Saturday, September 30, 2006

Swikiri focuses on African-based web design

UK to get 250 channel satellite radio by 2010

Old goths vs. new goths in The Guardian

Nokia to launch new music service online

How to run a meeting like Google

NZ's excellent post-rockers Jakob release new album - "Solace"

Perfecting the perfect product pitch, part 1

Say hello to Design Charts

Frank Gehry's Hotel De Marques De Riscal

Synergy is an iTunes plugin

It's back to school with the class of Web 2.0

Make free 3G mobile calls and more with Fring

posted by olli @ 15:43  

Friday, September 29, 2006

Imagine a world where Apple and Wal-Mart work together to bring you online movies

Bak Magazine is from Turkey

Einstürzende Neubauten: No Beauty Without Danger

Musichawk: the "MySpace for Music"

Neubauladen has everything a designer needs

Mcdonalds now offering m-Venue content to diners in select restaurants

"Only a moron would buy YouTube"

Music companies are pulling videos from FUSE and Yahoo! over licensing fee disputes

My Chemical Romance upload their new video

Wokmedia create unique art installations

Industrial Facility make very cool products

The top ten American college pranks of all time

posted by olli @ 16:35  

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Everyone gets a social networking site! Say hello to Ning

Digital Home reviews the Linksys Wireless-G Music Bridge

Say hello to the Suzuki Fuel Cell Electric Wheelchair

Designers Talk is an online message board for...designers

Wot allows you to check a websites "reputation" before surfing

Is MySpace stealing your music?

Ibiblio is an online archive of pretty much everything

Techcrunch has the lowdown on new multi-person SMS services

Say hello to HearHere - a tool that allows you to find specific parts of a podcast in one go

Sony Ericsson + Fossil + James Bond = The Bluetooth Watch

Is your Macintosh toxic? Greenpeace says Yes.

Are Mobile ESPN days numbered?

posted by olli @ 17:04  

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Viral marketing takes a new turn with Nick The Diamond

Small Carrot offers artist created films for your portable video player

Musicians and video post people: Say hello to Abeltat

Is Ebay pulling the plug on their Chinese operation?

Seven essential facts about AJAX

The Guardian on the BBC's latest branding excercise

Techno Tuesday: Web 2.0 now has a comic strip

More sevens: The seven deadliest mistakes in resume design

The NYC Subway odor Google map mash-up

Putting the "sans" in Comic Sans

DJ Shadow now accepting submissions for his next video

posted by olli @ 23:36  

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Get a bib and say hello to the new Nokia N95

Webcasts from the speakers at 2006 ARS Electronica festival

LAist not so impressed with the Helio

Web 2.0: Venture capital easy to find. Sucess? Not so much.

Sirius introduces internet radio broadcast service

One more for the collection: Say hello to Wallop - the Flash based social network

The GE Plastics Innovation Seminar takes place in NYC on September 27th

CNN Money on the daily shenanigans over at Google

Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield on the basics of "Participatory Media"

Diplo's remix of Kanye West's "Gold Digger" is pretty fantastic

Karl Lagerfeld and Zaha Hadid on their architects of choice

posted by olli @ 16:26  

Monday, September 25, 2006

Say hello to Hairfix, the social network for beauticians

US pirate radio stations take on the FCC

Qolor make clothing from New Zealand

UK Music Industry now seeking tax breaks for its A&R staff

The vending machines of Japan

Art Lebedev's Optimus Mini Three LCD keyboard now shipping

Why interactive agencies need to be better storytellers

Londonist is seeking music reviewers

Say hello to roll-up laptop displays

A List Apart's comprehensive resource for the newbie web designer

W Hotels Part Deux: Starwood launches Aloft hotel chain

Setting up your own company in Tokyo as a foreigner

posted by olli @ 17:00  

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Earth Wallpapers showcase topography found on Google Maps

The internet kills indie record stores in Westwood

Say hello to The Internet Address Book

Norway launches an official site in the UK with music, design and more

A growing number of indie bands are turning to BitTorrent for promotion and distribution

Marketing on Google - It's not just text anymore

Adliterate is dedicated to "radical thinking about the future of advertising"

