[Disclaimer: If it needs to be disclaimed, I used to work for a digital agency on Vodafone, once upon a time. At that time I chose Optus iPhone 3G, but no longer.]
I sold my Optus iPhone 3G before leaving on a 9 months trip overseas, thinking the 3G reception wouldn’t be so great in the jungles of South America.
When I returned, I had to decide whether to stay with Optus, who I’d enjoyed a moderately decent relationship with over the past 11 years, or jump ship. I went with Vodafone for these reasons:
I loveLoveLOVE it when talented designers and UI/UX/IA thinkers demo their skills by re-furbing daily use systems.
In the creator’s words:
“The Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It’s streamlined, structured and linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content.”
Scroll down to bottom for his frustratingly brief design notes. I’m really interested in his concept of the “Facebook Publisher” interface for better managing one-to-one and one-to-many communications, a function that Facebook could really start to compete against email and Twitter.
Facebook Facelift - New UI design by Barton Smith
Facebook Facelift - Home & Profiles from wearetol on Vimeo.
Whoa, Google Local Business Centre added support for coupons?
Because reading the whole thing is usually for suckers.
“Texas has more than 73,000 sworn peace officers — roughly one for every 330 people.” — Via NPR
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” … And Arts degrees that make us come to you.”
Hey SCU, today’s world also needs Arts grads who can string a line of copy together, too.
6 degrees of Kevin Bacon - The Web App -
Connects any two actors (defaults to Bacon) via IMDB and returns a degree of separation.
Have you heard about this crazy Velociroflcoptersaurus competition taking place?
Basically, the term “Velociroflcoptersaurus” didn’t exist about a month ago, then some Sydney digital media types decided to hold a SEO competition to see who copuld optimise for that term the best.
My vote is on Shifted Pixels, who even have a velociroflcoptersaurus blog.
p.s Nick, you owe me :)
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Valleywag re-posts Medialet’s financial projection on which iPhone apps are bringing in the most coin. Of the 12mil+ downloaded so far, they’re using the amount of reviews of each app to guage its “relative volume”, i.e a certain percentage of downloaders will review.
I’d say this is a flawed approach, because as the chart shows, it’s the niche offerings (a pilot-training app, LionClock Plus and Omnificus for Freelancers/GTD/Project Management nerds) that are bringing in substantial amounts of reviews.
Seeing as they’re some of the most expensive apps on the store, I’d propose they’re getting the most reviews as customers try to help out the rest of the iPhopne community by a)justifying the price or b)whingeing about how it sucks and they want their money back.
Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
From the “Snack Foods That Sound Like Sex Acts” Flickr group
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Teens use Google Earth to locate pools for Guerilla Pool Parties. -
Oh, those were the DAYS, man. As a young turk, living and working in Whistler-Blackcomb, British Columbia, I’d often scurry across the lower trails of Blackcomb mountain to the Marriott or Whistler Chateau Marmont resort for a NINJA HOT-TUB RAID.
