Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Say hello to Mozilla's new mash-up machine - Ubiquity
Say hello to the Internet's biggest security hole
These are 10 golden rules of email delivery
You can now design your own pair of Keds with Keds Studio
Does your social network need a pause button?
How simple web design helps your business
Even in space, nobody can hear you...scan for viruses
Has Google lost its mojo?
Say hello to the new hedge fund - investing in bands themselves
Whatever happened to the good old car hood ornament?
Say hello to the Workspace Group Urbantine Project - Truman Brewery, London, 18-21 September
How to use competitive intelligence to protect your brand
Labels: band investments, brands, email, Google, hood ornaments, internet, Keds Studio, London, Mozilla, SEO, social network, space station, Ubiquity, Urbantine, web design, Workspace
posted by olli @ 19:25Thursday, August 7, 2008
How to solve the problem of the Stupid User Syndrome
You Noodle will tell you how much your startup will be worth in 3 years
Say hello to Berlin's new Stasi themed bar
Lessons from the collapse of social.fm
Apple's engineers say they are indentured servants. Aren't we all?
Here's a great shortlist of SEO best practices
Here's a great shortlist on how to write testable code
Say hello to the typography of The Electric Company
How libraries are stepping up into the age of the iPod
Will the semantic web have a gender?
Sigh...the Unfulfilled Promises of Virtual Reality
12 best practices for UX in an Agile environment
Who knew that Second Life was the new home for literature?
Labels: Agile, Apple, berlin, library, Second Life, Semantic web, SEO, social.fm, startup worth, Stasi, Stupid User Syndrome, testable code, The Electric Company, Typography, UX, virtual reality
posted by olli @ 20:36Thursday, July 17, 2008
Say hello to the new and improved last.fm - we like it!
How to stream your music online
This is a really good resource if you're looking for SEO tools
5 Twitter tactics for building a stellar brand
Speaking of which - is Joint Contact the first serious application to integrate Twitter and Tweets?
Looks like Amazon is planning an e-commerce store for movies and TV shows
Adobe takes a look at design in the age of intelligent maps
Lab.Au are doing pretty awesome things with light installations
Is there room for a Wordpress for mobile blogging?
User-mediated trans-enterprise web mash-ups? Why not?
SenseSurface is a really cool new 3D control surface
We seriously cannot get enough of the new DJ Donna Summer album (not that one!)
Old school in the new school: What did Apple BASIC sound like?
Labels: Adobe, Amazon, Apple, BASIC, brand building, DJ Donna Summer, intelligent maps, Joint Contact, last.fm, music streaming, SenseSurface, SEO, twitter, Wordpress
posted by olli @ 21:22Wednesday, June 11, 2008
AOL says radio isn't dead and launches online radio guide
Radio Privat looks like a promising online radio station from Chile
Is Google making us stupid?
The BBC to build webpage for every single TV show...ever made
Disney.com gets around to the Internet and will stream full-length movies from its website (for free!)
The user interface of the Formula 1 race car
Why photographers hate the Creative Commons license
Could Liquid Planner be the project management software that finally knows how to deal with flaky clients?
CNN has an interesting article about the continuing appeal of vinyl records
10 SEO rules for designers
Will somebody please Metallica out of our misery already?
Lingro is a promising new translation website
Hotpads offers you a real-estate heat map for home buyers or renters
If you're using Flash for the first time, here's a good tutorial for you
This is a visual history of the BBC TV Detector Van. Yes, it's the TV Police!
Labels: AOL, bbc, Creative Commons, Disney, flash, Formula 1, Google, Hotpads, Liquid Planner, Metallica, online streaming, photography, radio, radio privat, SEO, user interface, vinyl records
posted by olli @ 07:04Monday, May 26, 2008
gCap to BBC: Privatize Radio 1 and 2. Sour grapes or common sense?
Techcrunch offers you 10 PR secrets for start-ups
Eight different types of headlines that sell
Say hello to the encyclopedia of business cliches
The ATTIGO TT is an amazing touch screen turntable setup
5 simple no-nonsense SEO rules to follow
Is the mobile Internet really such a good thing?
Does the ad industry hold Web 2.0 in a death grip?
What is design anthropology and can it help your studio?
5 lasting rules for negotiating anything
Say hello to the CEO guide to virtual worlds
Labels: ATTIGO TT, bbc, business cliches, CEO, design anthropology, gCap, headlines, mobile internet, negotiation, PR, SEO, Techcrunch, virtual worlds, web 2.0
posted by olli @ 20:46Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Has Google been deceiving their ad clients?
MySpace and NBC news have partnered up for Decision 08
Are designers just stylists with insufferable egos?
These are some basic rules for corporate Tweeting
The beginners guide to small business SEO
Are logos really irrelevant?
Is User Centred Design really worthless?
Why the attitude of "No Macs!" is no longer a defensible IT strategy
No surprises here - 10% of ISP users use 80% of the available bandwidth
ReadWriteWeb has a look at Microsoft's new Live Mesh project
Why does Intel think it's a Web 2.0 startup?
This is a really good article on Brand Interactions and why you need to care about them
How to become a great developer
How to be more productive like GE
Labels: Apple, Decision 08, design, development, Google, Intel, IT strategy, Live Mesh, logo, MySpace, productivity, SEO, small business, UCD
posted by olli @ 07:15Friday, April 18, 2008
Why journalists should not become bloggers
Why real people don't have time for social media
What's the perfect length of a pop song? 2:42, apparently
Should SEO be standardized?
What happens when abortions and art mix? You'd be surprised
Google offers you some useful best practices when transferring or moving your website
We'd love to get our hands dirty with 37 Signal's internal app - In/Out
Is this the new wave of web designers for 2008/2009?
Do you know the 12 Commandments of Twitter?
If you're suffering from Twitter overload, you should have a look at Twhirl
Celebrate the architect in your bird friend by giving them this special birdfeeder
Designing Magazines launches an Amazon store
Ars Technica takes a look at AT&T's idiotic new browser Pogo - do we really need another?
Say hello to the interactive lighting workshop in London May 10th and May 11th
The long, sad story of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours
Labels: 37 Signals, art, blogging, browser, Designing Magazines, Google, in/out, journalism, New Yorker, Pogo, pop songs, SEO, social media, Tinker.it, twitter, web designers
posted by olli @ 20:58Friday, March 21, 2008
Say hello to The State Of The News Media 2008
All the recordings and presentations from Webstock 2008 are now live. Go!
Say hello to the MySpace Application Gallery
Say hello to the 2007 YouTube Award winners
Why you weren't meant to have a boss
Has the art of conversation left the bloggosphere?
Hey VC's! Here's a list of the top Australian startups for 2007
The 21 Stories is an interactive novel told with Google Maps
How to connect your Nokia calendar to your Google calendar
Why SEO is a web designers best friend
Work for an ad agency? Agency Scoop knows all your secrets
How to be a happy corporate programmer
What's more important? Finding content or producing it?
Forbes magazine takes a look at the future of the mobile phone
How to be a social media guru in ten easy steps
This VW website is really, really big
Labels: 21 Stories, Agency Scoop, Australia, Forbes, Google, mobile phone, MySpace, SEO, social media, start-up, State Of The News Media, Volkswagen, web design, Webstock, YouTube
posted by olli @ 14:34Tuesday, 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
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