Ted Rheingold's presentation from The Future Of Web Apps conference

posted by olli @ 18:53  

Saturday, September 23, 2006

The Design 2.0 Conference comes to Boston on Nov. 15th

HypeDiss is another Digg style news aggregator

Photofront is another Flickr style photo aggregator

Children Of Men is a new film by Alfonso Cuaron

Say hello to Emotional Clothing

Movietally is a social networking engine about film

Apple's recent deal with Hollywood studios is making Wal-Mart nervous

The Spring Box Widget is an elegant RSS reader

Say goodbye to telemarketers with The CallBlocker

Say hello to the User Experience Podcast

posted by olli @ 04:17  

Friday, September 22, 2006

50+ Ways a Manager can get Employees to Quit

Web 2.0 video: "Never mind the quality. See the marketshare"

Stylus Magazine on their top 100 music videos of all time

Borat has a website

Sunshine is a stunning film coming soon from Danny Boyle

Transnational Blueblood tells it like it is

The Future Of Web Apps Summit Report

PingMag is a fabulous design blog from Japan

Microsoft to offer Live Search on Nokia S-60 powered phones

LunchoverIP on the growing trend of web-to-print publishing

The NY Times gets a typographic makeover

posted by olli @ 17:07  

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Say hello to Zebo: A social networking site about what you own

Whimsy Press make excellent gift wrap

FWA interviews Newstoday's Folkert Gorter

Say hello to the Imation 1GB USB bracelet

The New York Times on American hardcore

BetterWall make limited edition museum banners for the home

"cubicle+decorations" is a Flickr set

Minutesinaminute allows you to post and share your meeting notes from work

MilkBerlin is from Berlin and they make bags

Fujistu creates the invisible barcode

posted by olli @ 16:49  

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

SeeqPod is a state-of-the-art mp3 search engine

Yahoo! + current.tv = The Yahoo! Current Network

Say hello to the Helvetica Wall

The Hype Machine now with spiffy t-shirts

Book your tickets now: The Sugarcubes to reform to play one 20th Anniversary concert in Reykjavik

How Stuff Works on how Digg works

Matt Jones on EuroFoo06

Say hello to Popsugar

We love Melt Banana

The logos of Web 2.0

Turn your iPod into a PC with Mojopac

The most popular web applications in Japan

iTunes sells US$1 Million in online movies in less than a week

posted by olli @ 16:42  

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Coverage from the Future Of Web Apps Conference

Who The Bloody Hell Are They? is an Australian new music blog

Moo make beautiful cards from your Flickr photos

eBay Alert: Napster goes up for sale

99% of Web Design Books are Not

15 ways to get more out of Pandora

To charge by the hour or by the project?

Mcdonalds now tagging food in Japan with nutritional info QR barcodes

Taxi07 wants your help in creating taxi experiences of the future

Hel-Looks showcases the fashionistas of Helsinki

Apple.com profiles Dwell magazine

Say hello to NewsBiscuit

posted by olli @ 16:43  

Monday, September 18, 2006

Radio is dead. Are movie theatres next?

Engadget gets a re-design

Pitchfork Media on music licensing 101

London's Science Museum to host video game exhibition

Warner Music hitches a ride on YouTube

Say hello to the Wallpaper* City Guides

High fashion gets its own hotel: The Hotel Du Petit Moulin in Paris

Fladdict present Amaznode - A visual search engine for Amazon

Honey Eat Your Salad is an online magazine

"Why You Are Here Right Now" is a book written by a global collaboration of over 1000 people

posted by olli @ 16:33  

Sunday, September 17, 2006

The Guardian on the new Swedish indie-rock scene

Setlists from the 2006 Austin City Limits Festival

25.org make some lovely T-Shirts

The Ad Free Blog has a posse

Archinect on Utopian Modernism in London

Tinysound offer lovely high-res photos of Berlin

Wrappers make sleeves for your laptops and iPods

The Space Hijackers on the psychological tricks of retail space

Bibi make little monsters for your Apple products

Say hello to Microsoft's iPod killer - The Zune. Also now a phone?

Designwire now accepting submissions for its annual showcase book

iPod users shunning iTunes in favour of music found elsewhere

posted by olli @ 16:52  

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Say hello to the MySpace mp3 Gopher

