Everybody wants their blog to be unique. Because of that K2 allows for a kind of sub-theme called ‘styles’. Simply put a style is a stylesheet file, optionally with any needed images, which can be selected in the K2 options panel.
You can distribute your own styles for other K2 users of course, and K2 will automagically show the relevant info about your style—giving you credit—in the footer of the blog using it.
via About « K2.
One of our favorite things about CSS3 is the addition of RGBA, a color mode that adds alpha-blending to your favorite CSS properties. We've kicked the tires on it a bit with our own projects and have found that it helps streamline our CSS and makes scaling things like buttons very easy. To show you how, we've cooked up an example with some super awesome, scalable buttons.
In the healthcare device and software industry, the mantra: build it and they will come doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked since Noah built an ark or the movie Field of Dreams was made. Ignoring the user experience is what’s wrong with the healthcare experience and begs for innovation.
Owners of laptops and mobile devices equipped with built-in accelerometers that can tell which way is down will now benefit of the new Firefox 3.6 that can recognize your screen orientation and adapt accordingly. This new feature was announced by Mozilla evangelist Christopher Blizzard.
via New Orientation-Aware Firefox 3.6. Accelerometer Is a Must! – SoftSailor.
Take a look at the newest Tech Game consoleSAN FRANCISCO–Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, look out. Your traditional video game console business model may be in danger.
Its too early to tell how much danger, of course, but a start-up called OnLive announced a brand-new game distribution system Monday night that, if it works as planned, could change the games game forever.
OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system–seven years in the works–that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels. The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.
The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.
With so many companies focusing more intensely than ever on innovation, why are so few seeing results?
Adam Richardson, creative director at the award-winning global innovation firm frog design, gets to the bottom of this dilemma in his new book, Innovation X. Richardson argues that companies’ efforts to innovate are being thwarted by “X-Problems,” a new class of 21st century challenges that defy conventional planning. But Richardson has hope. If used in the right way, these problems can present massive innovation opportunities.
via Innovation X: Why a Company’s Toughest Problems Are Its Greatest Advantage – Adam Richardson.
Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I'm asked is often “So when's Google Maps going to add biking directions?” We're big biking fans too, so we've been itching to give you a concrete answer. I don't want to keep the good news a secret any longer, so the answer is: right now!
via Official Google Blog: Biking directions added to Google Maps.
The ability to innovate faster and in new ways will always be critical to achieving high performance. But given the new dynamics of a fast-changing and less predictable global economy, a number of competitive assumptions are changing. One of the most important changes: The new business environment will favor those companies able to execute innovations faster, and to move their organizations forward more nimbly.
MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, BARCELONA: London and San Francisco, 15 February 2010 – The Symbian Foundation today unveiled the Symbian^3 S^3 platform, the first entirely open source release following the platform’s transition to an open source license on 4 February, 2010, which was the largest of its kind in history.
via Symbian announces Symbian^3 and immediately gives it away | Symbian.
It offers a new perspective, new tools and ideas on how to address strategic issues for enabling new growth by developing fresh answers to the classic questions in strategy: what business are you in? who is your customer? and how to organize to fulfill customers’ needs?
The complete guide can be downloaded here.
Quantifying the economic impact of innovation has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. Bill, astrophysicist Lowell Wood, and Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer at Microsoft and founder of Intellectual Ventures, talk about how innovation is overlooked in economic statistics.
via Bill Gates – Conversations – The Failure to Measure Innovation – The Gates Notes.
ring°wall from SENSORY-MINDS on Vimeo.
SENSORY-MINDS is a start-up team of well experienced enthusiasts envisioning the next generation of computing.Working and researching in the field of Natural User Interfaces we develop innovative solutions for our customers that fascinate their users and engage and involve their clients.
