Tuesday, July 31, 2007

What makes a city great?

Speaking of which - Outside In is a hyperlocal social network for Brooklyn

More Brooklyn: Hypermarket is a cool design shop in Carroll Gardens

7 blog mistakes to avoid

Say hello to London's Workplace Co-Op 115

British attitudes to music downloading: "We don't care because it's free"

These Facebook apps can make you more productive

Ajax Rain will make also make you more productive with AJAX and Javascript

Could terrorists be using Second Life to plot attacks?

Say hello to the iPhone keyboard...on a Nokia N800

Online consumers who pre-shop actually spend more in-store

How to turn your Web 1.0 site into a Web 2.0 site

Why did Amp'd really fail? Too much VC investment in porn

How to create an online disaster plan

NotCouture has some really lovely fashion wares for sale

There are skeleton keys and there are skeleton key skull caps

Labels: AJAX Rain, Brooklyn, cities, Co-op 115, downloading, Hypermarket, iPhone, javascript, London, Nokia, NotCouture, OutsideIn, Second Life, skeleton keys, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 07:51  

Monday, July 30, 2007

match.com goes mobile. Now you can flirt all day!

Looks like Google will filter out copyrighted video by September

Did you know - Luxembourg has the highest mobile phone penetration rate

Brace yourself for the coming patent apocalypse

Defense Ministry logos from around the world

Bubblegeneration looks at the current round of investing around Twitter

A list of swear words and their severity because we care

The NY Times says that everyone is a cartographer now

Say hello to John Peel - Teenage Kicks, the play

Should web designers really care about where the webpage fold is?

Flagxo lets you rate airports

Have you seen the "Items We Carry" pool on Flickr?

The Sonic Chair is a must for music lovers who like interior design

Labels: Bubblegeneration, Defense Ministry, Flickr, Google, John Peel, Luxembourg, match.com, patents, Sonic Chair, twitter

posted by olli @ 13:16  

Friday, July 27, 2007

Ten things I wish I had on my iPhone

Telstra Australia/NZ bans employees from accessing Facebook

How to build a design studio

Mark Cuban: "The Internet is dead"

Why airlines don't care about the customer anymore

Realtor.com now offering a mobile application

Say hello to The Big Lebowski action figures

If you die, youdeparted.com could make your families life a bit easier

Yes, it's true. I'm In Like With You

Reddit.com is gearing up for a re-design

Fortune Magazine asks whether or not The Washington Post can survive

Americans are addicted to mobile email

Labels: Big Lebowski, iPhone, Mark Cuban, mobile email, Realtor.com, Reddit, Telstra, Washington Post, youdeparted.com

posted by olli @ 09:27  

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Some nice ideas in Diesel's Global Hotspots book

Building 4D time-varying cities with a little help from Microsoft

A few new gorgeous screenshots from GTA4 have been released

New Media is fun but can we learn anything from Very Old Media?

Say hello to iPhone The Book

MySpace & The Producers Guild are looking for a TV producer

GetVenture is a blog dedicated to the budding VC seeking entrepreneur

Wishpot allows you to save and track your favourite products online

Say hello to Jobster for Facebook

7 ways to help you recognize opportunity when it comes knocking

Test your knowledge of online scams and how to avoid them

Wired has a nice roundup of the latest iPhone hacks

Alan McGee showcases the obscure punk records that made more of an impact than you ever knew

This is an awesome commercial for Sprint using flashlight animation

Labels: 4D, animation, cities, Diesel, facebook, GTA4, hacking, iPhone Book, Jobster, MySpace, Old Media, punk rock, scams, Spring, venture capital, Wishpot

posted by olli @ 07:28  

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

MyLifeBrand is a social network centred around video

Uli Westphal creates works of art from mutant fruit and vegetables

UK Government caps music copyrights at 50 years

Online newspapers are seeing record visitors to their websites

How to have your beer and design for it too

This is a nice collection of web 2.0 screengrabs on Flickr

Who are the web's top takeover targets?

Silicon Valley gets the biggest wireless network in the US

...which won't help right now as a drunk man wipes out most of SF's web presence

Tun3r is an online radio station aggregator

9 ways to build your own social network

Is the XBOX360 doomed?

