links for 2009-12-02
December 2, 2009
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At last… now can we stop calling ‘them’ the user…
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I’m loving this payment solution…
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What’s your favourite?
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Fantastic interpretation of data…
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 2008-10-23
October 23, 2008
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- The Do Lectures
The Do lectures are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about.
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- Fiat EcoDrive
links for 2008-10-15
October 15, 2008
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Do you live in Muswell Hill, London or Whitchurch, South Glamorgan? If so, you are lucky sods because you’ve been chosen by BT as the latest pilot sites for fibre optic broadband which will see homes in the area getting broadband speeds of up to 40Mbps.
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If the future of the web is the mobile web, then mobile site creation is going to be a big thing. A few services have already spotted the opportunity but Jag.ag a new service coming out from Israel has a very interesting product approach that could make it stand out.
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How exactly did this happen? For so long, Internet Explorer was the dominant browser, and Firefox was the up and coming alternative; the web browser space seemed so dull just a couple of years ago. Now, suddenly, we have it all: IE is the tired old guy trying to keep up with the times, Chrome is the shy one sitting in a corner, Firefox is the life of the party, talking to everyone at the same time, Opera is trying so hard to be funnier than Firefox, and Flock…well, Flock is Firefox’ brother on amphetamines. And now, it finally reached version 2.0.
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It’s here, folks. The first beta release of the next major version of the Firefox web browser is available for download.
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Manufacturers of aftermarket iPod adapters and cigarette-lighter speakerphones take note: Your days are numbered.
links for 2008-10-3
October 3, 2008
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Here are some initial shots of the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic aka the Tube aka the first Symbian S60 touchscreen phone.
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The U.S. will snatch the lead in mobile technology from Europe as the Internet is integrated with mobile devices, Nokia’s CEO told a Silicon Valley audience on Wednesday night.
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a visual representation of (a sample of) over 1.4 million rows of data originating from the Federal Election Commission, aiming to reveal donations & examine any patterns in the type of donations given.
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an online information dashboard for the Indianopolis Museum of Art, which attempts to measure & visualize various aspects of the museum’s performance. the goal of this dashboard is to seek to quantify & report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum observers & to particular interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues & patrons. tracked data attributes include “Fans on Facebook”, “KWh per Day Energy Consumption” & “Number of Art Works on Loan”.
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Apart from 3D forcing you wear silly hippie glasses that make you look like a dork and which leave you with a splitting headache, 3D is still largely a novelty. But now TV makers like Philips are determined to make 3D tellies a reality.
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Nintendo has just fired the latest salvo in the portable gaming wars.
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