Color + Design Blog / Vintage Color & Design: Penguin & Pelican Books by COLOURlovers (2)
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Another lovely flickr set from Joe Kral inspired this post (the last one can be seen here). This time we're taking a look at classic book design from his Penguin & Pelican Collection set. From the outset, design was essential to the success of the Penguin brand. Eschewing the illustrated gaudiness of other paperback publishers, Penguin opted for the simple appearance of three horizontal bands, the upper and lower of which were colour coded according ...
Social Networking Trends from Coast to Coast (5)
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Residents of Massachusetts and California led the nation in googling the term “social networking” during the last 12 months according to Google Insights for Search, a new search analysis tool. Launched on August 6, Google Insights for Search is a free service that allows users to track the popularity of phrases and words that have been typed into Google’s search engine from 2004 until the present day. The resource enables users to sort data by ...
Hulu Close To Overtaking YouTube (3)
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Nielsen has released its VideoCensus rankings of the top online video sites for July, and it looks like long-tail television site Hulu is the company to watch. In July, Hulu’s traffic grew to 105 million streams per month, and the site leapfrogged several competitors to become eighth most popular vide site. Not bad for a site that’s only been live for five months. Hulu Close To Overtaking YouTube What’s really amazing about Hulu, though, is ...
FriendFeed: Hotter Than Ever Or Starting To Fade? (POLL) (26)
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No matter how you feel about FriendFeed, you can't argue with the fact that it has been one of most popular services among the early adopter set this year. For social media enthusiasts, the site fulfills a need to be always sharing, always active, always involved. In some cases, this led to a self-imposed information overload scenario - there was so much good stuff going on at FriendFeed that it was hard to turn away. ...
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"Wait! Stop the presses! Robert Scoble tired of FriendFeed?! If Scoble is the canary in the coal mine of social media, what does this mean for the rest of us? (Note: he appears to have gotten over this)."
Semantic Search: The Myth and Reality (3)
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For a few years now people have been talking about semantic search. Any technology that stands a chance to dethrone Google is of great interest to all of us, particularly one that takes advantage of long-awaited and much-hyped semantic technologies. But no matter how much progress has been made, most of us are still underwhelmed by the results. In head-to-head comparisons with Google, the results have not come out much different. What are we doing ...
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies - ReadWriteWeb (2)
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In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds. In a recent interview Tim Berners-Lee pointed out that the infrastructure to power the Semantic Web is already here. ReadWriteWeb's founder, Richard MacManus, even picked it to be the number one trend in 2008. And rightly so. Not only are the bits ...
Good Design is not Subjective (1)
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In case you haven’t guessed by my recent flurry of posts, I’ve been engaged in some debates in the past few days about design philosophies and why some designs are “good” and some are “bad.” I’ve been met with some relativistic arguments that no design is either good or bad, it just succeeds or fails differently, etc (ok, they didn’t really say that, but that was the gist of the argument). Of course arguments of ...
Why Learning F# Is So Difficult (1)
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My third installment in the Learning F# Series is coming out in the next day or two. While I was writing it, I had some time to reflect on why learning F# is so hard for an object-oriented programmer like me. So I decided to write some of those thoughts into the third installment. After reading it in context, though, I decided that my observations would be better stated as a separate article, outside of ...
Code as Art: Generative Visual Inspiration and Sharing (5)
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Generative works from Keith Peters, on his new Art from Code site. As code literacy improves and coding tools like Processing and Flash make it easier to produce stunning visual results, the line between the coder/hacker and digital artist, and more conventional artists, is blurring fast. The next trend: networks and blogs on which people share not just their work, but the code behind it. The idea is old, but there’s no question the breadth ...
People Trading Traditional Media News Sources For New Media - Podcasting News (1)
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New research from Pew Research Center for the People & the Press shows that people are relentlessly moving from traditional media -including newspaper, radio & television - to Internet-based news sources. In the last ten years, the percent of people getting their news from the Internet has tripled, while the radio and newspaper news audience has declined 14% and the television news audience has declined 9%: While many people are taking advantage of Internet options ...
Web 2.0 als Erfolgsstrategie: Kleine Unternehmen folgen Technologietrends am schnellsten (2)
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Das amerikanische Business-Magazin Inc. hat seine Inc. 500-Studie aus dem Jahr 2007 in diesem Jahr wiederholt. Die Untersuchung erforscht, wie sich die am schnellsten wachsenden US-Firmen, genannt Inc. 500, an digitale Kommunikationsmittel anpassen. Wie bereits im Vorjahr wurden die Unternehmen nach ihrem Nutzerverhalten und ihrer Vertrautheit mit Sozialen Medien befragt. Dabei stellte Gartner Fragen zu den sechs wichtigsten Medien: Blogs, Podcasts, Online Videos, Soziale Netzwerke und Wikis. Die Ergebnisse sind eindeutig: Vertrautheit mit sozialen Medien ...
Mobile Music Platform Survey Results, Plus Beatmaker MIDI Export (1)
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Being expressive and productive creatively is all about finding a workflow that fits you. Form factor is part of that, because location matters. (I discovered this when trying unsuccessfully to operate my MacBook on a bus to Boston this week that wouldn’t accommodate my knees. Mobile devices suddenly had more appeal.) Naturally, not everyone has the same needs or interests. So today, we have some survey data on how readers feel about mobile tech, as ...
emarketer: Social Networks Get Down to Business (1)
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Nach und nach sehen Unternehmen den Wert einer eigenen Community deutlicher, glaubt man einer neuen Studie von emarketer.com: “As compelling as the ad growth is, marketers will spend far more over the next few years to create and manage their own social networks for business customers, partners, suppliers and vendors,” says Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst at eMarketer and author of the new report, B2B Marketing on Social Networks: Engaging the Business Audience. “These business ...
Amazing Video Technology Makes Lousy Home Videos Look Awesome (2)
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Researchers at the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington have created amazing new software technology for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using photographs of the same scene. According to the researchers: Our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the video. Additionally, the user can quickly modify the video by editing only a few still images of the ...
Jon Burg's Future Visions: transparency > authenticity > sincerity (2)
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Transparency is a state of honest communications. Authenticity is a state of presenting. Sincerity is a state of being. Not long ago the market began to buzz about the need for transparency in corporate culture as they communicate in social channels.This soon translated in brand authenticity, further evolving the humanity of corporate culture and the resultant media.So what's next?If we think about human relationships, the truest form of communications is that of sincerity.Which begs the ...
Suggesting solutions we don't use ourselves (2)
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I've been in far too many meetings, it's always a meeting, where someone suggests that we just need <technology>pick one</technology> as the solution to what the customers are wanting. I thought of this today when I saw this quote buried deep in an article about social features being built-in to the major blogging platforms: The Next Social Networks Will Not Be Powered By Blog Platforms ...features such as forums are old school...I smiled as I'd ...
