November 1, 2006

We're moving!

There may be a minor delay in publishing this week as we're packing the shiner.clay studios up and making the big move from Los Angeles to London.

Keep the kettle on. We promise we won't be long and will have lots to talk about when we get back.

posted by olli @ 03:24  

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Say hello to the Nokia 330 in-car GPS system

Retractable is the Spanish version of James Patten's Audiopad.

Circulations are plunging at major newspapers these days

Dove's "Evolution" campaign delivered more ROI from YouTube than the Superbowl

20 works of art that matter most

ReBrand is a global source for studying effective brand transformations

RED is AOL's new teen hangout

Luckners is not your typical online auction site

Fairgame removes your iTunes DRM so that you can use your songs as you wish

How to ditch your US landline and still keep your DSL

Instant FM Music is a USB stick that records the radio right to your PC

The 7" single sees its biggest jump in UK sales since 1979

The many, many forms of social networking

posted by olli @ 03:09  

Monday, October 30, 2006

Teens to adults: "MySpace is so last year"

How to piss off 1086 people with a single click

Is the Internet nothing more than a Long Tail Ghetto?

Exactly what does "Hotel" mean?

Steve Austin Redux: Say hello to the bionic suit

USC presents "Remixing The Archive" on the 4th and 5th of November

Tutorial Index will teach you a lot about almost every software package out there

Reluct covers Dutch Design Week Eindhoven

Re-Imageinering is a blog about Disney Theme Parks and their management

10 tips to help keep your desk neat and tidy

Google: First a search engine, now a new engine for Advertising

Tips and tricks for storyboard design courtesy of PingMag

posted by olli @ 03:26  

Sunday, October 29, 2006

The NY Times reviews Bang and Olufsen's new Serene mobile phone

Why is there no Skype mobile?

Sonic Fabric create clothing made from used cassette tapes

Sketch Furniture allows a customer to create real furniture from computer drawings

Etsy is like an eBay for handmade goods

The Economist on phoney banking by mobile phone in South Africa

Channel 4 does a documentary on the making of Blade Runner

Europe's politicians are embracing Web 2.0 to engage voters

Phil Gyford offers The Beginner's Guide To Freelancing

findmeon allows a user to track and manage their online identities

Cartifact offer a detailed interactive map of Downtown Los Angeles

Velo Grand Lyon is an online bike rental company from Lyon, France

posted by olli @ 16:51  

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Lessons learned from working at Apple for nearly 20 years

Tim Berners-Lee on re-inventing HTML

The Guardian on how YouTube is changing how we look at film

Say hello to geo-tagged musical graffiti

What if Leonardo DaVinci's drawing were actually animations?

Winter comes to the northern hemisphere as does the Captain Avalanche sled.

The Daily Front Row is a fashion magazine for your mobile phone

Jumper is from Italy and covers digital and creative interactions

Say hello to the world's most expensive restaurants

Everything you've ever wanted to know about internet marketing slang

posted by olli @ 23:35  

Friday, October 27, 2006

Is Social Media the new Hollywood or the new Pittsburgh?

The goals of Google in 2006/2007

The BBC and Microsoft to collaborate on next generation broadcasting

Say hello to the Guardian's new music website

Maya's Mom is a social network for parents

EMI Music CEO : "The CD is dead"

24HOURPHOTO is a photoblog about London

The 9 to 5 designer = Average?

Digg CEO Jay Adelson on connecting to Gen Y

The evolution of the Nike swoosh

Gothic Beauty is a magazine for goths

The Morning News on iPod etiquette

Pastelogram is a blog focusing on US ads from the 1950's

Say hello to Adobe's Soundbooth - it's first foray into digital music production

posted by olli @ 16:19  

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Allofmp3's DRM cracked. Any honour among "thieves"?

