Interactive marketing is hardly new, but in creating a digital showcase for its most famous product, Burberry was quickly seen as a Web leader among fashion houses. “The field was wide open for someone to be number one,” said Lucian James, founder of Agenda Inc., a Paris-based brand consulting firm. “You couldn’t have guessed that Burberry would be it.”
Ford is making a serious bid for geeks’ business. Scott Monty, the auto company’s Internet-famous social media head, wrote to us tonight with some of the most exciting car-related news an Internet-dependent nerd could wish for.
The next generation of Ford’s SYNC-enabled vehicles will not only be rolling communications and entertainment systems. They’ll also be rolling WiFi hotspots. Passengers will be able to connect to the Internet anywhere, anytime. Our crystal ball is showing a lot more Ford-enabled conference roadtrips.
This isn’t of course exactly what an Apple tablet (or iSlate) might look like, but it gives you an idea of one application type that an Apple device might offer, and it shows the further disruption coming to the book, magazine, newspaper, and television industries.
by Braden Kelley
Blogging Innovation: Apple Tablet Sneak Preview – Latest innovation articles, videos, and insights.
For those UX designers not already familiar with the Flash Catalyst, why should they check it out?
Flash Catalyst allows designers to start creating real web and desktop experiences themselves from the very beginning of the design process—rather than mocking up comps and then relying on developers to faithfully recreate them in working code. It let’s you start working with the real thing, right away.
INSPIRE – A publication from the Adobe Experience Design team.
Boxee Beta is scheduled to be opened up to the public on January 7th at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Over the next four weeks, the company plans to release invitations to users who signed up for its early access list and then to other Boxee Alpha users.
Boxee Beta, New Astro-Designed, D-Link-Manufactured Boxee Box Unveiled (Screenshots and Photos)
According to the Star Ledger report, AT&T’s scientists have been developing prototype connected health products for the past year, in an effort to make everyday household items “part of the network cloud.” As we reported earlier in the year, Miller and his team want to connect thermometers, scales, blood pressure cuffs and other “old technology” along with wireless radios to leverage WiFi networks and Bluetooth interoperability for connected medical devices.
OFFF is spreading the work of a generation of creators that are breaking all kind of limits. Those separating the commercial arena from the worlds of art and design; music from illustration, or ink and chalk from pixels. Artists that have grown with the web and receive inspiration from digital tools, even when their canvas is not the screen.
via OFFF Paris 2010 · 24, 25, 26 June 2010 · LE GRANDE HALLE DE LA VILLETTE.
Snow Crash is Neal Stephenson's third novel, published in 1992. Like many of Stephenson's other novels it references history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, and philosophy.
There’s been a lot of negative talk about Flash AR executions lately, and it’s deserved. Too many brands are using development houses that have no more understanding of the FLARToolkit than throwing a 3D model on a marker, let alone how to use it for successful product promotion.
Why Flash is the Future of Augmented Reality (Including Mobile).
The number of followers you have on Twitter doesn’t really matter. In a sense, it never did—but now that lists are being used by increasing numbers of members, it means that people are more prone to politely follow-back to people who they intend to mostly ignore; the list feature allows them to organize the people they are truly interested in.