Photos from Bansky's recent exhibition in Los Angeles

Core 77 on the Dwell On Design Conference

Nokia Shorts 2006 is underway

Say hello to Friends For Families

The Economist on Social Networking

Crazy Egg provides instant heat-mapping to your website

Say hello to The Urban Forest Project

The Handy Reference Guide to Corporate Identity

Say hello to The Shakespeare Search Engine

Go2Web20.net lists every Web 2.0 company in one place

Mobcharger is a portable mobile phone charger

BusinessWeek offers a case study of Issey Miyake

posted by olli @ 17:44  

Friday, September 15, 2006

Barbie vs. H.R. Giger = The Advanced Bitch Killer

How not to name your technology company

Phase Collective is a .pdf magazine

Disused London Underground carriages are being turned into artist studios

Say hello to The Channel Channel

World War Z: An Oral History Of The Zombie War

US to Europe: Hands off Apple's DRM

Say hello to The Viral Video Chart

Rupert Murdoch considers selling stake in DirecTV because it's a "turd bird"

The love/hate/love/hate relationship between Universal Music, YouTube and MySpace

The Album Leaf: The Making Of The Album "Into The Blue Again"

Corporate geeks rejoice! It's the iPod Suit

posted by olli @ 16:44  

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Battlestar Galactica and the tyranny of digital distance

Survey Says! IT people twice as likely to wear Heavy Metal T-shirts

Atelier Coulthart and the modern tarot card deck

Cingular bans the word "Engadget" from its customer forums website

Say hello to the driverless car

A Better Tomorrow make beautiful things from Dusseldorf

The Barenaked Ladies now selling mp3's off their MySpace page

The Lee Jeans Street Campaign hits Paris

More from Germany: The world's coolest dental clinic

Harvard Law Extension School now holding courses in Second Life

Architectures Of Control In Design is a blog about exactly that

Korean Air bans all laptop use on their flights

posted by olli @ 16:37  

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

The London Sinfonietta vs Warp Records

T-list make some pretty cool t-shirts.

How to say "Keep Out" 10,000 years from now

AT&T launches live mobile broadband TV service

Say hello to The Condiment Packet Museum

Big-Game make stuff from Switzerland

Say hello to Good Magazine

eMusic launches in Europe

Soulwax get a makeover

Gsus is from The Netherlands

Say hello to the BMW Hydrogen 7

South Korea gets a 1Gbps Internet. So - when are we moving?

Jargol is an interactive shopping map of New York City

posted by olli @ 17:12  

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

How to dress like a PC

Nationwide Insurance to insure the music on your iPod

Will Vista mean the end of the Microsoft monolith?

Zozo is an experimental shopping mall in Japan

Say hello to Google's mobile ad service

Killer Filler allows you to create your own MTV space

By popular demand, it's Colbert on Demand

Say hello to Portland's "Vision Vessel"

We're really digging Tampa's Auto!Automatic!! these days

We Are The Superlative Conspiracy and they have a travel guide

Neave TV is an online TV network

UrbanPhoto do London in September

posted by olli @ 16:56  

Monday, September 11, 2006

Is Apple the next in line to offer movie downloads?

Graphic Orgasm is about graphics, but not about orgasms

Caterina Fake on getting high performance out of high potential people

MySpace: No free ride in Europe

CMJ on thousand year old fish markets, Hansa beer and Black Metal in Bergen, Norway

Wired Blog on the recent Craigslist fake post sex scandal thingee

The Barcode Revolution: Designing with barcodes

EMI and T-Mobile testing ad-supported music videos to mobile phones

Need a job? The NME is seeking US based music journalists

The etiquette of modern communication

Platform For Art wants you to design a Piccadily Line station of the future

New Order bassist Peter Hook to write book - "How Not To Run A Club"

posted by olli @ 16:27  

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Say hello to Original Signal

ListPic displays all craigslist ad photo in one shot

Smashing Magazine is a magazine about design and the web

Create your own McDonalds sign

Blogmusik allows you to preview new music on an online iPod clone

Say goodbye and thanks for the memories to Arab Strap

Do the studios want online movie downloads to fail?

The International Documentary Film Festival Hits New Zealand this month

Freitag have some quality new mens bags for you

Say hello to the portable DJ'ing boombox

InAnimate stickers give boring office products personalities of their own

Lekkner make beautiful custom-made T-Shirts and more

posted by olli @ 21:01  

Saturday, September 9, 2006

Motiroti to display parts of Auckland, CapeTown, Mumbai, New York and Singapore in London

The handy dandy reference guide to corporate identity

Say hello to Japan's magnificent Sharp 905SH mobile phone

A showcase of Soviet-era computer mice

The Independent on London's Rough Trade record shop

Atari 2600 controller keychains with actual Atari 2600 games in them

Say hello to Jton's Mobiwallet RFID SIM cards

The IHT on packaging design

The Tsunami Harddisk Detector uses P2P software to provide public tsunami warnings

