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05/11/08: The Secret to Social Media

When I was in University as the Internets came online, a professor told me that the Victorians were equally impressed with themselves over mail. They wrote “missives” daily, sometimes five times a day … the post office would come...

05/10/08: China time

More from the dreeping set on Flickr....

05/08/08: Shared Palettes

I commandeered the Raygun bag from the latest batch of schwag Crumpler sent us for the Mobile Social in Portland, traveled with it to a conference and noticed, TDI’s palette is nearly identical to the colors in this bag! Double-checked...

05/05/08: Talk Amongst Yourselves

Movie and slides from my Talk Amongst Yourselves presentation at Web Design World Chicago. Also available on Flickr as a slideshow. Talk Amongst Yourselves by Textura Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Based on...

05/05/08: Mashing up the Enterprise

Movie and slides from my Mashing up the Enterprise presentation at Web Design World Chicago. Also available on Flickr as a slideshow. Mashing up the enterprise by Textura Design is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States...

05/03/08: Biker Warning

I’d read about the gangland violence in Chicago, and I’m just saying just cause we ride bikes, don’t mean we’re wusses …when I’m out on the folding bike, I’ve got my pump with me too. Uploaded by elmada |...

05/03/08: Question Mark Heads

From those little badges of courage bloggers put on their blogs (icons for delicious, facebook, mybloglog, digg, furl, larry, moe, and curly) to various widgets, and now Question Mark Heads, there’s a tendency to group think in social media. Has...

04/27/08: A Design Double-Entendre

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...

04/21/08: Apple's Answer to the "Surface"

At 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....

04/18/08: Social Media and Street Style

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....

04/18/08: Johnny Cupcakes: sweet success.

“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....

04/18/08: This is Chicago

Uploaded by Dalmatica | Textura Design visits Chicago next month for Web Design World. More from the dreeping set on Flickr....

04/09/08: 80s Rockstar

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....

04/08/08: Cracked iPhone in China

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....

04/07/08: Josh Bancroft and TinyScreenfuls

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....