Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Happy Halloween and blessed be to all the pagans.
Don't eat all of my candy!

Say hello to....Banksy, is that really you?

This is a real levitating wirelessly powered lightbulb. Seriously

Move over P2P - The Pirate Bay is looking at something better

This is a real time application to see who is and where people are editing Wikipedia from

Vector Magic converts bitmap images to vector art

Say hello to the first look at Google's new competitor to Facebook

The importance of social media marketing and what you should learn from it

Vitamin takes a look at getting a startup right for the second time

Interesting - first Radiohead, now the magazine industry

Egads! Now even Cliff Richard is getting in on the alternative music pricing scheme

PC Magazine: Apple's Leopard is the greatest OS...ever?

More Apple: NBC's Jerry Zucker speaks in detail about why he isn't too pleased with Apple

A-Cero have some really interesting stuff going on in Dubai

design.nl is a blog that covers the Dutch graphic design scene

35 great print ads you've probably never seen

If you're really stretching for a Halloween costume - why not be Steve Ballmer?

Labels: A-Cero, Banksy, Cliff Richard, design, Dubai, facebook, Google, Jerry Zucker, Leopard, levitation, magazines, marketing, Netherlands, P2P, Pirate Bay, print ads, social media marketing, Steve Ballmner

posted by olli @ 09:22  

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Buy a $US10 Million dollar mobile phone, get a free island. Seriously

Can a town be turned into a web portal?

The revival of the city at the end of the world

Why video telephones never really took off

This is a really nice collection of free fonts for you

10 "awe inspiring" Flash websites for your inspiration

iPhone SDK could be more stringent than previously thought

NBC Universal chief says Apple destroyed music pricing

GigaOm reviews Hulu and says it's brilliant

UK network 3 to launch mobile phone with built in Skype

What makes a good website? Content AND presentation

Plantoys make some pretty interesting kids toys

Who is John Doyle and why does he want to control the internet?

Labels: 3, Apple, flash, fonts, GigaOm, Hulu, John Doyle, motorola, music pricing, NBC, Plantoys, SDK, Skype, video telephony, web design

posted by olli @ 07:50  

Monday, October 29, 2007

Essential reading for UK residents looking to re-locate to the Bay Area

If you're willing to risk it, say hello to the iTouch/iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreaker

The Economist maps the rise of Facebook and other social networking sites

The myth of user generated content by "average people"

Retail Hero is a game aimed at helping retailers better understand their business

The LA Times takes a look at ghost towns across the US

How to make the most of a design engagement

NBC's answer to YouTube finally rears its head - say hello to Hulu

Gears Of War wins the 2007 Golden Joystick award

Finally! London sees first drop in house prices since 2005

More gaming: Does EA really want an "open gaming platform"?

Why clients withhold ad spending online

Business Week takes a look at the crisis of success in design and innovation

Will this new smartsuit help rescue workers?

The Chicago 2016 Olympic logo is much better than London's

Labels: Chicago, client spend, facebook, Gears of War, Hulu, jailbreaker, NBC, Olympic logo, open gaming platform, retail hero, smartsuit, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:30  

Friday, October 26, 2007

Facebook's net worth is rising so fast, it's just scary

Say hello to the Emergency Zombie Defense Station

Why Heroes raises the bar for multi-platform media

Say hello to The Institute For The Future

What are the negatives of iTunes Plus?

If you're Australian, you can map your feelings with Nine MSN's Passion Pulse

Did you know? American's attitudes towards the Internet are "Insane"

To teleport or not to teleport in virtual worlds. That is the question

Funktion Alley has some really cool products to buy

Who needs Barbie when you can have Dada Dolls?

Have you seen this awesome dog?

These are 10 tabs in AJAX for you

Oklahoma City has some amazing renovation going on underneath the city

Do screenwriters really deserve more respect?

Rob Hall has some really nice DJ mixes on his site. Go listen

Labels: AJAX, America, Dada Dolls, facebook, internet, iTunes Plus, Oklahoma City, Passion Plus, Rob Hall, screenwriters, Zombies

posted by olli @ 21:57  

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Little Handpainted People Left In London To Fend For Themselves is the greatest thing ever

Is Comcast lying about its denial about throttling P2P bandwidth?

Gawker.com as a Harvard Business School study?

The seven rules of showcasing architecture in print

Hey, it's 2007! What the hell ever happened to the future?

