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A Design Double-Entendre

posted by DL Byron on April 27, 2008

A note to designers that when creating a logo, it’s a good idea to flip the comps around a few times … look at it in different ways, hold it up to the light. Because a design effort to embody the Office of Government Commerce’s effort to, “improve value for money by driving up standards and capability in procurement,” may instead resemble a masturbator.

(from a Telegraph UK article)

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Apple's Answer to the "Surface"

posted by Jason Swihart on April 21, 2008

Eric's huge iphoneAt last, Apple has announced plans to compete with the Microsoft Surface aka “Big Ass Table.” We previously wrote about the Big Ass Table as part of our CES coverage in January.

Eric’s huge iphone, originally uploaded by mwilkie.

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Social Media and Street Style

posted by Naomi Mimi Meredith on April 18, 2008

FaceHunter in London and Paris and the Sartorialist in New York City bring street fashion into the blogosphere. They use their social media arsenal to hit a bulls-eye with their audience.

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Johnny Cupcakes: sweet success.

posted by Naomi Mimi Meredith on April 18, 2008

“I started this as a joke, from the trunk of my beat up 89’ Toyota Camry.” It’s now a multi-million dollar branding success, run by a straight-edge guy in his mid-twenties.

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This is Chicago

posted by DL Byron on April 18, 2008

Uploaded by Dalmatica | Textura Design visits Chicago next month for Web Design World.

More from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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80s Rockstar

posted by DL Byron on April 09, 2008

Thanks Facebook for helping me find my old rockin’ friend who had this newspaper clipping. That’s Kamiakin High School and our band Vantage Point circa 1984

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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Cracked iPhone in China

posted by DL Byron on April 08, 2008

You’ve heard or read about the missing iPhones and the cracked ones? Well, there’s one right there, spotted in China and I presumed all the other ones I saw were cracked as well.

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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Josh Bancroft and TinyScreenfuls

posted by Naomi Mimi Meredith on April 07, 2008

TDI ran into TinyScreenfuls author Josh Bancroft in Shanghai. Check out his Social Media use on his blog with iPhone photos and his mashup of Twitter posts during the last day of the conference.

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Shanghai Statuettes

posted by DL Byron on April 04, 2008

more from Shanghai.

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Chaos Defrost

posted by DL Byron on April 04, 2008

I noticed the Chaos Defrost option on the microwave and thought that’s either a Dr. Evil setting, some new way high-tech way to heat up food, or they meant “choose defrost.” The possible result of Chaos Defrost is that all the food comes our scrambled.

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IDF 2008: More Mobile Social

posted by DL Byron on April 02, 2008

Just in time for the all the new MIDs at IDF2008 and the iPhone SDK, Yahoo! launches a new suite of mobility apps that includes Flickr and the service is voice activated.

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That’s even more mobile social, and when I was putting together a list of apps I use when moblogging, I wish I had Flickr and Delicious.

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IDF 2008: Compal MID running Ubuntu

posted by DL Byron on April 02, 2008

Spotted at the IDF Reception …

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

And video of it

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IDF 2008: Enter the MIDs

posted by DL Byron on April 02, 2008

As expected, Intel announced “the internet in your pocket” today at IDF 2008 and a bunch of new devices, like the Gigabyte device we saw at SXSW and these from Intel’s campus. NYT covered the announcements, and during the press Q/A today, it was confirmed that the name UMPC is finally dead.

As one of the worst-named product lines ever, that’s good news. More on the MIDs tomorrow and live blogging tonight from Shanghai.

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Waga Coffee

posted by DL Byron on April 02, 2008

There’s good coffee in Shanghai at Waga, and I’m thankful for that.

from the dreeping set on Flickr.

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IDF 2008: Blogger Invite

posted by DL Byron on April 01, 2008

Invitation to the VIP Blogger Meetup tonight at the Attica Bar.

from the Intel Developer Forum Shanghai set on Flickr.

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Working the Mobile Social

posted by DL Byron on April 01, 2008

We use a collection of mobile apps and hardware for the mobile social, including:

  • Twitter Mobile — a lightweight page optimized for phones and mobile internet devices
  • Flickr emailer — a mailto function from Flickr that includes: title, subject, and tags; take a photo and email it to Flickr.
  • TwitterFeed — sends our Hugger feed to Twitter.
  • Feedburner — splices our Delicious links, posts, and photos into one feed.
  • Movable Type — our blogging engine of choice.

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I post with my iPhone and MacBookPro. While not recommend for the non-experienced rider (especially in traffic), I shoot on-the-bike video with a Casio Exilim and edit that in iMovie HD (the older version). We’ll move to Final Cut Pro later in the year with the arrival of the new Canon HDs camcorders. I also expect an incredible offering of mobblogging apps, as soon as developers figure out the iPhone SDK, Intel’s Atom products start showing up, and mobile internet devices mature. We’ll see a bunch of those devices tomorrow here in Shanghai.

Note: Cross-posted from Bike Hugger

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