WEEK OF AUGUST 30, 2010
Twitter's iPad app features some new UI touches created for the bigger screen, built around media consumption. Tweets meet Web pages, photos and more.
PointStream visualizes 2010 US Open match data and stats in real-time to give you a unique way to see how your favorite players are performing.
"Of Two Minds About Books." Paper books. Ebooks. Ideally no one will have to choose; everyone will be able to read the version they like better.
The FWA launched its mobile showcase. Today. FWA Mobile.
Like hamsters? Someone must. Hamstar—a streetwear-inspired clothing line sporting likenesses of the charismatic rodents from the Kia Soul TV spots—is selling like crazy. From David&Goliath and Kia.
It can't be summed up any better than this: "500 years of science, reason and critical thinking via the medium of gross oversimplification, dodgy demarcation, glaring omission and a very tiny font." The Modern Science Map. By Crispian Jago.
"Prison Without Walls," an article on the Atlantic about an increasingly viable (and precise) alternative to conventional incarceration.
Sort of like the Visual Thesaurus, but for news. The Accidental News Explorer, an app for the constantly curious. By Brendan Dawes.
TransferBigFiles.com has created the first iPhone App to send high-quality HD Videos wirelessly from your phone.
BETC Euro RSCG, has developed software that can create mediocre ads in just ten seconds—instead of hours of strategic meetings and production.
The subject of the coming-soon book by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers: Collaborative Consumption. The consumer shift, explained briefly in What's Mine is Yours, is an appealing concept based on sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting and swapping redefined through technology and peer communities.
WEEK OF AUGUST 23, 2010
StumbleSafely. A mapping project that helps people in Washington DC get home safely—drunk or sober—by identifying crime areas close to bars and metro stops. Ingeniously simple. By Ian Cairns.
Twizzlers? Or Red Vines? There doesn't seem to be any middle ground in that debate? Maybe this will change some minds: Red Vines World of Sharing.
Put.io fetches, stores and streams media files that you can access from any device.
Coming soon (next week) so you can stamp and deliver: Courier—a new Mac app from Realmac Software.
Integrating sustainability into design education: The Toolkit. The Designers Accord breaks down each element and provides examples. An amazing resource.
Viralheat, a social measurement platform that allows you to monitor your social media campaigns without having to sit in front of the computer all day.
In this interactive, pulldown-menu version of the Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index, a panel of 20,000 "ordinary" people in 20 different countries rate the people, products, governments, culture, education and tourist attractions of other countries. So interesting.
For Gordon Lyon, Icons of the Web is more about the capability of his Nmap interactive viewer than the resulting infographic. Either way, though, this visualization of the Web's top 328,427 unique icons is pretty cool.
From SimpleGeo and the amazing folks at Stamen, Polymaps is a free JavaScript library for making Web-based dynamic, interactive maps.
The most recent in a series of Chinese propaganda film mashups... the Red Army Orchestra plays to Michael Jackson's "Beat It."
WEEK OF AUGUST 16, 2010
"An Open Letter [Commentary] to All of Advertising and Marketing" will surely be making the rounds. We spotted it on PSFK; it was originally seen on Jonnie Moore's Weblog in a post titled "Pushback."
For those that aren't able visit Core77's Hand-Eye Supply store in Portland, the store is open online.
St Ryde is a "very casual" sans serif newly released by Stereotypes. Available at MyFonts.
"Eye of the Tiger." A video remix of the original—played entirely on iPads. By Jordan Hollender.
No clients. No briefs. No support structures. Just two creative types (sending digital files back-and-forth) for fifteen matches (of ten volleys and fifteen minutes each). Layer Tennis 3. It starts Friday (that's tomorrow) afternoon.