How to be a goth in North Carolina

The Information Freeway

Say hello to the Los Angeles Homicide Map

Say hello to Phillips new Tablet PC for doctors

"Hypersonic hydrogen airliner to bitchslap Concorde"

Interactive Wallpaper is a company that makes precisely that

Dilbert gets an iPhone

So - how long until we start getting RFID chips implanted in human beings? Not long...

This Muji globe is a blackboard

ttttttttttttttttttttt are a brilliant band from Montreal. We love 'em!

Labels: Comcast, Dilbert, Hypersonic, information freeway, interactive wallpaper, iPhone, little handpainted people, Los Angeles, Muji, P2P, RFID, ttttttttttttttttttttt

posted by olli @ 21:22  

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

If you've recently bricked your iPhone - check out the Revirginizer

The 1% Organization strengthens non-profits through design

Note to AT&T - If you keep doing this, you won't have any customers by 2009

How Web 2.0 is helping in battling the California wildfires

If you need to unwarp your vinyl LP's, you might want to check out the DFV-1 Unwarper

Flare has a really cool collection of Action Script 3 libraries for interactive visualisations

Nostalgia offers a plethora of old school vintage synths for your music making needs

The three pillars of creativity

Say hello to popurls TV

Seoul has been named "World Design Capital" of 2010

7 out of 10 Americans experience "Search engine fatigue"

Pasta & Vinegar is a blog about user experience

Little Engine is a social network for small businesses

Labels: creativity, DFV-1, iPhone, Little Engine, one percent, Pasta and Vinegar, popurls, search engine, Seoul, unwarper, user experience, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 08:06  

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Have you seen the new BMW Welt building?

How the world sees America

The Sydney Morning Herald says Telstra Australia sucks

Visionworks has a fascinating look at some exotic materials coming to the consumer world by 2020

This is an interesting new user interface that allows you to view newspaper content

Speaking of which - here are some formulas for news site success

How do Facebook apps spread virally?

When user generated content doesn't work...

...and when it does - especially in tracking the fires in Southern California

Say hello to The Stray Shopping Cart project

God Is In The TV is a nice new online music fanzine

Say hello to the Paperclip lamp

The DieLine is a blog about product design

Labels: DieLine, facebook, Paperclip, Stray shopping cart project, Sydney Morning Herald, user generated content, user interface, Visionworks

posted by olli @ 07:55  

Monday, October 22, 2007

Note to marketers: Nobody wants to pay for using a social networking site

The political history of Malibu and the fires it seems to attract

The Guardian asks: Does Mark Thompson really have a vision for the BBC?

Specialten brings you David Lynch and his thoughts about the brain

Beware: This UK school is now embedding RFID chips in its school uniforms

This is a timeline of automobile brands entering Second Life

How globalisation and information technology are spurring faster innovation

d|visible takes a look at the rise of neuro-architecture

Say hello to "participle" - a new form of social enterprise

Are we at the dawn of a new era of the mobile web?

How to bypass Comcast's BitTorrent throttling

Everything you've ever wanted to know about incorporating panoramas into virtual spaces

Is Orkut having legal troubles in Brasil?

How an ad agency would sell lemonade

Sprint now pushing exclusive entertainment content to the mobile phone

Say hello to the shopping roof apartments

Labels: ad agencies, bbc, Brasil, Malibu, mobile entertainment, mobile web, neuroarchitecture, Orkut, RFID, social networking, virtual spaces

posted by olli @ 08:10  

Friday, October 19, 2007

How to disarm 10 difficult requests from clients

How do you market advertising to an audience that finds it unacceptable

The Guardian/Observer to launch online media archive

More on that - say hello to The Guardian - America

25 reasons you might be a hardcore web designer

How room colours can affect your mood

Art? Craft? Design? Why, yes. Say hello to Reform School

Techcrunch has a good dispatch from the recent Web 2.0 summit

PingMag takes a look at interactive architectual action in Tokyo

Need lifestyle management? Say hello to Consider It Done

Siemens has a fascinating look at factories of the future

Smashing Magazine gives a nice roundup of BIG typography

New Zealand's The Church has a lovely re-design

Is Twine the first mainstream semantic application?

Are Americans eternally restless?

Did China purposely re-direct search engine traffic because of the Dalai Lama?

A nicely in-depth article about the legendary punk band Crass

Labels: Americans, China, client management, Consider It Done, Crass, Guardian, mobile advertising, New Zealand, The Church, Twine, Typography, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 08:10  

Thursday, October 18, 2007

If you work for the BBC, you might want to polish up that resume

Is Web 3.0 for real or just a brand re-launch?

