If you work in PR and are interested in the latest thinking on media monitoring, PR planning, media analysis and social media measurement, these are the must read stories from the last week. This week’s top PR and social media picks: Gorkana hosted a breakfast briefing with the new editorial team at FHM. Deputy editor Dan Jude reveals what the future holds for the reinvented mens’ magazine below. Can’t see the video? Click here Metrica director Kristin Wadge spoke at the PRmoment.com conference, ‘How Should Brands Prepare for a Social Media Crisis? Follow the…
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“Trends and Innovations in Mobile Accessories” Research Report
trendsspotting blog1 Feb 2012 | 8:03 amWe are happy to announce the release of a new TrendsSpotting research report uncovering major trends in Mobile Accessories. Based on exploration of over 2000 new accessories released since 2011 + CES 2012 and a market analysis of major market trends characterizing this growing market, TrendsSpotting has identified about 150 recently released products that reflect new emerging trends in mobile accessories. The innovations analyzed in this report are profiled according to … -
7 Pinterest Clones: Can You Tell the Difference?
Mashable!8 Feb 2012 | 7:11 am“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined. Copy-cat sites are another… -
Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings
ReadWriteWeb8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pmAccording to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points. Good news for the upstart Web server, just as the brand-new company behind Nginx takes the wraps off its commercial packages. Nginx has had quite the growth spurt over the past year. In February of last year Nginx had 7.57% of the market, or about 21 million domains hosted with Nginx. Microsoft had 20.04%, or about 57 million. Apache was at 60.10%, with more than 171 million domains. Sponsor… -
Amish Accessory Editorials - The Pure Shore Editorial by Krzysztof Wyzynski is Effortlessly Cool (TrendHunter.com)
TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm(TrendHunter.com) The Pure Shore editorial by Krzysztof Wyzynski features Amish-inspired accessories. From oversized hats to voluminous capes, this seaside shoot is a bold take on classic menswear styles. Model Mario...
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The Friday PR and Social Media Cheat Sheet #022
3 Feb 2012 | 2:54 amIf you work in PR and are interested in the latest thinking on media monitoring, PR planning, media analysis and social media measurement, these are the must read stories from the last week. This week’s top PR and social media picks: Gorkana hosted a breakfast briefing with the new editorial team at FHM. Deputy editor Dan Jude reveals what the future holds for the reinvented mens’ magazine below. Can’t see the video? Click here Metrica director Kristin Wadge spoke at the PRmoment.com conference, ‘How Should Brands Prepare for a Social Media Crisis? Follow the… -
The anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign and social media strategy
31 Jan 2012 | 3:21 amUnless you’ve been hiding under a rock recently, you will have seen mention of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) bills on Twitter or Facebook, or noticed your most visited sites ‘blacked out’ in protest. On 18th January 2012, 30 million US citizens saw Mozilla’s blackout Firefox start-up page; 1.8 million visited its SOPA information page, and 360,000 people emailed congress about the issue. Other internet giants participating in the anti-SOPA camapign boast similarly impressive figures: 13 million people viewed Google’s… -
Charity buzz – Gorkana’s Annual Charity Barometer
27 Jan 2012 | 4:36 amGorkana Group’s Annual Charity Barometer has just been published showing what an interesting year 2011 was! Sophie Hudson’s great piece in Third Sector highlights some key takeaways from the year. With over 620,000 press, broadcast and online pieces of coverage analysed The Red Cross came out top with the highest volume of coverage for the entire year with a whopping 38,590 pieces. Major world events helped to drive these volumes with news in March of the organisation withdrawing its workers from Benghazi, Libya over concerns of their safety due to the ongoing civil unrest. … -
The Friday PR and Social Media Cheat Sheet #021
27 Jan 2012 | 3:00 amIf you work in PR and are interested in the latest thinking on media monitoring, PR planning, media analysis and social media measurement, these are the must read stories from the last week. This week’s top PR and social media picks: Studies from the US and UK on the prospects for the PR industry confirmed what we already knew: us Brits are more pessimistic. More than a third of firms surveyed by the CPRF in the US anticipated higher budgets for 2012, buoyed by increased staff numbers and improved revenues. Across the pond, the PRCA‘S quarterly trends barometer reported that economic… -
The Friday PR and Social Media Cheat Sheet #020
20 Jan 2012 | 4:40 amIf you work in PR and are interested in the latest thinking on media monitoring, PR planning, media analysis and social media measurement, these are the must read stories from the last week. This week’s top PR and social media picks: New meme alert! 60 Completely Unusable Stock Photos (see below). A Wikipedia blackout raised awareness for the anti-SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) campaign. Cue unprecedented levels of ‘my dog ate my homework’. Find out how the internet works and how SOPA would ‘break it’. However, Mashable offered 12 Wikipedia alternatives for those…
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“Trends and Innovations in Mobile Accessories” Research Report
