“Have you seen this … ?”
December 3rd, 2008A couple of people suggested I gather my sporadic bursts of “Have you seen this …” into a regular round up, so here it is. Not all new, but just a collection of things I’ve found interesting recently.
Since I can’t remember where any one came from, a general thanks to all those who send me interesting things, not least this bunch of Twitterati. And if you find it interesting, maybe comment or connect to me on Twitter … make it a conversation.
Picture shop
This is a website for French band’s (free) album. It’s a great site. It credits Pablo Pinasco for the design.
Adobe Pixel Blender examples
This site’s owner (Tom Beddard) says it’s about “explorations into generative and mathematical art”. Dig around, there’s some really lovely work on the site.
Bobblebrook
Lovely little game with 3D flash effect. Take a look at some of their other stuff. Some of the details are lovely, for example in the transitions.
Diller & Scoffidio
Flash-based site of these New York architects.
Eyejot
Easy video messaging via your webcam.
This and the next two (Nabble & Toksta) are services that you can embed on your own site.
Nabble
Online forums (embeddable on your site).
Toksta
Instant messenger, embeddable on your own site. These guys were one of the winners of Seedcamp this year. See their blog post.
New York Times
They supply the tools (or IBM did) to allow you to create visualizations from their data. Great. Reminds me of BBC Backstage, although that’s a bit more challenging.
Alfa Romeo
A very handsome site.
Multicolr Colr Pickr
There are many others like this, but I like this one.
Exactictudes
This is old, but such a gem. It will in an instant destroy any ideas you have about being unique, but make you feel ok about it too.
Nokia
Decide for yourself.
Rubicon
I just stick stuff like this in because designers can’t get enough of it, so if there are any reading they’ll enjoy a moment of inordinate pleasure, which makes the world a better place.
And I like it.
Yammer
Internal Twitter for companies. I know Moving Brands are trying it … what do you think Moving Brands?
Surreal animation
Gadget ball clock
This guy (Adam Bowman) is churning out cute little gadgets, such as you can stick on your iGoogle etc. Check out the comments on his “Fish” gadget. He has many fans.
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Add your own1. Paul | December 4th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Yammer has not really taken off here. I think because we are heavy users of ichat, Yammer is seen as an additional step. Also it’s not that immediate if the desktop app isn’t installed. I like the idea but it needs several champions to get it going.
2. Nic Price | December 4th, 2008 at 8:27 am
Great list.
Re Yammer…
I’ve been using it since September with one of the companies I work with. It works well as the people in the company are distributed around the world, not sharing an office, so great for updating people on stuff and asking questions. People say, and I agree, it makes you feel much more part of the team.
My former colleagues at the BBC tell me they’re using it pretty heavily too.
Whereas at BT they prefer to use the Twitter groups they’d already set up.
3. beatnic - just wondering &hellip | December 15th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
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