Making Techno With An Orchestra
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008Techno pioneer Carl Craig is trading in electronic instruments for an upcoming performance. He’ll be utilizing a full size orchestra to transform his work from bleeps and synth sounds to a symphonic mix of strings, brass, woodwind and percussion. The Les Siècles Orchestra will perform Craig’s songs on October 18th at the Cité de la [...]
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Made In Queens: Heavy Duty Sound Systems For Bikes
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008A group of teenagers from Queens, NY star in a short film about their unusual bike customizations. The teens, all originally from Trinidad have taken to the hobby of tricking out their BMX bikes with huge sound systems. The bikes range from the modest “Tinnitus Rex” to the ridiculously speaker heavy “Basszilla” (seen above).
Made In [...]
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Watch Youself Finish
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008In Olympic mood, last weekend PSFK friend Dominic Fawkes ran, swam and biked the London Triathlon. After the race, Dominic and his friends could go to a Virgin Media website, put in his name and watch him finish the race. A simple but clever use of technology, no?
www.virginmedia.com/sport/triathlon/ (Dom’s the follically challenged one)
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Platform-A’s Goowy widget-based advertising tool, AdSense ads and User Interactivity
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008Perhaps all of you got this news: AOL’s Platform-A announces Goowy widget-based advertising tool.
That is undoubtedly a cool idea and perhaps a major shift in online advertising. Time will say if this concept will survive or not, but the idea is cool. You can find a widget here.
If you take a closer look at the pattern or the core idea, you will see that to a high extent it is the next step to Goggle AdSense ads.
A few days back I wrote a post titled “How do you use Google AdSense?” where I was talking about the use of two arrows in the AdSense ads. This step actually started the trend of direct user interactivity with the advertisement content. Thus in this pattern, the target audience is supposed to click on the link for more related ads.
I missed one point out there: Google does not declare what those arrows (they could simply add some text like - ‘click for more related ads’ beside those arrows)! Does Google think that general people are web-educated enough to understand what those arrows are? I do not think that general people are educated enough - I would rather say that general people discover the function by clicking on them.
Anyways, it actually started a new era in the advertiser and audience interaction pattern. Platform-A’s “Goowy widget-based advertising tool” is just the next generation advertisement, developed on that simple pattern, where the audience is invited to interact with the advertisement.
However, why should I copy such a widget into my website or blog even after knowing that it is an advertisement that would generate money for somebody else?
To add to it, if I do it unknowingly, I am actually cheated by a well-reputed company named AOL.
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Bands In Town: Concert Search Engine
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008Bandsintown is a handy service that uses a tag cloud interface to show musicians and bands performing in your town. A control panel on the left of the screen lets you filter and change parameters like ticket price, date range, and distance from your city.
Rolling over an artist’s name will display a pop up widget [...]
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Oregon University To Be 100% Earth Powered
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008Geothermal power uses heat stored under the ground or in the oceans to heat buildings, or generate electricity. Oregon Institute of Technology is going to be taking full advantage of this abundant power source in the near future. The school has announce a plan to build a $7.6 million geothermal power plant on their campus. [...]
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The Museum of Product Failures
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008Thousands of new products are released into the wilds of the market every year. Some become great successes, while others fail hard. What’s the secret, the x factor that makes or breaks a new product?
Arbor Strategy Group thinks they know. For 30 years, the Michigan based company has studied and collected failures, along with their [...]
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Trends in Chinese Indie Design
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008
Over the past couple years, Chinese indie designers and DIY brands have become increasingly popular among the nations’ youth, exemplifying the growing creative consciousness of China’s new generation of both producers and consumers.
Youthology, a new blog focused on tracking Chinese youth culture trends and insights, recently reported on Beijing’s indie designer exhibitions and creative bazaars, [...]
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Accelerometer-Based Performance Apps for the iPhone
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008With Apple having sold about $30 million worth of software through the App Store in one month, it comes as no surprise that companies are stumbling over each other to get their hands on that sweet profitable pie. Many app developers, to distinguish themselves in the growing market, have taken innovative approaches to utilizing [...]
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Shelter in a Cart
Tuesday, den 12. August 2008We like designers Barry Sheehan and Gregor Timlin’s concept for designboom’s mobile living/storage competition -‘Shelter Cart’, a receptacle that doubles as shelter when flipped upside down. The cart’s capacity (and thus, roof coverage) is adjustable, though its functionality is less the point of the design than its aim “to raise awareness” [...]
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