Friday, August 8, 2008

Lawlink is a social network for lawyers

Itsmy is a social network for mobile phones

How many consumers actually like emerging media ads? 9%. Nine!

New UK report on banning social network sites at work says it's a bad idea

These are 9 web developers that you should follow on Twitter

The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS

Say hello to Mozilla's Snowl

How to crack YouTube's Olympics channel

This is a real-time Hot or Not for the Lowlands music festival

Say hello to Cut Chemist's 360-degree panoramic music video

Say hello to Nike's Ill-Mobile

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Friday, July 18, 2008

Say hello to the lost tapes of the BBC's one and only Delia Derbyshire

Say hello to YouTube on your TiVo

An interesting discussion about switching from Microsoft to Google

The new Oakland A's stadium will feature touchscreens in every seat

Say hello to the Hip Hop Sample Junkies group at last.fm

How to be interesting

How to travel the world by cargo ship

If you're a musician, you might want to have a look at SoundCloud

Survey says...Corporate social networks are a total waste of time

Why Silicon Valley should be worried

Say hello to Italy's gorgeous new bright red trains

How a magazine page actually gets created

Say hello to Channel 5's on-demand service

Four reasons most startups fail

If you're in London and are eco-friendly, we've got just the nightclub for you

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Doug Field, CTO of Segway is moving to Apple to become the new VP of Product Design

Did you know that Toyota don't just make cars - they make homes

If you've ever felt that your ISP or cell phone provider don't like you, you might be right

TweetDeck is an experimental Adobe Air app to help you manage your tweets

Why public online spaces aren't as "free" as you might think they are

Interesting: Axel Springer AG is switching their ENTIRE IT infrastructure from PC to Mac.

Privnote lets you send messages to friends that self-destruct for privacy

8 golden rules of interface design

NZTV will be teaming up with YouTube to cover the autumn US election online

8 ways to improve Google Maps

This video highlights the evolution of mobile phones from 1985 to today

What's next for the New York Times online?

How technology is re-shaping America's classrooms

Lost and Taken provides free hi-res textures for your graphic design needs

Why you should stop being hired by clients and instead start hiring them

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Must Read: If you've ever used YouTube, Viacom will know who you are

Firefox 3 breaks the world record for most downloads in a 24 hour period

How portable social networks are the building blocks of a social web

Like Steve McQueen and BULLITT? If so - you're gonna love this

Say hello to Times Square's new solar powered billboard

Is this the world's largest freehand drawing? Sure looks like it

How to build a web app in four days and only US$ 10,000

Can you put a price tag on conversation? You betcha!

Why dial-up users still don't want to switch to broadband

23 album covers that changed everything

Pay-by-phone commerce is finally coming to the rest of the world outside Japan

Who knew that the planet Earth was into musique concrete and Merzbow?

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

The sculp(IT) headquarters in Antwerp totally has the coolest bathtub ever

Here's some more cool shipping container architecture

How to understand the digitally savvy consumer (.pdf)

The Economist takes a look at the environmental excess of the music industry

Japan says that kids shouldn't be using their mobile phones so much

Why the YouTube lawsuit is threatening the entire Internet and it's not a joke

Why DVD's in magazines are often more important than the magazines themselves

Format Magazine has some really cool wallpapers for you

Can World Of Warcraft help build a better workforce?

If Twitter is just too much for you, then perhaps Adocu is what you've been looking for

Why are people leaving Google?

Do 1.3 million people really earn their living from eBay?

How can record labels actually make themselves useful? By becoming filters

Who needs a car when you can have an Avcen Jetpod?

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Can a dead brand live again?

Say hello to the digital replacements of the natives

What bands have the most dedicated, least rational following?

Is China building the next-generation police state?

Say hello to the new $100 XO laptop. Look familiar?

Adolf Hitler discusses his upcoming trip to the Burning Man festival

What are the leadership lessons of YouTube?

What could your clients do to make your job easier?

Why are companies still investing in the top 8 mistakes in usability?

Shops in the UK are now tracking customers via their mobile phones

Say hello to the new gap.com re-design

How to use social media for keyword research

Say hello to the Music In A Bottle campaign

Smart City Radio is a public radio show that looks at urban life

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Say hello to last.fm + YouTube all in one place

Senator to ISP's - Think twice about Net Neutrality

If you're desperate to live and dress like a "celebrity", then Coolspotters is for you

Flare makes your house into one gigantic digital wall

Say hello to MSNBC's news visualizer - Spectra

5 examples of guerilla marketing gone wrong...or not

These portfolios accomplish goals. Does yours?

Are student architects rebelling against their superstar masters?

Do you have a favourite Table Of Contents?

Should Second Life be banned in schools and libraries?

Today's mission: Design a logo for Satan. Go on. You know you want to

Ars Technica takes a look at the future of the Internet

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

PingMag has a great look on new graphic design in China

IBM discusses the future of the mobile phone

American Apparel starts implementing RFID tags in its clothing

Have you heard the one about the information architect and the fighter pilot?

Is the secret to online success - the young man's business model?

