Technology
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
1. Home Tweet Home: Energy-Savvy House Broadcasts on Twitter
What is it? A small number of nerdy homeowners are combining Web 2.0 and eco-consciousness. An increasing number of people are installing monitors on their houses that broadcast live tweets (or Twitter posts) about the physical environment in and around where they ...
Tags: canadians, mobile sweets, new music west, nike, niketown, twitter, twittering house, virtual vancouver
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Adobe, in a bid to increase the proliferation of Flash and Air installations across platforms and devices, launched “The Open Screen Project” and removed all licensing fees for the next release of their players.
The project supporters include “Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, ...
Tags: Adobe, flash, Mobile, set top boxes, wireless
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
How do you design one of the first multi-touch, multi-user interface experiences for a retail environment?
That's what our Avenue A | Razorfish design team solved for Microsoft and AT&T Wireless. Last week, at the CTIA Wireless Conference, the companies announced their initiative to bring Microsoft Surface to life in ...
Tags: apple, at&t wireless, computing, CTIA, design, development, device recognition, environment, iphone, microsoft, Mobile, multi-touch, multi-user, surface
Posted in Advertising, Design Tactics, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I woke up this morning and checked my Gmail and saw a new feature alert for “Google Custom Time":
I thought to myself ... er this could be a dangerous feature and not inline with Google’s ‘do no evil’ policy and thought no more of it. Then as the day went ...
Tags: amnesia, April Fools Day, banners, digg, google, mars, virgile, virgin, Web Jokes
Posted in Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Technology | 3 Comments »
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Rolling out one of the biggest -- if not the only -- large scale urban 2D barcode program in the U.S., CitySearch will now be tagging scores of local San Francisco restaurants with the pixelated codes. Partnering with Audio Antenna and ScanBuy, CitySearch announced their plans to put up ...
Tags: 2d, antenna, avenue a | razorfish, barcodes, japan, location, Mobile, scanbuy, SmartPox, sprint, wired, wireless
Posted in Advertising, Mobile, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Last week I had the opportunity to talk to a leading industry analyst about a number of potential small web site investments that marketers and publishers could make to yield the biggest possible pay-off. The premise being, of course, that in economic hard times site owners needed to stretch ...
Tags: acquisition, Analytics, conversion, facebook, hitbox, myspace, omniture, optimization, paid search, red bull, retention, rock you, search, search engine, seo, widgets
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Social Media, Technology, eCommerce | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how web design is influencing mobile. You don't hear as much about how phone interface design, and more specifically the iPhone, is beginning to influence user experience on the web.
Ribbit - "Silicon Valley's first phone company" - is creating some pioneering ...
Tags: amphibian, iphone, microsoft, ribbit, tellme, voicemail
Posted in Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
We've seen it with personal computers and we're seeing it with mobile phones, so it's interesting to note that video game consoles are the next digital hardware to be considered for a single platform.
There are about 14 different gaming systems for which major video game developers, such as Electronic Arts, ...
Tags: open platforms, video game design
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008
And if there is going to be blood in the digital agency world, who's blood will it be? That was the question (or more accurately "questions") that hung over the SXSW panel that I spoke on at this year's conference in Austin, Texas. The answer was far from clear, however.
The ...
Tags: Advertising, Analytics, api, data, design, tracking, web, youtube
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Photo Source: Wired Blog
Referred to by some industry analysts as a train wreck interview, there is no shortage of opinions debating the merits of Sarah Lacey's keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook. I will leave it up to the blogosphere, twitter, Cnet and Wired to ...
Tags: facebook, keynote, social networks, sxsw interactive
Posted in Advertising, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
I went to Jason Fried’s talk about what he’s learned from starting 37 Signals, the Chicago-based company responsible for Basecamp and Highrise. With his no nonsense and thoughtful approach to running a company it is easy to appreciate why 37 Signals is such a phenomenal success. His panel was intelligent ...
Tags: 37 signals, advice, good process
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
A lively and thought provoking panel between Henry Jenkins (MIT professor and Cultural Theorist) and Stephen Johnson, CEO of outside.in and author.
Photo Source: ArMiller
Here were some of the main takeaways:
New forms of learning are emerging and Jenkins and Johnson argued that today’s youth culture is not dumber. The youth ...
Tags: civic action, engagement, knowledge, learning, new media, Youth culture
Posted in Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
SxSW Interactive is now well and truly underway. The crowds have gathered. This year the Interactive Festival is expecting more than 7500 attendees drawn from all walks of life including designers, developers, usability professionals, start ups, consultants, authors, tech evangelists, cultural theorists, project managers, bloggers and journalists to name ...
Tags: 2008, sxsw, sxswinteractive
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Wired.com has a great piece on Barack Obama's utilization of the Internet and custom social networking tools to fuel his 'Net-centric campaign which it calls "the most ambitious, and apparently successful, internet campaign effort in any presidential race in the web's short history."
Inside Obama's Surging Net-Roots Campaign looks at how ...
Tags: , campaign, design, obama, paul, politics, social network, web
Posted in Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, February 25th, 2008
There's an interesting article by Jack Ewing in BusinessWeek that talks about how companies like Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens are embracing renewable energy in Asia and Africa in order to supply rural areas with mobile services. According to Ewing, growth in the mobile industry will be heavily contingent upon the ...
Tags: base, energy, interface, Mobile, renewable, stations
Posted in Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
Sunday, February 24th, 2008
In a press release last week, Microsoft announced that it would increase the openness of its products by adhering to four new interoperability principles including ensuring open connections, promoting data portability, enhancing support for industry standards and fostering more open engagement with open source communities.
For a company which has often ...
Tags: Digital Consumer Behavior, expands, facebook, General, initiatives, interoperability, microsoft, open, role, Web 2.0
Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The Future of Entertainment Series
Science and Technology: The Rise of Geek Culture
Today's media consumption using the latest technology has resulted in the rise of a 'Geek Culture,' categorized by users who are becoming increasingly savvy about new gadgetry as part of their growing ...
Tags: culture, geek, interest, interesting, Media + Entertainment, phones, snippet, Social Media, Web 2.0
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The new Android SDK was released today. Build m5-rc14 brings a host of improvements to SDK. Updates were made to the user interface which received a lot of criticism due to the clunkiness and linear approach to menus and navigation.
They also added the option for developers to create Layout animations ...
Tags: android, anticipated, interface, released, sdk, update
Posted in Mobile, Technology | No Comments »
Monday, February 11th, 2008
The OpenID Foundation has confirmed that Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, VeriSign and IBM are now board members, with the aim of fostering international participation in the "one username to rule them all" initiative.
What some have considered a pipe dream is growing in maturity and momentum. Businesses that embrace single ...
Tags: google, grows, momentum, openid, Social Media, with, yahoo
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Schmap, an international city guide mashup with Google Maps, provides visitors with numerous ways to access their entertainment and attractions content. Users can visit the online site, download a desktop application or add a widget to their own site or blog. Interestingly, there is a sense that each access ...
Tags: 3D Interfaces, Design Tactics, like, Mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0, widget, with, would
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