Collaborative artists have created a ball-shaped canvas of an ever-growing web mural. Anyone can add to it at Drawball.com. There is at least a full year’s worth of collective art compressed into a few minutes.
Archive for February, 2007
The iXit life Desktop is a canvas on which iXit widgets (micro-applications written in JavaScript) are displayed. iXit widgets may be iconised, moved, closed, etc. by a single key press. Each iXit widget has its own set of commands, accessible from the left soft-key. The right soft-key provides global iXit life Desktop commands. Further iXit widgets may be installed from the iXit widget repository by means of the ‘Get More Widgets’ command.
Sneakerplay, our favorite sneakerhead social network, has teamed up with NIKEiD to bring you ‘The AF1 Playoffs’. It’s their biggest contest to date and all the action will take place in Sneakerplay’s teamLOCKER, a new feature of NIKEiD that allows you to create designs with fellow team members/aficionados in an invite-only space.
Starting March 6th you’ll have the chance to design your own AF1’s. If the community picks your designs, you could win an exclusive pair of the new Air Force 1s – complete with rolled leather edges, a re-engineered interior, matching silver or gold accessories and a polished metal deubre declaring ‘AF1 82′ – in your winning design. (This shoe is not available to the public.)
New Balance – Super Team 33
Feb 25
Thanks to our friends over at Object Fetish for sending this link over. New Balance has released a trio of 1400s called the Super Team 33. The shoes are inspired by fishes and that’s why you see a scale-like notched leather treatment. The heels are also embroidered with “ST 33″. The kicks are selling for $200.00.
Check out the leaders of performance footwear design at Niketown Las Vegas. Hosted by the one and only Bobbito Garcia, this rare meeting of the minds gave attendees a glimpse into what’s next for Nike on the court. The panel included the following vanguards of the game:
Ken Link, Footwear Design Director (Zoom LeBron IV, Zoom Kobe II)
Tracey Teague, Global Category Creation Director (Air Force 25)
Gentry Humphrey, Brand Jordan Footwear Director (Air Jordan XX2)
Bruce Kilgore, Air Force 1 Designer
Yuron White, Footwear Product Director
Astor Chambers
Dwayne Edwards
Nokia Nseries Re-launch
Feb 22
Congratulations to the Nokia Nseries family on their recently successful re-launch. Right off the bat, the user is dropped into a much cleaner and more user-friendly environment than the previous version of the Nseries site. It’s extremely easy to find product information and the product display pages are laid out crystal clear. The 3D phone renderings are stunning and they help give an otherwise flat product presentation some extra love.
The site experiences are also neatly grouped and presented in a parallel section of the site. As a result, I can now finally find the music recommenders and the World 24h features. On the older version of the site, it was always a frustrating ‘hit or miss’ exercise resulting in me trying to remember the exact click paths into the content. Thank god for this fix! As for the added gravy on top, I love the RSS feeds and the digg and del.icio.us quick links. This feature makes it that much easier for bloggers and gadget heads to comment and share info within the community. Oh yeah, I shouldn’t forget to mention that the new phones are off the chain. The new phones, in particular, the N95 and N93i are sporting some heavy duty features like a 8GB internal hard drive for your added listening pleasure and a startling 5 megapixel still camera with HD quality video. For the blogger-geek community out there, most of the Nseries phones now support the Vox blogging service for instant one-click video upload to your blogging platform of choice.
Thanks to Harry from Jumpoff.TV for sending over this link. It’s their new online weekly hip hop newscast that will be broadcasted on Mondays.
Feed Your PSP
Feb 22
FeedYourPSP is a brand new online magazine created by London-based Ramp Industry. Visit FeedYourPSP to directly download your content to a PSP. The site is regularly updated and will feature everything from celebrity interviews to short films.
Lonely Planet PSP Passport
Feb 22
Back in late September 2006, Lonely Planet and software publisher Sony Computer Entertainment Europe partnered on a major new commercial partnership to develop a series of fully interactive, portable and up-to-the-minute city guides for use on the PSP The Passport to… series is available on PSP’s UMD format, with six guides covering European weekend break destinations of Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Paris, Prague and Rome. The guides will be sold in 110 countries across Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia and New Zealand through high street entertainment and grocery outlets as well as selected stockists of Lonely Planet printed guidebooks.
The partnership is the next step in the evolution of the travel guide, creating an immediate and accessible travel resource with a dynamic mix of film, audio, photography and copy based content. A dedicated website www.PSPpassport.com will offer further content to be downloaded, ensuring the guides are continually relevant and up-to-date.
Nokia The Passenger
Feb 22
London-based interactive agency Hyper Happen just recently launched the Nokia — The Passenger advergame to promote Nokia’s nifty new mobile GPS devive, the Nokia Multimedia Car Kit CK-20W. By using actual driving footage filmed in the steets of Paris, players are put behind the wheel of a car. The experience is part interactive movie with a stylish modern noir feel and part driving video game like Grand Theft Auto.
Bad Boy Records has announced the upcoming release of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “GREATEST HITS,” a 16-track compilation honoring the extraordinary life and career of the late, great hip-hop legend. The album – which features tracks spanning the one-and-only Biggie Smalls’s prolific, all-too-brief career, as well as two previously unreleased cuts – drops into stores on March 6th.
The Notorious B.I.G.’s “GREATEST HITS” commemorates what is unquestionably one of hip-hop’s most remarkable bodies of work, gathering together such iconic classics as “Juicy,” “One More Chance,” “Big Poppa,” “Notorious Thugs,” “Ten Crack Commandments,” “Dead Wrong,” and the #1 smash, “Hypnotize.” As a special bonus, the set features a pair of never-before-released tracks: “Running Your Mouth” and “Want That Old Thing Back” (see attached tracklisting).
