Monday, June 30, 2008
Say hello to Rhapsody's new "Music Without Limits" campaign
Does the current deluge of data make theoretical testing models obsolete?
These are the BBC.co.uk web design guidelines
How to create an extended social profile using Twitter
How to get a job as a web designer
9 steps to achieving flow and happiness in your work
Should Google buy the Associated Press?
Say hello to the new last.fm API
Is LinkedIn getting into the insider trading business?
Say hello to the supermarket of the future
10 things to look for in a website health check
What are the best countries for business?
Labels: AP, API, bbc, design job, Google, insider trader, international business, last.fm, LinkedIn, Rhapsody, supermarkets, web guidelines, website health
posted by olli @ 22:24Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Say hello to the last.fm Playground
The Get Out Clause's CCTV music video is pretty awesome
The 7 habits of highly effective Internet users
Where does good design begin? With a good client relationship
Say hello to serious scientific research in Second Life
Why social networking is a feature, not a destination
There are myths and there are Business Cliche Mythbusters
Is album art dying?
Can mobile phones actually be used for medical imaging?
Is Pandora about to get eaten by Clear Channel?
Reuters takes a look at Hollywood's sudden love affair with the viral/ARG campaign
Are there too many women in IT?
Lovegrove and Repucci have some beautiful porcelain plates
Labels: album art, ARG, Clear Channel, clients, get out clause, Hollywood, last.fm, Lovegrove and Repucci, medical imaging, mobile phones, Mythbusters, Pandora, playground, Second Life, viral, women in IT
posted by olli @ 21:02Thursday, 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
Labels: architecture, Ars Technica, Coolspotters, Flare, Internet2, last.fm, logo, Net Neutrality, portfolio design, Second Life, table of contents, YouTube
posted by olli @ 21:42Monday, April 7, 2008
Has blogging become a modern day version of the sweatshop?
Independent filmmakers should say hello to Cinema Daily Motion
This is a great cheat sheet on Software Engineering for Internet Applications
Say hello to really, really superfast Internet courtesy of Grid Computing and the Large Hadron Collider
Say hello to Yahoo!'s new ad sales system
David Seah has a nice look at issues around "inadvertent branding"
Say hello to talking photos on Facebook
HA! A recent study says 95% of 18-24 year olds "illegally" download music
The Audiotool is a great virtual TR-909 and TB-303 player
What's driving innovation in food packaging?
How To Personalize The Web - nice, short article by last.fm on GigaOm
11 innovation lessons from the makers of World Of Warcraft
Labels: Audiotool, blogging, Cinema Daily Motion, David Seah, digital music, facebook, food packaging design, GigaOm, Grid computing, last.fm, Razz, software engineering
posted by olli @ 07:49Friday, 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 @ 21:17Tuesday, 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 @ 20:55Thursday, January 24, 2008
Say hello to last.fm's new on-demand music platform
Say hello to the beta BBC Podcast player
MTV closes the door on Flux, 15 months after launch
What to do if you're laid off in the 2008 recession
How to build a Facebook application
Designing Magazines takes a look at the advertorial
Why do some people adopt to certain technologies and not others?
Is Flash good for anything except video and audio streaming?
These are the living spaces of German techno DJ's
Let's talk about the future of urban shopping
The New Yorker on the psychology of product pricing
It's Nice That is another lovely blog about design and art
Jakob Nielsen on the 10 best Intranets of 2008
How fast is social media growing?
Labels: advertorial, bbc, DJ, facebook, Flux, intranet, Its Nice That, last.fm, mtv, New Yorker, product pricing, social media, techno, urban shopping
posted by olli @ 21:24Wednesday, December 26, 2007
To all our non US friends: Happy Boxing Day!
Say hello to PingMag's new PingMag MAKE website
If Gangsta Rappers made powerpoint presentations, this is what they would look like
If fewer people are watching television, why are TV ad rates skyrocketing?
On that note, this is what video websites are getting for CPM's
Airlines planning to heavily censor your inflight Internet access
Looks like the Economist's social network (Project Red Stripe) is actually happening
More info on The Economist's Project Red Stripe can be found here
No prizes for guessing what the big Web 2.0 trends were in 2007
Yes. There really is an ABC's for LOLCATS
Managing News is a very impressive news aggregator
Mashable has a huge roundup of Avatar creators, if you're into that sort of thing
This is a pretty impressive last.fm visual connection map
Fast Company has a brilliant article on how why minimalism matters in the face of rapid growth
We're listening to a lot of Techtronic's dubstep releases at the moment
Labels: advertising rates, avatars, Fast Company, gangsta rap, in-flight Internet, last.fm, Managing News, Mashable, PingMag, Project Red Stripe, Techtronic, The Economist, web 2.0
posted by olli @ 09:28Tuesday, 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 @ 08:50Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Shulze & Webb talk about the Experience Stack
There is information design and then there is the genome of Craig Venter
I, Cringley takes on Steve Jobs
On that note - iPhoneSIMfree goes retail - let the unlocking begin!
