Monthly Archives: August 2008
August 27, 2008 – 8:30 pm
Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily.
Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg and twitter; lookup and [...]
August 27, 2008 – 8:25 pm
FFL follow up with their outdoor campaign with this fabolusly twisted tv ad (which caused quite a stir in the UK, with Orangina moneyshot and other BS..)
August 25, 2008 – 9:05 pm
Delicious revamped their website and it seems there’s now some issues with their automatic blog-posting feature. Here’s what made the news in the last few days:
GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones
Based in Fremont, California, GrandCentral provides an innovative web-based voice communications platform that helps you manage all your phones and phone numbers through [...]
August 14, 2008 – 3:35 pm
Specter Art
Nice street arts from Specter
(tags: street arts graffiti streetart)
Innovative use of print media
by Partizan Media. from directdaily
(tags: media advertising print)
August 13, 2008 – 3:34 pm
Michael Phelps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Fred Phelps (born June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American swimmer who holds world records in several events. Phelps won eight medals (six gold, two bronze) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, which tied the record for most medals at one Olympics, a record set [...]
Trading Places: The demographic inversion of the American city.
This article is one of the best read i had this month.
(tags: urban economics culture urbanism)
Emirates A380 at SFO - a set on Flickr
A bar, a shower for first-class (tickets at 10 000$).
No US airline ordered a A380 yet.
(tags: business marketing culture design)
China's breaking its Olympics promise [...]
China's breaking its Olympics promise on freedom of speech
The Chinese government on Tuesday revoked the visa of 2006 Olympic gold medalist Joey Cheek. Cheek is co-founder of Team Darfur, an organization attempting to draw attention to human rights violations in Darfur.
(tags: sports olympics culture)
Cuprocking - Gallery
Cuprocking is the brain child of Sydney based artist Andy [...]
VEAUX « Fresh Talent Market »
VEAUX is an online portfolio community and business-networking site providing a connection between:
(tags: advertising design art marketing ideas)
BBC's School of Design,, reality tv with Philippe Starck
BBC Two and Philippe Starck are teaming up for a brand new TV series to find the next great British designer.
(tags: media entertainment design)
Oil Profits Shatter Records while shares slump
Exxon Mobil Corp. reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the biggest profit from operations ever by any U.S. corporation, but the results were well short of Wall Street expectations and its shares slumped 3 percent.
(tags: business)