Theoretically, HTML5 will reduce reliance on proprietary plug-ins, such as Adobe Flash. This means devices that may not support Flash–such as Safari for the iPhone–will be able to leverage the functionality of HTML5, enabling the creation of applications that will run on more devices. HTML5 also supports the following features: Offline data storage, meaning users can access web sites developed in it without being connected to the internet Drag and drop functionality Document editing i.e. Google Docs Built-in video Geolocation – the ability to identify the real-world location of a computer on the Internet
via Entrepreneur.com Daily Dose – Understanding Html5 And Why It Matters.
Closed OTT is where the internet video experience is managed by the service provider and open web content is chosen and integrated into a walled garden of the best bits (or most lucrative bits depending on how generous we are being)
Open OTT is where the consumer gets to move away from the confines of the service providers editorialised experience and ‘surfs’ the open web unheeded (normally using a browser that handles all the different display and encoding formats)
via Open or Closed OTT? « Andrew Burke’s Hardcore IPTV Blog.
g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.
Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.The SOE's combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak platform is a complete application development and execution environment that redresses the dire constriction of human intent imposed by traditional GUIs. Its idiom of spatial immediacy and information responsive to real-world geometry enables a necessary new kind of work: data-intensive, embodied, real-time, predicated on universal human expertise.
This conceptual video is a corporate collaborative research project initiated by Bonnier R&D into the experience of reading magazines on handheld digital devices. It illustrates one possible vision for digital magazines in the near future, presented by our design partners at BERG.
The Interface
Its different. The face of Windows Phone 7 is not a rectangular grid of thumbnail-sized glossy-looking icons, arranged in a pattern of 4×4 or so, like basically every other phone. No, instead, an oversized set of bright, superflat squares fill the screen. The pop of the primary colors and exaggerated flatness produces a kind of cutting-edge crispness that feels both incredibly modern and playful. Text is big, and beautiful. The result is a feat no phone has performed before: Making the iPhone's interface feel staid.
via Windows Phone 7 Series: Everything Is Different Now – Windows phone 7 – Gizmodo.
Right about now at Mobile World Congress, Adobe is officially announcing Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR for Android. I truly believe these technologies will redefine the mobile experience. Kevin Hoyt recorded a great video overview showing some demos on the Motorola Droid, which I have embedded below. I have also been testing a selection of mobile Flash sites, created by key partners like YouTube and ESPN, and I am very excited about the future of Flash in the mobile browser.
via The Flash Blog » Adobe announces Flash Player and AIR for Android.
Someone at Google apparently took pity on the poor users who can only explore Google Earth on their laptops. Jason Holt used his 20 percent project time to create a wraparound view of a modified Google Earth engine, and splashed it across 8 LCD screens in an immersive viewing booth. The result provides a view not unlike that from a starship's bridge, and allows users to seamlessly explore a virtual environment of the Earth, moon, and Mars — an experience that Google has dubbed “Liquid Galaxy.”
Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to QuickTime and Flash automatically, without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many, many browsers and platforms.
YouTube – Objectified trailer.
A peek at the upcoming design documentary “Objectified”, by Gary Hustwit, the director of “Helvetica”. The trailer features the voices of Jonathan Ive, Andrew Blauvelt, Marc Newson, and Karim Rashid. The song is “I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool” by El Ten Eleven.
Objectified premieres at film festivals and events worldwide starting this March, more info here: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com
Designer Philippe Starck — with no pretty slides to show — spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question “Why design?” Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not.
News Highlights
* At the National Retail Federation Convention, Intel showed an interactive, 7-foot-6-inch Intel® Intelligent Digital Signage Concept with an LCD display and holographic glass to demonstrate how technology can enhance the retail customer experience with a multi-touch, multi-user interface.
* Concept demonstrates how digital signage technology can provide retailers with a competitive advantage, and how it can impact customer loyalty by providing targeted, interactive content to consumers.
* Optimized digital signage solutions based on the Intel® Core™ i7 processor and Windows 7-based Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard 2011* platform aim to better standardize a fragmented market.
Digital signage is appearing everywhere—in airports, banks, retail stores, and hospitals—ushering in a new era of in-store and on-site advertising and communications. The adoption of digital signage is expected to increase, prompted by higher impact, lower cost solutions that will draw in larger numbers of advertisers and businesses.