Sanctuary music sell off indie label Rough Trade for £800,000

Labels: art, beer design, fruit, MyLifeBrand, Rough Trade, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, social networks, Tun3r, web 2.0, wireless, XBOX360

posted by olli @ 06:36  

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Mashable present 400 tools for multi-media developers and bloggers

AT&T responds to Google's recent bid for wireless spectrum

Nokia acquires Twango - expands music and photo sharing capability

Forbes weighs in on the MySpace vs. Facebook class war

Some gorgeous stuff from the 2007 IDEA Awards

iRovr is a social network for your iPhone

Looks like YouTube has a new re-design in beta

Say hello to Yahoo! Design Week

How to write a business plan

In three years, will there even be a desktop OS?

Emerging design trends for the web 2.0 world

Are working families saying goodbye to the suburbs?

Note to self - never stand directly behind a 747-400 when it's about to take off

Labels: business plan, Google, IDEA, iRovr, multi-media, MySpace, Nokia, productivity, Twango, working, yahoo, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:47  

Monday, July 23, 2007

Say hello to the iPhone Dev Wiki

Fantastic! The internet as (based on a Japanese)subway map

Will YouTube play a major part in the upcoming US Presidential election?

Google to US Government - Here's $US4.6 Billion - please give us wireless spectrum for free Wi-Fi

10 signs your startup might be on the rocks

This is an amazing new ad for Skittles

60 excellent collaborative tools for productive teams

Say hello to the Magical Spaces Project

MySpace weighs in on the Dow Jones sellout - advises TV/Video is the next step

More on that - is it because MySpace now wants to get into TV as well?

VisualSize can give you 3D dimensions of a physical space from a 2D photograph

Start queueing now - production on the $100 OLPC laptop has begun

Teens to the Internet - email is sooooo dead

Say hello to Pinqy - one of the coolest fire extinguishers ever

Is Steve Albini hosting a Q&A session on the 2+2 forums?

The Bio-Mapping project has finished mapping San Francisco

Labels: ads, Bio-Mapping, DowJones, iPhone, MySpace, OLPC, Pinqy, productivity, San Francisco, Skittles, startups, Steve Albini

posted by olli @ 07:33  

Friday, July 20, 2007

Could Facebook become the next Microsoft?

XLingo is a social network centred around learning new languages

Where are the safest seats in an airplane?

Say hello to the Moo sticker books. Yay!

Thriving Office lets you pretend you work in a big office even when you don't

Say hello to 50 Years Of Helvetica posters

Open Source takes a look at Design Thinking

Is Yahoo! about to put itself up for sale?

CityBloc takes a look at the world's most interesting building projects

Looks like the Bumptop user interface will now be implemented in Flex

50 ways to improve your writing skills

6 minutes of terror - how to land humans on Mars

This graffiti is better than most

Labels: CityBloc, design thinking, facebook, Graffiti, Helvetica, Mars, Microsoft, Moo, Thriving Office, writing, Xlingo

posted by olli @ 08:22  

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

How to measure web influence? Links or Crowdsourcing?

The White Stripes play a one note concert in LA

How not to design flags

Say hello to grocery bag fashion

Disney trying to save the CD by introducing a digital magazine

Google also getting into it - expands print advertising program

Multimedia geeks take note and say hello to The Jing Project

Guilty as charged: download the mp3, buy the vinyl

Find out what's going on in your universe with Universe

How to use SMS over AIM

Turn yourself into a Simpson. You know you want to

The IHT re-designs...again. But we like it

To delete this building, please press 3

Labels: Crowdsurfing, Flags, Google, Grocery bags, IHT, Jing Project, Simpons, Universe, White Stripes

posted by olli @ 22:31  

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

ReadWriteWeb showcases the best 10 Facebook apps

How to use your marketing budgets to create user communities

Blender magazine calls Steve Jobs the number one "Powergeek"

How to be a better IT manager

Designfloat is a Digg style aggregator for designers

Smashing Magazine explores outstanding homepages

If you're into surfing, The Surf Network is for you

Hong Kong's subway gets Wi-Fi

Digital Urban takes a look at cities in video games

Does the second tech boom spell disaster for the dead tree media?

The good and bad of "Tagalong technology"

These are great notepads for the interaction designer

Are you iTrapped by your iPhone?