The definitive guide to airline wi-fi and internet access

Apple stores in Cupertino robbed three consecutive times

Microsoft has a design resource site. Yes. Microsoft

Feel like shelling out $US8500 for a pair of Nike's? If so - you're in luck

Say hello to Awesome Tapes From Africa

Eavesdrop is a collection of recordings found at thrift stores, trash bins and the like

Getty Images: A Photo Business Under Pressure

Geniol make really unique fireplaces

37 Signals to Web Developers: "Microsoft has no idea what's going on"

Some interesting stats on mobile phone use in Europe

AutoSoviet is a website featuring cars and motorcycle from the Soviet Union

posted by olli @ 04:19  

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Say hello to the Enron Explorer

Volkswagen says - if you buy a Beetle, why not put stickers on it?

2006 Magazine Cover Of The Year winners and finalists

Is design the new management consultancy?

Sensory Impact is about the culture of objects

The NY Times on start-ups: It's not the people you know. It's where you are

Elsewares is an independent art and design store

Ideo allows its editorial content to be customized by the user

Pixpo allows you to create your own internet video channel

More DIY: Say hello to the Moleskine City Notebook

What's the difference between a "stylist" and a "designer"?

Prestigious Textiles make home furnishings

posted by olli @ 18:14  

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Business Week on what comes after YouTube

Civil Servant? Have we got a MySpace for you!

Design & Emotion talks to BMW's Chris Bangle

Objekt-Project is about forward thinking product design from Switzerland

Helmut Newton is now making X-Ray t-shirts

Say hello to Tape It Off The Internet

Here's what happens when you take a polaroid, stick a stamp on it and send it

Icozon is a site that offers rather excellent icons for your design needs

Stagr offers you custom made t-shirts

mTextbox allows you to take your reading material with you anywhere.

posted by olli @ 05:30  

Monday, October 23, 2006

A&R Overload Alert! Parlophone launches online demo submission site

Google to unveil US election map mashup

Audiences prefer movie sequels with names rather than numbers

Scott Berkun on why innovation efforts fail

Foreign Policy on the winners and losers of globalization

The New York Times on the Starbucks Aesthetic

Music Thing offers the state-of-the-art in music technology

Das Park Hotel is an Austrian hotel that offers rooms in sewage tunnels

PandoraBrowse is a Windows taskbar plug-in for Pandora

Clepe is an online design blog covering New Zealand and Australia

Happy Birthday iPod - Here are the ten reasons why I hate you

Blickfang is an international design fair for furniture, jewellery and fashion

posted by olli @ 16:17  

Sunday, October 22, 2006

How to draw cute characters in Manga

Spain and Morocco thinking about an undersea tunnel to be complete by 2025

Time Magazine on the next YouTube and Web 2.0

Say hello to the Bio-Shirt: Clothing that measures heartbeat, temperature and speed

Chequebooks at the ready: Falcon City looks to be the new Las Vegas of Dubai

The New York Times on the return of Grunge

The day Pitchfork said NO to Microsoft and the Zune

Eric Meyer on becoming a web designer

Say hello to Stim Magazine

Be A Design Group have a blog and are now podcasting

posted by olli @ 19:15  

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Building a Googley workforce

Is iFilm secretly building a YouTube rival?

Like this guy, I've been driving a Toyota Prius recently.
This car is insane.

Gartner to Apple: Stop selling computers

MusicNation is a music video contest

Say hello to newspaper AdScapes

The breakdown of the idea web process?

The top 19 tips to get the most from your Nokia N91

Ditch or Date is from London

Five simple steps to better typography

posted by olli @ 16:53  

Friday, October 20, 2006

The top 5 tips to freelance designers for dealing with clients

Wikiality is Stephen Colbert's version of Wikipedia

The long crazy story of trying to give San Francisco free Google citywide wi-fi

Welcome to the collected works of Charles Darwin, online

Starwood's new Aloft hotel chain to make its debut in Second Life

How to get free stuff at industry trade shows

Say hello to the CBGB's shoes

The Top 40 Arab Brands

10 Days, 250 people and more paint exploding than you have ever seen. Bravia is quite amazing. (.mov)

As if the Cylons weren't bad enough, now Battlestar Galactica is going up against NBC Universal

ArtoMat is a vending machine full of art

posted by olli @ 00:31  

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Something to hang on the 'fridge: Zeldman's Web 2.0 Thinking Game

Undersound is a mobile MySpace for music while riding on the London Undgerground. Yes, really.