1 Feb 2012 | 8:03 amWe are happy to announce the release of a new TrendsSpotting research report uncovering major trends in Mobile Accessories. Based on exploration of over 2000 new accessories released since 2011 + CES 2012 and a market analysis of major market trends characterizing this growing market, TrendsSpotting has identified about 150 recently released products that reflect new emerging trends in mobile accessories. The innovations analyzed in this report are profiled according to … -
LEADING DIGITAL WOMEN PREDICT 2012
11 Jan 2012 | 6:20 pmFor the last five years TrendsSpotting trends research company has published prediction reports covering trends in tech, mobile and social media, suggested by leading technology and business experts. TrendsSpotting’s Influencers Prediction Reports 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 are read by thousands of readers and are used by leading companies to plan their future (viewership at Slideshare/TrendsSpotting). As TrendsSpotting is involved in re-placing the role of women in the digital world (see us at Microsoft’s Women Think Next and WIFT), we have decided that this year we will dedicate this… -
Emerging market for mobile health products
9 Nov 2011 | 3:15 amIn the past year, products using mobile devices to monitor health conditions are becoming more popular with the first ones now getting accepted by the Food and Drug Administration. Among health care apps entering the market are blood pressure monitoring cuffs, CT-scan viewers, and pocket ultrasound machines. The market is still at its first steps but rapid growth is expected: according to mobile market consultancy research2guidance, by 2015 30 percent of the world’s smartphone users will be using mobile health products, up from 5 percent today. The big promise for consumers are… -
2020 Predictions -Model for Future Innovations
14 Oct 2011 | 2:12 amBased on the concept of “The Internet of Things” TrendsSpotting has developed a working model for NPD. ”The ANA Model” was developed and implemented while working with tech companies, and allows us to predict future products and services. The “ANA Model” identifies the process where data is collected from reported “Actions”, then delivered to predefined monitor systems or professionals by “Notifications”. The outcomes can “Alert” people through a visualized system. Few daily activities are presented to reflect the… -
How crowdsourcing games help solve scientific problems: Review of current projects
6 Oct 2011 | 7:09 amIt has been shown that the human capacity has still important advantages over computers. Scientists have learned to use crowd sourcing tools to improve their research. To achieve cooperation, they present models of the problems in a game like display and challenge the partipants to find solutions. Scientists in Carnegie Mellon University (look up Luis von Ahn) were the first to use human brains to help them solve problems associated with searching for images on the web (computers are not very good at distinguishing images from each other using visual cues). This lead to the development…
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7 Pinterest Clones: Can You Tell the Difference?
8 Feb 2012 | 7:11 am“It’s like Pinterest, but…” Welcome to my inbox for the last several months. Just as the world now has a Groupon and a Birchbox for everything, so too is Pinterest creating a wake of copy-cat sites. We’re not talking about sites that merely incorporate Pinterest’s design elements. There are sites that have copied Pinterest’s style, functionality and even portions of its name. Pinterest hasn’t released user numbers, but one study found it drives more traffic to websites than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined. Copy-cat sites are another… -
Brazil Sues Twitter Over Speed Trap, Roadblock Tweets
8 Feb 2012 | 6:55 amIn what may be the first test of Twitter‘s new international censorship strategy, Brazil is suing the company over tweets that warn drivers of police roadblocks and speed traps. The suit, filed in a federal court in Goias by the attorney general’s office, is also going after users who compose the tweets. Brazil’s government is levying fines of $290,000 until Twitter changes course. The government charges that such tweets break the law and directly endanger “life, safety and property,” CNN reports. The roadblocks, the suit contends, may thwart purveyors of other… -
Sprint Reports Strong iPhone Sales in Q4 2011
8 Feb 2012 | 6:39 amSprint‘s Q4 2011 earnings report is out, and the results aren’t stellar, but strong iPhone sales are among the highlights. The company reported a $1.3 billion net loss on a $8.72 billion revenue, with much of the losses attributed to iPhone subsidizing costs. Sprint said its iPhone sales in the quarter were 1.8 million, 40% of which were to new customers. However, one has to keep in mind that if Sprint sold more iPhones, its loss would be even bigger. Overall, Sprint now has 55 million net subscribers — 1.6 million more than in Q3 2011; 33 million of those subscribers are… -
8 Legal Steps for Starting Your Business
8 Feb 2012 | 6:23 amThis post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. With each new year, budding entrepreneurs look to turn their vision into a business. These startups are often overflowing with tremendous ideas, energy and optimism — but don’t always have a roadmap for the legal aspects involved in starting a business. In the flurry of drumming up new customers, getting ready for a website launch and building the first prototype, it’s all too easy to put off some of the less… -
Paul McCartney’s Next Performance Is Coming to You Live, and for Free, on iTunes
