links for 2009-3-31
March 31, 2009
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What’s popular on wikipedia…
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A great insight into the potential application of information in a converged world…
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A useful use of augmented reality…
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Amazing speeds achieved using ‘rigid wing’ thrust…
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I still believe there are far more interesting opportunities where the brand acts as the commissioner… this looks too close to the Kate Modern format.
- Honda ‘Let it Shine’ TVC
Loving the ultra low res/tech video wall…
links for 2009-3-6
March 6, 2009
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Great piece of motion graphics…
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Still working for me…
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More lovely weberry from UNIQLO…
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Definitely one for the diary…
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Emerging technology…
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A lovely blend of data from Yvo Schaap…
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A combination of two of my passions. Art and Cars. On tour…
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 2008-10-23
October 23, 2008
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- The Do Lectures
The Do lectures are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
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- Fiat EcoDrive
links for 2008-10-20
October 20, 2008
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Going green doesn’t mean giving up wheel-spin-inducing, tire-shredding performance, as this 300-horsepower natural gas-burning Mustang GT proves.
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Major leadership changes Thursday at Twitter renewed questions about its business prospects — was the replacement of CEO Jack Dorsey by fellow co-founder Evan Williams a shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic?
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The Zombiefie Six is a set of six papercraft zombie dollies for you to print, fold and play with.
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Popular music service iLike has teamed with TuneCore, a music distribution platform, to help artists promote and sell their music as easily as possible.
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“Web Without Words” [webwithoutwords.com] is a website that takes a popular website each week and reconstructs it without its words and images. Instead, its replaces them with blocks, similar to the “wireframing” process in information architecture. It is quite similar to Internet Soul Portrait, in abstracting a popular web presence to its bare minimum.
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 2008-10-14
October 14, 2008
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For the last two years Tom Smith has been running global research at Universal McCann that tracks the usage of social media. The results of which have clearly demonstrated the massive growth in usage that is occurring across the world.
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The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir’s screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
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Looks like Toyota is bringing the 56-mpg iQ microcar to America after all, but it’s slapping a Scion badge on it first.
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To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CH friend and colleague Seth Brau recently completed the rather daunting task of bringing the words to life with motion graphics.
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Word Magazine readers have been busy building this map showing where iconic album cover photographs were taken.
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Photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand will bring his work back to the United States – to New York City for the first time in 2009.
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You’ve arrived in a new city, a new continent, a new coffee shop. You don’t really know where you are, and are looking for a good place to eat.
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Alternate movie posters about film brand integration.