IDENT’s GestIC technology is a gesture-based interface system and they’re showing off by describing a cube of some sort that allows you to turn, twist, and pinch your data in 3D. Each side will have different functions and you can access messages and the web just by slipping and sliding on the surface.
If the iPad ushers in a new golden age of information design, things like New York's Approval Matrix, designed by Luke Hayman in 2005, may become the new norm.
The new iPad from Apple, presented in typical Steve Jobs fashion as game-changing, will, in fact, revolutionize the way we read magazines. Combining the rich visual content of a print publication, the ever-changing immediacy of a website, and the portability of an e-book reader, the iPad is something new.
Pentagram’s Luke Hayman, designer of, among others, Time, New York, and Travel + Leisure, was asked how this new format would change the world of magazines and came up with five ways off the top of his head.
via Five Ways the iPad Will Change Magazine Design | New at Pentagram | Pentagram.
Widget Realm, a company that offers content publishing services for desktop apps, mobile devices and connected TV sets, on Tuesday launched its “Broadcast-It-Yourself” service for Internet-connected devices running the Yahoo! Widget Engine. According to the company, the new service will enable any developer to easily create and distribute TV widgets to millions of connected TV's and other connected devices. “Yahoo! and Widget Realm are going to enable an explosion of interactive television content,” Widget Realm CEO, Brian Powell, said in a prepared statement. “We're excited to be working with the Yahoo! Widget Engine to help rapidly expand content for the new technology. In just a few minutes, anyone can create their own television interface and distribute their content to the millions of Internet-connected TV's around the world.”
Daniel Kraft of the Singularity University discusses some of the medical technologies on the horizon. He talks about sub-$1000 genomes, regenerative medicine and the end of baldness among others. How will providers and patients discuss these complicated technologies and how can design create the tools to facilitate such coversations?
via Healthcare Innovation by Design – The Horizon of Healthcare Technology.
As physicians experience mounting pressure to contain costs and improve outcomes while their patient loads increase, many are finding that patients can be the most cost-effective and valuable tools to help them do their jobs.
The concept of participatory medicine, where patients take a more active role in their care, can enhance the physician-patient relationship and allow physicians and patients to bring their own expertise and knowledge to the table to produce the best outcomes.
Some languages are more precise than others. German’s word for disappointment, “Enttäuschung,” for example, literally translates as “disillusion” and thus implies that the prerequisite of any disappointment is excessive (and false!) expectation. As if that needed any further evidence, Apple’s iPad presentation and President Obama’s first State of the Union address last Wednesday marked the preliminary culmination of an obvious trend: disappointment as a widespread sentiment and cultural subtext at the dawn of this young decade. Both Apple and Obama are among the most powerful brands of our time and occupy that vexing space between hype and hope in the public mind. Both have zealous fans and followers, and enjoy an almost religious admiration. And both have now suffered a very public deflation, a humiliating erosion of their once unflappable appeal of invincibility, a painful rejection of love.
via The Grand Disappointment: Apple and Obama after Hype and Hope | Blog | design mind.
As I drove by Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco this morning, I couldn't help but be impressed. Apple certainly has the ability to excite people with great products, and with the iPhone they even managed to generate momentum for an entire product category. So it's no surprise that the iPad looks like it's a pretty good new device.
It was really exciting to see some of the technologies that Adobe has contributed to, like PDF and ePub support, taking center stage in the launch. Adobe technology is at the center of virtually every print and digital workflow, so undoubtedly a lot of what you¹ll see getting delivered to the iPad will have originated in Adobe creative software.
via Apple’s iPad — a broken link? (Adobe Flash Platform Blog).
The Windows Azure platform offers a flexible, familiar environment for developers to create cloud applications and services. With Windows Azure, you can shorten your time to market and adapt as demand for your service grows.Windows Azure offers a platform that is easily implemented alongside your current environment.- Windows Azure: operating system as a service- Microsoft SQL Azure: fully relational database in the cloud- Windows Azure platform AppFabric: makes it simpler to connect cloud and on-premises applicationsWindows Azure is now commercially available. Usage during the month of January 2010 will be at no charge. We will begin charging customers on February 1st, 2010.
