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 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 2008-10-13
October 13, 2008
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Researchers from the Boston University College of Engineering are currently spending their time looking at ways to use light bulbs instead of traditional wireless communication to transfer data.
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One of the highlights of the London Design Festival wasn’t a big name or flashy product, it was a low-key installation from a young design graduate placed in a corner of Tent London.
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There’s nothing like a bit of luxury when staying at a nice hotel. Be it in-room dining or the staff waiting on your every need, feeling like a king for a day is a matter of taking advantage of the hotel’s services. Unfortunately, the systems in place for requesting such things are years behind, teetering on the edge of archaic.
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Campers are usually unsightly hunks of metal spewing smoke all over the highways. We’d much prefer traveling in the dutch countryside in a Tonke Camper.
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Man, has Hulu nailed online TV viewing or what? First off, they have a huge library of content that people actually want (e.g. SNL, Family Guy, Daily Show, Colbert, Kitchen Nightmares, etc.). And then they really execute on having a usable, effective UI.
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A couple days ago, Eyebeam in New York City opened what by some has been called their best show so far. It is titled Untethered, and was curated by visiting fellow Sarah Cook to be “a sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades”.
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A textual emotion recognition & visualization engine based on the concept of synesthesia , or in other words: “code that feels the words visually”. the synesketch application is able to dynamically transfer the text into animated visual patterns.
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This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate in multiple social networks, how today’s technology luddites might some day consume information, using RSS, and what the recent economic turbulence means for today’s startups and tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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If you thought China’s opening ceremony was impressive for its scale and teamwork then spare a thought for the 52 German design students who were handed the knee weakening task of creating a temporary 200sqm world that tries to translate sociological terms like self-portrayal, community and retreat into tangible spatial situations. As impressive as it is, the real treat is in the details. The entire space was created by lashing together almost 1.3 million cable ties. The result is nothing short of amazing. Visitors are invited to explore the surreal landscape of cocoons, webs and light called “The Third Space” that took a staggering 16,870 hours to complete.
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 2008-07-17
July 17, 2008
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Film and game makers join forces for Prince Caspian
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John posts about this marvellous artifact: the autographed typewriter on which Douglas Adams wrote The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy for sale for a mere ~$25K.
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Over on Boing Boing Gadgets, our John has the exciting news that Apple I BASIC has been extracted from an audio cassette and converted to MP3. It’s actually got a pretty good beat.
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Fantastic stop motion…
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links for 2008-07-10
July 10, 2008
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An(other) online visual search interface that represents search results for music, videos & images queries by a network-like diagram. results appear alongside related items, which can then be further refined.
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Music-streaming service Last.fm is now paying unsigned artists royalties for every song played on its service.
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Digg is seen as the “Grand Daddy” or the “Big Kahuna” of Social Media Networks. It has the ability to send an enormous amount of traffic in a given direction.
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Part of the whole web development process is making prototypes of a page or a whole site. Why do this? How to do this? What are the benefits of doing it?
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The Center for Social Media just released a best practices document on fair use in online video.
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 2008-07-05
July 5, 2008
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A deep throat inside one iPhone retailer told Electricpig that just 15% of the iPhones sold since the last price drop have been put on the O2 network
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Here at Today, we’re using the online service Twitter to send out simple text alerts about upcoming items that you might not want to miss, and programme highlights that you might want to listen to again.
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A selection of great information graphics from various sources
links for 2008-07-04
July 4, 2008
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Google must hand over the log holding details of every user who has watched any video on YouTube, a US court rules.
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Back in April, I told you about the new Shepard Fairey cover designs for Penguin’s reissue of Orwell’s Nineteen Eight -
An electronic billboard entirely powered by the sun and wind is set to go up in Times Square in December, a company said today.
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In this post, guest author Ryan Carson goes through some of the lessons learned from building a Web app in four days. Carson is the co-founder of carsonified.com.
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Just as The Governator tries to pursue green policies, like keeping Tesla’s electric production car local, you’ll now also be able to hand out full-
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Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2.0 Europe.
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The IPA Touchpoints report, which queried 5,400 people, revealed that 29% of people between the ages of 15 and 25 had watched TV online, along with 18% of adults between 25 and 64.
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Plus Minus Zero, the Japanese company co-founded by the master of minimal design Naoto Fukasawa, just released its fifth collection.
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Forget the stereotype of the stuffy, don’t-touch-the-art, kid-unfriendly museum. Interactive museums can be entertaining, engaging and educational — even for a generation of kids raised on Nintendo DS.
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A series of 4 different physical “sound sculptures”
links for 2008-06-26
June 26, 2008
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JC Penney is making headlines this week, but not for the reasons it’d like.
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A viral online video phenomenon won a Grand Prix at the Cannes International Advertising Festival that was usually reserved for only the best in traditional TV advertising.
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Watch as the demo shows matched images that were identified using the TinEye image recognition software. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified.
