October 22, 2004
Samsung Speakeasy Brand Experience at the New Time-Warner Building
[via Mauro Cavalletti]
Located in the new Time-Warner Building in New York City, the 10,000 square foot showcase features all of Samsung’s latest technology presented as luxurious design integrated into one’s lifestyle. There are large-scale interactive works utilizing Samsung products throughout the Brand Experience. Spatial Narrative is the largest of the four, located at the entrance of the space.
SPATIAL NARRATIVE AT THE SAMSUNG BRAND SHOWCASE
The first commercial realization of Spatial Narrative is up and running in the Samsung Brand Showcase! Located in the new Time-Warner Building in New York City, the 10,000 square foot showcase features all of Samsung’s latest technology, presented as luxurious design integrated into one’s lifestyle. To add even more excitement, there are four large-scale interactive works utilizing Samsung products throughout the Brand Experience. Spatial Narrative is the largest, located at the entrance of the space.
This iteration is called ‘virtual speakeasy’ and features the 20’s era-influenced fashion of Ashleigh Verrier, Parsons Designer of the Year. The project is a collaborative effort between Parsons School of Design, Samsung, and Imagination USA. In the role of Creative and Technical Director, I worked with an exceptional team of extraordinarily talented and dedicated individuals. Kindly follow the link below and you will find a list of their names, along with photographs of the exhibit and a current list of press exposure.
Posted by richard ting at October 22, 2004, 06:06 PM
October 21, 2004
Vote for BIX media facade
[message from the group]
We– more precisely the Berlin based young architects Jan & Tim Edler have been nominated with the BIX media façade at the new Graz Art
museum for the 50.000 Euro ‚Inspire-Award’ given by the Deutsche Telekom. The award is given for the third time. Altogether 5 nominees from the realm of ‘Art-Culture-Media’ have been chosen among which now is also this very special low tech media façade, which is made up solely by conventional fluorescent lights.
The important thing about the award is: an online vote will decide who will get this prize. From now until approximately December 15th. At www.bix.at.
For the first time ever an architectural project that does not deal with conventional topics, entered the final round of such an award. We are delighted to have come that far but would enjoy it the most if you would join in. Due to the nature of the voting-system and the tough challengers, that move in a well known, much more commercial area, we need your support and the one of people that art interested in new stuff.
Of course it would be very nice, if you went ahead to personally vote
for our project. It takes 20 seconds.
Further material about the project and the award can be downloaded on:
http://www.realu.de/vote/index-press.html , at www.inspire-award.de ,
and of course at:
Thank you very much for your support.
Yours sincerely, Carla Eckhard ->ce@realu.de
Posted by richard ting at October 21, 2004, 04:49 PM
October 19, 2004
Internet Retailer Buys Social Networking Site
[by Gavin O’Malley]
Internet retailer Buy.com announced Monday it had acquired social-networking start-up Metails.com. The move appears to be in line with a marketing strategy that involves fostering relationships based on like-buying-habits, proffering the products and brands du jour, and offering cash incentives to users willing to facilitate the affiliate marketer role.
Metails.com was launched in January by Jared Morgenstern and a couple of his Harvard pals. The company, said Morgenstern, is an online social network with a purpose--and by purpose he means generating a profit other than advertising revenue. Metails.com's management said it was in the process of raising additional capital when Buy.com, then an independent partner-retailer, expressed interest in purchasing the company.
Buy.com is not the first site to integrate a social network in the hope that it will pay off. Overstock.com recently announced that its new auction site contained a similar networking aspect.
Posted by richard ting at October 19, 2004, 11:15 AM
October 14, 2004
PODcasting
PODcasting
By Thomas on Beyond
Podcasting is an emergent phenomenon in the blogosphere. Springboarding from RSS, MP3 and Apple's iPod, podcasting is blogging in talk radio format. One need not own an iPod to participate, however.
So what’s a Podcast? To put it simply, a Podcast is an audio file, a MP3, most likely, in talk show format, along with a way to subscribe to the show and have it automatically delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes. The show isn’t live, so you can listen to it whenever you want. Doc Searls is credited with coining the term, or at least formalizing it.
The key virtue of traditional radio is its immediacy: the fact that it's live. They key virtue of this new breed of radio is that it's Net-native. That is, it's archived in a way that can be listened to at the convenience of the listener, and (this is key) that it can be linked to by others, and enclosed in an RSS feed.
. . . .
What matters is that all the standards we're working with here are open. They're the new and growing infrastructure for a new class of 'casting. It won't replace old-fashioned broadcasting, just as FM didn't replace AM, and TV didn't replace radio. And it's not narrowcasting, which is conceived as broadcasting for fewer people. It's podcasting. I'll create an acronym for it: Personal Option Digital 'casting.
Engadget has a great HOWTO for would-be podcasters or listeners.
Posted by richard ting at October 14, 2004, 05:33 PM
October 13, 2004
Mobileart 05
Today in Paradise – Genetics & Art
Mobileart 05
Goteborg New Media Art Festival
at Roda Sten, Goteborg, Sweden
Submission Deadline: 24 November 2004
www.mobileart.se
The call for works is open to artists, designers and performers both
internationally and from the Nordic region willing to engage in the theme “Today in Paradise – Genetics & Art”.