SoDA 2010 Digital Marketing OutlookExecutive SummaryAs the somber undertones of 2009 fade away, we move excitedly forward towards a year of promise, opportunity and rapid change. If the fiscal stars align, we’ll leave behind the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression and move into a new decade filled with anticipation of a stronger global job market that will inevitably be fueled by new and innovative business models. Digital will surely be at the core of this evolution.
via Digital Marketing Outlook – Society of Digital Agencies.
Consider these terms: page, scroll, file, folder, trash can, bookmark, inbox, email, desktop, library, archive and index. They are all part of the document metaphor, a superset of the “desktop” metaphor. Some elements, such as scroll, desktop and library pre-date the printing press, but all are based on some sort of “marks on paper-like material” reference.
It is important to understand that the document metaphor is more than a UI metaphor. It is in fact a fundamental way of understanding one domain in terms of another. For better or worse, we continue to understand the web in relation to how we understand documents. Unlike figurative metaphors, such as “he was a lion in battle,” which are simple rhetorical statements, conceptual metaphors (a notion introduced in the classic “Metaphors We Live By” by Lakoff and Johnson) like document-ness are pre-linguistic, and quietly ubiquitous. They infiltrate how we think about things on a much more basic level.
A short video of Intel’s interactive cube from their booth at CES 2010 in Las Vegas. This cube pulls in content from various social applications and let’s you see a real time stream of content from across the world. You can touch any cube to zoom in on that particular piece of content.
This is a quick look at the Interactive Collaborative Environment I've built at Edinburgh Napier University.A little detail…It has multiple touch enabled surfaces including four 42″ HD dual touch screens, one 46″ HD multitouch screen and a 108″ multitouch table. The software is a mix of Windows 7, OS X and Linux but the table runs PyMT. The walls are digitally augmented whiteboards which capture anything written anywhere. This is a functioning meeting room as well as a research platform for novel UI and UX. The room will officially open it's door in Jan 2010.
The Yahoo! Widget Engine platform is available in a variety of consumer electronic devices, including flat panel TVs from Samsung®, Sony®, LG Electronics®, and VIZIO®, with others coming soon! With Yahoo! TV Widgets, you can deliver new, interactive movie, TV show, and web experiences to millions of TV owners in North America, Europe, and Asia. For example, today TV Widget users can get their favorite TV show or movie on demand, check the latest news on Yahoo!, sports scores on USA Today, shop on eBay or catch up with their friends on Facebook® or Twitter®.
It’s Nokia Capital Market Day again which means that the boys from Espoo are fawning over investors and giving them a reason to stick around in 2010. And you know what? It sure sounds promising for gadget nerds. Why the optimism? Easy: Nokia is hell-bent on redefining the user experience of its Symbian devices. To quote CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, “In 2010, we will drive user experience improvements, and the progress we make will take the Symbian user interface to a new level.” To bolster this proclamation, the very first bullet point listed under Nokia's Devices and Services operational priorities is “improve our user experience” — something that would thrill us to no end if it happens.
via Nokia promises to take “Symbian user interface to a new level” in 2010, Maemo 6 in 2H — Engadget.
Netflix is set to announce today that its streaming video service will launch on the Nintendo Wii games console this spring, providing it with distribution in a potential 26 million additional US homes note: the Wii is currently the most popular games console in the US. The company has previously secured distribution deals for the service through the Sony PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 games consoles, as well as through Roku OTT set-tops, TiVo DVR's and a number of other devices and platforms.
via Netflix to Offer Streaming Video on the Nintendo Wii | InteractiveTV Today.
NEW YORK, NY — Jan. 11, 2010 — Zodiac Interactive, an Emmy award–winning developer of software for interactive television, announced today the next version of its iTV framework, PowerUp 2.5™, a cross–platform software that unifies and enables advanced iTV applications across multiple set–tops, including legacy boxes. The latest iteration of Zodiac’s core framework, PowerUp 2.5, allows mobile and internet devices and applications to integrate and work directly with the set–top.
