Monday, April 2, 2007

Get ready for pandemonium. June 11th is the day the iPhone is released in the US

On that note - could this be the architecture behind Apple's iPhone?

Rest in Peace Brave New Waves. Thanks for the memories

Is EMI dropping DRM on its releases today?

Charlie Brooker on how to edit Reality TV shows

Into MySpace mashups? Then you better brace yourself for Flektor

Brighton to host the Loop 2007 digital media conference on 18th August

FastLine is a blog covering the New Zealand advertising world

Say hello to YouTube's new video incubator: Test Tube

Tweako is a social network for programmers

Best Practices And Challenges In Building Rich User Experiences

What can the film 300 teach you about sucessful online businesses?

Smashing Magazine has some lovely new free typefaces for you

More superb free type from Font Font

posted by olli @ 14:17

Friday, March 30, 2007

Wired Magazine says Mog is what MTV should have been

The top ten brands on Digg

Say hello to Deepfish - a new mobile web browser

Video Maru makes Flash video easy

Honeybee is a collaborative blog from Japan

Awesome ad for Olay from Saatchi & Saatchi

Is California the root of the US' western states' evil?

What makes a great photo?

Nike to now include Nike+Apple systems on all of its shoes

Xynth is a ultra high-def virtual synthesizer

Bouf is an online store for interior design goodies

"Your rebellion is my marketing strategy"

Hann Spree make really cute and stylish electronics

Are you a J.R. Tolkien fan? Then the Council of Elrond is the place for you

Can't get a date? It might not be you but rather your apartment

posted by olli @ 08:10

Thursday, March 29, 2007

PingMag brilliantly illustrates the web design process.
If only it was this easy

Silverstripe is a pretty cool CMS

The NY Times on DAB and social music networks

What happens to The Guardian if it starts 24/7 news coverage?

Also: The Guardian interviews Bethesda Software on the new Oblivion release: Shivering Isles

Simpsons movie turning real 7-11's into real Kwik-E-Marts

Surface Bait offers everything for the punk rock fisherman

What does your cellphone say about you?

"You can't pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time."

Make Magazine on The Maker's Bill Of Rights

Psile make really cool PC's that remind one of the Apple Cube

All City Media designs for the film & DVD industry

Say hello to How To Get Rid Of Stuff. dot.com

Who are America's most trustworthy companies?

These electric guitars are made from hemp

posted by olli @ 17:32

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Who are the most innovative companies in the world?

Ineeka Tea re-invents the tea bag

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez pick their ten favourite movie posters

YouTube to launch mobile website

Bebo launches a music download service

Good news for the Pacific countries' bandwidth

Say hello to Adobe's new social network - Kuler

How to ruin the user experience

How hip-hop holds Blacks back

CNN Money updates The World's Most Expensive Cities list

Get free stamps for advertising on your letters in The Netherlands

FoxyTunes Planet is a cool little music search engine

Why to not not start a startup

These clothes hangers are magnetic

posted by olli @ 07:58

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Business Week looks at indie bands and Web 2.0

MyToons is a YouTube for animators

MacLife has a first look inside Photoshop CS3

Say hello to the newly re-designed MusicPlusTv

Everything you need to know about Product Development 2.0

Microsoft now funding wireless widget spin-off company

Real doctors review every single episode of House

Rough Trade will open a megastore (of sorts) in Shoreditch this summer

What are the downsides of free information?

Wired takes a look at the new face of high-tech ads

Lumigram create clothes with fiber-optic LED's

What's next in visual communication?

posted by olli @ 08:00

Monday, March 26, 2007

The Daily Telegraph takes a look at current.tv

Microsoft Vista error messages as paintings

Commodore 64 Enthusiast? Your dream machine has arrived!

Apple Pro makes a behind-the-scenes visit to South Park

Say hello to MIT's Advertising Lab

The NY Times on the infestation of laptops in modern orchestras

9 places to use API's without coding

So what exactly does a million dollar laptop look like?

Say hello to the dot.clock - an alternate version of timekeeping

"Everyone-Everwhere" is a fabulous motion graphics mash-up from Cock Rock Disco

Crunchnotes dissects the impending demise of print media

A basic guide to the many wonders of Twitter

Street Graphic is an online magazine for designers

Ten failures and the lessons learnt from them

posted by olli @ 13:48

Friday, March 23, 2007

Techcrunch eavesdrops on the new NBC/Universal/NewsCorp YouTube rip off

Lyro aims to be the biggest collection of business cards online

Pentagram blogs about their recent redesign of Time magazine

Say hello to the 38,800 watt bass tunnel

Are you willing to live without your computer for one day?

Everything you need to know about Crowdsourcing

Blogstickers give you stickers for your blog

Where did it all go wrong for Channel 4?

