Thursday, September 11, 2008

Since when did Apple become a niche player in the haptic world?

Say hello to Insound's Top 10 vinyl packaging designs

To Web 2.0 or not to 2.0 - That is the Government's question

Say hello the changing face of New York City

How to save the endangered design conference

5 best practices for Mashups

Say hello to the MTV API

Freelancers at the BBC are not happy with new contracts and pay cuts

Say hello to Seth McFarlane's Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy

Footnote is a social network for historical documents

Passionato is an online store for classical music

The Word will tell you where in the world your album cover was taken

Say hello to WebStock New Zealand 2009

Labels: API, Apple, bbc, design conference, Footnote, freelance, haptic, Insound, mashups, mtv, New York City, Passionato, The Word, vinyl packaging, web 2.0, Webstock

posted by olli @ 20:32  

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Blip is like Twitter but only for music tweeting

Ping My Company is like Hot Or Not for companies

What newspapers still don't understand about the web

Has Hong Kong become the capital of malware?

How to build a better content model for your site

How to send SMS messages from your iPod Touch

Looks like Google is expanding its Mountain View complex once again

How can marketers manage price inflation?

Four ways market research can kill innovation

Say hello to MTV's graphic design reality show competition

Techcrunch offers a great post on location-based technologies

Say hello to Ad Agency WOW

Labels: agency, Blip, content, Google, graphic design, Hong Kong, innovation, marketing, mtv, newspapers, Ping My Company, Techcrunch, WOW

posted by olli @ 07:01  

Thursday, January 31, 2008

The 50 most popular web design blog posts, resources and cheat sheets of 2007

Say hello to Google's new experimental search features (most certainly in beta)

It's like deja vu all over again. MTV relaunches its website

What does the media business model actually mean?

AIGA asks if Monkey Magazine really is the future of publishing

Or - is the future of publishing more in line with Instapaper?

These are eight mistakes that web developers usually make

Is this the worlds most expensive PC?

Say hello to the Dieter Rams Flickr photo pool

Why Twitter is a platform for serious journalistic discourse

Venture Beat looks at the latest trends in online advertising

Uh-Oh. Is the Times Online spamming social media networks?

How to prepare yourself from the upcoming Vampire Weekend backlash

London Underground will be trialing some new schemes at getting people on and off tube trains

This is a London Underground tube map specifically designed for tourists

Labels: AIGA, Dieter Rams, Instapaper, London Underground, media business model, Monkey magazine, mtv, spam, twitter, Vampire Weekend, web design

posted by olli @ 21:17  

Thursday, 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 @ 21:24  

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

MTV unveils a new targeted online syndication strategy

How to stop your girlfriend from gaming

Can you get to Level 70 in World Of Warcraft and still be a pacifist?

How to show your clients you're a professional freelancer

This is how IKEA comes up with their product names

Say hello to geographic data in Second Life

Check out the Future Of Fashion conference in Amsterdam, January 31st

How web media is usurping old media

Readers Digest on the secret of self-made millionaires

How to visualize fictional radio spaces

Idiomag is a new personalized online music magazine

Yahoo! launches a browser based mp3 player...but why?

There are some interesting things going on in German graveyards these days

Labels: Amsterdam, Fashion, Germany, Idiomag, Ikea, mtv, radio space, Readers Digest, Second Life, syndication, web media, yahoo

posted by olli @ 07:50  

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Has the Facebook ad backlash begun?

Housefront allows you to get house prices by SMS text message

Michael Eisner blames Steve Jobs for the current music industry downturn

Your two minute guide to AT&T wiretapping

Say hello to Sony Ericsson's music store

On that note - will Red Bull be the next online player in the music market?

Is Verizon hijacking your web browser?

Re-Design Me offers crowdsourcing solutions to product design

What makes 12-24 year olds happy? MTV just might know

How to be a successful freelancer

What does 24 hours of air traffic look like from space?

Labels: air traffic, crowdsourcing, demographics, facebook, freelancing, mtv, Red Bull, SMS, Sony Ericsson, Verizon, wiretapping

posted by olli @ 10:20  

Monday, October 15, 2007

Apple launches an official web apps page for the iPhone

Viacom says "The Arab world wants its MTV"

When does a social network become a "publicity network"?

Will Canada lose out on the iPhone because of a trademark dispute?

Top 5 highlights from the recent Virtual Worlds Expo

Say hello to Sub Zero's enemies of wine

Five years late but CNN finally asks "Are record labels dead?"

These are SEO tips for Wordpress users

TVNZ partners with Bebo to provide exclusive content to its users

The NY Times now putting reader comments on its homepage. What do you think?