8 Feb 2012 | 5:48 amEver since The Beatles and Apple kissed and made up in 2007, Apple products and its fans can’t seem to get enough of the fab four and its surviving members. The service already has the legendary group’s 13 studio albums (added to iTunes in 2010) and now Apple is helping former Beatle Paul McCartney promote his latest album with a free live stream of his performance from Capitol Studios in Hollywood, Calif., on Feb. 9. The album, Kisses on the Bottom, is not a Beatles retrospective. Instead, McCartney is treading the well-worn path of countless other aging rockers and singing songs…
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Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings
8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pmAccording to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points. Good news for the upstart Web server, just as the brand-new company behind Nginx takes the wraps off its commercial packages. Nginx has had quite the growth spurt over the past year. In February of last year Nginx had 7.57% of the market, or about 21 million domains hosted with Nginx. Microsoft had 20.04%, or about 57 million. Apache was at 60.10%, with more than 171 million domains. Sponsor… -
Do Your Users Get You? Test Them With Solidify
8 Feb 2012 | 3:59 pmZURB launched yet another free and handy design application to help anyone test Web products they're working on. This one is called Solidify. It takes care of one of the most annoying parts of building an interface: testing clickable prototypes. Solidify lets you build a working test of your design and give it to users to see if it makes sense to them. It also gives you analytics on how your testers performed. Along with the new app, ZURB opened a new apps page showcasing all the great Web design helpers it has made, many of which we've covered on ReadWriteWeb. ZURB's tools let you make… -
Google Confirms Motorola Licensees Pay 2.25% Per-Unit Royalties
8 Feb 2012 | 3:45 pmIf all goes according to plan, the same company which last year asserted that patents were essentially legal weapons in an unfair war against the Android operating system, will find itself the owner of one of the largest technology portfolios anywhere in the world. Today, Google took steps to assure many of Motorola Mobility's (MMI) existing licensees that it would adhere to that company's existing reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND) licensing practices for mobile technologies. This after Apple sent a letter to a European Telecommunications Standards Institute last November 11 - as first… -
Akamai Invests in Obliterating America's Broadband Speed Deficit
8 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pmLast week, my colleague David Strom reported on the latest annual "State of the Internet" report from content delivery network Akamai. The report showed that while Americans are finally experiencing faster average broadband speeds on a quarter-by-quarter basis, those speeds only began eclipsing those of Sweden in the second half of 2010, and still have about 40% of gap to close if it hopes to achieve par with Japan - which, at this rate, it might do in about a decade. If Web connection speeds are, as Google has said so often in touting the performance of its Chrome Web browser, essentially a… -
Add Change Tracking to Online Text Editing with Ice.js
8 Feb 2012 | 3:01 pmIf you're looking to add change tracking to a Web app, you might want to take a look at Ice from the CMS group at the New York Times. Ice (or Ice.js) is an implementation of change tracking for any content-editable element on the Web. It can track changes (inserts, deletes) from multiple users, and has some optional plugins for converting "smart" quotes and creating em-dashes. Sponsor Hands-on experience is probably the best way to get an idea what Ice.js can do. The current demo shows a plain content-editable element with Ice.js as well as a TinyMCE instance using Ice.js as a plugin. The…
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TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
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Amish Accessory Editorials - The Pure Shore Editorial by Krzysztof Wyzynski is Effortlessly Cool (TrendHunter.com)
8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm(TrendHunter.com) The Pure Shore editorial by Krzysztof Wyzynski features Amish-inspired accessories. From oversized hats to voluminous capes, this seaside shoot is a bold take on classic menswear styles. Model Mario... -
Bold Backdrop Menswear - The Simone Nobili for MF Fashion Shoot Features Clean-Cut Styles (TrendHunter.com)
8 Feb 2012 | 4:10 pm(TrendHunter.com) The Simone Nobili for MF Fashion editorial features clean-cut styles, showcased against a boldly hued backdrop. Captured by the lens of photographer Giovanni Squatriti, Simone is sharply dressed in crisp... -
An Empathetic Civilization - Jeremy Rifkin Discusses the Power of Compassion and the Shrinking Globe (TrendHunter.com)
8 Feb 2012 | 3:50 pm(TrendHunter.com) Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends. He has authored 17 bestselling books, focusing on topics such as economics, technology and societal effects. Rifkin has also been an advisor... -
Poetic Pretty Boy Poses - Rainer Torrado Captures the Fresh-Faced Beauty of Model Boyan Karadzhov (TrendHunter.com)
8 Feb 2012 | 3:30 pm(TrendHunter.com) In these striking new images from Rainer Torrado, the photographer presents some romantic captures of a fresh face to the modeling scene with Boyan Karadzhov. Electric, colored lighting is used along with... -
Eclectic-Printed Menswear - The PRADA Spring Temptation Pen Magazine Shoot is Embellished (TrendHunter.com)
8 Feb 2012 | 3:10 pm(TrendHunter.com) The PRADA Spring Temptation Pen magazine editorial features an eclectic use of print paired with edgy embellished styles. The editorial, featured in the publication's February 2012 issue stars model Jacob...
