Thursday, May 31, 2007

Apple + YouTube - the next piece of the convergence puzzle falls into place?

Dan Hill's been blogging from the Postopolis conference in NYC

HP creates personal shopping kiosk tailoring products specifically to you

Say hello to the Journal Of Popular Noise

Correlate.us brings all your Web 2.0 feeds together in one place

Say hello to Jason Calcanis' new human powered search engine: Mahalo

The Google Gears API Developers Guide

Don't mess with the users: LiveJournal deletion sparks mini revolt

How to make Tetris ice cubes

Which US ISP's are spying on you?

The official guide to "calling Shotgun"

Adrenalin junkie? Thrill seeker? Have we got the home for you!

Labels: API, Apple, Google, HP, ISP, LiveJournal, music, personal shopping, Postopolis, Tetris, web 2.0, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:52

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

CBS purchases last.fm for $US280 Million. Congrats guys!

Apple releases iTunes 7.2 today - DRM Free!

Say hello to the next volley against Apple - it's called Microsoft Surface

More Apple influence - Nokia's mobile phone design ideas for 2012

Social networking grows significantly in the UK

How to build your personal brand online

UFO theme park coming to Roswell, New Mexico

Branding network TV in an era of mass-less media

Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases

Designing cities for people, rather than cars

Newsgaming is a site that marries video games and current events

This (unofficial)Modest Mouse video was made by animating 4133 photocopies

A rather extensive list of mobile phone related art from Golan Levin

Fordesign.biz is your essential online design event calendar

The best place to live in the world? Vancouver

EA sells movies rights to the Sims - can they really make it a film?

Labels: architecture, bias, design, itunes, last.fm, Microsoft surface, mobile, Modest Mouse, Nokia, Sims, UFO, Vancouver, Wikipedia

posted by olli @ 07:59

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Google's recent DoubleClick acquisition under the microscope of the FTC

On that note - is Aussie startup MyLiveSearch a serious competitor to Google?

It's not Joost. It's Joox.

A List Apart offers some excellent advice for writing headlines

Is MySpace the next Prodigy? (10 points if you've actually used Prodigy)

JamJunky is like open project management software for musicians

Live in London? Check out 192.com for your mapping needs

The speaker list for 2007's Semi-Permanent Auckland has been announced

The high price of creating free ads

Lots of buttons here for your e-commerce design inspiration

Say hello to Japan's Handshake Company

More London: What you need to know about commuting by London Underground

Newspapers getting ready to take on Google News

Say hello to parasite architecture

Labels: 192, A List Apart, ads, architecture, Auckland, commuting, Google, headlines, Jamjunky, London, MyLiveSearch, MySpace, newspapers

posted by olli @ 07:52

Monday, May 28, 2007

Saatchi & Saatchi lose Doc Martens as a client over some really fabulous work

On that note: Twenty signs you're about to get fired

The Next Web conference hits Amsterdam on June 1st

An excellent keynote summary from the recent Ruby On Rails conference

Kids rejoice! Stop Homework is a blog about the case against homework

Say hello to MIT's Scratch program. Yes - even a four year old can program now

Top ten reasons PR doesn't work

How Apple can teach Sony to create inviting retail experiences

Ten ways how to send huge files across the internet

What's the problem with mobile video? No accurate way to track viewership

Wired Magazine takes a look behind The Hype Machine music blog

Mogopop allows you to create and share content on your iPod

CNBE is a blog that covers the best in Belgian creative talent

Slovenian artists collective Laibach has some lovely new videos on their news page

Labels: Amsterdam, Apple, Belgium, Hype Machine, ipod, Laibach, MIT, NextWeb, Ruby On Rails, Saatchi and Saatchi, Scratch

posted by olli @ 17:25

Friday, May 25, 2007

One for the weekend: Quite possibly the greatest Fark thread ever

Say hello to Facebook Platform

Web 2.0 for Business: Innovation, The New New Internet, and Change

Desktoptwo is an online desktop for your applications

Will your new Nokia phone warn you of an impending lightning strike?

These figurines are from Hieronymus Bosch

Imeem is a social music aggregator

Lostmitten make a really cool Pac Man business card holder

How to think like a client

Why the Big Brother report is bad for Channel 4

The Maldives opens a real embassy in Second Life

More avatar fun: Tween girls dressing up in Second Life are getting noticed

What comes after communities dominate brands?