Pingmag showcases the work of the brilliant Matt Pyke

How to survive creative burnout

How to avoid blogger burnout

Say hello to Citypixel - It's like if Habbo Hotel was as big as a city

Any nasty diseases lurking nearby? Find out with Healthmap

Toshiba has a new portable projector for mobile presenters

Bruce Schneier on why architecture and security don't mix

These Tokyo ticketing machines are powered by kinetic energy

Agency creatives take note: MTV.com does a re-design

Digital rights are in question as a business model

posted by olli @ 16:24  

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Let the drooling begin: Apple to release touchscreen iPod in December?

12 Hollywood movie pitches that will change your life

European TV rules could mean big trouble for YouTube

Yahoo!'s new search marketing platform makes its debut

UPlayMe is a (yet another) music discovery social network

Singapore Airlines now proudly offering the best in-flight experience ever

How to kill a 139 million dollar Picasso with your elbow

Notes from Molly Steenson's talk on Indian mobile phone use

Google testing new UI features on SearchMash

Innovating at McDonalds with a Masters of Design

posted by olli @ 17:42  

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

The 18 mistakes that kill start-ups

Why the Washington Post gave up on hip-hop

The Poster List is a store with posters in it

Badtke-Berkow discusses art, music and more in Japan

In Australia, b-CODE-Drinks allows customers to order drinks from the bar via SMS

Get your freak on and say hello to Crackspace

Universal Music finds the long tail for its old albums

Wired magazine on the story of how the iPod was born

Asia leads mobile phone music revolution

Qloud is an iTunes plug-in

A New York Times slideshow of the last night ever at CBGB's

Say hello to China's clone of the Smart car

An inside look at Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner

posted by olli @ 17:19  

Monday, October 16, 2006

Be sure to vote in the 2006 bNet Music Awards

Everything you need to know about online movie download services

The top 10 ad tricks in Tokyo's subway stations

Flickr alert: Photos of Dubai enshrouded in fog

Belgian newspaper sites not happy that Google is indexing them

MTV weighs in on the Google/YouTube marriage

ZDNet to Web 2.0 users: Brands rule - not users

5 reasons why RSS isn't quite as popular as it should be

Comment is free but designing communities is hard

The MySpace Video vs. YouTube war heats up

posted by olli @ 16:30  

Sunday, October 15, 2006

The long sad tale of Friendster as told by The New York Times

Chris Heathcote on geo-tagging with Flickr

The Church Of Free Choice is from Auckland

Comet offer high quality live video to low-bandwidth platforms

Say hello to even more mp3's with Project Find Music

No Music Day is November 21st.

Archibot: The Architecture version of Hot or Not

Catching the tube at The Tate Modern

Say hello to Artemy Lebedev's Mandership

Flash Earth offers every single mapping combination out there

So just how many players are competing for the iPod's attention this Christmas?

posted by olli @ 17:08  

Saturday, October 14, 2006

SLAM is Microsoft's social networking engine for mobile phones

Visio + Axure - Prototyping beyond the sunshine scenario

The European Archive is an archive of digital artifacts and much more.

Trendwatching.com watches the world for what's next and then tells you all about it

Pine River Village is a housing development that caters to orthodox Jews.

The 50 Most Influential CD's since 2001?

Design Survival Camp takes place in Wanganui, NZ from May 4-5 2007

Create .pdf's of any kind of graph paper you'll ever need

The Sky Factory puts a sky in any room in your house

Brace yourself for the War On Web 2.0 Terror

Say hello to the YouTube Tools Collection

National Geographic on paying attention to luggage while travelling

posted by olli @ 04:54  

Friday, October 13, 2006

BBC Radio 1 re-design features a real-time SMS tag cloud

Well Threaded is a job board for the fashion industry

Say hello to NoTV Visual Music - the portal resource for Video DJ's

An exercise in the usability of package tracking GUI's

Aspiring musicians take note: Say hello to "Tooth Tunes"

The marriage of social and business applications

DesignDemo is chock full of front-end AJAX web interfaces

Sony now jumping on the bandwagon - planning Walkman rival to video iPod

NPR's superb This American Life now offering free podasts

MADD's new anti-drunk driving poster campaign is fantastic

What role should companies play on Wikipedia?