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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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A better Photoshop grid for responsive web design
8 Feb 2012 | 7:58 amIN MAKING the move to responsive web design, one of the potential hurdles is the rather awkward maths for calculating the percentage-based widths necessary for fluid layouts. If, for example, you’re designing with a 960px grid in Photoshop and you have six columns, each 140px wide, you divide 140 by 960 to get your percentage-based width: 14.583333%. Now, I don’t know about you, but numbers like that look a little scary. It doesn’t matter that there are great calculation tools built into TextMate to do the maths for you; the point is that the final figure looks like an arbitrary number… -
Mobile Web Resources
8 Feb 2012 | 5:03 amONE of the most frequent questions we get asked about the mobile web is ‘Where do I go to learn about all this stuff?’ So here’s an extensive list of helpful tools and resources that can help you create great mobile web experiences.” Mobile Web Resources | Mobile Web Best Practices. -
Notes from An Event Apart Atlanta 2012
7 Feb 2012 | 2:03 pmLUKE WROBLEWSKI’S notes on most of the sessions from An Event Apart Atlanta, 2012, Feb. 6–8, 2012. Thanks, buddy! Properties of Intuitive Web Pages — February 7, 2012 An Event Apart: The Future of CSS — February 7, 2012 An Event Apart: CSS Best Practices — February 7, 2012 An Event Apart: Buttons are a Hack — February 7, 2012 An Event Apart: Content First — February 6, 2012 An Event Apart: Inclusive Design — February 6, 2012 An Event Apart: Handcrafted Patterns — February 6, 2012 An Event Apart: Hacking Users Brains — February 6, 2012 An Event Apart: Adaptive Web… -
Fluid grids, orientation & resolution independence
7 Feb 2012 | 5:12 amIF YOU’VE spent any time building responsive websites with fluid grids, you will have encountered the shock of seeing your beautiful portrait layout distort when viewed in landscape mode (or vice-versa.) This happens because whilst the layout and embedded content (images, video etc) are sized in relation to the pixel width of the viewport, the typography is not. And whilst it isn’t too difficult to design with enough affordance for the variation caused by the iPad’s 4:3 aspect ratio – most (if not all) Android tablets have 16:9 displays. These screens make the orientation… -
My Glamorous Life: Lucy Ricardo, C’est Moi
1 Feb 2012 | 6:07 amTRYING A NEW breakfast place. I tell the cashier, “Extra crispy bacon.” “Extra bacon,” she says. “No, not extra bacon. Extra crispy bacon,” I say. A fast-paced volley of shouted Spanish follows, between the cook, the cashier, and the server. A customer in line behind me chimes in. He is either describing my order to the cashier or telling her about a dream he had involving velvet chickens. I’ve got to learn Spanish. The cashier turns her green gaze back to me. “Extra bacon,” she says. “Um, no,” I say. “No bacon,”…
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information aesthetics
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Deluge: How 300.000 Norwegians Move House in a Year
7 Feb 2012 | 1:33 pmThe short animation titled "Deluge" [bengler.no] by Even Westvang reveals how public data can be analyzed to reveal potentially interesting patterns. In particular, this movie demonstrates the patterns of 300.000 Norwegians moving house, by cross-referencing the tax records of about 4 million individual Norwegians from 2006 and 2007. In the movie, the data is filtered by paramaters like yearly income or age, and a distinction is made between 'incoming' (red) and 'outgoing' (blue) citizens. As a result, one can perceive that elderly people generally move over relatively short distances, while… -
Super Chatter: Analyzing Conversations about the Super Bowl on Twitter
6 Feb 2012 | 11:47 amThe online dashboard Super Chatter [collemcvoy.com] designed by advertising agency Colle+McVoy acts as a visual overview of the true impact of the Super Bowl event in contemporary social media, and Twitter in particular. An interactive timeline not only highlights some of the most important sports scoring events, but aligns them next to all the advertisements that were shown on television. A line graph then maps the rate of tweets-per-minute of those 641,094 tweets that mentioned one of more than 250 specific terms resembling "Super Bowl" (the official hash tag was only used in 4% of all… -
Revealing the Impact of Super Bowl Advertising on Social Media
3 Feb 2012 | 10:28 amThe interactive dashboard at Brandwatch Super Bowl [brandwatch.com] shows the true impact of the highly expensive advertising that is shown during the Super Bowl, in particular on social online media. Each so-called 'worm' represents a unique sponsor (including brands like Pepsi, Mars, Walt Disney or H&M). The accompanying number stands for the number of tweets that were made about that brand or their products over the last 28 days (and, yes, the 'worm' who has possession of the ball is winning). The additional display on the right reveals the complete ranking of all tracked brands, complete… -
Revealing the Energy Consumption of Each Building in New York
2 Feb 2012 | 11:16 amThe remarkably detailed map [columbia.edu] developed by the Modi Research Group of the Earth Institute at Columbia University reveals the total annual building energy consumption of New York, at both the block and 'taxlot' level (which is nearly at building level). The map was built using MapBox. The total energy consumption is expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area. The data actually was not retrieved from utility companies, but calculated via an elaborate statistical model that is based on current large-scale estimates (e.g. the average energy use by ZIP code) in… -
Comparing the Fundraising Performance of the US Presidential Candidates