Are graphic designers psychotic? (.pdf)

Why collaborative research analysis rocks out

This is a brilliant mash-up between last.fm and YouTube (Thanks, Ben!)

Did the web fail the iPhone?

Why Facebook apps are not exactly the golden egg of revenue generation

On that note - MySpace is going to an open platform

Say hello to the iPod Deathclock

Why startups should team up together to grow

How to add the portal gun to your Half-Life 2 gameplay. Awesome!

US House Of Representatives passes federal journalist shield that includes bloggers

The Greenwich Phantom is a blog about Greenwich in southeast London

Say hello to PBS's Idealab

Labels: bbc, bloggers, graphic design, Greenwich, Idealab, iPod Deathclock, MySpace, PBS, startups, Web 3.0

posted by olli @ 08:04  

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

The 2007 New Zealand BeST Design award winners have been announced

A List Apart has the results of the 2007 Web Design Survey

Say hello to Google's new "anti-piracy" video ID system

This is an interesting look at jailbreaking the iPod Touch

Related - In Nokia's eyes - Is the operator friend or foe?

Typography and Wheel Of Fortune. No, seriously

Fox Business launches to lukewarm reviews

Where does Yahoo! go from here?

Say hello to Skype on MySpace

This is a really cool lamp from Hiroshi Yoneya and Yumi Masuko

These four startups are looking to change the face of email

Dripbook looks like it's a competitor to image bookmarking site fffFound

Say hello to Ezmo - a flash based, web competitor to iTunes?

What is the future of software development?

How do we make the switch from "clients" to "products"?

The NY Times takes a look at the new Radiohead release

Say hello to the vending machine of art

Labels: A List Apart, Dripbook, Ezmo, MySpace, New Zealand, Nokia, Radiohead, Skype, software development, startups, vending machine, yahoo

posted by olli @ 07:52  

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Russell Davies looks at how we can "unbrand" and "unproduct"

Say hello to NYC indie band blogcast New York Noise

The BBC teams up with Adobe to enhance iPlayer

Also - the BBC's iPlayer will be free on the UK's Cloud network

Putting People First looks at the "fifth screen" - mobile interaction in the future

Etsy has some really fabulous wall graphics for your home

Eos Mexico also make some really lovely things for the home

Will TV networks actually matter in the future?

It looks like the glory days are really over for Napster

Why RSS is broken

Is a pay-per-click recession looming?

Say hello to the current.tv re-design

The 15 most ill advised career re-inventions in rock music

Dick Tracy at last? Say hello to the Hyundai watch phone

Half vinyl, half CD - is this the future of music?

Labels: bbc, Cloud, current.tv, Eos, Etsy, Hyundai, interior design, iPlayer, music, music comebacks, Napster, New York, pay per click, RSS, unbranding, watchphone

posted by olli @ 08:18  

Monday, October 15, 2007

Apple launches an official web apps page for the iPhone

Viacom says "The Arab world wants its MTV"

When does a social network become a "publicity network"?

Will Canada lose out on the iPhone because of a trademark dispute?

Top 5 highlights from the recent Virtual Worlds Expo

Say hello to Sub Zero's enemies of wine

Five years late but CNN finally asks "Are record labels dead?"

These are SEO tips for Wordpress users

TVNZ partners with Bebo to provide exclusive content to its users

The NY Times now putting reader comments on its homepage. What do you think?

Tim O'Reilly discusses the social network operating system

21 facts about the Internet that you should know

9 Neighbors is a hyperlocal social network for Massachusetts

Visualizing science and tech activity in Wikipedia

Say hello to the Kyoto Treaty Of Design

Labels: 9 Neighbors, Apple, CNN, internet, iPhone, Kyoto treaty of design, mtv, NY Times, record labels, social networking, Sub Zero, Tim O'Reilly, Wikipedia, Wine

posted by olli @ 07:59  

Friday, October 12, 2007

Who gets empty TV spectrum? New media or old media?

Australia's channels 9 and 10 looking to provide full content downloads next year

Why are companies now catching the human factors fever?

Is corporate jargon killing the English language?

The 16 different personalities of StumbleUpon users

If you work for Snocap, you might want to polish up that resume

Note to self: Don't bring Sigur Ros on your radio show to do an interview

Say hello to Microsoft's Live Events

Say hello to the upcoming Current TV web relaunch

Did Wal-Mart really teach Google how to dominate the Internet?