Labels: Blender, Designfloat, digg, facebook, homepage design, iPhone, media buying, powergeeks, Surf Network, Tagalong, user community

posted by olli @ 22:14  

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Google developing niche search for mobile content

How to post to Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku and Tumblr at the same time

On that note - Xoocle is an interesting new Web 2.0 aggregator/mash-up

This is what the lucky people at Google get to eat every day

More from Google - Check out their Mapplets Documentation API

You can now pimp your iPod with People Like Us

Typisc is a really nice new font foundry

If you're an audio geek and like the Beatles, this book is for you

Old media behind the times - finally realize that TV networks are becoming irrelevant

Why is Pownce so popular, anyway?

Brilliant! MIT updates its OpenCourseWare site

101 ways to know your software project is doomed

The Open Library aims to collect every single book on the planet

The BBC says "Sorry!" to Heavy Metal fans

Are there really free bus routes in London?

Labels: Beatles, Google, ipod, Jaiku, London, Mapplets, MIT, Open Library, Pownce, software, Tumblr, twitter, Typisc, Xoocle

posted by olli @ 07:55  

Monday, July 16, 2007

Seatbelts fastened? Question - Will Apple start a record label with Jay-Z and Beyonce at the helm?

Real world companies are getting cold feet about their Second Life stores

Techcrunch has a round-up of new social news aggregator Streamy

Looking for applications for your iPhone? This site has you covered

FiveFootWay offers a nice look at architecture in Singapore

Did you know? Fonts can help you get a job, loan or a girlfriend

Happy 10 year Blogiversary!

Should design schools stop focusing on forms and focus instead on systems?

Damien Hirst gets pranked but good

The pictures behind the portraits on US currency

A nice treat for us Londoners - what the tube driver sees on their daily run

Labels: Apple, blogs, currency, design, FiveFootWay, London, music industry, Second Life, Streamy, system design, Typography

posted by olli @ 22:37  

Friday, July 13, 2007

The IHT takes a look at the search engine market in South Korea

More on that note - Google now sponsoring a social networking project called Socialstream

Do folksonomies provide 70 percent more terms than taxonomy alone?

Warner Music to stream all its music online for....free?

This building has walls made of water

In Australia, it's Designer vs. Developer

Lessons on how to build a design studio

Wired Magazine takes a look at the Nigerian film industry

GigaOm debunks 5 business myths about Second Life

How Trojan Records invented the mash-up

Say hello to The Beosound 6 - Bang & Olufsen's competitor to the iPod

The Million Marker Map takes Google Maps up a notch

In Japan, you can get watermelons of just about any shape

Fancy a trip to The Island Of Forgotten Diseases?

Interesting - this is a 3D blog engine

Labels: 3D, Bang and Olufsen, Biological Warfare, blogs, Google, ipod, Japan, Million Marker Map, social networking, Social Stream, South Korea

posted by olli @ 09:03  

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Monocle does a modest and elegant re-design.
Would we expect anything else?

Kubik is a pop-up club in Barcelona

Say hello to 60 Frames - a Hollywood talent agency that set up a web studio

Where are you spending your time online? Maybe here, perhaps?

Nielsen says - The page view is now officially dead

The 9 most meaningless corporate slogans

Jeff Jarvis: "Towns are just hyperlocal social networks"

EA CEO: "We're boring people to death!"

Everything I learned about web design I learned by watching Oz

Is Zillow building a ghost town?

Is MySpace losing High Schoolers to Facebook?

CNN's recent re-design was taliored specifically for advertisers

This typeface is made from buildings

This is a forum for Urban Design

The ring design concept is an alarm clock you wear on your finger

Labels: CNN, corporate slogans, Daily Type, design concepting, EA, Jeff Jarvis, Kubik, Monocle, MySpace, Neilsen, Urban Design

posted by olli @ 08:10  

Tuesday, July 10 / Wednesday, July 11

Ladies and Germs,

The management would like to apologize for the lack of posts over the last two days. This was due to an unexpected last minute business trip to Leeds and we couldn't get away from the clients. You know how it goes.

Regular programming shall resume tomorrow. Shocking behaviour, I know.

Olli @ shiner.clay

posted by olli @ 21:05  

Monday, July 9, 2007

35 perspectives on online social networking

This is a map of Google products

Engadget Mobile has a run down of why people switched to the iPhone

FFFFound is a great resource for photographers

The Insitute For The Future takes a look at the most future thinking cultures

DailyType is a Russian fontographers collective

The Guardian G2's staff on what it was like blogging from Glastonbury

Is device art coming to America?

How to edit video on the Nokia N95

How to find property for sale using Google Earth

Is hyperlocal news reporting such a good idea?

