December 2011
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Life of crime by Geographer
Geographer released the song this week! You can listen below and also sign-up to download Life of crime (from Paste Magazine)
Cowbird: "Humanity's sagas"
Jonathan Harris, as you know is someone I’m a fan of, launched Cowbird this month, which is a visual online diary where you can tie a photo you take with narrative. I think it would actually suit me well (I used to write vignettes daily), but I doubt people in my life would take the time to read this with the rest of my digital footprint of blogs/social networks.
Stories in Cowbird are...
Innovation: Countries and Industries
(From Good Magazine)
Microsoft Mixes Social Networking With Search
So.cl from Microsoft review by MIT’s Technology Review:
It’s a well-made reinvention of the basic design shared by the major social networks, centered on Microsoft’s Bing Web search engine. Most posts on the site start as queries typed into the search box at the top of the page. The top few results can be shared with friends, and images turned up through a Bing search...
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Some Unbelievable Social Media Stats →
Due to the rapidly evolving nature of social media, the stats need updating all the time and the latest iteration reveals some fascinating insights.
There are 2.3 billion Google +1s clicked a day
Half a million new Android users register their account each day
Amazingly, despite the staggering billion tweets sent out every week, YouTube videos receive view counts twenty times that
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New use for shipping containers
In New York: DeKalb Market, is housed in a collection of salvaged shipping containers, that bring together Brooklyn’s creative entrepreneurs in a community setting. (Photo from Urban Space)
In London: Boxpark, the world’s first (pop-up) shopping centre made entirely of shipping containers, in the creative and artsy neighborhood of Shoreditch.
Boxpark Shoreditch from Roger Wade on...
Sharing to the power of 2012
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook:
Mark Zuckerberg’s “law of sharing” is to social media what Moore’s law is to computing power…
Expressing our authentic identity will become even more pervasive in the coming year. Profiles will no longer be outlines, but detailed self-portraits of who we really are, including the books we read, the music we listen to, the distances we run, the places we...
“You can end up with some dramatic color/shape structure,” he says. “Or a...”
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(From T Magazine, video of the construction at source link)
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Behind the Design of Bit.ly's Iconic Pufferfish →
For link-shortening service Bit.ly, finding a way to jazz up its simple, cut-and-dry product was a challenge. How can a little web tool make a visual impact in a thoughtful way?
Neil Wehrle, VP of User Experience at Betaworks, found a simple answer to that problem: pufferfish. With two bright and cute mascots as the face of Bit.ly’s sharp product, the company made an impression and...
Windows Phone Mango
For the last few weeks, I traded one of my Blackberries for a touchscreen to try Windows Phone Mango. It’s been pretty fun experience, and I thought it’d be nice to share my quick review.
Interface Design
It truly is a beautiful layout, compared to every other phone (typically cluttered with apps or little personality). I even loved the font they chose, the all white or black...
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