2 Feb 2012 | 7:17 amThe NYTimes released a competitive dashboard of sorts, titled "The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Candidates" [nytimes.com]. Basically, the interactive graphic allows readers to contrast the various performance parameters in terms of fundraising from 2 presidential candidates next to each other. Another recent graphic [nytimes.com] lists the hundreds of organizations and people that fund the so-called Super PACs that are officially not controlled by those very candidates. As also explained in the accompanying press article, both infographics reveal how President Obama continues to outraise all…
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Cool Hunting
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Almond Water
8 Feb 2012 | 3:45 pmA nutty French refreshment from LA's Victoria's Kitchen A longstanding French tradition, almond water has been produced in small batches by nut lovers around the globe for hundreds of years. Bringing this all-natural treat to the masses is Victoria's Kitchen, a small, family-run company started by husband-and-wife duo David and Deborah Meniane to "honor the importance of family and traditions that are passed on from generation to generation." Loaded with the nutrients found naturally in almonds, the gluten-free beverage still uses Grandma Victoria's original recipe of water, natural almond… -
Vim Beget Jewelry
8 Feb 2012 | 1:36 pmThe one-man machine behind beautifully antiqued hand-woven accessories Seattle-based Vim Beget makes jewelry and accessories with a vaguely antique aesthetic, blurring the barrier between past and present. Each piece of burnished silver is finished with rusted steel, affording it its own unique look and feel—the upshot of hours spent in the hands of sole designer Billy Bartels. Deeply rooted in the process, Bartels believes a hands-on approach makes the the end result worthwhile, and cuts each link separately before hand weaving them into a chain for bracelets and necklaces. "It's a… -
Matthieu Lehanneur
8 Feb 2012 | 11:02 amThe designer's first monograph explores his commitment to scientifically informed creations For his first monograph, Matthieu Lehanneur has opted to express his design standpoint through the medium of his past works. Since his 2001 graduation from the ENSCI-Les Ateliers, he has stunned the community with a decade of innovative production in industrial and interior design. The bound collection from Gestalten looks at Lehanneur's design language with accompanying essays by the MoMA's Paola Antonelli and Ross Lovegrove, in addition to a conversation between Lehanneur and curator Hans Ulrich… -
H.BLOOM for Valentine's Day
8 Feb 2012 | 8:39 amAce your Valentine's Day gift-giving with a helpful info-graphic Advertorial content: With Valentine's Day a week away, people everywhere are nervously approaching flower shops. Most don't know what they want and they may be worried about getting the wrong thing. With this in mind, H.BLOOM brings you a handy info-graphic to help you pick the right bouquet for your beloved. As a special offer for Valentine's Day, the subscription-based flower delivery service is offering the option to buy individual arrangements outside of their regular plans. However, if you're feeling extra romantic, go… -
Heart Part
7 Feb 2012 | 4:14 pmKnife, fork and scoop combine in one biodegradable utensil Share food with a loved one with Heart Part, a cleverly designed eating utensil that opens up into two pieces combining fork, knife and scoop. Recently spotted at the NY International Gift Fair by our friend Alissia Melka-Teichroew of byAMT design studio, the Heart Part appeals to both food and design nerds with its smart use of form and space. As possibly the perfect—or at least the cutest—alternative to wasteful plastic cutlery, the Heart Part is made entirely of biodegradable polystyrene, and the dishwasher-friendly…
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Presentation Zen
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Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization
26 Jan 2012 | 11:31 pmDr. Hans Rosling is one of my presentation heroes; he's been featured or mentioned in all my books and several times on presentationzen.com over the years. If there is a Jedi Master of presenting data clearly, visually, and simply, then it is Hans. He proves time and time again, that data are not dull—and when you are trying to change the world, there is no excuse for boring presentations. Most people are aware of Dr. Rosling through his popular TED Talks, but just in case you've never seen him present, below is a nice 5-minute piece he did on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. At TED.com you'll… -
New: Presentation Zen (2nd Edition)
18 Jan 2012 | 10:36 pmFour years ago my first book Presentation Zen was published by Peachpit Press. Since then I wrote two other presentation books and a sketchbook/storyboard book and a DVD (plus an additional DVD/Book just for Japan). Although a lot of time had passed, I was still happy with the original Presentation Zen. And yet, the original Presentation Zen book could benefit from a little freshening up in the form of a 2nd edition for 2012. This 2nd edition of Presentation Zen has the same look and feel as the original book and I still did all the design and layout myself. The biggest difference is the book… -
10 great books to help you think, create, & communicate better in 2012
10 Jan 2012 | 4:54 amIn the spirit of personal kaizen, I have listed below a few books that I read (or reread) over the past year that you may want to read as part of your own continuous improvement journey. (Clicking on the book's icon takes you to Amazon.com.) (1) Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long. Over the last 10-20 years scientists have made many remarkable discoveries concerning the brain and how it works. David Rock is not a neuroscientist but he is a good "neurotranslator" of the scientific evidence and does a good job of… -
Progress and the intentional selection of less
30 Dec 2011 | 5:26 pmMany people today talk about presentation technology as if it were a panacea for boring lectures and ineffective presentations. Technologies such as our laptops, iPads, and cool software packages are wonderful tools that can, when used well, increase the quality of communication and engagement. This is especially true when we need to engage with people live on the other side of the planet via tools like video conferencing, webinars, Skype, and so on. However, while technology has evolved in dramatic ways over the last generation, our deep human need for visceral connections, and personal… -
