links for 2008-11-17
November 17, 2008
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Too creative for just a profile? Way too busy to blog? Soup is easy personal publishing.
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At Live Labs we bring scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and the online community together to build a better online world.
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Architectural materials at the cutting edge of contemporary design
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A reactive floorprojection for a Recoil Performance Group dance performance/installation. Developed with choreographer Tina Tarpgaard and programmer Jonas Jongejan.
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A visual browsing tool that allows you to explore more than 3,500 artworks in the SFMOMA collection.
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As its name suggests, Distill is a distillation of the very best fashion and style editorial from across the globe. We have scoured every magazine – from household names to the most obscure titles – in order to showcase the most inspiring content to stimulate you in your work and everyday lives …
links for 2008-10-28
October 28, 2008
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It’s time to think about leaving your laptop at home.
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Idee has built a remarkably easy to use tool for searching Flickr for photos according to color palatte.
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The economic crisis might leave growth-oriented companies like Twitter with little choice but to start focusing on the bottom line.
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Blurring the lines between what is a floor and what is a ceiling, the Jenga-like structure of Final Wooden House allows its occupiers to decide how to use the space according to their position.
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The use of the typically green/red colored treemaps to depict the stock market exchange is not particularly new, especially for those who know the now famous SmartMoney Map of the Market. However, FinViz.com takes the more traditional flat treemap version one step further by introducing a 2.5-dimensional perspective [finviz.com] as well as a geographical overview [finviz.com] version.
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Yet another competitor of Many Eyes, Swivel, Track-n-Graph, WidGenie and the just-posted iCharts: Trendrr [trendrr.com] has the capability to track the popularity and awareness of trends across a variety of inputs, ranging from search engine results, news stories, social networks, to blog buzz and video views downloads.
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I’m not sure how many of you are catching up with BBC TV via iPlayer on your Wii but apparently it’s been a less than satisfactory experience. The Beeb has now tweaked it all though to make sure that all you arm-wavers will have a much easier time with iPlayer from now on.
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Google Earth. On the iPhone. That is, I would imagine, all you need to know to send you careening off to the App Store, from where you can grab the free download of Google’s Aerial Opus.
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Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would manage the relationship between software inside the computer and on the Web, where data and services are becoming increasingly centralized.
links for 2008-10-16
October 16, 2008
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Treehugger has a collection of a dozen fantastic, recession-compliant homes and buildings made from old shipping containers, the packets of the sea.
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Futurists have long predicted the day when we zip along in autonomous and electric monorail-like systems they call Personal Rapid Transit, and several projects underway in cities around the world suggest we soon may be freed from the bondage of gridlock.
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Yesterday, Apple didn’t announce a netbook. When asked why, Jobs replied “That’s a nascent market that’s just getting started, and we’ll see how it goes.”
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When Fuzz launched a microblogging service for music aficionados called Blip.fm last May, no one in the company expected it to rise above the status of an experiment.
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When Twitter acquired search engine Summize, it immediately rebranded and relaunched it as Twitter Search.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Motors, an electric car start-up in Silicon Valley, said Wednesday that it would lay off employees and delay production of its second car, the Model S. Tesla also removed its chief executive, Ze’ev Drori, and appointed Elon Musk, the company’s chairman and principal investor, to the position.
links for 2008-10-7
October 7, 2008
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Instant Suburb of Prefabs Hits New York [Wired]
Tourists press up against the construction fence on the corner of 53rd and Sixth, staring speechless as a giant crane lifts an entire bathroom into the air and deposits it in what will be a master bedroom. Cellophane House is five stories tall, with floor-to-ceiling windows, translucent polycarbonate steps embedded with LEDs, and exterior walls made of NextGen SmartWrap, an experimental plastic laminated with photovoltaic cells. -
Yahoo is continuing its marathon merger discussions with AOL, sources close to the negotiations have whispered to us, and a deal could happen as early as this month. Is this just a rehash of the reported discussions in February and then again in April?
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MINI Motoring Graphics is MINI’s partnership announced today with Original Wraps, Inc. that allows MINI owners to add a little flair to their exteriors and interiors. From full-on custom jobs to small round badges, the program presents over 5,000,000 options enabling drivers to stand out from the masses on the road.
