links for 2008-07-24

• Kara Visits iLike in Seattle! [WSJ]
  
  (tags: music social online)
• Electronics Giants to Create Wireless HD Standard [Wired]
  Wireless HD video gets a big boost as Sony, Samsung Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi join forces to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals from a single set-top box to screens around the home.
  (tags: HD media video)
• Twitter searches for the next step [The Guardian]
  In their first newspaper interview since buying third-party search startup Summize, the Twitter founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams talk to Guardian Technology.
  (tags: twitter guardian business online)
• US patent hierarchy visualization [Information Aesthetics]
  
  (tags: data map technology)
• UI Porn: Audi’s new MMI [37 Signals]
  Audi is set to release the next version of their MMI (Multi Media Interface). The MMI powers their nav, radio, and car systems.
  (tags: cars design interface)
• BSkyB tunes up for digital music battle with Apple [The Times]
  BSkyB has unveiled plans to take on Apple’s iTunes with a new subscription-based digital music service, with packages likely to be priced around £10 a month.
  (tags: music online)
• Digital Billboards Stalk You As You Shop [Gizmondo]
  
  (tags: advertising innovation)

links for 2008-07-19

• The Story of the Fail Whale [WSJ]
  Twitter users are very familiar with the iconic image of the Fail Whale…
  (tags: twitter social media)
• Beautiful and non-wasteful packaging from Japan [Boing Boing]
  No country creates more beautiful product packages than Japan…
  (tags: design product innovation)
• RFID badges at HOPE hackercon form automatic social nets and irony [Boing Boing]
  This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project at the Last HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) in NYC will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests.
  (tags: RFID social location)
• Channel Five To Offer ‘On Demand’ TV [Gizmondo]
  Following in the footsteps of the BBC and ITV it seems as though Channel 5 will also be launching its own ‘On Demand’ service.
  (tags: media tv demand)
• Revolving Architecture Book [Cool Hunting]
  
  

  (tags: architecture design book)