Web 2.0
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
The ZUI, or zooming user interface, seems to be on the rise as websites with 3D aspects to them proliferate. ZUIs fundamentally change the feel of a site: sometimes with great affect, other times with mixed results.
WHITEvoid, a firm that creates interactive installations and draws from the disciplines of interaction ...
Tags: 3d, hard rock cafe, ia summit 2008, information architecture, interaction audit, interaction design, schematic, silverlight, whitevoid, zooming user interface, zui
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
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
Posted in Advertising, Digital Consumer Behavior, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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 30th, 2008
Advertisers are starting to move, en masse, towards Twitter but is it too small to matter? Southwest Airlines and JetBlue have taken the lead and Zappos.com uses the service ardently. Last week, in the throes of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, I had a great conversation ...
Tags: Analytics, business, cnn, data, fast company, forbes, forbes.com, hitwise, jetblue, onion, southwest airlines, swa, twitter, twitter stats, web usage, zappos
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
1. Plum, the Color, Is Having Its Star Turn
What is it? Is plum really the new black? Marketers have recently embraced the color in everything from TV (Plum TV is a new channel available in resort communities) to water labels. Trend watchers have suggested ...
Tags: american express, fallon, miami, plum, polo, ralph lauren, shopstyle.com, sony, stylefeeder.com, thisnext.com
Posted in Advertising, Web 2.0, eCommerce | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Web 2.0 Expo is kicking into high gear tomorrow in San Francisco. I'll be participating on the Consumer 2.0: How Web 2.0 is Changing Moods, Metrics, & Monetization panel. Rafe Needleman from CNET will moderate and I'll be joined by Konrad Feldman from Quantcast, Murtaza Hussain from Peanut ...
Tags: Advertising, Analytics, behavior, cnet, comscore, consumer, design, digital, forrester, peanut labs, quantcast, san francisco, statistics, tag clouds, Web 2.0, web 2.0 expo
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Web 2.0 | 2 Comments »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
In this age of microblogging and social integration, it is nice to run across a site that has a singular purpose. Idiomag, a music magazine, combines the "web 2.0" mentality of community and integration, with the clear focus of creating a personalized music magazine.
So what exactly is Idiomag?
"Idiomag is a ...
Tags: hype machine, idiomag, itunes, last.fm, mp3, music, muxtape, myspace, pandora, purevolume
Posted in Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Every week we send out updates on emerging media trends across Avenue A | Razorfish. Now we've decided to share them with you as well. Here's the first in an ongoing series:
1. unlike.net - Alternative Online City Guides (startup site)
What is it? Unlike.net is a new series of online city ...
Tags: flickr, killer startups, media, messaging, read write web, Social Media, twitter, twittermethis, unlike, unlike.net, video, viral, viral marketing, wired, wom
Posted in Social Media, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008
Here's the presentation that I'm giving at the IA Summit in Miami on consumer behavior and Web 2.0. It's called Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?: Research To Help Separate Web 2.0’s Hits From Hype and is an evolution of the consumer behavior research we did late-last year. From ...
Tags: cbs, cnn, dell, facebook, flows, ia summit, interaction design, netflix, nytimes, page design, red bull, rss feeds, Social Media, starbucks, user experience, Web 2.0, yahoo
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Mobile, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 9 Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Who would think that uniquely digital re-invention of the much beloved (and seriously antiquated) mix tape would be setting the music blogsphere atwitter in 2008? It's called Muxtape and it's a ridiculously simple site built around music sharing and discovery. Created by former Vimeo/IAC developer Justin Ouellete, the site allows ...
Tags: hype machine, itunes, last.fm, mp3, music, muxtape, sonic youth, thurston moore, vimeo
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Web 2.0 | No 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 »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Starbucks, more than any other company, has given rise to the “experience economy.” But today the company, with its sagging stock price, is in a deep funk. With shares down around 40%, sales flat to declining and foot traffic falling off, many industry analysts question where Starbucks lost its way: ...
Tags: , appexchange, apple, barack obama, clover, dell, dunkin' donuts, howard schultz, idea, innovation, iphone, itunes, kiva.org, mcdonalds, meetup.com, oracle, salesforce.com, starbucks, treehugger.com
Posted in Advertising, Design Tactics, Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Social Media, Web 2.0, eCommerce | 2 Comments »
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 »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Once upon a time, long pages that forced users to scroll were anathema. 'Nobody looks below the fold,' design stakeholders cried. 'But if it's useful content they will!', others retorted.Finally, most people got over it. Now we see well signposted pages -- bolding, bullets, heading structures -- with strong information ...
Tags: ajax, information architecture, interaction design, lake nona, rapp collins, rofl.org, the fold, Web 2.0
Posted in Design Tactics, Web 2.0 | 6 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Wired Editor Chris Anderson has had a profound effect on the internet industry with his book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. One of the key tenets of his theory, for the music industry, was that self-publishing and digital distribution via the internet ...
Tags: birdmonster, chris anderson, diy, long tail, lou reed, record labels, sales, self-publishing, sxsw, wired magazine
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0, eCommerce | No Comments »
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 »
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Social media, social networking and just about any other type of digital communication literally dominated the conversation at this year's SXSW. Avenue A | Razorfish's Shiv Singh, who writes his own blog at Going Social Now, debuted our new social media practice to a packed hall in Austin. For those who ...
Posted in Advertising, Social Media, 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 »
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