The release of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “GREATEST HITS” will mark the 10th anniversary of the Brooklyn-born-and-bred rapper’s untimely passing, on March 9, 1997. The compilation follows the RIAA platinum-certified “DUETS: THE FINAL CHAPTER,” which debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 upon its December 2005 release.
Tragically, this superstar’s life was cut short on March 9, 1997, when he fell victim to a shooting. Released just two weeks later, the double album “LIFE AFTER DEATH” instantly confirmed Biggie’s status as a modern musical giant. Universally considered to be among the greatest hip-hop albums of all time, “LIFE AFTER DEATH” went on to sell more than 10 million copies worldwide, fueled by B.I.G.’s timeless lyricism and such chart-topping singles as the classic “Mo Money, Mo Problems.”
(TRACKLISTING ATTACHED)
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
“GREATEST HITS”
Release Date: March 6, 2007
1. JUICY
2. BIG POPPA
3. HYPNOTIZE
4. ONE MORE CHANCE Remix
5. GET MONEY
6. WARNING
7. DEAD WRONG
8. WHO SHOT YA
9. TEN CRACK COMMANDMENTS
10. NOTORIOUS THUGS
11. NOTORIOUS BIG
12. NASTY GIRL
13. UNBELIEVABLE
14. NIGGAZ BLEED
15. RUNNING YOUR MOUTH*
16. WANT THAT OLD THING BACK*
17. FUCKIN YOU TONITE
* Previously Unreleased
Web 2.0 Logos
Feb 21
I’m not sure what the origins of this Web 2.0 graphic is, but it was floating around the office today. It seems like this one person’s vision of the future has corporations dropping the vowels in their logos while flickr-izing and/or de.licio.us-izing their logos at the same time. Also, it seems that version numbers on logos will be more prevalent while the word beta seems to be stamped on every other logo. Not sure how the green-ification of the Nike logo makes it a Web 2.0 logo though.
C’All Future Phone
Feb 21
C’ALL is the all-in-one future phone concept by Russian, Dima Komissarov. Just imagine a device that unites everything that you you typically carry: a mobile phone, a mp3 player, your credit cards, and your apartment and car keys. This all-in-one device dreamed up by Dima is the size of a credit card (54×85.6 mm) and can serve as any of the following:
- Video phone.
- All credit cards that you have.
- The remote control for any device.
- Keys from doors of houses and cars you have an authorization to.
- GPS-system that can automatically upload aerial photos from the Internet.
- Gaming device with support of network gaming.
Asics Tigers just recently made a giant shoe out of toys to celebrate its quirky Japanese roots. The giant shoe was a replica of the Fabre74 Onitsuka model and the sculpture was 1.5-meter in length and made of warring elements of Japanese culture. The giant shoe was a collaboration between StrawberryFrog, LA-based artist Gary Baseman, and Dutch photographer Marcel Christ. The sculpture is scheduled to appear in print, online and at venues in London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Zurich.
Heavy.com Redesign
Feb 4
It looks like Heavy.com just redesigned and left behind their big bulky Flash shell. At first, I was skeptical of the new HTML/AJAX-y interface because it felt a bit like all of the other video networks (YouTube, Revver), but after using the site I must say that the current experience is much easier to use and the page-loads are mad quick. It was definitely easier to search for content and browse for content compared to the previous version of the site.
Hypediss Flash Widget
Feb 4
Hypediss, our favorite place to hype or diss stories and products has just launched a clever little Flash Widget for user’s to showcase their favorite hypes and favorite disses. It’s simple to use, just login, set your widget parameters and, voila, an embed tag is dynamically generated. All of your hypes and disses will be pulled into the personalized widget and users can proudly drop them on to their blogs or social network profile pages.
Get your own widget on hypediss.
See it in action on the Nort Berlin myspace page.
As reported in Mediapost, VH1 recenetly entered a partnership with ViTrue to create a series of user-submitted content sites for the music network. The first site developed is talentload.tv which serves as a promotional tool for advertisers, as well as a filter for casting reality shows on VH1 and MTV. talentload.tv was used to promote the Feb. 14 release of “Music and Lyrics” starring Drew Barrymore and Hugh Grant with a contest that invited users to upload videos of original love songs. The competition drew 400 videos from amateur singer-songwriters and over a million page views. The winner chosen by online voters will be flown to Los Angeles to attend the movie’s premiere and will have their song professionally recorded.
Gift Text Messaging
Feb 4
Cadeaucode is a SMS-based gifting service from the Netherlands. It allows users to send gift certificates via text messages. Currently, companies like Cadeaucode in the Netherlands and bCODE in Australia are leading the charge in this relatively new way of shopping. Gift givers can easily purchase items online and send it to a recipient’s phone number with a message that includes the gift text code.
As reported from FierceWireless, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a patent filed by Apple to deliver over the air (OTA) downloads of iTunes songs for the iPhone. The general terms of the patent are a bit cloudy, but the key line in the patent application is, “The computing device 102 may be a mobile telephone that is configured to also operate as a portable media player. The user may interact with the portable media player application, which then wirelessly (e.g., via a cellular or other wireless connection) interacts with the service.” Cingular (now AT&T) must be licking their chops looking to capitalize on a heavy increase in data usage if iPhone’s adoption curve in anyway resembles that of it’s ultra-popular cousin, the iPod.
Freddy & Ma, the NYC handbag label, just recently launched a build your own bag service. It’s an easy to use four step design it yourself process to select the bag’s shape, pattern, color, and hardware. Supposedly, there are more than a million possible design permutations and the bag takes about 3-4 weeks to fabricate and ship to your door step.