Do larger monitors make you more productive at work?

posted by olli @ 17:34  

Thursday, October 12, 2006

YouTube to Newscorp. - "We're on sale to everyone but you."
Newscorp: "Oh, really?"

Video Sharing Fun 1: Paxilback

Video Sharing Fun 2: Martha's Vineyard Holla Back!

Create your own ambient theme song

The Tastemaker Society has a sit down chat with Kevin Roberts

10 reasons you shouldn't go to film school

The Wack Attack Barrack: Say hello to the Belgian iTunes

HP shows off concept personal tech gadgets for 2016.

Shelfari creates a virtual bookshelf for your books

Phillip Toledano takes excellent photographs

Say hello to Felt Tip

It's the map of early modern London

posted by olli @ 19:43  

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Power to the people: The Web 2.0 user revolution

We can assure you that you don't have as much free time as the people at Bitflicks do

Choose and Watch offers over 200 TV channels over the net

BizofShowbiz is a blog about the entertainment industry

Overflow is an OS X Dock enhancement

MTV targeting web surfers who ignore their efforts on TV

Notes from the 2006 Popkomm festival from Chromewaves

New Renault Twingo features 3 iPods and a mixing desk

Don't Forget To Flush is the design world's bustop

iFizzle is a virtual Mac running OS X - all in HTML

Ad people take note: Say hello to the 400 metre long billboard

posted by olli @ 21:40  

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Just Curious: Answer a question and you get to ask a question

Say hello to Soundflavor for your iTunes

The 80's redux: Say hello to the T-Qualizer t-shirt

PlusMinusZero announce their Autumn 2006 collection

Oh My Rockness is indeed all about the rockness

The thought processes of graphic designers today

1.65 Billion Dollars buys you a lot of revenue opportunities

Target warns Apple about its foray into movie downloading territory

Evalu8me is from Canada and judges your workplace qualities

Revision3 is an online TV network

posted by olli @ 00:56  

Monday, October 9, 2006

Michael Robertson on "getting Zuned"

Say hello to the BIG PAGE of branding and corporate identity resources

Troy Sanders from Mastodon interviewed by his 9 year old daughter for Vice Magazine

YouTube strikes a deal with CBS - launches CBS Channel

The future of social networks is communication!

Just how far will people go to own a cool mobile phone?

Camelbak make hydration systems and tactical clothing

Say hello to the Nokia Aeon concept phone

First US jobs then a 15-date NME looking to crack the US market

Londonist: The games you wont find on retail shelves

Edit Magazine is from Getty Images

posted by olli @ 16:50  

Sunday, October 8, 2006

Tuneglue marries Pandora and Amazon

Say hello to Taste TV - The indie food channel

The Mobile 2.0 conference hits San Francisco on the 6th of November

Boomkat shows off its Dubstep collection

Say hello to DoCoMo Digital Radio

How to find fresh inspiration

How to download any song on MySpace or Pandora and many more tidbits

Will the iPod ever die?

