Category Archives: internet

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.

iCarumba.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
iCarumba.
Like many, I’ve had a long, strange relationship with Apple.  Since the 80s I’ve owned Apple II’s, Macintoshes, Performas, Quadras, G4s, G5s, Powerbooks, MacBooks, iBooks, iPods, iPhones, etc etc etc.  My disposition toward the company teeters between unabashed fanboy-ism to outright fury. Because we live in an age of rapid progress, I can’t find fault with [...]

UI Realism.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface, work. No comments.
UI Realism.
I was a huge fan of Marvel Comics growing up, and love Scott McCloud’s books on comic art’s ability to communicate across languages via symbology, etc.  Found an article recently by Lukas Mathis of ignorethecode.net that applies cartoon principles to User Interface (UI) design.  Not quite ‘less is more’, but rather ‘just enough is correct’ [...]

Cool AR Biz Card.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, vids. No comments.
Cool AR Biz Card.
This is pretty neat – nice application of augmented reality in a business card context. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and the [...]

Come On, Apple.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, work. No comments.
Come On, Apple.
I saw this described as passive aggressive warfare this morning.  Adobe’s taking the gloves off re: Apple’s mobile Flash support (or lack thereof).  Seems they’re taking a lead from the ‘Death to IE6′ shame campaign also being waged very publicly.

GeoCities No More.

Written by Peter. Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under annunciation, brand, business, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
GeoCities No More.
Never liked GeoCities much, but it did attract a pretty wide audience back in the day.  Yahoo shut it down today, after more than 10 years of crappy websites.  Good article in today’s LA Times.

Keywords Ain’t All That.

Written by Peter. Posted on September 22, 2009. Filed under interactive, internet, technology, trend. No comments.
The long-touted SEO Keyword is officially useless. From the Google Webmaster Central Blog, “Google does not use the keywords meta tag in page ranking.” Descriptions and relevant content, on the other hand – what a concept!

Apple Tablet Rumor 543.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 28, 2009. Filed under consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Mmmm, delicious: According to rumors, Apple is in the final stages of developing the Apple wet dream, a 10-inch tablet allegedly running the iPhone OS…

MIT Personas.

Written by Peter. Posted on August 24, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
MIT Personas.
Pretty cool web presence visualization piece from MIT.   It scans the web for all artifacts relating to your name, and generates an interesting chart based on what it finds.  I am, apparently, partially criminal in the online world.