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NEWS - WEBSITE 3.0 IS COMING - 14JUN2010 |
via: Transport for NOLA
All you Urban Designers out there, get your engines ready to check out a brilliant new website promoting Transit in New Orleans. Click on the map above to head straight to the beautifully designed (ripoff of the Underground Tube) map.
Thanks for the link Adam.
Bummed we can’t go to this tomorrow due to a shoot. Hopefully a lot of it will be available online after and we’ll definitely get an ear full about it from our friends. Check out the video above to get a sense for the great work these guys are gathering to promote discussion.
via: Fast Company
Great article on Fast Company comparing the speedy, negative backlash handling of Google’s Buzz vs others who immediately deny and avoid such as Toyota’s recall.
via: GIGAOM
Stayathomia: This belt’s defining feature is how near most people are to their friends, implying they don’t move far.
Dixie: Like Stayathomia, Dixie towns tend to have links mostly to other nearby cities rather than spanning the country.
Greater Texas: Unlike Stayathomia, there’s a definite central city to this cluster, otherwise most towns just connect to their immediate neighbors.
Mormonia: The only region that’s completely surrounded by another cluster, Mormonia mostly consists of Utah towns that are highly connected to each other, with an offshoot in Eastern Idaho.
Nomadic West: The defining feature of this area is how likely even small towns are to be strongly connected to distant cities; it looks like the inhabitants have done a lot of moving around the county.
Socalistan: LA is definitely the center of gravity for this cluster. Almost everywhere in California and Nevada has links to both LA and SF, but LA is usually first.
Pacifica: Tightly connected to each other, it doesn’t look like Washingtonians are big travelers compared to the rest of the West, even though a lot of them claim to need a vacation. - Mathew Ingram on GIGAOM
via: City of Sound
Introducing our newest endeavor, the “Cup O’ Design” podcasting series. In the process of making this film and living in New York City, we come across a ton of amazingly talented, creative people. This is a way for us to share their stories in a quick and easy format. It also enables us to further explore our love of story telling and have a way to have immediate content created as opposed to the years a feature length documentary film takes. We hope you enjoy them, share them and use the journey’s revealed for your own benefit.
The first interview catches the four guys behind the recently launched website Architizer. I came across a flier for the website last summer from a co-worker at the Center for Architecture who was friends with one of the team members, Ryan Quinlan. Flash forward a few months to the site’s launch in early November and attending a great launch party at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, Architizer quickly received a slew of hot buzz from the design community. I was able to pull four of the five team members away from their busy work schedules to find out some interesting details on the Architizer site.
Architizer Interview with the Cup O’ Design Series by archiculture
Ben Prosky, Marc Kushner, Ryan Quinlan and Matthias Hollwich ready with their cups at the Center for Architecture.
Ben and Marc reminiscing about the launch of Architizer.
Stay tuned for upcoming Cup O’ Design interviews with Eliza Starbuck, fashion designer of The Uniform Project and Mimi Zeiger, author and editor of Tiny Houses and Loudpaper.
via: SOFTlab
via: amazing creation from the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Warning, you may spend way to much time clicking around the map of NYC if you go to their site. I’m serious, watch out now. I spent 30 minutes my first time around.
Also, check out the great video which accompanies the map on a previous blog post.
Thanks for the tip Leslie.
While doing some research into online social networks I came upon a few freeze frames from Facebook’s personal page layouts via wikipedia. At the bottom is where the site stands today with user volume and analytics. Where do we go from here?… and who’s next?
source: Google
We are eagerly waiting to try out Google’s latest development, Google Wave. It is an online tool that allows friends/businesses/classes to actively collaborate in real time. It is both a conversation and a document that allows people to discuss and edit with richly formatted text, images, video, maps, and code. We have used a lot of Google applications throughout this process and look forward to playing with their latest.