Yahoo! last week announced 1) new distribution partnerships for its Yahoo! Widget Engine platform; 2) the release of a Widget Development Kit (WDK); and 3) new content partnerships for the widget platform. “Consumers are in love with their televisions, watching more TV, and demanding Internet connectivity to further enhance their viewing experience,” Arlo Rose, senior director of Yahoo! Connected TV, said in a prepared statement. “Yahoo! is leading the connected TV market by bringing a rich variety of Internet content and services to the living room–incorporating video-on-demand, social networks, games, online shopping, and more–making it easy for consumers to personalize their TV viewing experience.”
MyFord Touch In-Car Interface
In an impressive keynote yesterday opening CES, Ford announced their radically revised new instrument panels for driving in a digital world. Completely integrating the car’s interface with other devices and services, the brand will introduce the system, called MyFord, not just in their high-end vehicles but across the line starting with the 2011 MyTouch Lincoln MKX (which will be shown at next week’s Detroit Auto Show) and the Ford Edge models. The 2012 Ford Focus will be the next car to feature MyTouch, and Ford intends to roll it out to 80% of their models over the next five years. The best news is that MyTouch will be a standard feature with two upgradable versions; the dual instrument panel screens and 8″ touch screen represent the top end).
Macrovision Becomes Rovi, Steps Into Liquid
The company formerly known as Macrovision, in an effort to rebrand itself for the mashup world of social media, over-the-top video and pay TV, relaunched today as Rovi. The new company, whose shares will trade under the symbol ROVI on the Nasdaq, will attempt to tie together its string of acquisitions over the past few years and refashion itself as a one-stop software shop for on-screen guides in the new world of integrated media.
Yahoo! expands Web-connected TV push
LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Yahoo! announced partnerships with television and other device manufacturers on Thursday as the Internet company joins others seeking to jump from the computer to the TV screen.
“Consumers are in love with their televisions, watching more TV, and demanding Internet connectivity to further enhance their viewing experience,” said Arlo Rose, senior director of Yahoo! Connected TV.
Yahoo! said the online programs known as “widgets” for the increasing number of Web-capable televisions would be embedded in more models and include video on demand, social networks, games and online shopping.
TEI’10 is the fourth international conference dedicated to presenting the latest results in tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction. It is being held January 25-27, 2010 at the MIT Media Lab.
The work presented at TEI addresses HCI issues, design, interactive art, user experience, tools and technologies, with a strong focus on how computing can finally bridge atoms and bits into cohesive interactive systems. The intimate size of this single-track conference provides a unique forum for exchanging ideas and presenting innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demos, hands-on studios, posters, art installations and performances.
To learn more about submitting work to TEI’10, please see participation.
TEI is sponsored by the ACM SIGCHI
Konigi is about shared knowledge and influence.
The idea of researching how others have designed the look and feel of web sites and crafted their user interfaces is a practice many of us are engaged in continually. We may monitor innovative designers and the sites of influence that have paved the way for the practices we engage in as user experience and visual designers. In a way, it allows us to remain competitive to know what others are up to, but that awareness alone can be a double-edged sword.
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.
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)
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.
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.
SAN FRANCISCO — In many ways, MySQL embodies the ideals of the populist software movement known as open source, in which a program’s creator releases it to the world free of charge, and legions of volunteers contribute improvements that are also freely shared.
Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model – NYTimes.com.
As Google's Android operating system appears on more devices, more companies are extending the platform to develop custom user interfaces for their products. Though Google freely distributes Android and allows anyone to adapt its open-source components, they maintain control of the services (applications) they distribute with Android like Maps, GMail, Google Voice, and more.
via Functioning Form – Android User Experience: When Open & Closed Collide.
The International CES is produced by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy.
via 2010 CES: About CES.