Is China hacking Germany, the UK and the US?
The Economist asks - If Belgium stopped existing, would anyone care?
Belle & Sebastian need vocalists/extras - here's how to submit
Say hello to TypePad for the iPhone
The Good: Say hello to the Yahoo! design innovation team
The Bad: Is Yahoo! about to axe Yahoo Music?
Fifteen last.fm power tweaks for you
How to bootstrap your startup
Say hello to Ringles. Yes. Ringles
How to retain younger workers in the workplace
Labels: Belgium, Belle and Sebastian, China, Craig Venter, DNA, Experience Stack, iPhoneSimFree, last.fm, Ringles, startups, workplace, yahoo
posted by olli @ 08:56Friday, 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
Labels: AIGA, CNN, food, Helio, last.fm, London, music, Nike, personas, spam, Ticketmaster, Wii, YouTube, Zune
posted by olli @ 07:40Thursday, 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
Labels: bloggers, industrial ruins, information theory, journalists, last.fm, marketing, music downloads, Nokia, Playboy, social networks, VideoEgg, Web OS, YouTube
posted by olli @ 07:51Monday, June 25, 2007
iPhoney is an iPhone simulator for QA'ing iPhone designs
Is this what Facebook will look like in 40 years?
The Guardian hosting virtual concert in Second Life w/ Pet Shop Boys & Groove Armada
Xerox enters the search market - say hello to FactSpotter
Discover where and how to camp out for your iPhone with Gridskipper
Great reading: Viewing American class divisions through Facebook & MySpace
Coffee Geek look at coffee culture in Australia and New Zealand
On that note - our favourite coffeehouse in London - Flat White
Say hello to Germany's EOS-TV - a channel devoted entirely to death
Get involved in the Face Your Pockets project
We're pretty excited about Wired's Living Home products
This camera documented a trip through the entire UK postal system
This is a map of Europe in the year 1000
How to make a video game pixel art T-shirt
This tablecloth is made of fiber optics
Normalize your last.fm listening habits for more accuracy
Labels: Europe, Face Your Pockets, facebook, fiber optics, Flat White, iPhone, last.fm, mobile search, MySpace coffee, pixel-art, Second Life, videogames, Xerox
posted by olli @ 08:06Friday, 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 @ 07:59Thursday, May 10, 2007
How much textual information do you consume daily?
last.fm to include video scrobbling by end of the week
Say hello to the Tokyo Ubiquitous Network Project
You're not a consumer anymore. You're really a "transumer"
The high price of getting paid for content
Looking for windows? Just might want to look up Piezofenestration
Telepark is a tag based contact management system
How to start a business
Technology review takes an in-depth look at Apple's design strategy
Is Google preparing to police the web?
Happy 50th Birthday Helvetica
The Economist takes a look at sensory branding
Say hello to Dordles - when doodles are not quite doodles or drawings
The value of vertical search for B2B marketers
Boutique Camping offers pop-up hotels at music festivals
Labels: Apple, B2B, Dordles, Economist, Google, Helvetica, last.fm, scrobbling, sensory branding, telepark, textual information, tokyo, vertical search
posted by olli @ 07:55Thursday, May 3, 2007
Qoob is MTV Italy's little YouTube project
Where are you in the Diggsophere?
MetaMedia takes a look at Second Life and the French presidential debate
Pandora now blocked to most international users (UK not affected...for now)
Only in Japan: The virtual dog walking video game
300 icons for your web design needs
What last.fm learned while building their site
Arrrgghh! It's boo.com!
Saul Williams writes a letter to Oprah Winfrey
Loud Graphix is a Berlin based conference around music and graphic design
12 important laws every US blogger needs to know
Local Life is an audio blog that looks at everyday life across the UK
Jason Daponte of BBC Radio 1 demonstrates how to share media playlists
Labels: bbc, berlin, blog, boo, digg, icons, last.fm, local life, loud graphix, mtv, qoob, radio 1, uk
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