How to build a space shuttle

Labels: Art Direction, brands, channel 4, community, facebook, fark, Nokia, Second Life, social innovation, social music, space shuttle, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 07:51

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Music playlist service WebJay is closing

ASDA decides to drop CD singles from its stores

Fugitive Toys sell great vinyl figures

India - No iPhone please. We'll take the cheap version. Say, $19?

Time magazine profiles 37 Signals

Wired magazine suggests some mashups. Developers take note!

34 places to get design inspiration

Say hello to the wall-mountable wireless printer

Variations in the McDonalds menu around the world

Uservue is a user experience/usability tool

Babickavokda - nice site. Even better product design

Tribbler is a YouTube, last.fm, BitTorrent mashup application

Now you can design your own Nokia N76 mobile phone

Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor speaks openly about life on a major label

Labels: 37 Signals, ASDA, design inspiration, major labels, mashups, mobile, Nokia, product design, vinyl, Webjay, wireless

posted by olli @ 08:01

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Say hello to Pagecasts - a new take on the startup page

Say hello to Mob Jam: Five DJ's mixing on mobile phones

Say hello to miniature analog electronic music instruments

Interesting article about the market function of piracy

Homer Simpson explains why Fox News and the Fox Network are so different

A jungle is growing in Madrid's train station. Literally

BLDGBLOG showcases the rather impressive "amplifier house"

Bluurb is a blog that comments on the advertising and branding worlds

Joost picks up an agent. Creative Artists Agency, actually

Businesses are pondering how to profit from web widgets

Why Hollywood hates cheap and nasty little horror films

How to understand the seven C's of mobile phones

Labels: BLDGBLOG, DJ, Fox, Madrid, mobile, Mobjam, Pagecasts, piracy, sensory branding, widgets

posted by olli @ 07:58

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

A 1-D skyscraper with a single corridor?

More architecture fun: The Death Star comes to Dubai

ZDNet on the webification of advertising

How to design for word of mouth

Your Broadcaster is a social network for filmakers

The teen bands who have the music industry on the run

TVersity offers content "any time, anywhere, on any device"

Neighbourhood Fix-It - Web 2.0 comes to local UK councils?

Salon looks at the marriage industrial complex

Smashing Magazine on 60 more lovely web designs for you

More fun with the clients from hell

Passive-Agressive notes from roommates, neighbours, coworkers and strangers

We're really loving The Softlightes these days

Labels: advertising, architecture, design, Dubai, marriage, music licencing, Salon, Smashing magazine, Softlightes, teen bands, Tversity, uk, web 2.0, Your Broadcaster, ZDNet

posted by olli @ 22:05

Monday, May 21, 2007

Shopping mashups - the shopping of the future?

Opennet identifies and documents Internet filtering and censorship

Design Spotter's Flickr photos from the 2007 Designmai Berlin exhibition

Is Google secretly plotting to put an end to news indexing?

Why Bill Gates is wrong about mobile telephony

Failed TV pilots are finding new life on the web

The Register says that Europeans don't trust their IP for their TV

Don't know the name of a song? Identify.us is here to help

Twibble is a GPS enabled Twitter app for the Nokia N95

More mobile: Loopt lets you stalk your friends from your mobile phone

Ars Technica on the psychology of banner ads

YouLicence is a site that does music licencing for you

Nine myths of the workplace

Say hello to the Office Of Tomorrow

Labels: berlin, censorship, Flickr, Google, mashups, Microsoft, music licencing, Opennet, register, tv, workplaces

posted by olli @ 08:28

Friday, May 18, 2007

London's XFM axes its daytime DJ's in favour of an all music format

Wallpaper* magazine showcases what magazines it reads

Japanese fashion houses focus on Tokyo's youth to promote new products

How social media is becoming a hardcore marketplace for traffic

Gene2Music aims to create music from protein sequences

The 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards have been announced

Design your own skateboard deck at BoardPusher

Stanford University profits over DMCA complaints

Say hello to Apple's patent for a theft-alert enabled iPod/iPhone

Bored of Second Life? Say hello to Entropia

Labels: design, DMCA, Entropia, Fashion, Gene2Music, Second Life, social media, Wallpaper*, XFM

posted by olli @ 07:59

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Feel free to test out some of Google's experimental search interfaces

Yahoo! offering a sneak peek at some new enhancements for My Yahoo!

