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Digital Buzz Blog · Aden Hepburn
I love Uniqlo digital work. And here is their latest piece for the new functional range of clothing. It’s a visual feast as usual, created through a series of various video catwalk demonstrations that slide past you. The demonstrations are quite litteral for every feature, from the “stretch pants” to the robust…
Inside Facebook · Shea Bennett
ElectronPlumber · El Plumber (admin)
Uncrunched · Michael Arrington
More Intelligent Life
Africa has made a phenomenal leap in the last decade. Its economy is growing faster than that of any other continent. Foreign investment is at an all-time high; Senegal has lower borrowing costs than Ireland. The idea of a black African billionaire—once outlandish except for kleptocratic dictators—is commonplace now.…
I Will Teach You To Be Rich · Ramit Sethi
... My heart’s in Accra · Ethan
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Global - Coca-Cola's global CSR initiative with World Wildlife Fund will see the beverage giant churn out 1.4 billion white Coca-Cola cans to support its polar bear conservation efforts.
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Singapore - OCBC Bank has invested SG$10 million in digital marketing, revamping its website and mobile channels to make its online banking platform simpler but with richer features.
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Singapore - Marketing Magazine's annual Digital Media of the Year Awards has seen a host of the region's most preferred digital platforms emerge victorious in the fast proliferating digital industry.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
JustinFrench.com - notebook
Last night I figured out that it’s possible to share your reminder lists with other iCloud users, like a Groceries list shared with my wife Kate, which we’re trying out right now. The new Reminders app in iOS 5 leaves a lot of room for improvement, and this is a big one — there’s no indication anywhere in the iOS…
Joe Hewitt
I've been reading a lot of speculation recently about what a future Apple TV might look like. Not nearly enough of these analyses have talked about AirPlay. It's clear to me that AirPlay would be so important to the Apple TV, you might as well call it AirPlay TV.There's so much compelling video content and games…
Blog - Stack Exchange · Alex Miller
Pharyngula
The BBC is running an interview with Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, and it's very good. Bell-Burnell is the woman who discovered pulsars, and until I heard this interview, I hadn't realized how it was done. Yeah, there weren't computers available so the reams of data came out on strip chart - paper chart - and the…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Ad Contrarian · The Ad Contrarian
I don't often do this, but today I am forgoing the business of shooting my mouth off in favor of directing you to another blog post that will provide you with a great deal more value.The post is called 'Engagement': Fashionable Yet Bankrupt on a blog called Canalside View. It is written by Martin Weigel who is Head…
ParisLemon
The Search For Greed: Danny Sullivan does an extremely deep dive into what on the surface seems to be a very good thing: Google moving over to encrypted search. It is mainly a good thing, and Google knew that’s how it would be interpreted, so they used the opportunity to do something shady: break the rules for their…
Google Analytics Blog · Google Analytics team
Google Analytics Blog · Google Analytics
iMerlion: The Singapore iPhone/iPad Guide · noreply@blogger.com (Jimmy Yap)
Apple is now accepting pre-orders for the iPhone 4S in Singapore. The 16GB version is going for S$948, while the 32GB version is $1,088. The 64GB version, on the other hand, costs S$1.238. All devices are unlocked and SIM-free. Apple is restricting orders to two per customer and shipping times are listed as one to…
Bustr Bensn
Habit Labs: Response to Gabe and Sebastian's #gamification discussion: habitlabs: A VERY interesting debate has been going on this last week primarily between Gabe Zichermann, author of the new book by O’Reilly called “Gamification by Design”, and Sebastian Deterding, PhD researcher on user experience, persuasive and…
Waxy.org Links
Aaron Koblin wrote about it; try hitting "H" for the control panel [via]
WebAppers · Ray Cheung
Marketing Interactive News Feed
Singapore - Social media marketing agency Blugrapes has announced it will sell Facebook ads to clients at cost price, saying it believes social media marketing is about the conversations instead of advertising.
Uncrunched · Michael Arrington
Marco.org
This is a big update. (Impatient? App Store link.) Navigation The iPad browsing interface has been completely redesigned to feel more at home in the iPad environment. Instead of just being a blown-up full-screen list, it’s now a more touch-friendly grid, with all navigation available in any orientation: The iPad list…
Assembla Blog · adam feber
Our latest list of articles relating to management, methodology, staffing, tools, platforms, and cloud resources that can help accelerate your development projects. 5 Reasons Why Being Agile Is More Important Than Being Perfect by Andy Beal via the OPEN Forum Quote: "...your company, product, service or movie will…
information aesthetics
Connections for Facebook [obscuradigital.com] developed by Obscura Digital was a physical installation demonstrated during F8, Facebook's developer's conference. Conference attendees were identified through their RFID-enabled event badge, so the projected visualization could access their Facebook profiles. The radial…
Think Vitamin · Amit Bijlani
Think Vitamin · Amit Bijlani
LukeW | Digital Product Design + Strategy · Luke Wroblewski
In his Lessons for Developing Tablet Apps (for Non-Developers) talk at Web 2.0 Expo in New York, Scott Smith outlined the lessons Time Inc. learned when developing a suite of magazines for tablet devices. Here’s my notes from his talk:Time Inc. built their iPad application before ever seeing an iPad so they could…
Cognition by Happy Cog · Mark Huot
Earlier this year I started the P90X workout regimen. The program is 90 days long and emphasizes “muscular confusion” through a variety of cross-training exercises. Throughout the program, Tony, your lovable yet demanding trainer, reminds you again and again to write down how many reps you do. Whether it’s 10 pull…