Twice this week I’ve stumbled across interfaces which I’ve found irresistible and blog-worthy. The first is PicLens (not brand new this week - but certainly within living memory ie: several months). The second is the Zoomii interface for browsing Amazon books.
PicLens is a Firefox 3.0 plugin which allows you to navigate through sites such as […]
Image: Mike Rohde
With the US economy described as being in “free fall”, the 3rd SEED conference held in Chicago a couple of weeks ago on 6 June, may be for some, a beacon of optimism in an otherwise bleak and stormy landscape. It was a small, one day affair which apparently attracted a (mostly male) […]
Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world. […]
Courtesy of Michael Ball:
“Is there a market for feature-length films on the mobile phone?” I asked Tomas Gewecke, new President of Digital Distribution for Warner Bros., at the US Mobile Entertainment Forum Conference MEFCON last week.
You’d think, by the audience reaction, that I just confessed to running over his dog.
Warner cut a deal recently with […]
LAMP has been advocating the ideals of an integrated content strategy harnessing the virtues of traditional and emerging technologies for a while now and as every new piece of technology emerges, this strategy evolves and comes to incorporate the reality derived from the trend. Today we hear about GM’s OnStar communication diagnostic system , […]
It would seem that multi-touch interfaces are the new black. In any case - they’re really really popular. They’re popping up like mushrooms all over the place with companies like Microsoft and Apple in a mad race to get devices/concepts to market. Ken Han introduced the genius of his multi-touch interfaces to a rapt […]
The SMH reports that smokers are about to get help kicking the tobacco habit: an interactive computer game that aims to “coach” cigarette users away from their addiction.
Based on the successful “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking” method which reportedly has helped more than 10 million smokers to stub out their cigarettes once and for […]
Childrens BBC have quietly launched a small creative virtual world Adventure Rock which is already reaching 2 million page views a month and has been downloaded 55,000 times. The back story is a compelling setup for the target audience who are encouraged to create movies, stories and take images of their travels.
“A short while ago, […]
The countdown to the opening of the first Apple Store in the southern hemisphere has begun with the unveiling of a “coming soon” sign across the facade of a nearly-completed office complex in the heart of the Sydney CBD.
The sign is printed onto a sheet of blue material that is stretched across the glass atrium […]
The world had real-time news about China’s massive earthquake as victims dashed out Twitter text messages while it took place, in what has been touted as evidence of micro-blogging outshining mainstream news, claims Newslimited media potral News.com.au.
As the earth shook with tragic consequences, people in the parts of China that felt the quake used their mobile […]
New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity. The connected TV experience is aimed at providing remote users with a joint viewing experience - chat, vote, comment, or just watch your favorite shows with other fans or distant friends.
The idea of transforming an experience […]
I’ve been meaning to post something about Pangea Day for a few weeks because I found it inspiring on a number of levels. I’m inspired by documentary filmmaker Jehan Noujaim and her acceptance speech at TED 2006 - which led to the creation of Pangea Day, a global film festival for social change held last […]
We’ll i’ll let you read the heading again — nope, it’s not a joke. Apparently millions of tiny, hairy, reddish-brown creatures known as “crazy rasberry ants” - crazy, because they wander erratically instead of marching in regimented lines, and “rasberry” after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator who did battle against them early on, are causing quite […]
A much publicised patent application published in December 2007 revealed that Apple had explored allowing handheld owners (such as the iPhone) to place orders from local stores. The system would, for example, allow customers to order a drink with the press of a button on their iPhone which would then notify them when their order […]
So you’re behind on developing your WAP site, and you obviously can’t give mobile users a full Flash experience on the handset (at least not yet). But you don’t want to get left behind on the iPhone platform… What to do? Enter the “Middle Web.”
Especially now that developers have had some “quality time” with Apple’s […]