Social networking tools for internal communications

The information architect as an agent of change

Atelier A+D is a fantastic architecture and design blog

Labels: architecture, Australia, Channel 10, Channel 9, Current TV, design, Google, IA, internal communications, Snocap, Wal-Mart

posted by olli @ 09:01  

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Madonna says goodbye to the record label and hello to Live Nation

Speaking of which - are these five viable alternative business plans for the music industry?

How the US became the switchboard to the world

Mozilla outlines plans for Firefox Mobile

Are Facebook apps a long-tail market?

Is CBS in need of real change?

Say hello to YouTube on Google Earth

Product design - is it really the number of features that matter?

One of the best articles EVER on why we fucking swear so much

Say hello to the Inside Out glass

These dragonfly robots are real and yes - they are spying on you

How to be a master designer: limit your fonts

Everything you wanted to know about the North/South divide in the UK

Labels: CBS, Firefox, fonts, Inside Out, Live Nation, Madonna, Mozilla, music industry, product design, robots, swearing, telecoms, uk

posted by olli @ 21:29  

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Is the BBC getting ready to shed 12% of its workforce?

Yahoo! to any labels selling DRM - drop dead

Led Zeppelin to eBay - drop dead

Marketers take note: 8 totally useless infomercial products

Say hello to the Dasher Project

10 businesses facing extinction in ten years

Max Kiesler takes a look at the design patterns of minimalist websites

Is the internet actually good for writers?

Say hello to the Liquid Cities Symposium

Is MySpace getting ready to roll out its own application development platform?

Should you trust Facebook with your business?

Allan Leinwand takes a look at the myth of infinite bandwidth

These are some great examples of shipping container architecture

Hand drawn credit card statements, anyone?

What can Star Wars teach us about handling money?

Labels: architecture, Bandwidth, bbc, Dasher, DRM, eBay, facebook, layoffs, Led Zeppelin, Liquid Cities Symposium, music, MySpace, shipping containers, Star Wars, yahoo

posted by olli @ 11:58  

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

No, seriously - is Staten Island really on its way to becoming the next Williamsburg?

Why designing systems is difficult

More fun with science - say hello to Postgenomic

Has the "iPod moment" arrived for newspapers?

This is a great article on enterprise and Second Life

Balenciaga make crazy Transformers-inspired women's shoes

Say hello to SurfOpen - an interactive mobile advertising channel

40 unusual websites you might want to bookmark

What exactly is CBS planning for last.fm these days?

We congratulate Nine Inch Nails on finally getting rid of their recording contract

This a collection of people's faces going through NYC Subway turnstiles

The Times Online looks at the ridiculous pace of London's gentrification

Website planning 101. You'd be surprised how many "professionals" forget the basics

Many Eyes is a website that celebrates shared data visualization

Idealog takes a look at ten kiwi creatives we should be keeping our eyes on

Labels: creativity, data visualization, IDEA 2007, last.fm, London, Many Eyes, New Zealand, Nine Inch Nails, photography, Second Life, Staten Island, SurfOpen, system design, web planning, websites

posted by olli @ 08:50  

Monday, October 8, 2007

New head of EMI says "Embrace digital or die". A bit late to the party, no?

An interesting look behind the product design of razor blades

Are employers interested in your online reputation?

The Economist says - "Don't invent. Evolve"

Analysts are saying Yahoo! is actually worth more if the company breaks up

In 2008, will we will move from the Information Age to the Connected Age?

intune.fm allows you to discover new music on Facebook

Say hello to Coroflot's 2007 Annual Design Salary Survey

The ten habits of highly effective brains

Say hello to the Wi-Fi Detector T-Shirt

With this scale, you'll know how much you weigh in animals

Say hello to MIT's WikiCity project

The sad truth about "revolving doors" in advertising agency turnover

The songs that inspired the new Hives album

Labels: Coroflot, Economist, EMI, facebook, Hives, information age, intune.fm, MIT, music, product design, razor blades, salary survey, Wi-Fi, WikiCity

posted by olli @ 22:02  

Friday, October 5, 2007

Radiohead to music industry: This is what you get when you mess with us

$1 Billion invested in virtual world companies over the past 12 months

How to use designers better

Why has municipal wi-fi networking in the US failed?

Challenges of designing interfaces for mobile devices

The IHT takes a look at the BBC's new "BBC World Internationalist" site

How to make money with Facebook

Seven companies agree that Open Source is the future of mobile tech

Chris Wilson on how Internet Explorer became such a bloated piece of software

The new rules of Technology VC

Will portals will the social networking wars?

Into MMORPG's? You might want to have a look at Metaplace

Smashing Magazine showcases some great Screensaver work. Yes - screensavers!

