March 2008

The Archives

• Thoughts

  I got quoted in the new AdAge about ITP…

  03.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  … about The Country’s Top Five Digital Media and Marketing Schools.
  AdAge, being a advertising trade magazine, was naturally interested in making the piece fit the greater advertising/marketing story. That being said, for anyone who knows ITP, you know it clearly falls in the “Digital Media” side more that the “Marketing” side and I did […]

• Customer Service, Design in the Wild, Gold Star, Social, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Vineacity - an interesting take on the display of public reputations

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A colleague at work recently pointed me to Newsvine’s concept of “vineacity.” For them, “vineacity” is a quantifiable measure of your behavior on and relationship to, the Newsvine community.
  That behavior boils down to 6 key metrics that get represented as branches on a, you guessed it, vine. These vine icons, concisely denoting varying degrees […]

• Links

  Links from March 18th

  03.19.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing on Display Ads, Mobile, and Better Search

  Sports,Tracked by PhoneKDDI launching a similar service to Nokia’s Sports Tracker, "enabling users to to track their exercise route and sync their music."

  The Lost Ring: Alternate Reality Game on PSFK

  SimplicityHa

  Improved privacy controls, instant messaging on the way at Facebook | […]

• Links

  Links from March 17th

  03.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  EU backs Nokia standard for mobile TVSadly, everyone else seems to be going with their own standard as well.

  The Making of Grand Theft Auto IVcan… not… wait…

  Can Apple Patent the Pinch? Experts Say It’s PossibleWhile it won’t be resolved for a while, this could hvae huge implications for other manufacturers, trying to capitalize on Apple […]

• Gadgets, Thoughts

  I want this Nintendo DS 80s Korg Synth so bad, my Kraftwerk aches

  03.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Maybe because its Monday and I’m not feeling 100%, but I’m blown away by this potentially stunning repurposing of the Nintendo DS touchscreen. Only in Japan? Bah!
  Read more: The ’80s return with a DS synthesizer

• Gadgets, Mobile, Thoughts

  Using phones for phonecalls is “Booooorrrring!”

  03.17.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …or so say a group of British children who were recently polled:
  Their survey also asked whether the students had video, music or photos on their phones, and four out of five said they had all three. When I asked a group of them what they wanted from a phone they had plenty of demands: “Multimedia, […]

• Links

  Links for March 15th through March 16th

  03.16.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)Great TED talk by Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist who lived through a major stroke and came to TED to give people insight into her unique perspective on the event.

  In Praise of a Water BottleDan Saffer has a great post about how the design of a "disposable" water […]

• Links

  Links for March 14th through March 15th

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life…say some scientists

  First Look: ZumobiI dunno. I’m not blown away by this at all. The design seems "cheesy-futuristic" to me and the whole idea of teaching people yet another paradigm for mobile content (the "tile"), unecessary.

  Morph - Nokia’s Nano phone concept.Cool, if not completely unrealistic, phone concept that we […]

• Interface, Thoughts

  Reading AppleTV patents: widgets and DVR functionality

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A couple of AppleTV-related patents have recently been unearthed and while I wasn’t immediately grabbed by the product, the direction it could head in is very exciting. Also, I know that trying to read Apple’s intentions from their patents can often be a fool’s game but a boy can still dream, right?

  First off there was […]

• Locative, Mobile, Social, Thoughts

  NextWall: Interactive street art as clever marketing and promotion

  03.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A new media agency in Hamburg called Jung von Matt/next built this slick interactive graffiti wall called NextWall to show how a variety of technologies can be used creatively in public spaces for promotion.
  What I really like about this is that its not an old-world, purely promotional (one way) play. Not only do they provide […]