Friday, February 29, 2008

Build last.fm gives you a million tools to enhance your last.fm experience

40% of double-dippers go online to find products they saw on TV

Say hello to a sneak peek at Google Health

9 warning signs about that web developer you're about to hire

Say hello to the new face of downtown Los Angeles

Miami.com goes all modular in its new re-design. Nice!

Move over MySpace? Facebook now promoting music and movies

Here's a nice overview of the Generator X workshop - industrial design goodness!

We're getting excited about what's going on at Teroforma. How about a catalogue?

What are the four principles of web accessibility?

Google are asking you to say no to OOXML

The gruesome origins of 5 popular fairy tales

Coming soon from VW - a 69.9 MPG hybrid diesel

RIAA keeps settlement money. Will their artists sue?

How to get ahead on LinkedIn

Labels: facebook, fairy tales, Generator X, Google Health, last.fm, LinkedIn, Los Angeles, Miami.com, MySpace, OOXML, RIAA, Teroforma, web accessibility, web design

posted by olli @ 21:17  

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Say hello to the new BBC homepage - with modules to play with!

Here's a look at what your new Facebook profile pages will look like

If you live in NYC, you'll be pleased to know The High Line now has a blog

Cloudfire allows you to share media from your desktop without P2P

Can a social network actually save your career?

The music industry announces - Music 1.0 is dead. Long live music 1.0!

Looks like the iPhone/iTouch SDK kit hits on March 6th

Every agency tries to be different. Idealog tells you the tricks of the trade

This is a nice look at social architecture and the future of online markets

Say hello to Choplery - intellegent chopsticks for the western world

Say hello to the museum of beverage containers and advertising

Does IKEA give their ugliest products Danish names on purpose?

All Marketing Ideas is a great blog that looks at the ins and outs of marketing

Have you noticed the big rock and roll comeback of 2008?

Labels: All Marketing Ideas, Apple, bbc, Choplery, Cloudfire, facebook, High Line, Ikea, iPhone, music industry, rock and roll, SDK, social architecture, social networks

posted by olli @ 20:37  

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Internet ad revenue exceeds US$21 Billion in 2007

Has Google's paid click hit the wall?

iTunes becomes the no.2 music retailer in the US

Is BricaBox the beginning of social content platforms?

Say hello to the Nokia Morph concept

A good read: The Avenue A/Razorfish 2008 Digital Outlook Report

The page view as a metric is dead...but what comes next?

YouTube is back in action in Pakistan

Is there a connection between social networking and obesity?

What the hell is going on with Nike's new Arctic Women's Jacket?

Perhaps it was worn by one of the people featured in these cool ads from New Zealand

Orglex is a new blog, jobs and people search engine

A design classic: All your favourite Swatch watches from the 1980's

How to really sell social media

Labels: Bricabox, Google, itunes, Morph, music retail, New Zealand, Nike, Nokia, Orglex, page views, Pakistan, Razorfish, social media, Swatch, YouTube

posted by olli @ 21:59  

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

So, seriously - is the mobile applications market really dead?

How can the music labels save themselves?

This is an interesting look at how American executives think about work

Schizophrenia, Desperation, Bi-Polar Disorder...ah, another day of Garfield. Minus Garfield

Spammers have cracked the Gmail CAPTCHA

If newspapers reference Wikipedia, does that harm their credibility?

How to steal encrypted data using liquid nitrogen. No, really (.pdf)

Speaking of which - just where did Lily Allen steal her music from?

Say hello to the very first Photoshop icon

Luflic are from Canada and create really cool chairs

Sami Rinne are from Finland and make great coffee mugs

This is an interactive look at American box office receipts from 1986 to 2007

This is a nice look at social networks around the world (En Francais)

Is SEO posing a threat to social media?

Say hello to a new model for advertising in the application economy

Frrvrr is an interesting mash-up between social network and recommendation engine

posted by olli @ 21:47  

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

So, seriously - is the mobile applications market really dead?

How can the music labels save themselves?

This is an interesting look at how American executives think about work

Schizophrenia, Desperation, Bi-Polar Disorder...ah, another day of Garfield, minus Garfield

Spammers have cracked the Gmail CAPTCHA

If newspapers reference Wikipedia, does that harm their credibility?

How to steal encrypted data using liquid nitrogen. No, really (.pdf)

Speaking of which - just where did Lily Allen steal her music from?