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SomeRightsReserved is the awesome online store of the London-based KithKin design collective. The shop, billed as “a download revolution” features both digital products (such as music and fonts) and directions/instructions for building physical items.
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During Sotheby’s record-breaking Damien Hirst evening auction last month, the saleroom felt like something out of a Cold War science-fiction novel. On the day that Lehman Brothers collapsed and the American financial markets began their freefall, the Russians seemed to be celebrating their new-found billions by buying diamond cabinets and gold butterfly paintings with names like New Midas’s Lie.
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Every week on AMC TV’s Mad Men John Hamm’s character, Don Draper, and John Slattery’s Roger Sterling lead the men and women at the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper. They create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, while they chain-smoke, drink and womanize.
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If George W. Bush and John Kerry campaigned for the presidency on the Internet four years ago, I wouldn’t have seen the point and likely would have laughed in their faces. Who would have heard and listened to them?
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The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code – but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.
links for 2008-10-1
October 1, 2008
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With some 70 artists showing their work, the biennial is a very satisfying but also very overwhelming experience, especially because the event features so many pieces that require time and reflection, and so many artists whose work i had never heard of.
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Detractors claim he was a sex-starved automaton who destroyed our cities. Devotees say he revolutionised urban living. On the eve of a major retrospective, we explore the true legacy of this controversial architect
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Designed to stimulate the senses and force inhabitants to use balance, physical strength and imagination, the lofts feature uneven floors, oddly positioned power switches and outlets, walls and surfaces painted a dizzying array of colors, a tiny exit to the balcony, a transparent shower room, irregularly shaped curtainless windows, and more.
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Caterpillar’s come out with a new line of electric-drive mining trucks called the AC Series, and some diesels that belch less pollution than the other ginormous vehicles the company builds.
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The “green” incarnation of travel, called ecotourism, mandates that travelers minimize their cultural, economic, and environmental impacts as much as possible to promote sustainability.
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YouTube has launched a new feature as part of its Insight tool for content creators that allows members to visually examine exactly where in their videos their viewers gain and lose interest. The new feature, called Hot Spots, displays the dropoff data in a dynamic graph that can be viewed alongside the original video.
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As part of its 10th birthday celebration, Google has opened the doors to an antiquated version of its search engine that dates back to 2001. The portal has all the trimmings from the old site, including the goofy logo (complete with exclamation point), a missing “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and the not-so-modest claim of having indexed 1,326,920,000 web pages.(tags: google)
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Not long ago, it seemed music videos were doomed to go the way of the radio star. Cool bands hated making them, MTV had stopped showing them, and innovative directors like Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry had long since moved on. Then, somewhere between OK Go’s treadmill-dancing “Here It Goes Again” on YouTube (more than 37 million views) and Feist’s “1234″ choreography lesson turned iPod ad, the music video made a comeback — and launched a new generation of directors more at home with URL than TRL. Meet the next wave of filmmakers and their greatest hits — so far.
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We all know that mobile phones are not exactly the greenest products in the world but, Sony Ericsson thinks it has an answer by showing of its GreenHeart biodegradable phone concept.
links for 2008-9-26
September 26, 2008
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Processing Light, an exhibition organized & curated by Maxalot, will be all about especially commissioned generative works applied as large-scale super highres projections onto one of the walls of the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM).
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Yesterday, Google posted a fascinating timeline of the past ten years.
For those of us that have been around since the days when Yahoo! dominated search (and Google wasn’t ‘here’ yet), the timeline brings back a lot of memories, and also causes some pondering about the future. -
IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications.
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If you’ve ever shelled out $1,500 for a new dealer-programmed keyfob after sending yours through the washer and dryer or left your iPhone in the back of a cab, you’ll appreciate this “advance” from Nissan: a phone that can lock and unlock your car.
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Radiohead’s remix contest for its track “Nude” was a big deal by any measure. According to Radiohead’s merchandise company W.a.s.t.e., the remix page for the track has received over six million unique visitors who cast nearly a half a million votes and listened to tracks 1.7 million times.