Say hello to the 5 Senses Of Istanbul

Europe in 2057 will be greener and speaking English

Wikisky is like Google Maps but for Space

Nemo 33 is the worlds deepest indoor pool

posted by olli @ 07:57

Thursday, March 22, 2007

Are News Corp and NBC about to kill YouTube?

Why are CIO's spurning Web 2.0 startups?

Media Master is a place to archive all your digital music

9 lessons for would be bloggers

This is a practical guide to typography on the web

My avatar is dissapointed in you

Next>>Wednesdays is a fantastic weekly get-together of tech bods in London

Making furniture from weapons

66 ways to build links in 2007

Why you should learn to smash your brand (.pdf)

Say hello to the Post-It aka Genius Table

22 different typefaces and counting in the Los Angeles Times

posted by olli @ 07:47

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Sydney's greenest building

Did Google really want a lawsuit against YouTube?

How to Build a Profitable Startup by Knowing Your Users Better

"We may not be as cool as Facebook, but we'll boost your GPA"

Popurls gives you a nice overview of what's currently buzzing on the web

Is this the fabric of the universe?

The ultimate teenage fantasy? Say hello to the WaveChaise

Is this the Kevlar vest of the future?

The 10 worst PC's of all time

"Service Oriented Architecture" all the rage at CeBit this year

posted by olli @ 07:57

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Jaxtr links your mobile phone with your MySpace profile

Essential reading materials for the web designer

Say hello to 37 Signal's new toy: Highrise

Inquisitor is an OSX app that mirrors Spotlight, but with websites

Read/WriteWeb on another possibility of the Web 3.0 world

Jaiku is a Twitter clone

Medialoper is a blog about digital media

Flashbelt is an upcoming design conference in Minneapolis

Flickr now offering typeface identification

Terraswarm make really fabulous art installations

The Sand-Time watch is an electronic hourglass

Bubbl.us is a collaborative brainstorming application

The Caravan Project unites book lovers online

posted by olli @ 07:43

Monday, March 19, 2007

Say hello to the IHT's new blog - MetaMedia

Books meet Podcasting at Podiobooks

Canmap allows you to stream Live TV to your Google page

Is Mika Salmi Viacom's secret weapon against Google?

Will net neutrality kill Web 2.0?

Beware of the patent police at this year's CeBit exhibition

Say hello to the YouTube video awards

Twitter + Maps = Twittervision

Musicload: 75% of our customer service calls are about DRM

How to be a gentleman

We're loving the new Union Of Knives album

posted by olli @ 19:53

Friday, March 16, 2007

The Washington Post on the transformation of Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Watchismo is a blog about interesting and unique timepieces

Five tips for improving AdSense referrals earnings

EU backs down over iTunes

Why is there no advertising with YouTube videos?

PlanHQ lets you manage your (hopefully secure) business plan online

Retailers to Sony: change the PSP or else

New Scientist reviews Danny Boyle's new film: Sunshine

Baselab makes typefaces for programmers

The Electrici-tree is a new way of looking at power leads

Streakr is a social networking search engine

A look into the strange world of automotive branding

posted by olli @ 08:02

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Assignment Zero is the place for budding journalists

As is current.tv which just launched here in the UK

An amazing visualization of American consumption

Get your hipster t-shirts from InnerTee

Is this the ugliest Lamborghini ever built?

Engadget has photos of the stunning now US$1,490 Optimus Keyboard

This new clock from Art Lebedev is pretty awesome as well

12 Do's and Don't regarding copyright law

Erik Spiekermann re-designs Germany's PC Professionell magazine

Will Self on the psychology behind South London

How to measure the usability of cities

Looking at the future of the English language

Douglas Coupland discusses Web 2.0

Say hello to Sub Pop's new label: Hardly Art

posted by olli @ 07:49

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Lily Allen vs. Apple's iTunes

Mashable has some screengrabs for the upcoming MySpace News

Web Typography Sucks

Speaking of which - is Helvetica the Neue Black?

HMV restructuring due to weak sales

Say hello to Slacker - a new streaming radio service

How Stuff Works takes a look at the making of 300

Corporate wikis are going viral

What could Google's next generation search look like?

Sustainable strategies in design

Say hello to the Red Cross mobile billboard

Need to leak a sensitive document? Wikileaks is the place for you

A nice roundup of web design workflow for beginners

posted by olli @ 07:56

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

How good is your personal online reputation?

What's going on between AT&T and Yahoo!?

40 steps to the business side of web design

The Medium is the message

The craziest urinals from around the world

Say hello the New Yorker version web 2.0

The Guardian on 10 essential albums for spring

Have you done the Internet Walk yet?

Go2web20.net is the complete Web 2.0 directory

Why do the poor have more free time than the rich?

What are the top 10 video games of all time?