Say hello to the very first Photoshop icon

Luflic are from Canada and create really cool chairs

Sami Rinne are from Finland and make great coffee mugs

This is an interactive look at American box office receipts from 1986 to 2007

This is a nice look at social networks around the world (En Francais)

Is SEO posing a threat to social media?

Say hello to a new model for advertising in the application economy

Frrvrr is an interesting mash-up between social network and recommendation engine

Labels: application economy, CAPTCHA, Frrvr, Garfield, Lily Allen, Luflic, mobile applications, photoshop, Sami Rinne, SEO, social media, Wikipedia

posted by olli @ 21:47  

Monday, February 25, 2008

Say hello to the release of IE8 Beta 1 (Dev only...for now)

iFob is a mini-social network for all of you iPhone/iTouch owners

Apple profile agency extraordinare Big Spaceship

More from Apple - say hello to the iPhone/iTouch multi-touch input surface

Television New Zealand says "NO" to DRM. Good on ya, mates

Behind every great brand, there is a great audience

Now this is a great idea - say hello to the Deutsche Post's Packstation

Everything you've ever wanted to know about The Future Of Reputation

It's like 1999 all over again - The An-Nahar newspapers creates a virtual newspaper online

Typesites is another lovely site about type

Social marketers take note: More women blog and share than men

How does one manage over-achievers?

Say hello to ad-supported GPS - via adNav

Creative Review gets a re-design. What do you think?

Labels: AdNav, An-Nahar, Apple, Big Spaceship, Creative Review, Deutsche Post, DRM, IE8, iFob, Packstation, TVNZ, Typesites

posted by olli @ 19:00  

Friday, February 22, 2008

We're particularly enjoying The Future Laboratory's THE magazine

What's Twitters role in the enterprise world?

Say hello to Yahoo!'s NewsGlobe - get it while you can

Cloudo is a really interesting web based operating system. Check it out

Sociagami is an application that mashes up your MySpace and Facebook accounts (Windows only)

And...Facebook reports its first decline in UK users - has it jumped the shark?

If you find yourself running out of hard disk space, why not use your DNA instead?

Why do these "boring" websites make so much money from AdSense?

Lawrence Lessig wants to build a "Creative Commons in Congress"

10 emerging technologies we'll hopefully see in 2008

Say what you want about this collection of band logos but Einsturzende Neubauten's beats them all!

When is design, design and style - style?

If you live in London, you might want to check out the London Profiler

If you live in Wellington, you might want check out Eye Of The Fish

Labels: AdSense, band logos, Cloudo, Creative Commons, DNA, emerging tech, enterprise, Eye Of The Fish, facebook, Future Laboratory, Lawrence Lessig, London, Newsglobe, Sociagami, twitter, Wellington

posted by olli @ 20:53  

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Is Web 2.0 suitable for the enterprise customer?

We've been saying it for 2 years - social media will change your business

What does the telecommunications traffic coming out of NYC say about it as a city?

A recent in-stat survey finds that converged mobile devices are not being adopted by the public

Eight tips on how to manage feature creep

Why most VC backed, ad-supported companies are doomed to fail

Some important signs that you might have chosen the wrong company for your new job

How to convert your HD-DVD's to Blu-Ray

This is a really interesting comparative study on internet censorship

How to use your Wii as a media centre

Alessis bottle cap opener is yet another thing we're lusting after

Pretty soon you'll be able to charge your iPod on the go using only your t-shirt

Gadget freaks brace yourselves - Sharper Image files for Chapter 11

This website could actually get rid of any dead pixels on your screen

Labels: Alessi, bad jobs, Blu-Ray, censorship, dead pixels, enterprise, feature creep, ipod, NYC, Sharper Image, social media, telecommunications, web 2.0, Wii

posted by olli @ 20:25  

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Poogla has some gorgeous wallpapers for your iPhone and iTouch

Will the Friend Of A Friend program drastically reduce spam?

Rumplo is a nice little site that sells t-shirts

Say hello to The Biz - Variety's new social network

Facebookers, do not pass Go. Head directly to Developer Analytics

Why are Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?

Jakob Nielsen's Top 10 application design mistakes

With the writers strike over, what happens this autumn?

How do you know when you're working for a bad client?

Is America's Public Broadcasting System still necessary?