Steve Jobs: "People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint"
20 Dec 2011 | 5:12 amOne thing we need to constantly remind ourselves is that slides and other forms of projected visualization—no matter how "cool" they may be—are not appropriate for every context. Multimedia is great for presentations before large groups such as keynote addresses or conference presentations, but in meetings where you want to actively discuss issues or go over details in depth, slides—especially the snooze-inducing bulletpoint variety, which are never a good idea—are almost always counter productive. I stressed early on in the first version of Presentation Zen four years ago—and ad…
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information aesthetics
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Deluge: How 300.000 Norwegians Move House in a Year
7 Feb 2012 | 1:33 pmThe short animation titled "Deluge" [bengler.no] by Even Westvang reveals how public data can be analyzed to reveal potentially interesting patterns. In particular, this movie demonstrates the patterns of 300.000 Norwegians moving house, by cross-referencing the tax records of about 4 million individual Norwegians from 2006 and 2007. In the movie, the data is filtered by paramaters like yearly income or age, and a distinction is made between 'incoming' (red) and 'outgoing' (blue) citizens. As a result, one can perceive that elderly people generally move over relatively short distances, while… -
Super Chatter: Analyzing Conversations about the Super Bowl on Twitter
6 Feb 2012 | 11:47 amThe online dashboard Super Chatter [collemcvoy.com] designed by advertising agency Colle+McVoy acts as a visual overview of the true impact of the Super Bowl event in contemporary social media, and Twitter in particular. An interactive timeline not only highlights some of the most important sports scoring events, but aligns them next to all the advertisements that were shown on television. A line graph then maps the rate of tweets-per-minute of those 641,094 tweets that mentioned one of more than 250 specific terms resembling "Super Bowl" (the official hash tag was only used in 4% of all… -
Revealing the Impact of Super Bowl Advertising on Social Media
3 Feb 2012 | 10:28 amThe interactive dashboard at Brandwatch Super Bowl [brandwatch.com] shows the true impact of the highly expensive advertising that is shown during the Super Bowl, in particular on social online media. Each so-called 'worm' represents a unique sponsor (including brands like Pepsi, Mars, Walt Disney or H&M). The accompanying number stands for the number of tweets that were made about that brand or their products over the last 28 days (and, yes, the 'worm' who has possession of the ball is winning). The additional display on the right reveals the complete ranking of all tracked brands, complete… -
Revealing the Energy Consumption of Each Building in New York
2 Feb 2012 | 11:16 amThe remarkably detailed map [columbia.edu] developed by the Modi Research Group of the Earth Institute at Columbia University reveals the total annual building energy consumption of New York, at both the block and 'taxlot' level (which is nearly at building level). The map was built using MapBox. The total energy consumption is expressed in kilowatt hours (kWh) per square meter of land area. The data actually was not retrieved from utility companies, but calculated via an elaborate statistical model that is based on current large-scale estimates (e.g. the average energy use by ZIP code) in… -
Comparing the Fundraising Performance of the US Presidential Candidates
2 Feb 2012 | 7:17 amThe NYTimes released a competitive dashboard of sorts, titled "The 2012 Money Race: Compare the Candidates" [nytimes.com]. Basically, the interactive graphic allows readers to contrast the various performance parameters in terms of fundraising from 2 presidential candidates next to each other. Another recent graphic [nytimes.com] lists the hundreds of organizations and people that fund the so-called Super PACs that are officially not controlled by those very candidates. As also explained in the accompanying press article, both infographics reveal how President Obama continues to outraise all…
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FlowingData
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Taxi migration in Manhattan
8 Feb 2012 | 9:45 amWhile we're on the topic of things moving on a map of changing camera angles, class project Taxi, by Tom McKeogh, Eliza Montgomery and Juan Saldarriaga, shows the movements of said vehicles in Manhattan, over 24 hours. Geographic location data for the origin and destination of each ride is combined with waypoint data collected from the Google Maps API in order to generate a geographically accurate representation of the trip. We used data from taxi rides originating or ending in the neighborhoods of Lincoln center or Bryant Park. The visualization recreates a 'breathing' map of Manhattan based… -
Animation shows national migration patterns
8 Feb 2012 | 12:24 amEven Westvang uses tax return data to visualize migration patterns of 300,000 Norwegians. When running at full speed the visualization is clearly lacking in terms of salient features, yet I find it interesting. Then again, I like looking at Pachinko machines and waterfalls — processes comfortably stuck between the random and the ordered. When slowing the animation down and filtering for certain demographies it becomes more useful. At its best laymen, like myself, can visually perceive facets of the natioal Norwegian migratory process that before were only available through the… -
Weave for visualization development
7 Feb 2012 | 2:39 amWeb-based Analysis and Visualization Environment, or Weave for short, is open source software intended for flexible visualization. Weave (BETA 1.0) is a new web-based visualization platform designed to enable visualization of any available data by anyone for any purpose. Weave is an application development platform supporting multiple levels of user proficiency — novice to advanced — as well as the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at "nested" levels of geography. It looks like everything is done through a click interface, and you can piece together modules and… -
