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.
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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]
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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 2008-07-21
July 21, 2008
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This year Turin is the World Capital of Design, a title that the city is holding fairly decently but without much panache.
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Edopter is a unique concept that attempts to combine crowd-sourcing with internet buzz to predict new trends. It’s called “social trendcasting.”
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While feats of athletic brilliance may be the main focus of cameras during the Beijing Olympics, the telegenic venues set to host the athletes will draw their own share of gasps from admiring spectators.
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Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism.
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Internet giant Google becomes the UK’s top brand for the first time, according to a survey of consumers.
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An original book label design specifically designed for structuring big academic libraries.
links for 2008-07-18
July 18, 2008
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The DO lectures will be all about getting a handful of speakers down here in the hope that they may inspire you to do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
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The long-familiar, two-dimensional paper representations of our world are giving way to active, software-driven interfaces that display multiple layers of data in manifold ways.
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Amazon will launch a new streaming video service to select customers on Thursday called Amazon Video on Demand.
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Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood.
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Shelby Supercars already builds the world’s fastest car. Now it’s building the world’s fastest EV, a 500-horsepower Tesla-killer it says will be on the road next year.
links for 2008-07-16
July 16, 2008
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The first official track to be taken from Guns N’ Roses’ new album will be released through video game Rock Band 2, along with a Bob Dylan number.
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It turns out those rumors last week were accurate. Microblogging site Twitter has acquired the Summize search engine, Twitter.
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Sony has finally acted to exploit its position as both a maker of electronic
hardware and producer of entertainment by streaming Hollywood blockbusters
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No plain sailing for this debut feature Director…
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Better Things is a multi narrative drama depicting everyday life in small town England.
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Nintendo unveils a highly-sensitive motion controller add-on for its Wii system at the E3 conference in Los Angeles.
links for 2008-07-09
July 9, 2008
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In 1977 Tomohiro Nishikado, a 33 year old Japanese computer programmer, was a company employee, like millions of others. In his spare time he played video table tennis, manoeuvring white paddles up and down a black and white TV screen…
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Great illustration deatiling the current state of the web…
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One example of how customer service is changing in the age of social media. “The power has shifted, [so] that big companies now have to be worried about one individual with a microphone called a blog.”…
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Ready to have your gray matter softly stroked? Perhaps you should take a trip to BMW’s recently opened museum in Munich, where a kinetic sculpture comprising 714 metallic balls suspended in air will soothe your weary mind.
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It looks like green lights all the way for the launch of the iPhone App Store this week.
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The Tour de France, one of the world’s greatest sporting events, started today, and Google is providing a new way to see the route, via Street View.
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Based on the universal premise that everyone likes to pop bubbles, memories of Advent calendars, interesting ways of mark
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Back to the latest Interactivos? at Medialab Prado in Madrid. Subtitled Vision Play, this edition offered artists and other creative people the opportunity to create prototypes for exploring image technologies and mechanisms of perception.
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O2 customers determined to get their hands on Apple’s new 3G iPhone caused the
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In the grand tradition of UPC codes and CueCat, ScanBuy/ScanLife is attempting to barcode the world.
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Scripts, letters, designs, props, photographs – as many as 900 boxes of material belonging to one of the greats of cinema have been made available to a wider audience.
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Table of contents is often considered to be one of the most unspectacular design elements ever invented…
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Getty Images, one of the world’s largest media licensing companies, has partnered with Flickr to add a wider selection of pictures to its online catalog.
links for 2008-06-27
June 27, 2008
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This spring marked the 40th anniversary of HAL, the conversational computer that was brought to life in the 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
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Starbucks is to become the sole sponsor of a specially created branded content area on the Virgin Media site
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Automotive brands plan to stop using dedicated campaign sites as budgets tighten and consumers tire of fragmented content.
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MTV UK is to launch a virtual world for its music channel brands.
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Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn says “the future belongs to all-electric cars” and announces the company’s first step toward that day – a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid it’ll have on the road by 2010.
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Michel Gondry, the French-born director of acclaimed offbeat movies like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, has also directed numerous groundbreaking videos for the likes of Björk and the White Stripes. He offers his picks of the best videos…
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Here are the top 10 most-viewed TED Talk videos from June 2006 to May 2008
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Some technologies take things down a notch. For instance TinyPaste, a service obviously built with Twitter in mind that lets you link to ramblings in excess of the regular 140 character limit.
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We’ve had another iPhone app come out of the woodwork to give us a preview before the impending launch of Apple’s App Store.
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Webmonkey shows you how to mash your favorite photos onto a map using a few lines of Python code.
