February 2008
32 posts
Build Last.fm →
Free extras built by the community to extend your Last.fm experience.
“Innovation is super fragile. It’s like a flower in early spring, where...”
– Douglas Merrill, Google CIO. Via Fast Company.
kluster →
Launched at TED2008, kluster is a place to harness the power of community collaboration to get stuff done. Everyone has ideas, kluster provides an online platform to get them out of heads and into the world…where they belong.
Encyclopedia of Life →
A new project to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet.
Music Exec: "Music 1.0 Is Dead." →
Creative? The music industry? Absolutely. At a major music industry conference in New York, execs gathered to talk about the industry’s shift to Music 2.0 - even if no one is quite sure what that means.
“Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.”
– Ogden Nash
Rumplo - Awesome T-Shirts →
Artist T-shirts from around the world.
Hforhome for the love of it →
UK based, Hforhome, is a range of men’s and women’s T-shirts designed to cater for any homesick Kiwis.
MixedInKey.com - Harmonic Mixing Software →
Mixed In Key is Windows and Macintosh software that enables you to use a DJ technique called harmonic mixing. With this software, you can play flawless DJ sets with no key clashes.
“It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a...”
– Harry Truman
UI-patterns.com →
User Interface Design Pattern Library
“Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful”
– Charles Darwin, from the final sentence of The Origin Of Species
Triggit! →
The Triggit web application allows you to place media and ads with simple clicks and drags. No more embed code, FTP software, or HTML headaches. Triggit automatically integrates with the most popular blog platforms.
“Baby, no salsa on the leather…. keep it on the chips”
– Spock to Uhura, Star Trek Cribs
“You’ve got to send the elevator back down”
– Jack Lemmon to Kevin Spacey, when asked why he would spend the time and energy training and teaching young actors.
QIK | Streaming video right from your phone →
Most notably used by tech blogger Robert Scoble, who uses Qik to stream live video from his Nokia N95.
Stefan Sagmeister - Things I Have Learned In My...
Have seen a bit of Stefan Sagmeister lately - his talk at TED and also his appearance in the Helvetica documentary. Haven’t figured out yet whether I love him or hate him, but he’s definitely interesting. He has a book coming out in March, called Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, based on a list of maxims made by the graphic designer on his “experimental year” in 2000, where...
Simon Grigg on Paul McGuinness →
When I first read Paul McGuinness’ MIDEM speech last week, I was pretty sympathetic to many of the points laid out, but have to admit as I’ve mulled it over more, I’m leaning back towards Simon’s view on things. He of course spells it out as only he can…
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