Kitchen Contraptions is a blog about gadgets for your kitchen

Music For Public Rail

N-Design Studios offer you pixel icons for your applications

posted by olli @ 22:59  

Saturday, October 7, 2006

The end of an era: Say Goodbye to Tower Records

One of the best Battle Of The Bands you'll ever see (quicktime)

Why it's so hard to value social networking sites

When losing an employee doesn't mean losing knowledge

FIDO = Fully Integrated Desktop Objects, don't you know

Atomic Threat is from Australia

Managing Blogger relations 101

Mekanism + Invader = Ultra Limited Edition Space Invader Skateboards

Organic have a blog and it's called Three Minds

Arika is a Scottish underground music festival incubator

Mister Tipster is a desktop RSS feed LCD display

Say hello to the Starbucks branded area in the iTunes store

Dvider make fabulous wall stickers

posted by olli @ 19:00  

Friday, October 06, 2006

The future showcased at The Phillips Simplicity Event

Say hello to Google CodeSearch

Redefining Content Management with Vitamin

Say hello to the Berlinomat online shop

Bokardo is a blog about social web design

Berthold's Grotesk Akzident

Cabinet magazine focuses on art and culture

Winners of the 2006 Good Design Awards announced

Podzinger makes you money from your podcasts

Avoid paying too much rent with Rentometer

Canada's MuchMusic launches an online download store

From Japan with love: Shiira is a web browser for the Mac

posted by olli @ 17:25  

Thursday, October 05, 2006

"Downloads, as a business model for music has failed"

The future of television takes a baby step. Say hello to the Venice Project

Visual Store is a blog about merchandising

How to convince a client they don't need a splash page

Laibach presents The Divided States of America (quicktime)

Bad times ahead for YouTube?

Know you won't be feeling well? Say hello to call-in-sick.com

Apple still gaining ground in the music space

The Black Box Mobile Phone Concept

The science of creating video game box art

Mapping the Craigslist Missed NYC Connections

Y2K part two - say hello to the 2038 bug

posted by olli @ 18:04  

Wednesday, October 4, 2006

When Wired magazine saw the future and got it wrong

Nokia ditches Bluetooth for new Wibree standard

Say hello to The Collective Type Project

Midnight Poutine offers podcasts from the Pop Montreal Festival

MySpace takes on YouTube - round 12

Improve Netflix and make a million dollars

The top ten geek wallets

Do economies of scale matter in virtual worlds?

The Morning News gets a re-design

The Kids Republic is a childrens bookshop in Beijing

The Chemical Brothers, Roll Deep & Graham Coxon take on The Tate Modern

Say hello to U-MYX - now with Imogen Heap

posted by olli @ 23:17  

Tuesday, October 3, 2006

Happy Day Against DRM Day

Be afraid: MySpace starts streaming TV programmes

Be very afraid: MySpace launches its own TV series - Project MyWorld

Say hello to the Anthrax detector (Scott Ian joke not included)

JPG is The Magazine Of Brave New Photography

Wired on why the Zune won't be an iPod killer

The Guardian on the UK's 20 Best Indie Record Shops

The ins and outs of 37 Signals

The aesthetics of designer water

Pinewood Studios turns 70. Happy Birthday old boy!

Say hello to the Dyson Airblade

Blast From The Past: Lower East Side stickers 1992-1995

Crooked Tongues is the "Ultimate Sneaker Resource"

posted by olli @ 16:47  

October 2, 2006

All the cool kids are deep tagging these days

Just in case: How to really dismantle an atomic bomb

Ministry Of Sound launches DRM-free download store

ClaimID lets you control your online identity

Say hello to the Time Curtain

The Design Observer on Beck's new cover art

Farmers Manual, Gescom, Shirttrax and more at Or

Microsoft's Zune and Apple's iPod - together at last

You pick the scenes in The Onyx Project

Waterstones and Currys both to launch online sites

Scissor Sisters get banned from Trans World stores in the US

posted by olli @ 16:35  

Sunday, October 1, 2006

CSS Globe is a blog about web standards

Find By Click lets you find your local coffeehouse

NTTDoCoMo showcases a portable 3D display system

Say hello to Bubblare - the Swedish version of YouTube

CNN goes inside the "Indie Scene"

Need to impress your boss in cubicle land? Say hello to Corporate Flashcards

Catherine Zeta-Jones and T-Mobile part company

Why I left Apple retail

London to Brighton in two minutes (quicktime)

The Festival Noveau Cinema hits Montreal from the 18th to 28th October

True Love Always create designer bed linens

Screenplays for you, from Russia

posted by olli @ 16:51