Members Only: How to Make a Contour Map
7 Feb 2012 | 1:32 amFilled contour plots are useful for looking at density across two dimensions and are often used to visualize geographic data. It's straightforward to make them in R — once you get your data in the right format, that is. -
Tracking the grizzly bear in emotional interactive documentary
6 Feb 2012 | 12:29 amIn a blend of data and storytelling, Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison dig into surveillance logs generated by a monitored grizzly bear between 2001 and 2009. The final work is a moving interactive documentary, Bear 71. She lived her life under near-constant surveillance and was continually stressed by interactions with the human world. She was tracked and logged as data, reflecting the way we have come to see the world around us through Tron and Matrix-like filters, qualifying and quantifying everything, rather than experiencing and interacting. Leanne Allison sifted through thousands of…
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Double Exposure
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kooaba Shortcut Feed Sponsorship
7 Feb 2012 | 9:00 pmkooaba Shortcut is a shortcut between real life and the Internet: take a picture of what you are reading in a newspaper or magazine and instantly get connected to the digital version. Using image-recognition technology, Shortcut recognizes what you’re reading. Once recognized, you can share the digital version of the pages via Facebook, Twitter, SMS, and email, or store them in Evernote. This works with over 1,000 newspapers and magazines worldwide. (See http://www.kooaba.com/products/shortcut for a list of publications.) Shortcut also works with advertisements in newspapers and… -
Fred Herzog
6 Feb 2012 | 7:08 pm“Two Men in a Fog,” photographed by Fred Herzog in 1959. See more mid-century photographs from this photographer here. To follow me on Twitter click here. -
Tom Darracott
6 Feb 2012 | 4:22 amPortfolio samples from an independent designer and art director. More here. To follow me on Twitter click here. -
Do You Draw or Paint
5 Feb 2012 | 8:37 amMatchbook advertisements from the 1940s and 50s recruiting art students. “The schools encouraged men and women to enter their talent tests and submit drawings for chances to win scholarships and earn big money.” View link. To follow me on Twitter click here.
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A List Apart
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Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWith a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing the document’s body, some of the web's brightest developers are abandoning responsive images in favor of user agent detection, at least as a temporary solution. For us standardistas, UA detection leaves a bad taste in the mouth. More… -
Pricing Strategy for Creatives
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amStrategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement: “we’re good at what we do and we know it.” Fighting with a competitor over a low price says “I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.” Failing to use a considered pricing policy will leave you treading water in a sea of design mediocrity, allowing you to just stay afloat while you… -
Building Twitter Bootstrap
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amBootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Bootstrap, sheds light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it… -
An Important Time for Design
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amDesign is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank check—one that lets web designers band together as a community to change the way design is… -
A Pixel Identity Crisis
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amThe pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two "standard" pixel definitions and 500 "standard" viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform differences—the promise of the web and standards—you must normalize pixels across devices.
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UXmatters
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IA Strategy: Addressing the Signatures of Information Overload
6 Feb 2012 | 1:42 amBy Nathaniel DavisPublished: February 6, 2012 “The rapid rate at which people and organizations create and propagate information complicates our getting a grip on information overload….” The one thing we know about information overload on the Web is that we don’t know enough. The rapid rate at which people and organizations create and propagate information complicates our getting a grip on information overload in the domain of information technology. Our information includes things like our Honey-Do lists, gigabytes of digital documents, and the deluge of email messages that pile up… -
Communicating User Research Findings
6 Feb 2012 | 1:39 amBy Jim Ross Published: February 6, 2012 “No one reads reports!” “PowerPoint must die!” “Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging.” We’ve all read monotonous reports and struggled to remain awake during boring presentations, but must all deliverables be interminably dull? Conveying user research findings so people can understand them, believe them, and know how to act on your recommendations can be challenging. And providing enough detail without boring your audience is a difficult… -
Dealing with Difficult People, Teams, and Organizations: A UX Research Maturity Model
6 Feb 2012 | 1:36 amBy Tomer Sharon Published: February 6, 2012 “Many executives … have gained a better understanding of what UX design and research can do to boost the success of a business offering.” An increasing number of organizations and individuals who develop software products, Web applications, Web sites, or other digital products are gaining a better understanding and appreciation for user experience and UX design and research. Subsequent to the introduction of some magnificent products and services that many executives now own or use—such as smartphones, tablets, Web applications, social… -