The New Yorker on how use, not innovation drives technology

Amazon will sell non-DRM'ed mp3's by the end of the year

We Are Food Geek is a blog about the future of food

The onomatopeta of Batman's "Biff!", "Bang!", "Pow!" cutaways

Seven tips on how to run a successful community online

Are you a music blogger? If so - b5Media might want to hire you

Foster + Partners to create the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city in Abu Dhabi

Burst Labs have a great experimental interface for finding content. Check it out

Nielsen says if you want online buzz, you better have a campaign

Design By Grid is a resource for web designers

Wired Magazine offers a pictoral on 40 years of video gaming

The Guardian turns A&R with a "band of the day" feature

Labels: Abu Dhabi, Amazon, architecture, Batman, blogging, DRM, food, Google, Grid, Guardian, innovation, marketing, music, New Yorker, Nielsen, Video games, Wired, yahoo

posted by olli @ 14:29

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

US TV Network NBC enters the realm of social networking...sort of

Say hello to virtual world intranets. Yes - intranets

More from the virtual world: The Virtual World Awards are coming

Ruckstuhl make beautiful carpets

Wufoo is an interactive online form builder

Bibme is a free online Bibliography maker

IndieHIG aim to update the Apple Human Interface Guidelines

The Harvard Business Review on Viral Marketing

These are design cliches you probably want to avoid

Users can now upload YouTube content to their NowPublic accounts

Norway proposes that ODF and PDF should be its standard document formats

Are US baby boomers happy with what's actually on television?

50 Matches is a social powered search engine

Just Add New Zealanders highlights top notch film/video work from NZ

Labels: 50 Matches, Bibme, cliches, design, IndieHIG, intranet, NBC, New Zealand, NowPublic, ODF, PDF, Ruckstuhl, US, video, virtual worlds, Wufoo, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:39

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Startup 2.0 is a contest for European based Web 2.0 sites

Are paid online video downloads like iTunes a "dead end"?

Music to our ears: Indie labels now offering vinyl/mp3 hybrid records

Ars Technica reports on the cultural baggage of emoticons

Jakob Nielsen (unsurprisingly) not so keen on Web 2.0

This high-rise tower in Dubai creates its own energy

Say hello to China's smart information-rich traffic signals

How to change the font on your Symbian S60 device

Scene 360 inteviews some big names about web art direction, form vs. function and more

The Guardian on where the BBC's new media revolution went wrong

These are real chairs that look like children's drawings

BioMapping is an experimental community mapping project

FlightMemory allows users to log, track and share stories about recent flights

How to unlock your car door with a mobile phone

How to make your make your website mobile friendly

Twitter may be about WHAT you're doing, but Twatter is about WHO you're doing

Labels: Art Direction, bbc, biomapping, China, Dubai, emoticons, indie, itunes, Jakob Nielsen, new media, Symbian, twatter, twitter, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 07:55

Monday, May 14, 2007

The New Yorker profiles Banksy in extraordinary detail

Say hello to the Wall Street Startup Journal

Alan McGee folds his label and comes around to our way of thinking

Why does Google remember information about searches?

Seomoz has announced the winners of the Web 2.0 awards

How US soldiers in Iraq are learning to love their robots

Monitwitter uses Twitter to montior your website

A look at the alternative side of the UK music festival scene

Ficlets allows users to write, share and contribute to each others short stories

Say hello to Honeyshed where "MTV meets QVC"

Is the future of the user interface...the command line?

These photos offer a rare glimpse of Heavy Metal's glory days

Labels: Banksy, Ficlets, Google, Honeyshed, Monitwitter, New Yorker, Searech, Seomoz, startup, twitter, UX, Wall St. Journal, web 2.0, writing

posted by olli @ 14:15

Friday, May 11, 2007

Say hello to the new Guardian website re-design

How social media will change the world

BT enters the convergence market - say hello to BT Vision

Are gmail users younger, richer and really better in bed?

These lithographs are of post-apocalyptic Toyko

Ticket Design create excellent telematics devices from India

In Japan, you can watch an ad and get a free drink

Motorola now stepping up against the iPhone

Who are the five enemies of the future?

Everything you wanted to know about fake brands in China

70 expert ideas for better CSS coding

What's next for US cities?

Emergency Architects create buildings for disaster relief

Labels: architecture, BT, convergence, CSS, future, gmail, Guardian, iPhone, motorola, sensory branding, social media, telematics, tokyo

posted by olli @ 13:37

Thursday, May 10, 2007

How much textual information do you consume daily?

last.fm to include video scrobbling by end of the week

Say hello to the Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project

You're not a consumer anymore. You're really a "transumer"

The high price of getting paid for content

Looking for windows? Just might want to look up Piezofenestration

Telepark is a tag based contact management system

How to start a business

Technology review takes an in-depth look at Apple's design strategy

Is Google preparing to police the web?