Like surfing? Live in London? Say hello to Venture Xtreme

Accenture say that UK consumers prefer online shopping over in-store

Mlle Lilli make beautiful lamps. We'll take two, please

Labels: application design, bad clients, Developer Analytics, facebook, FOAF, iPhone, itouch, Jakob Nielsen, Microsoft Office, mlle lilli, PBS, Poogla, The Biz, UK consumers, Venture Xtreme, wallpapers

posted by olli @ 20:43  

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Vollee will bring Second Life to your mobile phone

Say hello to the top 10 last.fm mashups

Fancy moving to London? Why not take the £100 Million apartment?

Tagoo is a new music torrent site from Russia

The Industry Standard re-launches as an online business betting tool

The Street says Mac users are "snobs"

Say hello to Amsterdam's £1 Billion "city under the city"

What's next for LinkedIn?

Techcrunch takes a look at Klusters market approach to crowdsourcing

These are six principles for making new things

Who needs IKEA when you can have an apartment in a box?

Matteria is a great new design shop from Barcelona

Flexplore offers you an alternative way to explore Flickr photos

10 useful tips on how to set up your laptop before a presentation

Labels: Amsterdam, Apple, crowdsourcing, Flexplore, Industry Standard, Klusters, last.fm, LinkedIn, London, mashup, Matteria, presentations, Second Life, Tagoo, torrent, Vollee

posted by olli @ 20:55  

Monday, February 18, 2008

The Open Design Club is a website about design collaboration

HD-DVD is officially dead. I for one, welcome our new Blu-Ray overlords

Do poor people use Yahoo! while wealthier ones use Google?

121 tips, hacks and resources for your Blackberry. Go on - you know you want to

Stay tuned for the "Hulu for MySpace"

Cookthink is a social network recommendation engine based around cooking

In other news, World of Warcraft can ruin your marriage

Did Yahoo! just fire their entire design team?

Check out this really interesting visualization of internet traffic from Juice and ComScore

Where is the "bad neighbourhood" in your city?

Can social networking be blamed for a rise in teen suicides?

25 questions to think about before your next job interview

What does the semantic web represent?

AgencyFAQs is a website that focuses on the world of advertising in India

Hate doing laundry? Self-cleaning clothes may be just two years away

Labels: advertising, Blackberry, Comscore, Cookthink, Google, HD-DVD, India, Juice, Open Design Club, semantic, social networking, web, World of Warcraft, yahoo

posted by olli @ 17:45  

Friday, February 15, 2008

Say hello to Samsung's entry into the touch interface world

User Experience types take note - this is a great book on Mental Modeling

This is an amazing ad for the Madrid Metro

Is Omnifone the future of mobile music?

A Staten Island judge rules that MySpace friend requests violate protection orders

Say hello to UGame - a social network for gamers

This is a nice interview with Peter Rojas - the founder of RCRD LBL

Who are the most wired countries in the world and why?

Does the UK have separate musical identities based on region?

Tulip is a really cool information visualization tool

These are eight content development tactics

The Mobile World panel says that the best advance in mobile telecoms is the iPhone

This is a collection of TV station sign-off graphics

Stephane Bura takes a look at emotion engineering in video games

This is a collection of old school US hardcore punk rock flyers

Labels: hardcore, iPhone, Madrid Metro, Mental Modeling, Mobile World, motion graphics, musical identity, MySpace, Omnifone, Samsung, Staten Island, Stephane Bura, Tulip, uGame, visualization, wired countries

posted by olli @ 18:50  

Thursday, February 14, 2008

shiner.clay would like to wish all of you crazy kids a happy Valentines Day. Of course, we love you all.

Konigi is a fantastic research tool for user experience designers

Say hello to the new Google Android SDK Gallery

Great stuff - Tagazee is a magazine that is created by your own tags

Speaklike is an instant IM translation service

Your click-through metrics may not be as accurate as you thought they were

Creative Review takes a look at London Underground's new passenger efficiency scheme

The IHT on why good design can mean good business

Fascinating! If you live in the US, Felonspy will tell you which of your neighbours are ex-criminals

If you're looking to write iPhone apps - here's some good advice

4 YouTube tools you might not know about

Ever wonder what outer space smells like?