Theodore Gray is offering a rather lovely periodic table poster

Saying goodbye to the man who made MTV

posted by olli @ 17:19  

Friday, September 8, 2006

Score one for the rumourmill: Say hello to Unbox

Paul Frank vs. Paul Frank Industries

These papercuts are from Vietnam

The Orb begins podcasting

Urban Communication is devoted to exactly that

Nokia's flagship NYC shop opens on the 9th of September

SearchMedica is a search engine for doctors

Making money with your blog: An A to Z

Facebook vs. Generation Y

Webcuts showcases the worlds best internet films in Berlin on 12th October

posted by olli @ 03:46  

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Arefuge is a magazine about Music, Art and Fashion

Why YouTube works

Say hello to Digg China (the bootleg version, it seems)

John Sawatsky and the power of simple questions

XM Radio goes under the microscope of the SEC

Creative Review begins blogging

Bansky showcases the punking of Paris Hilton

Say hello to the AutoStadt

The future of the London Underground circa 2010 (.pdf)

Wired Magazine on the winners and losers of Web 2.0

The AIGA offers guides to critical design business and ethics issues

posted by olli @ 16:20  

Wednesday, September 6, 2006

Internet pioneers on what not to do online

Block Magazine looks at architecture, media and cities

Say hello to Sprint's new mobile movie download service

More movie download gossip: Are Apple and Amazon next?

British Airways vs. Google Earth

Core 77: Why American designers need more points of view

Fashionistas take note: Say hello to the Lumalive Textile Garment

China Design on Chinese internet slang

The Future Of Music Policy Summit takes place in Montreal - Oct. 5-7

Ian Davenport does Southwark Street

Say hello the Mercora music search engine

Shower Shock make caffinated soap

posted by olli @ 16:16  

Tuesday, September 5, 2006

How does punk rock philosophy relate to branding?

Stylegala is a site about web standards and design

New Zealand draws a line in the sand on DRM

Coolhunting is a lot like CoolHunter

Say hello to the Multimedia Dome

Bitrocket is a new BitTorrent client for OS X

Mobile music not quite as popular as you might think

1000 words of advice for design teachers

The BBC begins its first "Public Value Test"

Musicalbear on Museum Records

It's the UK Air Guitar Championships in living colour

posted by olli @ 15:52  

Monday, September 4, 2006

Shopping gets creative with shopping trolley art

Say hello to MSpot - Sprint Telecoms foray into mobile multimedia

Saying goodbye to the establishment tastemakers

Banksy 1 Paris Hilton 0

The BBC on adventures in online marketing

The places and stories of Washington D.C. hardcore

Say hello to "Iraq Star", the Iraqi version of American Idol

Paul Graham offers articles on creating and managing a start-up

456 Berea Street is a blog about the web

How Wikipedia entries get written

Colette Vogele narrates the legal guide to podcasting

Record-Play offers live music sets for download

posted by olli @ 17:47  

Sunday, September 3, 2006

Say hello to Time Out New York TV

The biology of B-Movie monsters

Aneki lists the countries with the highest population of TV watchers

Say hello to Nike's new Pee-Wee Herman Dunks

Carbonmade shows off your work to everyone

The 10 creepiest icons in advertising history

Faketown is a place where avatars go to interact with one another

Why buy a Hummer when you can get a Gurkha?

Fosfor showcases the Top 10 most beautiful cell phones

Selekkt is blog about t-shirts

posted by olli @ 07:03  

Saturday, September 2, 2006

(Our normal posting schedule resumes today as we're back in Los Angeles.)

Apple's sound strategy for the iPod

These figurines are running from B-movie monsters

Create your own virtual cassette tape

Say hello to BiblioRoll - your new "digital library baton"

K10K updates with a slightly new look

Barouche creates products for hotel rooms

The Independent showcases the legacy of the Shoegazing scene

Unsurprisingly, hackers crack Microsoft and Apple DRM encryption

The Cool Hunter showcases designer subway stations

Collapsing Cities is a great new band from Auckland

posted by olli @ 00:28  

Friday, September 1, 2006

Renova make designer toilet paper

Konstig is a Swedish art bookseller

Mephisto is a publishing tool

October 3 is a Day Against DRM

MUSA is an art collective from Portugal

Who owns the music? MTV or Me?

Why MySpace is popular according to Hublog

21 Tactics to increase blog traffic

Athenaeum Press make limited edition press prints

posted by olli @ 08:14