Monday, October 20, 2008
Is Facebook about to dive into the digital music arena?
Why online display ads will fall sharply in 2009
Well...well...well...Google monetizes their start page
Co-Op is an awesome little piece of project management software
Its not just scope creep - beware of Future Creep
This is a great documentary on the design of the London Tube Map
How to improve your iTunes experience (Mac only for this one)
Veency will let you remotely control your iPhone
Say hello to Mozilla for mobile
Why a bad economy is a boon for blogging?
Say hello to the Universal Design Pattern
If you like Mad Men's attention to detail, you'll really enjoy this
Are reports of the death of UK DAB greatly exaggerated?
If you're looking for a new ring, you might want to check these out
Labels: blogging, DAB, digital music, facebook, Future Creep, Google, iPhone, itunes, London Tube Map, Mad Men, Mozilla, online ads, project management, rings, Universal Design Pattern
posted by olli @ 21:51Friday, August 29, 2008
Mycrocosm is a site that allows you to blog in statistical graphs
How Mad Men gets all the details right ... except one
What's worth more? Product search or information search?
How to hack a Furby and turn it into a "Furby Gurdy". Scared? We are!
These are 20 sites to help you learn and master CSS
Why Kid Rock hates iTunes
10 things to know and hate about metered broadband
Why IE8 won't be as fun as you might think
How to demo your startup
And why you should probably vote for Obama if you're looking to launch a start-up
REPOST: If you like motion graphics, you need to check out XPLSV TV. It's amazing
MySpace Music launches on September 15th and it still doesn't have a CEO
What's up with this rise of "anti-design"?
Ableton's got some nice new stuff for all you music makers out there
Labels: Ableton, anti-design, CSS, Furby, IE8, itunes, Kid Rock, Mad Men, metered broadband, Mycrocosm, MySpace Music, Obama, search, startup, XPLSV
posted by olli @ 08:42Monday, March 31, 2008
If iTunes is the king of downloaded music, who's number two?
Phillipe Starck says he's fed up with design and is retiring in two years
If you're serious about hacking your iPhone firmware, you should have a look at Pwned
Six suggestions on how you can be a better designer
The life and death of the American newspaper
More news: Reportercaps.com is a television news anchor stalkers paradise
Are biofuels our salvation or just a scam?
Will musicians custom networks create disarray on the social web?
Like FFFound? You might like We Heart It even more
Crime View Community allows users to view the current crime rate across Detroit
Noisy Decent Graphics takes a look at the infographics at Heathrow's Terminal 5
This is a nice tutorial on how to create HDR photos
Hivelogic takes a look at how office design relates to the "creativity zone"
XM and Sirius were first - are the big boys in MMS set to merge as well?
How to make yourself indispensable
How does Wicket write AJAX without using Javascript?
The 960 grid system is a great template for web developers
Should smart photos and smart text editors lead the semantic web?
Can Starbucks really help mom and pop coffeehouses?
Labels: AJAX, Apple, biofuel, Crime View Community, design, HDR, Hivelogic, itunes, newspapers, Phillipe Starck, Pwned, Reportercaps, Semantic web, social web, Starbucks, Terminal 5
posted by olli @ 21:27Wednesday, 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 @ 21:59Thursday, September 6, 2007
Your Facebook profile will soon be indexable by search engines
Apple to offer iTunes purchases via Starbucks
More on that - Starbucks Gossip is a blog about "America's favorite drug dealer"
We're really into Amy Bennett's "Neighbors" series of paintings
Voice Forge allows you to turn your own voice into synthetic speech
Core77 offers you a back-to-school design cheat sheet
8 tips on how to find a mentor and get mentored
The Single Hauz is a house on a stick
HubBuzz is a neighbourhood matchmaker for rentals across the Western US
What is really means when a client says "can you make it pop?"
A Brief Message offers design thoughts in 200 words or less
ReadWriteWeb takes a look at 10 future web trends
What are the 8 most dangerous consumer technologies?
If you work for AOL, you might want to polish up that resume
Say hello to the Nine Inch Nails open source remix album
These are photos of very creative bus ads from around the world
These are questions for the agency executive
Labels: agency executives, Amy Bennett, AOL, Apple, bus ads, facebook, itunes, mentoring, Nine Inch Nails, Single Hauz, Starbucks, Voice Forge, web trends
posted by olli @ 07:47Friday, August 10, 2007
Say hello to Nokia's new MOSH (MObilize And Share) community
Also please say hello to iTunes widgets
Universal Music to sell music without DRM (but not on iTunes)
Gamasutra looks at writing for video games
Jamiroquai redux: Say hello to the Omnidirectional Treadmill
The Guardian interviews Jakob Nielsen
"Dear Architects, I am sick of your shit"
Google and Yahoo! lead online brand rankings
Say hello to Arkitip's new Intelligence site
Each Day says "Please make the bubble speech logo die!"