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Today the story of Muxtape, the popular but shortlived music service that let users create virtual mixtapes, has finally come to light. In a lengthy blog post on the site’s homepage, founder Justin Ouellette details his legal wranglings with the four major record labels and the RIAA, which led him to shut the site down in August (an unaffiliated site, Mixtube, lives on).
- Use Google Monitor to Crowdsource Group Questions [TechCrunch]
Google Moderator, which launched on September 24, 2008, a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask…
links for 2008-9-17
September 17, 2008
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Long-term Gizmodo fans may remember the Mickey Mouse inspired MP3 player announced last year. Well, if you ever wondered what happened to this little number you’ll be pleased to hear it’s now available in the UK.
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Increasingly open ways of participating in the selection and display of content are blossoming. Harnessing the ubiquity of internet access, the Brooklyn Museum are able to produced Click!1, a “crowd-curated” photography exhibition.
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Given the rising popularity of social media services, it’s not uncommon for someone to have their photos scattered across a handful of sites, like Facebook, Flickr, or a personal blog.
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As more Web properties crop up, the number of usernames and passwords you need start piling up.
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T-Mobile has sent out invitations for the official announcement of the first Googlephone, the HTC Dream. The press conference will be held in New York on September 23rd, but first adopters of the Android-powered phone will have to wait until probably October 20 to get their hands on one.
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We’ve seen some pretty cool car adverts over the years and new and used car website motors.co.uk has celebrated an upgrade to include new video content with a poll to find the nation’s favourite.
links for 2008-9-16
September 16, 2008
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Swype is an amazing gesture-based data entry system that truly blew our collective minds at TC, CG, and MC. To type, you simply connect letters together using a stylus or finger and predictive text to pick letters and words out of seemingly unintelligible squiggles.
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Hand-in-hand with the HTC Touch HD page spotted earlier, the product page for the equally unannounced HTC Touch 3G has also made its way into the public view. It’s packed with visual goodies and specs, so check it out…
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Ten years after Toyota and Honda introduced hybrids to the world, Mercedes Benz is jumping on the bandwagon with a $100,000 gas-electric luxury sedan and a promise that one in five cars it sells will be a hybrid by 2015.
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A Vertigo-Inducting Jenga Apartment Tower in NYC [Gizmondo]
Fresh off the billions of eyes that have been on the beautiful Beijing National Stadium, Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron have set their sights on NYC with this incredible 57-story residential tower -
Ikonoskop A-cam dll 1080p Camcorder Shoots 240MB of Video Every Second [Gizmondo]
The key to the crazy looking Ikonoskop A-cam dII camera may be the 80GB card that comes with it. How else would you expect to shoot 60 RAW frames of 1080p video, totaling out at 240MB each and every second?
links for 2008-07-23
July 23, 2008
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Jaeger LeCoultre’s Atmos 561 mechanical clock is the work of Australian super-designer Marc Newson.
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By combining some of the finest online music services, the folks at Favtape have concocted a lightening-fast online mixtape creation tool that creates sharable mixes of your favorite songs in under a second.
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It’s official: the Polaroid picture will soon be a thing of the past. The news that by next year, the photo company will stop producing its iconic instant film in favor of a more lucrative digital field has left legions of longtime fans bereft.
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Reviewing Phaidon’s latest tome, Le Corbusier Le Grand, is like being asked to review the Constitution. How do you take in something so all-encompassing, so sweeping in just a few sittings? And then, what do you say about it? Um, it’s good?
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The popular mapping site added walking directions to its arsenal of on-the-go search info. While the results aren’t perfect just yet, the service is capable of finding and recommending the most direct, flat and pedestrian-friendly route.
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The creator of Super Mario talks Nintendo’s future plans, including new Wii motion controllers, Wii Music, and the future of his famous franchises. Wired.com video interview by Chris Kohler.
links for 2008-07-19
July 19, 2008
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Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale…
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No country creates more beautiful product packages than Japan…
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This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project at the Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) in NYC will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests.
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Following in the footsteps of the BBC and ITV it seems as though Channel 5 will also be launching its own ‘On Demand’ service.
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