links for 2009-11-12
November 12, 2009

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A great infographic that illustrates the rise and rise of social networking sites…
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Still loving this – brilliant data visualisation of the 3,000 apps a minute that are downloaded from Apple’s App Store…
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Loving the latest from A Glass and a Half Full Productions…
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Good example of content being integrated into the fabric of a building…
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Physical interface…
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Measuring brands by mention/sentiment…
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A great way of demonstrating a product/service through experience…
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Speaks for itself…
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 2009-3-31
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 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.

















