Not all is well at Dracula's castle in Romania

Kzero is a company specializing in virtual world consultancy

Need a grid layout for your website? Say hello to gridlayouts.com

Labels: Dracula, grids, IHT, Kzero, Metaplace, MMORPG, mobile tech, open source, Radiohead, Smashing magazine, social networking, venture capital, virtual worlds

posted by olli @ 09:26  

Thursday, October 4, 2007

9 steps to building a successful online community

The Wattson is a gadget that shows you how much electricity you're using

Inhabitat look at the Top 5 cities for public transit

Say hello to the human LCD

Why are blind people so annoyed with the Toyota Prius?

Is Microsoft looking to re-invent itself as a media company?

Steve Ballmer on Facebook - It's just a fad

MySpace partners with...The Weather Channel?

UC Berkeley first University to post full lectures to YouTube

Grooveshark is a social network that rewards you for sharing music

Wired magazine says "Stop wasting time online!"

How to design for the Wii, iPhone and other new web devices

Say hello to the NMCA - Magazine Cover Archive

The NY Times looks at the art of hotel branding

If it's the Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, it must be grindcore

Labels: Grooveshark, hotel branding, human LCD, magazine covers, NMCA, online communities, Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, UC Berkeley, Wattson, web device design

posted by olli @ 10:42  

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

The Digital Design Blog discusses consumer insights from Avenue A | Razorfish

London calling? Why Hong Kong's Octopus puts the Oyster card to shame

Catalyze is a new community for UX and design professionals

Graffiti Archaeology is a study of how tagged walls change over time

Say hello to Boing Boing TV

What it's like to go back to design school at Age 45

Have blogs become the new battleground for old and new media?

A nice collection of videos from the architectural insanity that is Dubai

These are 25+ productivity modules for iGoogle

The evolution of Wired magazine by ReadWriteWeb

Bulthaup who? Porsche's new kitchen design is aimed at male consumers

Say hello to Gibson's new self-tuning guitars

Say hello to the secret apartment recently discovered in a US shopping mall

This is a collection of posters from the London Transport Museum

Indaba is a social network for musicians

Labels: blogging, Boing Boing, Catalyze, design school, Gibson, Graffiti, guitars, Hong Kong, iGoogle, Indaba, kitchen design, London, Octopus, Porsche, Razorfish

posted by olli @ 10:48  

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Say hello to YouTube's Project Direct film competition

What does the future hold for the Firefox browser?

Isn't it amazing that Radiohead are one of the few bands that really understand the music business in 2007?

Say hello to the Micropolitan Museum

Could PIFR have a solution for ensuring network neutrality regardless of ISP?

Architecture 101: How a wasp builds a house

Is social networking the next big thing for Google?

Frontline has a great documentary on the branding/advertising/marketing industry. Yes - it's all about you

Colour management for web designers and developers

Nokia has some great posters out mocking Apple's recent iPhone locking controversy

If you work in a recording studio, you NEED the Virtual Studio Visitor

These are amazing colour photos of the US pre-1960

Coghead is an interesting piece of software for extreme programming task management

Coroflot gives you 9 tips for killer presentations

Newspapers are adding blogs left and right, but where to put them?

The Guardian takes a behind-the-scenes look a the impressive new Pet Shop Boys video

Labels: advertising, Apple, Coghead, extreme programming, Firefox, Frontline, Micropolitan, Newspaper blogs, Nokia, Pet Shop Boys, photos, Project Direct, Radiohead

posted by olli @ 08:25  

Monday, October 1, 2007

The management philosophy of Craigslist's CEO - Jim Buckmaster

What's the problem with newspaper blogs?

Controversy? Say hello to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPhone

The NY Times steps up the promotion campaign for its newly subscription-free website

Meanwhile, the FT stubbornly holds on to the old media view of charging for online content

Is social networking a feature or a destination?

Is emotional design ready for the next decade?

Looking for creative talent? Check out TalentDatabase.com

Say hello to Adobe's new (branded?) media player

Step one in designing a new city: kill all the architects

If you're looking for an alternative to Microsoft Office, this is a good place to start

How digital natives are driving Web 2.0 adoption into your business

These candleholders need to be plugged in to an electrical socket

How to design an Antarctic polar station

Daytrotter is a bit like the US version of a Peel Session

The Guardian take a look at Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda

Labels: Accrasicauda, Adobe, Antarctic, architecture, Craigslist, Daytrotter, digital natives, FT, HCI, Jim Buckmaster, John Peel, Microsoft Office, subscription models, web 2.0

posted by olli @ 08:38