Next Firmware Update (v3.10) Enables PlayStation 3 system Gamers to Share Their Experiences with Friends on Facebook, Including Trophies Won In-Game, PlayStation(R)Network Game Purchases, and Game Events
via Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc.
The L-shaped multi touch table is equipped with four computers each operating one of the four screens embedded in the table top.
Typeface: Neuforma
via NEUFORMA FONT #HFT002 IDENT on Vimeo.
(CNN) — What's the first thing that goes through your mind when someone says the word “data”?
Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you.
via Personas | Metropath(ologies) | An installation by Aaron Zinman.
Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won’t be the end of the world as we know. It will, however, be another winter solstice.
via : NASA – Scenes from the motion picture “2012.” Courtesy Columbia Pictures.
Related Content Database (RCDb) announced today that it has entered into a technology licensing and services agreement with Netflix, Inc. to jointly develop the instant streaming Blu-ray disc that enables Netflix members to instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes on their Sony PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.
via RCDb Licenses BD-Live Software to Netflix | InteractiveTV Today.
For a complete overview of the Movember Foundation, men’s health, our beneficiary partners, research and programs that Movember funds please visit the Movember Foundation Site. For a quick intro to the Movember campaign please read this page.
When envisioning the year 2050, Steven Spielberg asked our designers to imagine a world where technology permeates all aspect of our lives in a way that both celebrates the feats of human innovation while at the same time incorporates the flaws of real world imperfection.
The first three TV of Tomorrow Shows were praised by sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and attendees not only as true experts’ conferences that attracted a veritable “who’s who” of the interactive TV industry, but as offering a thoroughly unique and enjoyable experience. We are working hard to ensure that the TV of Tomorrow Show 2010–which is already attracting an array of high-powered speakers and which will feature a line-up of fascinating entertainments–is even better.
Over the past 18 months, a great debate has consumed our industry: Are digital agencies poised to sit at the head of the advertising table? Depending on whom you ask and what you read, the answer seems to flip flop — with a majority of people still having reservations and making claims that digital agencies aren’t ready to lead.
TEDx is a new program that enables local communities such as schools, businesses, libraries, neighborhoods or just groups of friends to organize, design and host their own independent, TED-like events. Learn more »
via TED | TEDx Events.
There’s a lot of talk in the advertising industry of how big idea advertising is losing its importance. Rather everyday ideas, small and nimble ones that can activate consumers and influencers alike across the Internet seem to be getting as important. On our own internal social media email list, we’ve been having a raging debate on this too.
via Does SIM mean big ideas matter less? – Going Social Now.
MyAlltop enables you to create a “personal, online magazine rack” of your favorite websites and blogs. You can create a personal collection from over 32,000 information sources—
Imagine nature’s most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter “filter salt from water” and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels.
Now imagine you can meet the people who have studied these organisms, and together you can create the next great bio-inspired solution.
Speed Up Your Workflow
Gaia is an open-source front-end Flash Framework for AS3 and AS2 designed to dramatically reduce development time.
With Gaia’s revolutionary scaffolding engine, you can build a fully functional Flash site in less than 10 minutes without writing a single line of Actionscript!
Domestika es un proyecto orientado a promover el valor del diseño como herramienta de cambio en la sociedad.
Cuenta con una comunidad donde se crean sinergias entre personas y proyectos afines. Un sitio donde compartir recursos, tanto materiales como intelectuales. Un espacio para la experimentación y la reflexión, potencialmente abierto a todas las disciplinas relacionadas con la expresión artística.
Hyper Island is at the forefront of interactive and digital media training. Since becoming the first school of digital and interactive media in Sweden in 1995, Hyper Island has built a global network of the most creative and successful people in the industry.
The Hyper Island Master Class concept is built upon the unique Hyper Island methodology—learning-by-doing and learning-by-reflection. Dialogue-based training and teamwork are important factors for learning that makes an impact. At a Hyper Island Master Class participants interact with experts rather than listen to traditional lectures and work in teams more often than individually. The most effective learning tools are the challenging projects that will expose you to a variety of problem-solving situations. All participants are expected to have a strong and active participation.