Mobileart is announcing a call for works for its exhibition and
festival which will open on the 1st April, 2005. This will consist of a 3-day festival/symposium held on Friday 1st April to Sunday 3rd April, concurrent with an exhibition at the same venue from Friday 1st April – Sunday 17th April.
Posted by richard ting at October 13, 2004, 05:53 PM
October 11, 2004
CatchBob
CatchBob! is an experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity.
Running on a mobile device (iPAQ, TabletPc), it's a collaborative hunt in which groups of three persons have to find and circle a virtual object on our campus.
Posted by richard ting at October 11, 2004, 05:29 PM
October 09, 2004
cellBYTES
cellBYTES
Online exhibition of mobile motion capture + camera snaps
cellBYTES is the first Australian exhibition of mobile motion
capture + camera snaps for practitioners exploring the potential
of creative digital media content.
cellBYTES has been launched by Once Bitten to investigate, exhibit and promote the first creative byte sized steps being taken by creative practitioners with mobile phone technology. Once Bitten is an intranational collective of digital practitioners and writers.
//open:
//01 September 2004
//close:
//29 October 2004
//exhibition:
//22 November 2004
[Submission is free]
To find out more visit http://www.cellbytes.com
Posted by richard ting at October 09, 2004, 05:51 PM
October 07, 2004
CROSSING BOUNDARIES: Information Architecture Summit '05
March 4-7, 2005
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Session Proposals Accepted: September 24 - October 25, 2004
Poster Proposals Accepted: September 24 - December 5, 2004
Submit Online: www.iasummit.org
The 2005 Information Architecture (IA) Summit will cross boundaries
with a world-class program on IA theory, practice, and business.
Opening Keynote: B.J. Fogg www.bjfogg.com.
In a nutshell and in his own words, about his Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford: I direct research and design at the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab. Our overall goal is to create insight into interactive technologies designed to change people's attitudes and behaviors. Our current projects include online credibility, mobile persuasion (influencing people through mobile phones, PDAs, etc.), and operant conditioning via computing systems.
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Proposals are being solicited for presentations, workshops, panels,
posters, and pre-conference tutorials that address core IA principles or offer cross-disciplinary contributions to the practice of IA.
We encourage submissions from:
. Practitioners, academics, and students in information
architecture and related fields (e.g. library science, user experience, interaction design, and user centered design)
. Business practitioners who work with IAs (including business
analysts and managers)
. Developers and designers who work with IAs
CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE
Successful submissions will be judged on the following attributes:
. Appeal to new and/or established IAs
. Solid practical or academic merit
. Original, inspirational, or thought-provoking content
. High-quality written and graphic presentation
. Contribution to IA practice, theory, and community
Note: Marketing pitches will not be accepted.
TOPICS
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
. Core IA skills
. Taxonomies, search, findability
. Business and IA (e.g. cross-functional teams, value proposition,
management)
. Globalization and IA . Research and metrics in IA
. IA Career and Education
. IA in practice (e.g. content management implementations, web
applications,
enterprise IA)
. IA and other disciplines (e.g. user experience, interaction design,
information design)
. Future directions and challenges (e.g. successes and opportunities,
semantic web)
The complete call for proposals and submission information is at:
www.iasummit.org
Posted by richard ting at October 07, 2004, 11:18 AM
The Interaction Design Group
The Interaction Design Group (IxDG) is an international community of people who are practicing, teaching, and studying interaction design. Our organization’s goals are to promote awareness of the discipline, craft, and value of interaction design among businesses, academia, consumers, and our colleagues advance the discipline of interaction design through innovation encourage high standards of practice among interaction designers establish standards for academic programs in interaction design develop a close-knit community of interaction design professionals who face similar challenges in their work and can assist one another in their development provide a forum for the discussion of interaction design.
Posted by richard ting at October 07, 2004, 11:11 AM
October 01, 2004
Yahoo! Opens RSS For The Masses
[by Ross Fadner]
In a move that may signal a tipping point for a promising new online distribution technology, Yahoo! has quietly made several key enhancements to its RSS offerings that industry analysts say mark the first big push to take the format mainstream. RSS (rich site summary, or really simple syndication) feeds have been available on Yahoo!'s My Yahoo! service for few months, but on Tuesday the portal unveiled a searchable database of more than 150,000 content and service feeds for a new beta version of My Yahoo!, as well as an RSS information page.
The idea, the company said, is to educate both users and consumers and publishers about the format. Previously, My Yahoo! users had to educate themselves. Instructions for publishers on how to distribute their content via RSS are also included on the site.
RSS is a syndication standard that enables publishers to easily distribute their content via XML feeds. Users receive the feeds through RSS readers, or aggregators, which are downloadable software applications that continuously scan publisher sites' in order to deliver updated content in real-time.
Gartner Group Analyst Allen Weiner called Yahoo!'s move an "extraordinary step forward," noting that the new visibility will make the format accessible to My Yahoo!'s considerable mass of 20 million users.
Posted by richard ting at October 01, 2004, 11:01 AM
Friendster to Offer Users Free VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) company Voiceglo and Friendster, a free online service and community Web site, Thursday announced a partnership to expand Friendster's global communications network via VoIP. As part of the agreement, Friendster will begin offering "The Friendster Phone" powered by GloPhone, Voiceglo's Web- and PC-based phone service, allowing users to make free calls to their friends anywhere, anytime.