The NY Times takes a look at the future of networks

These are common mistakes that web designers make in their portfolios

Labels: click-through, Creative Review, Felonspy, Google Android, iPhone, Konigi, London Underground, networks, NY Times, outer space, portfolio, Speaklike, Tagazee, web design, YouTube

posted by olli @ 23:04  

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

comScore says that 10 billion video streams were viewed in December 2007

Jukefly allows you to stream your music anywhere

The Times Online says that file sharers only come out at night

Say hello to the LoveLife channel - a UK based network devoted to live concerts

To build truly global brands on the net, you've gotta break the rules

The new Timbaland album is specifically designed for playback on mobile phones

The New York Times knows how Americans spend their money

10 mistakes in icon design

How to lie with design research

Like chocolate? Like playing Scrabble? If so - we've got just the thing for you

This is a nice bit of information graphics on suicides from the Golden Gate bridge

How to speed read on the web

Business Week takes a good look at the iPhone grey market

Labels: Business Week, Comscore, design research, global brands, iconography, information graphics, Jukefly, LoveLive, Mary and Matt, mobile telephony, speed reading, Timbaland

posted by olli @ 02:47  

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Say hello to Nokia's mobile touch interface

Houyhnhnms looks like a really interesting video blog

The social graph: Issues and Strategies in 2008

Yahoo! says no to Microsoft but maybe to AOL. AOL?

Silobreaker is another really interesting visual news aggregator

Speaking of aggregation - eDopter is a site that aggregates social trends

Gamescape allows you to play a game and build a 3-D city at the same time

Has Russia really become a superpower of spam?

How to turn usable content into winning content

Zzzphone allows you purchase and customize mobile phones any way you like

Your next UE innovation is only as good as the processor they throw it on

Labels: 3D, cities, content, edopter, Gamescape, Houyhnhnms, News, Nokia, Russia, silobreaker, social graph, spam, touch interfaces, trends, user experience, ZZZPhone

posted by olli @ 13:49  

Monday, February 11, 2008

Say hello to the MySpace games site

Will the UK really ban "illegal downloaders" from the net?

Sometimes you just need to know what stacking 7000 bananas on top of each other looks like

How should design firms create innovative design culture?

Why just have an ordinary CV when you can have a Visual CV?

Say hello to The Social Cloud

Virtually Mine allows users to upload and judge value on everyday objects

Now you can become one with your Inner Twitter

If you like H.R. Giger - you might want to check out Christopher Conte

What's going on with the Google toolbar and 404 pages?

Janchipchase has some really cool presentations from Nokia's research dept.

Labels: Christopher Conte, downloading, games, Google, Inner Twitter, Janchipchase, MySpace, Social Cloud, uk, Virtually Mine, Visual CV

posted by olli @ 13:48  

Friday, February 1, 2008 - Friday, February 8, 2008

Greetings All -

We're going to have a short break from posting this week as we're traveling far far away from shiner.clay HQ and in a temporary form of insanity have voluntarily decided not to being any modern technology with us. Crazy!

Your regular service will resume on February 8th with all the usual shenanigans.

We'll see you then.

Olli @ shiner.clay

posted by olli @ 19:50  

Friday, February 1, 2008

Why I left print media for digital media

10 trends that will define logo design in 2008

Web designers take note. This Christmas, all your clients will want one of these

The user generated video market size to jump 50% in 2008?

Looking to profit from your social network demographic data? If so - have a look at Lookery

Google says social search is the future

Does the recent success of Portal mean we're going to see more games like it?

Google says social networking inventory not monetizing as well as it expected

If these really are the ugliest buildings in London, we're in big trouble

How you can make the web a more structured place

20 further resources for freelancers

ThatsMyMouse is a really interesting (dare we say odd?) social networking website

This is an interesting look at how the internet gets data from one place to another

Boxes and Arrows takes a look at search behaviour patterns

Convergence comes to the automobile. Say hello to BMW's ConnectedDrive platform

Warpspire has a nice look at the evolution of the user interface

If you live in Helsinki, that green glowing cloud in the sky is just reminding you of your electricity consumption

The Jellyclick is an inflatable mouse

Labels: BMW, Boxes and Arrows, ConnectedDrive, digital media, freelancing, Helsinki, Jellyclick, logo design, London, Lookery, Monkey magazine, Nuage Vert, search behaviour, ThatsMyMouse, Warpspire

posted by olli @ 07:33