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 2008-9-25
September 25, 2008
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I don’t think Ulf Washbusch, until recently a Product Marketing Manager for Google Mobile, should be expecting to get his old job back after yesterday’s comments on the new Android phone.
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Because of the abundance of photo hosting sites available on the web, it can be hard to track down every photo from an event you’ve attended. Oftentimes they’re scattered across multiple user accounts, under generic album titles like “Party”, making them hard to find and virtually useless for future reference.
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Tipjoy, a Y Combinator-funded micropayment startup that launched in February, has closed a Series A funding round led by Betaworks, with The Accelerator Group and Chris Sacca also participating. The company hasn’t disclosed the exact amount of the funding, but says that it is just shy of $1 million.
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Design firm PostlerFerguson built this 1:1 model of a Concorde Olympus engine out of styrofoam, paper, and glue. Their reference was a maintenance manual they snagged on eBay. It’s on display in the window of Selfridges & Co department store in London.
(tags: art innovation)
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The iPlayer’s Listen Again radio now works on iPods and iPhones. The user needs to be on a wireless network, and can only access content from the past seven days, but the service will also work for the Nokia N96 from October 1.
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Super Hi-Vision (SHV) is a new large-screen television system that is being developed by NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, in their Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL).
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Sony Ericsson will launch a mobile phone service with unlimited music downloads within weeks, the company said on Tuesday, as it competes with Nokia in expanding business beyond the sale of handsets.
links for 2008-9-24
September 24, 2008
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Songs that refer to products and brands have been with us for years. Conscious of the branding value such mentions can bring, some artists have gone so far as to approach companies with offers to include brand and product names in their song lyrics. But a wayward email from Paul Kluger of the Kluger Agency, which performs such product placements, provides a rare glimpse into this secretive market.
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After participating in two panels and seeing others in the three-day Blog World Expo this weekend, there were a number of repeating elements. First, Twitter has recovered from its near-fatal issues and is becoming a must-use tool for more attendees, who are using it for conversation and news discovery. Second, a concern that while we may be using services for microblogging, life streaming, videocasting and news aggregation, that we are the odd ones, and that the services we like are nowhere near the mainstream.
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RunKeeper Lets You Run With Your iPhone [TechCrunch]
Although logic dictates that smaller is better when it comes to running gear, RunKeeper, a cool iPhone app that tracks your treks via G.P.S. adds a compelling exception to that old adage. -
CBS on Monday announced that Eyemobile for iPhone is available now in the iTunes App store for those users that want to submit photo and video content to the company’s new citizen journalism site, CBSeyemobile.com.
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Google has just opened a new Labs project, called In Quotes, to the public. The site allows users to compare quotes from various political figures, displaying key excerpts from speeches and interviews that they’ve given recently.
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The widely-anticipated T-Mobile G1, which sports Google’s long-awaited Android operating system, made a decidedly disappointing debut Tuesday. The smartphone doesn’t have the design sizzle of Apple’s iPhone, lacks key features, and isn’t as open as expected.
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 2008-07-21
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 2008-07-04
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”