Why browsers render HTML differently

posted by olli @ 08:27

Monday, March 12, 2007

Got cool ideas for the future?
If so, the Economist would like a word with you

Inside Second Life's Data Centres

Thomas Edison in 1888 vs. The Music Industry of 2007

Keep your browser bookmarks online with Deskload

10 Things you might not know about Wikipedia

Fulminate is a blog about the architecture of control

Is Starbucks about to launch a record label?

How to bluff your way through a Web 2.0 pitch

Laptops of the future?

Say hello to the Sid Vicious action figure

The 7 Laserdeck Skateboard Show

ArtCeram make fantastic bathroom fixtures

posted by olli @ 19:12

Friday, March 9, 2007

8 web menus you can't miss

MySpace launching MySpace News

11 confessions of a T-Mobile sales rep

This is an awesome concept for a future Nokia mobile phone interface

New Zealand's TVNZ3 will being an on-demand presence to the channel

This chandelier is made of gummi bears

Is Microsoft trying to kill off the JPEG format?

Sony + Second Life = Home

Logo and branding tutorials

Fortune magazine on the development of the Apple store

Say hello to the Open Architecture Network

Say hello to Blyk - a "free" ad-supported mobile network

Will this airplane autopilot make hijacking impossible?

posted by olli @ 08:25

Thursday, March 8, 2007

MyStrands links your musical tastes to other people...and parties!

Do we need a code of ethics for robot use?

Send Google Maps directions right to your BMW via GPS

Reuters to start it's own social network for City traders

Old school in the new school: Play Infocom adventures online.

How to ship those souveniers back home

Don't forget to Consume Helvetica

A nice piece on the rise of Helsinki as an urban hotspot

Say hello to the BLDGBLOG Architectural Film Fest

The Freedom Of The Seas is a very, very, very, large ship

Stacks Of Green is an urban design magazine from New Zealand

How to really, really, really zoom in on Google Earth

Avant-garde design and the Ice Cream Van

posted by olli @ 08:24

Wednesday, March 7, 2007

A compilation reel of all the ads seen in the brilliant movie Children Of Men (.mov)

Pitchfork have an exclusive interview with Bjork about her new album

"161 Exabytes and growing..."

Pleix discuss their work at the ENSAD in Paris

Kyte (invitation only at the moment) allows you to create your own broadcast network online

Say hello to the Fawlty Towers Counterstrike mash-up

The MedTab is a tablet PC designed for the hospital

Wired magazine on that sneaky Steve Jobs

How to make collapsible div's for that Digg effect

Say hello to full colour 3D printing

What are kids actually downloading over at last.fm?

12 rare books of the avant-garde

Nice interview with the Hive Modular b-line pre-fab house team

posted by olli @ 08:21

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Are last.fm and Pandora about to get clobbered by new streaming royalty rates?

Say hello to Boo.com part 2 - it's Shopwave

Dotboom is a show about web designers in Toronto. With puppets.

List what you love, find what you list

Prickie make fantastic badges for your clothes or bag

Is your website blocked in China?

iWitness is a site about civil liberties and video

50 amazing ads you haven't see yet

Hip-Hop chaos in context

Standard41 makes some brilliant furniture

Your eggs need pants

posted by olli @ 09:51

Monday, March 5, 2007

Five principles to design by

Should a newspaper be a social network?

PsyOp have a great new campaign for Fanta

All your social networks in one place? Say hello to socialurl.com

More lovely designs from Smashing Magazine

Great article on The Arcade Fire from the NY Times

Is the tax man coming to Second Life?

USA Today gets a social networking-esque re-design

What Starbucks can learn from the movie palace

Are you brave enough for The Path?

How to win friends and influence Diggs on Digg

Andreas Angelidakis is an architect

posted by olli @ 12:11

Friday, March 2, 2007

US mobile carriers getting ready for mobile TV broadcasting

Reviewing the attention economy

Rock and Royal make custom made chandeliers

Things to do at home when you're really bored

Punk Rock guitar in 90 seconds

Top 10 MySpace add-on sites of 2006

Apple's COO Tim Cook discusses the iPhone and the success of the iPod

Microscopic photos of gnats smashed on a windscreen

Missing Manuals offers missing manuals for your computer

At long last, Playstation 3 games have been announced

AIGA relaunches its website

Flight 404 is still pumping out some amazing flash physics

posted by olli @ 08:34

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Are these examples of the web's best interface design?

iTunes now open to indie distributors

How to lose users and kill your Web 2.0 company

In other news: How to lose customers and ruin your newly launched company

Stream music to your MySpace profile from your PC with Orb

Is contemporary art just bullshit?

How to build your own multi-touch table interface

So, what are those little bastards illegally downloading this week?

"I must be Emo"

34 reasons why people unsubscribe from your blog

What's the world's most famous typo?

A look at the logos and design in Mike Judge's Idiocracy