Is time travel really possible via a donut shaped vacuum?
Have you met the Lantern Fish yet?
Germany to issue mobile TV licenses by September
Why is Web 2.0 leaving the porn industry behind?
ReadWriteWeb offers interesting solutions on how you can be an internet radio DJ
Say hello to "The Dangerous Book For Boys"
Are you a video games physics geek? If so - Rings Of Rods is for you
For the rest of your physics needs, why not try The Jason Bourne Stunt Simulator?
Labels: Apple, books, DRM, Gamasutra, Germany, Google, Guardian, itunes, Jakob Nielsen, mobile TV, MOSH, Nokia, omnidirectional, Rings Of Rods, Universal, video game physics
posted by olli @ 08:08Tuesday, 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 @ 08:03Wednesday, 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
Labels: Adobe Photoshop, Bebo, Brighton, Crushpad, design frameworks, iPhone, itunes, Loop Festival, mobile interaction, stickers, Wallpaper, YouTube
posted by olli @ 08:14Friday, 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
Labels: AAC, blogs, D5, EMI, itunes, last.fm, linkbaiting, NYTimes, Photosynth, Wii, YouTube, Yumondo
posted by olli @ 07:50Wednesday, May 30, 2007
CBS purchases last.fm for $US280 Million. Congrats guys!
Apple releases iTunes 7.2 today - DRM Free!
Say hello to the next volley against Apple - it's called Microsoft Surface
More Apple influence - Nokia's mobile phone design ideas for 2012
Social networking grows significantly in the UK
How to build your personal brand online
UFO theme park coming to Roswell, New Mexico
Branding network TV in an era of mass-less media
Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases
Designing cities for people, rather than cars
Newsgaming is a site that marries video games and current events
This (unofficial)Modest Mouse video was made by animating 4133 photocopies
A rather extensive list of mobile phone related art from Golan Levin
Fordesign.biz is your essential online design event calendar
The best place to live in the world? Vancouver
EA sells movies rights to the Sims - can they really make it a film?
Labels: architecture, bias, design, itunes, last.fm, Microsoft surface, mobile, Modest Mouse, Nokia, Sims, UFO, Vancouver, Wikipedia
posted by olli @ 07:59Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Startup 2.0 is a contest for European based Web 2.0 sites
Are paid online video downloads like iTunes a "dead end"?
Music to our ears: Indie labels now offering vinyl/mp3 hybrid records
Ars Technica reports on the cultural baggage of emoticons
Jakob Nielsen (unsurprisingly) not so keen on Web 2.0
This high-rise tower in Dubai creates its own energy
Say hello to China's smart information-rich traffic signals
How to change the font on your Symbian S60 device
Scene 360 inteviews some big names about web art direction, form vs. function and more
The Guardian on where the BBC's new media revolution went wrong
These are real chairs that look like children's drawings
BioMapping is an experimental community mapping project
FlightMemory allows users to log, track and share stories about recent flights
How to unlock your car door with a mobile phone
How to make your make your website mobile friendly
Twitter may be about WHAT you're doing, but Twatter is about WHO you're doing
Labels: Art Direction, bbc, biomapping, China, Dubai, emoticons, indie, itunes, Jakob Nielsen, new media, Symbian, twatter, twitter, web 2.0
posted by olli @ 07:55Friday, May 4, 2007
The ultimate insiders guide to Best Buy's Geek Squad
Check out this tunning site from Red Interactive Agency
Why making mobile phone software is a losing battle
MSNBC takes a look at Twitter
A Motorola survey says that 45% of Europeans watch TV online
Yahoo! finally shuts down Yahoo! Photos in favour of Flickr
These clothes are made from condoms
How to learn media consumption rules from iTunes
More iTunes: Magnetosphere is a cool iTunes visualizer
Looking at human computer interaction in science fiction movies
This rug has zippers
Is Disney's foray into Silverlight apps the future of marketing?
The In The City music conference comes to New York
Say hello to Sweden's talking ATM's
What's the deal with indie bands and choreographed dance moves?
Labels: agency, clothing, geek squad, indie, itunes, marketing, motorola, msnbc, music, silverlight, tv, twitter, yahoo
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