Back in December I was asked by Liz Gannes of Red Herring who I thought would be the next Web 2.0 company to get bought by a portal. Without much deliberation I replied: “Measure Map. It’s just the right size, right timing and right space for a tidy acquisition.” It also had all the right [...]
Courtesy of Will Glass, here’s the next logo war, pitting Rubyred’s beloved half grapefruit against, well, a whole planet.
Chris Messina, Flock’s chief designer, recently unveiled his new company t-shirt with a special “Flockstar” emblem. It’s based on the favorites button on the Flock browser. Looks nice. But it sure does remind me of Rubyred’s logo:
What do you think: friends or foes?
Morning
Originally uploaded by Neven Mrgan.
I wandered through American Apparel yesterday snapping pictures. It’s kickass retailing all around. Mostly I was struck by how it comes off as an real-world sibling to MySpace, with the amateur snapshot photos of kids in underwear juxtaposed with random images of junk culture. If only MySpace would steal American Apparel’s typographic sensibilities then we’d [...]
Napster had a provocative campaign recently which dared us to “Have everything, own nothing.” Their idea, the same as Yahoo! Music Unlimited, is simple: instead of buying songs for a buck a pop, pay between five and fifteen bucks a month and have unlimited access to millions of songs. With these new [...]
State of the Union - SF style
We decided to watch the State of the Union in true San Francisco style–on the wall of a Market Street building, via a video artist who distorts the tv image in various ways. It was more amusing than the straight feed, if a bit silly.
The most interesting part was [...]
Terrorist Attack |
Originally uploaded by beckster.
I’ve been thinking a lot about online reputation lately. Maureen Dowd, in her new book “Are Men Necessary“, talks about how it’s common for people to Google their dates before going out with them to get a sense for who they are. Given how much of our lives are moving [...]
The other day I wrote a response to a WSJ piece about how computer science students are outsourcing their homework to India. I’m all for it. I’m also for allowing students over the age of 10 to use any information technology they want to solve the problems they’re given in school. I’m definitely for crushing [...]
I discovered that Jspad commented on my previous post via del.icio.us:
Thor points out Ethan Stock’s user contributed content and the classifications associated with it. I am not so sure it works as it seems more of a how much of each element is it rather than distinct classes.
He makes a good point–there are no hard [...]