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According to Extremetech (via, via) the new Gran Turismo game (The ps3 launch title) will have a version coming without cars. You can purchase cars by making micropayments. This will change the way games are sold and build.
“If just a small portion of the world’s mobile phone users unplugged their charger when the battery is full, it could save enough electricity to power thousands of homes. So said Nokia Thursday, as it unveiled a new industry group that aims to make mobile phones more environmentally friendly.”
This kind of news just asks for a designupdate of the good old adapter. Maybe your phone should just have two pins, like a battery charger, so when you want to charge you have to plugin your phone. Kind of hard to answer incomming calls though… Or what about an adapter that automatically unplugs itself when your phone is fully recharged, that can’t be too hard to design…
Anyway, I think the problem is easier to solve by design than by mentality.
via: Textuality
While Warner is making its media available on YouTube, Current.tv is moving to Yahoo video. ABC moves to Apple and Apple moves to Google, or the other way around. Still with me here?
Update: almost forgot, and Microsoft launches Soapbox. In Flash? What happened to the wmf and asf formats? Couldn’t try it out, it’s web2.0-style-invite-only, screenshots here.
Wired Magazine published this great buzzword graphic about web 2.0 startups. Combine a word from each category, receive venture capital and start building it. Don’t know how to create this special appealing social-2.0-look? Ontoinfo sorted it all out in the current trends in web design.
Last week I was reading a Wired article (March edition) about how the video rental service Netflix is awarding $1.000.000 to the person or group who can improve its recommendation algorithm by 10%. Todays popular websites use smart algorithms to determine what we want or might like. Google is famous for its mix and so is [...]
At the Next Web conference there was an overall urge for relevancy. You noticed it in presentations and startups. Unfortunately there weren’t many speakers that had exiting answers. In his presentation Robert Scoble made clear that for most new web applications ‘The first experience sucks‘. Why? This is inherent to how these new web applications work. The [...]
Since we started with the concept of EN we had a certain idea of what it would be like. Now we have the first working version the possibilities seem endless, but what is the killer application or function? What is it that gives new options to the things we do with news? In this post I’m [...]
EN.nl (and.nl) is a new project where we are experimenting with new media, users, technology and journalism. This project is an open project where the public process plays an extremely valuable part in designing and shaping the news website. The online news industry really changed over the last years. I think we’re at a point where [...]
Last week I did an experiment with a linear story and loading photos from Flickr. This week I made a second experiment using the same code and adding a map. I will try to tell a second story. About the story This story is about how fast urban areas are growing. These growing areas aren’t in the [...]
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