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The widely-anticipated T-Mobile G1, which sports Google’s long-awaited Android operating system, made a decidedly disappointing debut Tuesday. The smartphone doesn’t have the design sizzle of Apple’s iPhone, lacks key features, and isn’t as open as expected.
links for 2008-07-02
July 2, 2008
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A project from the RCA Design Interactions show. How green is your grass?
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Blik’s Nintendo wall stickers are fantastic — an easy way to turn any room into a Mario or Donkey Kong level.
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MySpace and Vodafone are partnering to build a European service for festival goers this summer…
