Thursday, November 30, 2006

Yahoo TV Relaunches with a new look plus listings

Exaroom = file sharing plus social networking. Ooh la la!

These pillows are made from Prozac

Big media watch out: User-provided web content soaring

Bear Stearns on the long tail

Say hello to geo-tagged photos and mapping via Woophy

What exactly is the role of a University in 2006?

Say hello to smog eating architecture

Optimus Keyboard now $1200 and in black and white

European cities are getting rid of traffic signs for safety reasons

Losing yourself in Melbourne

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Say hello to o-txt - SMS from your mobile to MySpace

The walled garden approach looks to be hanging on for a while longer

Sydney's CBD to get free municipal wi-fi

Open Business is creative commons site for business ideas and entrepreneurs

Five Apple products that never made it past prototype

Is design the new management consultancy?

Monocle is Tyler Brule's (ex-Wallpaper* chief) new magazine

GPureEngergy is Voss Water's foray into the energy drink market

Say hello to self-erasing paper - courtesy of Xerox

Wouter Geense is from Rotterdam and they make pretty things

Insound list their top 100 for 2006

Credit cards at the ready: The Guardian launch a travel site.

posted by olli @ 10:49  

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

YouTube mobile looks to hit your phone in December

The CBC says HDTV has no business model?

Say hello to the Zune on OSX and Linux?

BBC Chairman Michael Grade defects to UK broadcasting rival ITV

How to work from home

Say hello to The Freesound Project

The Vitra Design Museum is in Germany

The Washington Post on the madness of map mash-ups

The rules of the coffee morning

Musicalbear vs. DJ Shitmat

posted by olli @ 09:47  

Monday, November 27, 2006

Web 2.0 - What's hot and what's not

How many times a day do you mention a brand?

Say hello to Ren & Stimpy's production music

The Guardian on "The Pitchfork effect"

Nokia on Mobile TV and personal experiences

Creative review on designing for modern times

The Chicago Sun-Times on the Zune: "A complete, humiliating failure"

No copyright extenstions for songs in the UK

Microsoft's Zune's DRM cracked? Here's how to Do it yourself

ReeltimeTV: Australia gets its own movie downloading service

Why scale matters in social tagging systems

posted by olli @ 10:09  

Friday, November 24, 2006

Are the major labels ready to concede that DRM is dead? The answer may be Yes

7 steps to better business blogging

Can having money be a social barrier?

When will major brands flock to user-generated content?

Bands I saw from Dec 17 1977 - 1980

Say hello to the invisible Japanese refrigerator

Polar Intertia is the magazine of nomadic and popular culture

The Economist: Click fraud poses a threat to the boom in internet advertising

These scarves have pixels on them

Video game console screens of death

BBC says Podcast use slow but steady

posted by olli @ 10:17  

Thursday, November 23, 2006

ArtFaceOff asks - "Whose art is better?"

New ideas for promoting books

Really into org charts? Then say hello to Cogmap

The Guardian on the recent Sugarcubes reunion in Reykjavik

Say hello to the spam farms of the social web

Microsoft's Zune and the explosion of music poster art

Right now, we'd rather be listening to Basic Channel

Hubwear make t-shirts for the jet set

The buyers guide to hybrid automobiles

What do you get when you cross a pillow with instant messaging software?

A10 is a magazine about European architecture

Via China: Say hello to "Transumerism"

Internet gaming vs. net neutrality

posted by olli @ 10:27  

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

The MySpace growth chart

Keeping spam off your mobile phone

What can we expect from the Google OS?

Live in London? Say hello to Big Brother's new best friend

Christina Wodtke on the upcoming death of Information Architecture

Livingstone make stone themed furniture from Norway

Say hello to the Google 15 - newbies at Google gain 15 pounds their first year due to all the free food

Nordic Light is a hotel in Stockholm

Is the iTunes store coming to New Zealand?

