February 2012
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January 2012
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Create HTML5 animations from your browser
Create, share and publish HTML5 animations right from your browser using Mugeda. It’s a world-first, cloud-based solution and can be used in a wide range of applications like games, ads, mobile and social ads.
December 2011
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November 2011
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From U.K. social agency The Social Practice. Hat tip to The Curious Brain.
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October 2011
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U-ram Choe’s kinetic sculpture has a “transcending kind of energy”, as U-ram describes it.
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Agile development at Amazon.com, circa 1995
At launch, the site wasn’t even truly finished. Mr. Bezos’s philosophy was to get to market quickly, in order to get a jump on the competition, and to fix problems and improve the site as people started using it. Among the early mistakes, according to Mr. Bezos: “We found that customers could order a negative quantity of books! And we would credit their credit card with the...
Google Lab's Browser-sizer →
Google Browser Size is a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google. You can view any Web site with this same visualisation overlaid on it to get a sense of what percent of users can see what parts of the page.
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September 2011
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Vision = seeing + thinking
Roy Spence, a Texan advertising executive, refused to work with Enron even as the rest of the world beat a path to its door. How did he see what others missed? He thought a lifetime of seeing through the eyes of the powerless gave him different perspectives. “My sister had cystic fibrosis and I used to wheel her to school every morning,” he told me. “I could see people...
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August 2011
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This beautiful video demonstrates the eternal pleasures of ink and paper. Part of Wallpaper* magazine’s Handmade feature.
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June 2011
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May 2011
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Classic game Doom rebuilt in Java and playable... →
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April 2011
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Ogilvy on copywriting
Ogilvy never wrote an advertisement in the office: “Too many interruptions.” He started by looking at every advertisement for competing products for the past 20 years: “Study the precedents.” Then he’d go to work on a headline. Finally, when he could no longer postpone the actual copy, he would start writing, usually throwing away the first 20 attempts. “If all...
March 2011
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mandaflewaway:
CLICK TO MAKE SOME MUSIC
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February 2011
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The best brands are all guided by a clear vision for the world, a unique set of values, and a culture that makes them truly unique and that no user insights could ever change.
A contrarian take on user-centred design: User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea
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One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is how we can relearn to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible…
A wealthy family in England in 1250 might have had three books in...
January 2011
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SEX SELLS. BUT NOT AS WELL AS OUR CHRISTMAS CARD. →
Some people say that when it comes to advertising, if you can beat world news you’ve done good, but if you can beat sex, you’ve done great. You see, in an overexposed society, us simple humans only care about two things: what’s happening right now, and what we wish was happening now…
(via @emma_park)
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SOCIAL SELF-SERVICE →
Brands want to get socially active, but some don’t fully understand the complexities of doing so. If you want to begin some low-level social activity without investing too much immediately, take a read of our Self-Service Social Suggestions.
(via @beaupurr)
October 2010
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Facebook | New Groups: Stay Closer to Groups of... →
Groups are gonna be big. Get on it.
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