How to Get Yourself Started in Statistics
6 Feb 2012 | 1:33 amBy Caroline Jarrett Published: February 6, 2012 “Recently, I’ve been dealing with my fears and overcoming my resistance to learning statistics. I’m writing a book on surveys, and what’s the point of getting lovely, large-sample data if you can’t run a few statistical tests on it?” How do you feel about statistics? For a long time, I was a stats refusenik. Years ago at university, I took a class in mathematical statistics, and it never made any sense to me. My sporadic attempts to overcome my fears and learn to understand p-values, t tests, and χ2, or chi-squared, had never come… -
Designing with the Mind in Mind: An Interview with Jeff Johnson
6 Feb 2012 | 1:23 amBy Kristina Mausser Published: February 6, 2012 mindful |ˈmïndfəl| adjective [predic.] conscious or aware of something “Design, as a creative process, is often subconscious. What we create might be based on design principles, but what we ultimately produce largely comes down to emotion—how we feel about a design and, more important, how we think others will feel about it.” Design, as a creative process, is often subconscious. What we create might be based on design principles, but what we ultimately produce largely comes down to emotion—how we feel about a…
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The gene hunting device
7 Feb 2012 | 11:13 amThe falling cost and increase in speed of DNA sequencing has given rise to two extreme scientific worlds: giant pharmaceutical companies who trawl the Arctic Ocean in search of potent genes that would profit them in a lucrative cancer market; and DIY biologists who try to beat the system continue -
The Extreme Environment Love Hotel: Carboniferous Room
4 Feb 2012 | 10:23 pmJapanese love hotels go out of their way to satisfy the most outlandish fetish: some rooms offer the feeling of being inside a subway carriage, a class room, or a Hello Kitty SM room, others locks you into an alien abduction nightmare (/dream). Ai Hasegawa, second year student in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art in London, proposes to close loving couples into an even more extraordinary fantasy. Her Extreme Environment Love Hotel simulates impossible places to go such as an earth of three hundred million years ago, or the surface of Jupiter by manipulating invisible but… -
The Meat Licence Proposal, interview with John O'Shea
31 Jan 2012 | 2:14 am"People who are comfortable with eating meat, should be equally comfortable with killing animals." Because he is interested in the ethics and dilemmas of eating meat, John O'Shea is looking into schemes to achieve a more compassionate meat consumption. Since 2008, the artist has been working on Meat Licence Proposal. Under this law proposal, citizens willing to buy or consume a certain type of meat would need to obtain a licence to do so first. The only way to acquire the licence is to slaughter the animal yourself continue -
Don McCullin, about the London homeless
30 Jan 2012 | 12:11 amA few months ago, I read there was an exhibition of photos by McCullin at Tate Britain. I thought "That one can wait, it's going to for ages and everybody knows the work of the award-winning war photographer anyway." That was very presumptuous of me. I finally went to see the show and it is now clear that i had underestimated the impact his images would have on me. Especially his portrayal of the homeless living around London from the late 1960s to the '80s continue -
H.O.R.T.U.S. (Hydro Organism Responsive to Urban Stimuli)
27 Jan 2012 | 7:03 amWith HORTUS, the architects from ecoLogicStudio are inviting the public to become cyber-gardeners and "invent new protocols of urban biogardening." There's a bright green carpet on the floor and hundreds of intravenous-style bags are suspended above our heads. The bags are in fact photo-bioreactors and they form a 'greenhouse' that hosts nine different species of algae, from chlorella to algae found in London's canals. Visitors can blow into flexible plastic tubes, fostering the growth of the algae with their carbon dioxide and activating the oxygen production continue
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NEWSgrist - where spin is art
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SVA BFA Visual & Critical Studies presents: The Case for Appropriation, a panel moderated by Joy Garnett
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RIP Mike Kelley, 1954-2012
1 Feb 2012 | 6:45 pmUPDATE 2-8-12: John Miller: A Personal Remembrance; Culture Monster; NYTimes Obit; The Art Newspaper. For news check here, here, here, here, here and here. One of my favorite things, from the vaults: NEWSgrist, December 01, 2008: Mike Kelley Interviewed by Glenn O'Brien Brilliant, brilliant interview with Mike Kelley by Glenn O'Brien, touching on everything from repressed memory syndrome, the art market, open source culture and the yuck factor of current copyright law and lawyers... via Interview magazine (the "Art" issue) [excerpt]: Mike Kelley By Glenn O'BrienPhotography Craig Mcdean… -
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The Case For Appropriation @ SVA - Feb 16
28 Jan 2012 | 3:55 pmOliver Wasow. Framed Nutting. (2007) Digital photograph, dimensions variable. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Panel: The Case For Appropriation, moderated by Joy Garnett with:Virginia Rutledge, Robert Storr, and Oliver Wasow Thursday, February 16, 2012 7-8:30pm School of Visual Arts Theatre 333 West 23rd Street www.schoolofvisualarts.edu Appropriation art made its name during the nineteen eighties in New York. Drawing on earlier traditions of collage and montage up through Pop Art, appropriation artists subverted, re-photographed, and re-purposed topical material, paving the way for contemporary…
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Logitech M600 Touch Mouse
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Tumi Tegra-Lite Luggage
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iCade Jr.
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Speakeasy Lace Locks
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