Jakob Nielsen knows what bad design looks like

Gawker Media ditches Idolator, Wonkette and Gridskipper

Ashley Highfield leaves the BBC for what could be the UK version of hulu.com

Noel Gallagher says Jay-Z is wrong for Glastonbury. We agree

If you live in Berlin - have a look at berlin.unlike

If you live in the UK and want to complain to your local council - Fix My Street is for you

Business Week on the new economics of outsourcing

Is the mobile web dead? (Walled garden? Yup. True mobile web? Far from it)

On that note - here are 10 mobile services you might want to use

37 Signals has a nice post on how a 4-day work week is playing out for them

How to download YouTube videos as mp4's

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Friday, 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

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

What you've been waiting for: Business Week finally spills Apple's design process

Now, YouTube really is everywhere

Which tools does Google use internally?

Tyler Brule has rules about how to launch a startup. Too bad he forgot "No Cliches"

How to get bloggers to write about you

Twiddla is a cool online whiteboard collaboration tool

Here are some nice thoughts on convergence and its role in the digital agency

Say hello to Pixel Qi - the $75 laptop

Africa will soon be lit up with cheap LED's

It looks like Yahoo! will be joining OpenSocial in April

If you're doing research on old ads, The TJS Labs Gallery Of Graphic Design is for you

It looks like America is finally catching up to the rest of the world in mobile usage

Does DAB really cost the British license fee payer £25 per set?

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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

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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

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Friday, January 11, 2008

Wired magazine has a great story behind the rise of the iPhone

Trent Reznor says he favours an ISP tax to pay for downloaded music

This is a great presentation by J.J. Abrams at TED

Watch out Cornwall - the surf is up in London!

The Cool Hunter is on the case for...McDonalds?

Say hello to Expandable Furniture

Apparently, the official colour for 2008 is Pantone 18-3943: Blue Iris

Say hello to the world's cheapest car

Urban Mapping is offering a free neighbourhood API to map developers. Nice!

What is Google planning for Jaiku?

If you're feeling geeky in Berlin on Jan 28th, then check out Dorbot Berlin

Big Think is trying to become "the YouTube for ideas"

Does the typeface determine the grade on your university papers?

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Is the humble click-through now on life support?

ComScore says YouTube still leads the US video market

Is MySpace looking to woo more of the professional networking crowd?

Say hello to Graphic Design On The Radio, courtesy of Resonance FM

Why was the UK's Channel 5 left out of the Project Kangaroo VOD initiative?

How do you prepare designers for jobs that don't yet exist?

20 horrible habits of clients and how to deal with them

How to succeed in online journalism

The history of licensing from 1449 to today

Despite attempts from the usual suspects, orders for the One Laptop Per Child project are surging

Why AT&T and Apple aren't getting along so well these days

We're really looking forward to seeing Cloverfield next month

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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

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Friday, August 31, 2007

YouTube will now pay royalties to songwriters

This is a great summary of research revolving around elderly technology users

Avant-garde music makers take note - The Amazing Rolo for the Wii is pretty cool

The AIGA asks - "What is success?"

The Economist asks - "Who's afraid of Google?"

Uh-oh: CNN to stop using Reuters to help cut costs

Say hello to supposed spy photos of the Zune 2 and Zune Flash

Why I went to South America to incubate my start-up

This is another fantastic campaign from Nike

Top 20 reasons why you don't want to move to Dubai

The struggling musicians tool kit. What? No Abelton Live?

Say hello to Google Gadget Ventures

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

Best practices on how to avoid spam

These 11 foods will make you happier

last.fm now doing live gigs in London. Yay!

Speaking of which - looks like tough times ahead for Ticketmaster

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Thursday, August 30, 2007

Fasten your seatbelts - Yahoo! gets shaken up with a re-org

NBC Universal & NewsCorp launch a YouTube clone - Hulu.com

Picnic sounds like a brilliant tech conference happening in Amsterdam from Sept. 25-29

The Washington Post takes a look Japan's internet future

More from Asia - South Korea looking to build "Robot Land"

Say hello to the Nestle chocolate museum

The iPhone now has its first seminar - Sept. 20th in Los Angeles

Say hello to the £3 Million book

Charli is Heineken's new beer targeted at female drinkers

Ten industrial design trends you can't ignore

Is blogging trapped in a metaphor?

How the algorithim killed Ask Jeeves

Ferratum is a Dutch site that allows consumers to get personal loans by SMS

This is a website that offers advice to squatters

This is a London Evening Standard headline generator

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Say hello to the NY Times entry into web 2.0 - My Times

Does the Internet matter in election year politics?

Will all Americans have mobile phones by 2013?

Say hello to Kitchen Budapest - a rather excellent idea incubator

Will the future be about distributed media and comments?

How social media is conquering the web

More beautifully creepy photos from Chernobyl

The OLPC team shows off its user interface design

British children now becoming media junkies

And if that's not bad enough - will UK school uniforms soon be GPS enabled?

