November, 2007 Archive
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Google Labs is running an experimental search program where the end-user can influence or refine his or her search results by tagging the results, ala TIVO, with "Like it" or "Don't like it".
The program also has a custom field for adding an address that is potentially more relevant to the ...
Tags: Advertising, Digital Branding
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Apple filed three very interesting, and potentially breakthrough, multi-input patents in succession on July 30, 2007. Some of which may change the way we think about computing for years to come:
SENSOR ARRANGEMENT FOR USE WITH A TOUCH SENSOR THAT IDENTIFIES HAND PARTS
TOUCH SENSING WITH MOBILE SENSORS
TOUCH SENSING WITH A COMPLIANT ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Design Tactics
Posted in Mobile, Technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Verizon announced today that any application, run on any device will have full access to its spectrum beginning in 2008. This will be well in advance of the 700MHz spectrum's availability in 2011 (to be auctioned in January of next year). As with Google's Android and Nokia's S60 developer programs, ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Vodafone has recently announced a new service called InsideOut which enables customers to keep their real and second lives connected through their mobile devices. Customers can use InsideOut to call or text other members "in-world" or outside of Second Life using virtual phone numbers (real phone numbers and identities are ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Social Media
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
There's been a ton of hype, cynicism and general web chatter about the promise of Hulu.com, the joint online video network from NBC Universal and Fox since the mid-summer announcement of the service. TechCrunch notoriously dubbed the effort "Clown Co." and has been skeptical about any success since NBC pulled ...
Tags: Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Web 2.0
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Shutting down the digital presses for the Thanksgiving holiday starting today. Posting will resume on Monday, November 26th. Best to you and yours.
Tags: Digital Branding
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Amazon.com's eReader, Kindle, is getting all sorts of press this week. But the real news isn't the physical device -- which vaguely looks like some orthopedic iPod knock-off -- instead it's the very sly release of Amazon's Upgrade Program which offers consumers full online book access for a nominal fee.
While ...
Tags: Digital Consumer Behavior
Posted in Mobile, Technology, eCommerce | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Inspired by the Futures of Entertainment 2 talk: Advertising and Convergence Culture
Panelists: Mike Rubenstein, Baba Shetty, Tina Wells, Faris Yakob, and Bill Fox
Did you know that soap operas were named that because they were originally just long skits used to shill laundry detergent? Proctor & Gamble started the phenomenon, with ...
Tags: Advertising, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Inspired by the Futures of Entertainment 2 talk: Fan Labor.
Panelists: Mark Deuze, Jordan Greenhall, Catherine Tosenberger, Elizabeth Osder, and Raph Koster
Many people think we shouldn't pay fans - that the exchange of money turns us all into horrible sell-outs. Money destroys the freedom-embracing communal love the Internet so successfully engenders. ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Panel Topic: Metrics + Measurement
Panelists: Bruce Leichtman (Leichtman Research Group), Stacey Lynn Schulman (Turner Broadcasting), Maury Giles (GSD&M Idea City), Jim Nail (TMS Media Intelligence/Cymfony)
There was no silver-bullet metric or measurement presented by the panel, but it was generally a good, interesting talk about the lack of any real good ...
Tags: Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Conference coverage of the Futures of Entertainment 2
Panel Topic: Mobile Media
Panelists: Marc Davis (Yahoo), Bob Schukai (Turner Broadcasting), Alice Kim (MTV Networks), Anmol Madan (MIT Media Lab)
In 2000, Avenue A | Razorfish had an office in Helsinki and soda machines powered by WAP. The whole industry threw around terms like ...
Tags: Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Following Android's announcement of its Developer Challenge, Nokia has launched Mobile Rules! Annual Business Plan and Application Competition. The basics: applications must be on Nokia platforms.
Submissions are due by January 25, 2008, business plans are due by November 23, 2007. Grand prizes include "fast-track contract negotiations and publishing opportunities" with ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
I've long been interested in how game design (console, PC and online games) could influence and inform web site design, and for that matter all forms of digital design. Games are a $12.5 billion dollar market (NPD Group 2006) and players dedicate months of their lives to beating them.
Games ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Media + Entertainment
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The use of 3D is pretty limited on the web right now but it's interesting to see people experimenting with it.
Voyager, an RSS reader made by Andy Biggs, displays news feeds chronologically with current messages in the foreground and older messages in the background. As you use your mouse scroll ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Web 2.0
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
This blog has been up and running for just over 6-weeks now and I think it's time to do a quick recap of the most popular posts. Here's October's Top 10:
1. Do People Really Use Tag Clouds? -- The post announcing the release of the Digital Design Outlook and Consumer ...
Tags: Digital Consumer Behavior, Web 2.0
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
"How should I use the web to best transform my business?" We hear that question from clients every day as the digital media landscape continues to evolve. The reality is that there is no easy answer.
This week, I'll get to explore that topic in depth at one of my ...
Tags: Advertising, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Two very different bargain ultra mobiles are hitting the market this month. The first, and most ambitious, is the "$100 Laptop" from Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child initiative which is designed for educating children in the developing world. The second, which purposes to be aimed at children and the ...
Tags: Web 2.0
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Few projects succeed at bridging art and science online like Universe, created by digital artist Jonathan Harris. This is just a fantastic interactive piece that's as functional as it is beautiful.
Jonathan Harris is an artist working primarily on the Internet. His work involves the exploration and understanding of humans, on ...
Tags: General, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Did Smartpox, our Avenue A | Razorfish IdeaLab project, make a guest appearance on CBS's NUMB3RS this weekend?
It certainly looks that way. On Saturday's episode called "Primacy", 2D barcodes, a mobile phone camera reader and alternate-reality gaming play heavily into the plot -- touching off a murder as a man ...
Tags: Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0
Posted in Mobile | 7 Comments »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Despite the somewhat anti-climatic announcement last week of Google's mobile platform initiative, the software development kit for Android will be of interest to mobile designers and developers, particularly since Android is open to the core, and plans to award $10 million ("nostrings attached") to developers building innovative mobile applications ...
Tags: Web 2.0
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