Say hello to Design Europe 2006

Wah brings the bling via Blogger to London

posted by olli @ 16:35  

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Is GiggedUp the future of job searching and interviewing?

37 Signals on the play button and the YouTube interface

More fun and games surrounding the free San Francisco wi-fi plan

MIT hosting "Mashup Camp" for you budding Web 2.0 developers

A+R have just opened a design store

So, you want to be an indie developer?

Anton Henning is an artist from Berlin

Need to find a place to park in Paris? Just use your mobile phone

Say hello to RIAA toilet paper

Slate discusses the decline of the architecture magazine

Stockholm Cyclo is from Stockholm

posted by olli @ 09:58  

Monday, November 20, 2007

Biomega make bicycles from Denmark

Universal Music sues MySpace

Does The Peanut Butter Manifesto = Yahoo! getting rid of its Web 2.0 apps?

Say hello to podcasts for your Zune

Could Hollywood hack your PC?

Say hello to the graphic equalizer made of fire

Art Lebedev now taking pre-orders on 12 December for the Optimus Keyboard

1043 Programming Problems for your extremely bored programmers

bLab Italia make liquid floor tiles

Architect Magazine is now available on newsstands

In praise of overthinking

Megablog looks at visualizing the world, one concept at a time

The Morning News has a style guide

The Chap never goes out of style

posted by olli @ 10:32  

Friday, November 17, 2006

Does social media = mass media?

Clip/Stamp/Fold discusses the radical architecture of little magazines in the 60's and 70's

Say hello to the Cube ski hotels

How to rescue your stranded music

Everyone Forever is a visual blog

Say hello to Fliptrack - it puts "your life to music"

Paidcontent.org chats with EMI about Web 2.0

Digital Music Player Owners equals eyeballs for ads

JCReport has a roundup of New Zealand fashion week & Melbourne

Burke & Hazelden make rather fantastic furniture

Sales at HMV and Virgin are not exactly spectacular these days

posted by olli @ 09:38  

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Is mp3.com getting ready to go head-to-head with MySpace Music?

Flickr now offering lovely geo-tagged maps of London

What if nobody cared about The Rolling Stones or The Clash?

Say hello to the world's fatest Bio-Fuel car - The Lotus Exige 265E

The online advertising quandry

Is NewsCorp looking to sell MySpace?

Are these the top 40 bands in America right now?

Blogs: Popularity doesn't seem to equal influence

TV News in a post-modern world

The Yellow Pages Australia goes Web 2.0

The Wall Street Journal on freeing Google from the desktop

Say hello to Microsoft's Photosynth

posted by olli @ 10:47  

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Say hello to SyncVue: Collaborative video editing via Skype

The NY Times on the semantic web

The battle of Brit-Pop part two

Apple to offer iPod integration on several airlines

The Web 2.0 workgroup is a collection of new media blogs

Carpal Tunnel magazine covers fashion, art, music and more

Dolce & Gabanna open the Gold restaurant in Milan

Tired of iTunes DRM? Say hello to the DRM Dumpster

Berlin's Kunstlerheim Luise hotel now with cartoon bedrooms

Hip-Hop's transformation into a singles and ringtone business

What's the agency's role in new media?

posted by olli @ 09:04  

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Japan welcomes the PS3 with a queue

Are the heavy hitters on YouTube poised for a revolt?

The joy and pain of installing a Zune on your PC

Say hello to Lycos Cinema

Printernational is an excellent resource for those who design for print

Burning TV offers you music videos from Sweden

Coolfer has a chat with Snocap's Alex Rofman

Phillip Toledano takes photos of videogamers

Funfurde is a blog about furniture

iDisguise allows you to hide your iPod in full view of others

We were just in a London store yesterday: Uniqlo hits NYC

posted by olli @ 08:45  

Monday, November 13, 2006

Microsoft launches Aggreg8 - the "MySpace for IT Pros"

Say hello to Share Your Look - social networking for fashionistas

The CEO's guide to Mashups

Sensory Impact is about the culture of objects

Sony PS3 to offer P-TV: video download service

Brand New is a blog about brands

Jeans Now is about design and pop culture in Tokyo

Can software predict which songs will be hits and which wont?