These are some nice wallpapers for your iPhone

Say hello to the first annual Architecture & Design competition in Second Life

How to block YouTube's ads

Yelp is a new local social network and reviews site

18 tips for killer presentations

Five simple rules for being a successful teenage celebrity

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

The internet's main target demographic just got older. Much older

34 more ways to build your own social network

These are 45 web based operating systems

This is a brilliant viral ad against gun crime from London's Choice FM

The LA Times takes a look at the whole bloggers vs. journalists thing

Advertising hits YouTube with overlay ads

BUT...others are not amused - say hello to VideoEgg

Are we now one step closer to wireless electricity?

Will all of France get free music downloads?

Hmm...looks like you already can - say hello to Deezer

And of course...Nokia to launch its (long awaited) music download service soon

Marketers take note: Playboy launches its own closed social network (No "high schoolers or old dudes")

The basics of information theory

This is a nice collection of British industrial ruins

last.fm to publish Hype Chart

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Apple secures European iPhone revenue deals

Marketing alert: e-mail has overtaken snail mail for the first time in the UK

Wal-Mart launches mp3 downloads

MTV teams up with Twitter for the upcoming VMA's

This is a nice list of Web 2.0 API's

More Web 2.0 insanity: Simplespark is a Web 2.0 applications aggregator

Could YouTube become the next Craigslist?

More on that: How to get a job listed on Craigslist

How to design a menu for maximum revenue

Peepsnation is like Hot Or Not for your mobile phone

Say hello to Google Sky

Say hello to Microsoft's Tafiti

11 rules for life you won't learn in school

This is a USB cassette deck

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Say hello to scrollovers

NBC Universal launches its own YouTube competitor - Didja

Tengu is a perfect companion for the cubicle shut-in

For those who have a lot of parking tickets, the PhotoViolationMeter might be something to look into

21 tips to deal with information overload

An interview and examples of some great work from Lichtfaktor

The right way to fix inaccurate Wikipedia articles

The Guardian Weekly relaunches with a social networking focus

10 things your favourite restaurant won't tell you

Can't say we didn't see this coming: Blockbuster acquires Movielink

Bokardo takes a look at the spectre of Feature Creep

Here's some nice cartoon inspiration for your 404 pages

What are your thoughts on the new BBC Radio idents?

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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

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Is Apple building a secret in-car navigation system for Mercedes?

Say hello to the YouTube Remixer

Want the answers? Bob Harris breaks down the last Sopranos epidose in amazing detail

Obopay is a US mobile micropayment site

What's the number one web network for women?

It's already started - Say hello to the iPhone Application List

Gridskipper gets a re-design

Seth Godin says as Marketers, we all need to be more responsible

More cool weather stations from Oregon Scientific

It's fathers vs. sons on the Nintendo Father's Day Challenge

The absurdity of the modern American wedding

Have a look at 50,000 pages of the Guardian

Doppleganger building a virtual world for MTV

The wonderful and frightening world of Mark E. Smith courtesy of YouTube and BBC Four

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Friday, June 15, 2007

Say hello to Powerset, a new natural language search engine

This is a list of social media bloggers

Which "classic" albums do you think should really be burned and forgotten about?

Just how far away are we from the 3D real/virtual world hybrid?

Forbes magazine: Microsoft vs. Google - who wins? Apple?

Are you an executor or are you a contributor?

Can in-car telematics systems be used as real time evacuation software?

Say hello to the world's strongest industrial robot

Simon & Schuster launch YouTube channel for authors

Sketching with a Sharpie - great advice from 37 Signals

What are the ten most popular MMO's?

Tim Berners-Lee gets a well deserved Order of Merit from the Queen of England

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A very early look at the new iPhone application from a 3rd party developer

Interesting: If you don't have an iTunes account, will your iPhone work as promised?

A List Apart looks at frameworks for designers

CrushPad mixes traditional winemaking with Web 2.0

Is this the secret blog of the BBC controller?

Earl Boykins mashes up music and infographics

Looks like Apple's iTunes and Bebo are becoming good friends

Five ways the iPhone will change the wireless business

Chime.tv offers an alternative way to view YouTube videos

More YouTube: TimeWarner and Disney clips get video fingerprinting?

Big radio in the US is making a grab for internet listeners

This wallpaper for your home is warped

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Japanese product design

The Loop Festival hits Brighton on August 18th

How Adobe Photoshop was born

Get your mobile ready: How would you like to phone an Icelandic glacier and hear it talk?

Can't have it? Then Stick It

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Friday, June 1, 2007

D5 posts the video of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on stage. Essential viewing

Here's an awesome demonstration of Photosynth from the 2007 TED Conference

The EFF asks "What's this hidden 360K worth of data in Apple's new AAC iTunes files?"

Yumondo is a social network about the city you live in

What the users are saying about last.fm's recent sale to CBS

EMI to release music videos via YouTube

These recordings are of concert intermissions

How the Wii "beat the pants off" Microsoft and Sony

The NY Times takes a look at the recent Estonian cyber attacks

What are the golden rules of linkbaiting?

Screw Asylum is a blog about screws

Here's a look at the 1943 Disney Employee Manual

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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!

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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

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