How to make your web apps look and feel like the iPhone

Labels: Daily Type, FFFound, Glastonbury, Google, Guardian, Hyperlocal News, iPhone, social networking

posted by olli @ 06:41  

Friday, July 6, 2007

This is the iPhone Alternation Activation Method wiki

Microsoft launches LiveStation - a competitor to Joost

The Future Of Web Design conference hits New York on November 7th &l; 8th

Verbatim Solutions are offering a real-time text translation service

Adobe offering lessons from experience design

T-Mobile now offering US customers VOIP mobile service for $10 a month extra

The colour palettes of popular album covers

This LiveJournal site collects photos of Abandoned Places

Map your cycling and biking routes online with MapMyRide

How CostCo became the anti-Wal-Mart

Wired takes a look at games that give you the creeps

Darth Vader spotted building another deathstar - this time in Dubai

The best and worst of The Economist

There's big treasure hunt in Paris on Saturday

Samsung launches its own version of iTunes - SamsungPlay

Beijing now world leader in computer virus origination

Labels: Adobe, Beijing, CostCo, LiveStation, Mapmyride, Samsung, T-Mobile, Verbatim, Virus, Wal-Mart

posted by olli @ 07:53  

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Check out this mysterious J.J. Abrams film trailer called 1-18-08

Luxemblog showcases lovely but really expensive luxury products

Second Life avatar sued for copyright infringement

Has the iPhone finally been unlocked? Hint: You'll need two of them

Your Chelsea Tractor needs fuzzy GameBoy dice!

Dark Roasted Blend showcases some crazy high voltage power stations in Russia

You Are Invited translates Outlook meeting requests to iCal

More political wrangling in Australia about its internet future

Say hello to Google Transit

123getvid allows you to download videos from MySpace, TouTube, etc...

Labels: 123GetVid, Australia, Dark Roasted Blend, Film, Gameboy, Google, iCal, iPhone, Luxemblog, Second Life

posted by olli @ 07:48  

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

The International Herald Tribune interviews its staff on the future of news and the web

At last: The developer kit for iPhone application development

What's the next evolution of the web after social networking?

Signalmap showcases real-time cell phone signal coverage in the US

Kijiji is Amazon's new rival to Craigslist

Netflix has a community blog

Fast Company on the artists of urban vinyl toys

Say hello to Thoof - a new social news network

8 ways to search the darknet beyond Google

Does "testability" really cost too much?

CEO's should be designers themselves, they shouldn't just hire them

Daily Poetics looks at the art of the business card

The Detacho doll house helps kids deal with divorce

Labels: business cards, Craigslist, Detacho, Fast Company, IHT, iPhone, Kijiji, Netflix, Signalmap, social networking, Thoof, user testing, vinyl toys

posted by olli @ 08:02  

Tuesday, July 3, 2007

Russia shuts down AllofMp3.com

Get your Friendwheel application on Facebook here

This is a really nice roundup of Nokia's talk on the future at the recent PSFK conference

Brush up that CV. Google now stalking media planners

The top 18 skylines in the world

Universal Music may not renew its iTunes contract

101 essential freelancing resources

Taiwan replaces all its traffic lights with LED's

Why poor countries are poor

British media organizations are looking at the US market and beyond

How to create environments that are brain compatible (.pdf)

ReadWriteWeb looks at some recently re-designed mainstream news sites

Soundsnap showcases free sound effects and loops

Labels: allofmp3.com, facebook, Friendwheel, Google, itunes, Nokia, poverty, skylines, Soundsnap, Taiwan, Universal Music

posted by olli @ 08:03  

Monday, July 2, 2007

Phonecasting offers you podcasts right to your mobile phone

South Korea to tax virtual world assets

AIGA asks Steve Jobs the only question that really matters

UK music retailer Fopp shutting down ALL stores due to torrents?

More online pressure: Blockbuster closing 282 US stores

How to deal with angry customers

Will this site help you unlock your iPhone?

iPhone now also causing jitters across the music industry

MTV wants to help you Get Made

Say hello to the Web Trend Map - 2007 Version

Tyler Brule looks at the supermarket wars in Marlyebone

Labels: Blockbuster, customer service, Fopp, iPhone, mtv, music industry, Phonecasting, South Korea, supermarkets, virtual worlds, Webtrends

posted by olli @ 22:14