Say hello to Twit TV

To bitch or not to pitch?

posted by olli @ 10:30  

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Listen to any podcast on your mobile phone

The best and worst of the Web 2.0 summit

Productive Strategies is a blog about time management

Say hello to a new career: A MySpace Profile Consultant

Mojeo is a site that combines your mobile phone with your favourite websites

Wiredset on Web 2.0 Engagement

A sneak peek into the world of Web 3.0?

Does YouTube really mean the beginning of the end for television?

The sounds of spacetime

Live in NYC? Plug in your ______ here

We're really enjoying The Rakes these days

Say hello to Samsung's Next-Gen wireless vision

posted by olli @ 16:02  

Friday, November 10, 2006

Splice is a music remixing social network

What do real people want on the web?

Number alert: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 101

Say hello to the world's smallest satellite phone

The Web 2.0 reality check courtesy of ZDNet

The 2006 Pixel Award winners are announced

Attention creative and marketing types: Say hello to The Ad Feed

Retail alert: Demand for audio CD's looks to halve over the next three years

Art Auction Rule no.1: Don't yell "My kid could do that!"

What makes a good poster?

posted by olli @ 09:33  

Thursday, November 9, 2006

2UBH is an elegant escape from reality

Old Media vs. New Media - friends, foes or what?

ConceptShare allows users to collaborate and share designs over the web

Has your web designer ever heard of contrast?

How to create a searchable Google map in AJAX

Australian InFront wants your submissions to Visual Response

Art Deco luggage tags on Flickr

Universal Music to receive fee for every Zune sold

Bending Light magazine contains photographs

posted by olli @ 10:04  

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Got a green thumb? Say hello to Rent-A-Garden

MySpace Japan has secret shows

like.com offers true visual searching

Madison and Pine is a blog from a Zune executive

The NY Times on MySpace's search for a global audience

BBC Radio 3 denies it's cutting its classical music output

Boym create artistic furniture

Vacavaliente make leather animals

Code Green is Lonely Planet's tour of responsible travel

Say hello to stick on rechargable lights

posted by olli @ 11:18  

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

Cartype is a site about automotive branding

Say hello to the new PS3 Interface

Turn is the world's first automatically targeting ad network, it seems

MyPictr creates and crops photos for your social networking profile

BusinessWeek covers Louis Vuitton's luxury architecture

Microsoft Virtual Earth now in 3D with virtual billboards

The Chicago Design Archive is from The Society Of Typographic Arts

Serrenia brings more modernity to the Middle East

US mobile provider Cingular gives away the music store

YouTube becomes Time's Invention Of The Year

Like watching TV? Say hello to Bleenks

The art of complex problem solving

posted by olli @ 10:16  

Monday, November 6, 2006

Soundloud allows users to sell music through social networking

Tim Berners-Lee announces a new web science iniiative

Follow The Money allows a user to follow political contributions via an API

Vinyl junkies rejoice or recoil in horror - it's the USB turntable

The top 10 Lego creations

Architecture Sucks: The T-Shirt

Dotboom is guaranteed to make you happy and successful

Know any Social Designers?

Is web 3.0 all about the widgets?

posted by olli @ 14:22  

Sunday, November 5, 2006

We're back and now blogging from London. Thanks for your patience.

Mashable on why the YouTube player can't be beaten

Say hello to Parakey - an operating system for your parents?

37 Signals on "shabby-chic" web design

Noisely is an intelligent podcast player

The habits of highly effective Web 2.0 sites

Wings is a Google Maps explorer

Everything you've ever wanted to know about movie remakes

Is social networking really all about cool?

posted by olli @ 21:58