Happy 50th Birthday Helvetica

The Economist takes a look at sensory branding

Say hello to Dordles - when doodles are not quite doodles or drawings

The value of vertical search for B2B marketers

Boutique Camping offers pop-up hotels at music festivals

Labels: Apple, B2B, Dordles, Economist, Google, Helvetica, last.fm, scrobbling, sensory branding, telepark, textual information, tokyo, vertical search

posted by olli @ 07:55

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Live in the US? Then say goodbye to ad skipping on ESPN and ABC

The City List is a Digg type ratings system for local venues

Telephia says MySpace dominates mobile social content

Say hello to the new Google Analytics

BrandExperienceLab's Crowd Control is a new interactive experience for cinema audiences

Good for Party is looking for bloggers

So, is Twitter as popular as you think?

Why the BBC's new iPlayer "sells us all short"

What is so interesting about interactive environments?

Say hello to Yahoo!'s new mobile search

What exactly is a rathole?

Nine attitudes of highly creative people

Say hello to some really brilliant business card designs

Labels: ABC, ad skipping, blogging, business cards, creativity, digg, ESPN, Good For Party, iPlayer, mobile search, MySpace, Telephia, The City List, timeshifting, twitter, yahoo

posted by olli @ 07:46

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Into Flash? Check out the Flashbelt conference in Minneapolis this June

Who's in the running for the Top 15 web startups in Europe?

Say hello to the most popular mobile phone in the world (En Espanol)

Why should you invest in social features for your website?

Annie Lennox gets her home trashed because of MySpace

NPR interviews Drew Curtis from Fark

17 rules for successful ecommerce websites

Why is it so difficult to sell used CD's in the US?

Say hello to Forbes' corporate org chart wiki

Rockstar Games on why the XBOX360 presents problems for the upcoming GTA IV

Choice Spring is a lovely line of free Photoshop brushes

Does Motorola really do great design?

These felt covers are for your iPod

10 things you might learn from working from home

Labels: cd's, fark, flash, ipod, motorola, photoshop, rockstar, social networking, starup, telecommuting

posted by olli @ 07:58

Monday, May 7, 2007

Tumri bring advertising to widgets via the AdPod

The social technography of Web 2.0

More images have been discovered in music by Venetian Snares, Plaid and Aphex Twin

Conspiracy theorists unite! UK MOD to open its X-Files to the public

Techcrunch looks at the growing Web 2.0 divide in the USA

Grindhouse movie poster makeovers of your favourite films

World of Warcraft now offering a credit card

Comscore says its the Europeans who dominate Second Life

Adam Smith has a great read on interaction (.pdf)

How to get Twitter on your mobile for free

Freelance Switch is a blog for freelancers

Things you should know about Microformats

Ritmonio make gorgeous digital faucets

Remember Uniqlo's canned t-shirts? They now have a store

Labels: adpods, faucets, freelancing, interaction, microformats, mobile, movie posters, twitter, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 09:59

Friday, May 4, 2007

The ultimate insiders guide to Best Buy's Geek Squad

Check out this tunning site from Red Interactive Agency

Why making mobile phone software is a losing battle

MSNBC takes a look at Twitter

A Motorola survey says that 45% of Europeans watch TV online

Yahoo! finally shuts down Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr

These clothes are made from condoms

How to learn media consumption rules from iTunes

More iTunes: Magnetosphere is a cool iTunes visualizer

Looking at human computer interaction in science fiction movies

This rug has zippers

Is Disney's foray into Silverlight apps the future of marketing?

The In The City music conference comes to New York

Say hello to Sweden's talking ATM's

What's the deal with indie bands and choreographed dance moves?

Labels: agency, clothing, geek squad, indie, itunes, marketing, motorola, msnbc, music, silverlight, tv, twitter, yahoo

posted by olli @ 16:45

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Qoob is MTV Italy's little YouTube project

Where are you in the Diggsophere?

MetaMedia takes a look at Second Life and the French presidential debate

Pandora now blocked to most international users (UK not affected...for now)

Only in Japan: The virtual dog walking video game

300 icons for your web design needs

What last.fm learned while building their site

Arrrgghh! It's boo.com!

Saul Williams writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey

Loud Graphix is a Berlin based conference around music and graphic design

12 important laws every US blogger needs to know

Local Life is an audio blog that looks at everyday life across the UK

Jason Daponte of BBC Radio 1 demonstrates how to share media playlists

Labels: bbc, berlin, blog, boo, digg, icons, last.fm, local life, loud graphix, mtv, qoob, radio 1, uk