January 2012
12 posts
Watchthatssodigital:
2012 trends from Frog Design.
Amazon's Cloud Search →
parislemon:
This has the potential to be massive. And make no mistake, it’s a shot right at Google, just from the other direction. What if the future of search isn’t web search, but data search (which includes web and native apps).
The Amazon/Google rivalry is quickly shaping up to be more intense than the Apple/Google rivalry.
Good scoop by Sarah Lacy. Undoubtedly the first of many.
“Ageism in the entrepreneurial community is a fairly recent development. Vivek...”
– Boomers Who Start Businesses: The Next Great Generation Of Entrepreneurs (via courtenaybird)
Here’s one for my friends at Critical Mass.
“As the mainstream media ignored us, we learned from other leaderless resistance...”
– 2011: A Year in Revolt | OccupyWallSt.org (via mediafuturist)
Social media in the 16th Century: How Luther went... →
infoneer-pulse:
IT IS a familiar-sounding tale: after decades of simmering discontent a new form of media gives opponents of an authoritarian regime a way to express their views, register their solidarity and co-ordinate their actions. The protesters’ message spreads virally through social networks, making it impossible to suppress and highlighting the extent of public support for revolution....
"The Web Cannot Deliver Yet." →
parislemon:
A pretty damning report from Brian X. Chen for The New York Times. It essentially says that Palm and then HP were incompetent with their building and management of webOS.
But even more damning may be what it says about the “web versus native” debate. Quoting Paul Mercer, the former senior director of software for Palm:
“If the bar is to build Cupertino-class software in terms of...
"Clopen"
parislemon:
This is a great post by Danny Sullivan. For those of us caught up in the iOS vs. Android battle, it can be easy to lose sight of the simple, bigger picture.
Android may be “open” in the fact that other companies can use the source code and users who so desire (and know how) can root it. But from a pure consumer perspective, the Android phone ecosystem is often anything but open....
December 2011
10 posts
“Over the last month, Khan Academy saw 4 million unique users. That’s up from 1...”
– Khan Academy Jumps To 4M Uniques Per Month (Up 4X From Last Year) | TechCrunch (via infoneer-pulse)
Does the calendar really have to be so confusing? →
sciencecenter:
The dates fall on different days of the week every year. The months all have different numbers of days, with no rhyme or reason. There’s plenty of inefficiency built into the modern calendar. But according to Johns Hopkins astronomer Richard Conn Henry, that doesn’t have to be the case. According to his proposed calendar, eight of the months would have 30 days, with 31 days every...
Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater →
parislemon:
12 days, 1 million dollars.
And Louis C.K. details exactly what he’s going to do with the money. Most of it will go to charity with good chunks going to his staff and to pay back the costs of the production. As for his cut:
That leaves me with 220k for myself. Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my childen. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of...
Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work... →
infoneer-pulse:
Volkswagen has agreed to stop its Blackberry servers sending emails to some of its employees when they are off-shift.
The carmaker confirmed it made the move earlier this year following complaints that staff’s work and home lives were becoming blurred.
The restriction covers employees in Germany working under trade union negotiated contracts.
» via BBC
The separation of...
10% of this year's Sundance selections raised... →
whitneymcn:
This is mindblowing from a wide variety of perspectives, so I’ll just pick one:
Remember when Kickstarter hit 1MM backers a couple of months ago, and it was pointed by (first by @garychou, I believe) that the money pledged by Kickstarter backers was approaching 65% of the NEA’s annual budget?
Well consider this: the Sundance Institute itself received NEA grants totaling $180,000...
November 2011
4 posts
David Lynch x Dom Pérignon - NOWNESS →
Amazing Sid Lee promo for Dom Perignon
Fairy Tales 2.0
wonger:
Square Inch Design has created the most gorgeous, minimalist posters of classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and others. I would love a collection of these in my house!
Ambitious European Project Traces Food from Farm... →
smarterplanet:
More than a dozen colleges and companies have joined a consortium under the guidance of the University of Wolverhampton, to pilot RFID technology as it tracks the movements of fish, wine, pork and cheese through production and on to retailers.
A European project overseen by the University of Wolverhampton and a consortium of universities, technical institutes and commercial...
October 2011
18 posts
Online Advertising ROI beats TV
digital-diva:
A recent study of eight major FMCG campaigns to measure cross-media advertising on short-term sales.
It showed that Online Advertising is best for ROI “The average short-term online sale for digital advertising is calculated at 75p, compared to 66p for press, 53p for outdoor and, a surprisingly low 43p for TV.”
For more info, go to:...
Twitter Quietly Rolls Out New Timeline Update →
Ford scores big with a second screen ad →
Siri knows the meaning of life! →
shitisaytosiri:
I picked up the iPhone 4S yesterday and spent the better part of my 8 hour work day neglecting my responsibilities to play with Siri, the phone’s A.I. personal assistant. The first thing I asked her was:
“What is the meaning of life?” and here is how she responded:
WELL DONE SIRI! The…
“We don’t know if the mobile economy will become as dynamic as the late-1800s...”
– The Innovation Recession and the Way Out - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic (via infoneer-pulse)
Nudity, Pets, Babies, and Other Adventures in... →
infoneer-pulse:
The University of Southern California places a premium on synchronous online education. Students fire up their Webcams and participate in live virtual classes.
But those live video feeds are opening a debate about classroom decorum, pushing the university to create new guidelines for “Netiquette.”
Barking dogs, wailing babies, a naked spouse—all have made cameo appearances in...
Watchkellyshaw:
A good deck on the many dimensions of our friend “the web”. Thanks to @scottweisbrod for pointing it out. This deck references good stuff too, here are the ones I thought most valuable. responsive web design
mobile web best practices
structured content first
More Data Was Transmitted Over the Internet in... →
infoneer-pulse:
There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.
Now the transfer of data over the Internet is growing faster than ever, said Vice President of Intel’s Architecture Group Kirk Skaugen during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. He also explained how infrastructure is scaling with the increasing transfer of data.
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“We must reframe capitalism as the space for creators, not traders, for...”
– One More Great Lesson From Steve Jobs: Innovation Begins As A Social Movement | Co. Design (via leighhimel)
A fall sweep →
infoneer-pulse:
Here’s the latest update on what’s happening:
Code Search, which was designed to help people search for open source code all over the web, will be shut down along with the Code Search API on January 15, 2012.
In a few weeks we’ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+. While people obviously won’t be able to create new posts after that, they will...
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“Text lasts. It’s not platform-dependant, you don’t just get it from one source,...”
– The New Value of Text | booktwo.org (via adactio)
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“1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2....”
– The Cult of Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark (via jted)
September 2011
11 posts
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“The top two reasons consumers gave as to why they interact with companies in...”
– Brian Solis - Harvard Business Review (via jted)
Why planners and creatives should become best... →
kellyshaw:
A very good piece on collaboration. Ryan also clearly articulates the co-dependence of Strategic & Creative Ideas.
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Future Friendly →
cityrider49:
My heroes of web design have put together a brilliant website about the future of design. Check it out!!!
The future is (mobile) friendly
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“Every time you “like” a friend’s Facebook status, sign up for a Nordstrom credit...”
– The Information Arms Race - Politics - GOOD (via infoneer-pulse)
The New Power of Consumers: Forbes →
While I don’t agree that this is “new,” I do think this is a good summary of the evolving power of consumers to influence brands, and the companies and products behind them.
Read the article