Thicket, created by Interval Studios, is an experimental iPad app that allows anyone to create beautiful, abstract sounds and pictures. Using touch and gesture, users can control visuals and sound simultaneously in four playing modes, each of which follow very distinct themes. Like RjDj’s Dimensions app, Thicket has both audio and visual elements, but...
Daily Archives: December 28, 2011
Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts
Local interactive advertising firm WebVisible has shut its doors. According to a note sent from the company’s CEO to employees, WebVisible ran out of cash, and Silicon Valley Bank is shutting the company down. WebVisible’s software allowed advertisers to manage local online campaigns on Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The company’s services were offered...
Could SOPA fly if big media put skin in the game?
The biggest web-related legal controversy over the past few months — if not the entire year — has been the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The bill’s shortcomings have been covered to death (including by GigaOM here and here), and watered-down versions have emerged to address its more-controversial points, but the bill itself is far from dead....
Find Out Which Brands Are Winning On Google+ With ZoomSphere (Hint: Android is #1)
Facebook has AppData, Twitter has Twitaholic, and now Google+ has its own independent brand page rankings site: ZoomSphere. It shows which brands have the most followers, activity, +1s, shares, and comments, and slice the data by time, page category, and country. Oddly, the site doesn’t rank user profiles like SocialStatistics does — just brand...
How Wayfair quietly built a $500M a year web business
In today’s crowded world of e-commerce, it’s not easy to make a name for yourself. New niche sites pop up constantly, while big players such as Amazon are work to undercut the growing competition by spreading into new territories and offering low prices and lots of perks. Meanwhile, the brick-and-mortar retail giants game such...
9 Gorgeous examples of black and white websites
The beauty of restricting yourself to color has similar benefits to the style of minimalism. When color is stripped out, other design elements such as form and texture come to the forefront. Avoiding color is also a great way to quickly improve as a designer, because you’ll no longer be able to lean on...
Microsoft rumored to be working on exclusive Windows Phone apps
An lo, Microsoft did turn to its past and look for the roots of success. Brought low by the twin demons of iOS and Android, the beast of Redmond found among the Lost Scrolls of Products Past a vile tome, and in reading it did learn of an ancient relic, the Xbox. It had...
No, Argentina isn’t officially blocking iPhone sales, but the joke is spreading
“Argentina blocks iPhone sales in bid to strengthen economy”, Apple Insider “reports”, referring to an official decision from the Argentina government, including Blackberries as well. The only problem? Today is ‘Dia de los Santos Inocentes‘ across Spanish-speaking countries, the local equivalent of April’s Fools. In other words, the information our friends and competitors at...
No, Argentina isn’t blocking iPhone sales, but the joke is spreading
“Argentina blocks iPhone sales in bid to strengthen economy”, Apple Insider “reports”, referring to an official decision from the Argentina government, including Blackberries as well. The only problem? Today is ‘Dia de los Santos Inocentes‘ across Spanish-speaking countries, the local equivalent of April’s Fools. In other words, the information our friends and competitors at...
Issues for 2012 #3: Who Gets to Define Your Online Identity?
Too many protocols, too few sources The one emerging fundamental truth from the Web as a technology is a strange, sideways corollary to Murphy’s Law: If a system can be gamed, it will. As the Web evolves, and as HTML5 is implemented by more organizations for delivering applications, the Web will come to rely...