Tim O'Reilly discusses the social network operating system

21 facts about the Internet that you should know

9 Neighbors is a hyperlocal social network for Massachusetts

Visualizing science and tech activity in Wikipedia

Say hello to the Kyoto Treaty Of Design

Labels: 9 Neighbors, Apple, CNN, internet, iPhone, Kyoto treaty of design, mtv, NY Times, record labels, social networking, Sub Zero, Tim O'Reilly, Wikipedia, Wine

posted by olli @ 07:59  

Friday, September 14, 2007

Say hello to the new Google Moon

More space: Earth to Mars in....a week?

Ooyala is a new start-up looking to do interesting things with video

Restricted Audiences Only is a site that features R rated red-band film trailers

This is some cool gaffer tape art from Tokyo's subway system

US viewers watched an average of 3 hours of online video in July

Integrated 2007 is a design conference taking place in Antwerp on 2 November

Who are the most vulnerable media companies in the US right now?

Evian launches a new bottle design for use in restuarants
Warner Bros. to launch 23 projects for broadband TV

Extermiknit! - How to knit your own Dalek

Who Does is free web-based project management software

Is MTV working on a branded social network?

How to write "remarkably creative content"

Germany's Hans and Franz make some beautiful products

Labels: creative content, Dalek, Google, Hans and Franz, knitting, media companies, movie trailers, mtv, online video, Ooyala, social networks, space travel, Who Does

posted by olli @ 08:18  

Thursday, September 13, 2007

iPhone now unlocked in 32 countries with 69 carriers

Business Week takes a look at service prototyping

RodCorp has good round-up of this years DConstruct activities

Related - A round-up of the Yahoo! Hack Day

Top 10 Wikipedia tricks

If you're in London - get ready for the London Design Festival on 15 Sept.

Also on 15 Sept - The Chicago Renegade Craft Fair

This is an interactive tour of Amsterdam's Schiphol's airport

Social network types, motivations and the future

Lessons on shutting down a service from 37 Signals

Will the recent slowdown in ad spending also reach the web?

Is MySpace the new MTV? Will launch original show "Quarterlife" in November

Are Digg headlines real news?

Verisign launches multi-screen content delivery platform

Burning World creates mix tapes for you

Labels: 37 Signals, advertising, Amsterdam, Burning Wold, digg, iPhone, mtv, MySpace, service prototyping, VeriSign

posted by olli @ 10:24  

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Nokia releasing several new phone models and a possible music store tomorrow

The Burning Man goes up in flame four days early due to arson

Boing Boing gets a re-design

Smashing Magazine takes a look at 45 excellent blog designs

Mobility is cultural not just functional (.pdf)

Charmr is a really nice medical device concept put together by Adaptive Path

A really cool collection of vintage TV logos

Nielsen says that drop is TV viewership is very real

But don't worry - celebrity blogs are no threat to gossip magazines

ReadWriteWeb looks at the future of podcasting

You can now create mosaics from your Flickr photos with Mosaickr

MTV launches TV channel in Ukraine

How to avoid the 10 biggest freelancing mistakes

Labels: blog design, Boing Boing, Burning Man, celebrity blogs, Charmr, Flickr, freelancing, Mobility, Mosaickr, mtv, podcasting, tv logos

posted by olli @ 07:46  

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

Labels: API, Apple, Craigslist, email, Google Sky, iPhone, menu design, mtv, Peepsnation, Tafiti, twitter, WalMart, web 2.0, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:37  

Monday, July 2, 2007

Phonecasting offers you podcasts right to your mobile phone

South Korea to tax virtual world assets

AIGA asks Steve Jobs the only question that really matters

UK music retailer Fopp shutting down ALL stores due to torrents?

More online pressure: Blockbuster closing 282 US stores

How to deal with angry customers

Will this site help you unlock your iPhone?

iPhone now also causing jitters across the music industry

MTV wants to help you Get Made

Say hello to the Web Trend Map - 2007 Version

Tyler Brule looks at the supermarket wars in Marlyebone

Labels: Blockbuster, customer service, Fopp, iPhone, mtv, music industry, Phonecasting, South Korea, supermarkets, virtual worlds, Webtrends

posted by olli @ 22:14  

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

Labels: America, Apple, Doppleganger, Gridskipper, iPhone, Mark E. Smith, marketing, mtv, Nintendo, Obopay, re-design, remix, The Fall, wedding, YouTube

posted by olli @ 07:33  

Thursday, 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

posted by olli @ 07:51