July 2010
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Jul 12th
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June 2010
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iPhone 4 versus Canon 7D (by Take Zero Productions) From the great new iPhone Cinema channel on Vimeo. The iPhone 4’s camera is pretty impressive, I’m excited to see what filmmakers manage to do with it.
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Vimeo seen through Sigur Ros-colored glasses. vimeoawards: Great new Festival and Awards promo by VsTheBrain. Do you want to make one? email us! awards@vimeo.com
Jun 22nd
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“I’m restless because I’m doing way too much consuming and not enough creating....”
– - Joseph Schmitt // So Long, And Thanks for All The Fish I’ve had a similar realization lately myself. Except mine came after I realized I’m fostering a growing envy for all the people I see achieving great things around me. I absolutely believe in the idea that you should constantly...
Jun 15th
R Kelly Has Lost His Damn Mind
Seriously.
Jun 9th
“Having a tough time taking a nap on that island paradise? Not to worry. Just...”
– NY Nap App File this under “ideas I wish I’d thought of first”.
Jun 9th
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Jun 9th
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joseph schmitt: Safari Gripes (or Why I Use... →
Safari is a great browser. It’s incredible that the default browser that comes built-in to an Operating System is so high caliber. However, there are a few annoyances that have existed in Safari for several years now that keep me from using it as my daily, default browser. Safari 5, which was… Great points Joe, same problem I have with Safari. Though, if you use Readability, the whole...
Jun 9th
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Jun 4th
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Vimeo Festival + Awards →
Today we opened up submissions and launched the site for the Vimeo Festival + Awards. Kevin, Joe, Jake, and I have been working on this and I’m really pumped to see it go live and start getting attention. The Festival and Awards will take place this October in NYC. We’ve got some really awesome stuff planned. The awards celebrate the best in online video and are judged by a really...
Jun 3rd
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Jun 2nd
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May 2010
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May 28th
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“Thank you for using Tweetbackup! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter,...”
– Follow us “or else”? Way to be huge d-bags TweetBackup. Not cool at all. At least you haven’t updated Twitter since last November. This is me writing about you, like you asked. Kthxbye.
May 27th
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This was shot on the Red One camera and the amount of vibrance achieved is incredible. The beautifully composed shots are helpful as well. Well done, a must-watch at full screen on Vimeo for the HD. San Francisco in 4K (by Patrick Lawler)
May 6th
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Changing Habits: Mapping Environmental Impact as... →
The website Changing Habbits shows the environmental impact of a person by using humanoid forms with body parts distorted relative to the environmental impact of common activities. Each part of the body is allocated to a different type of environmental burden: the feet correspond to the transport footprint, the hands to home energy, mouth to water, stomach to consumption, bottom to waste and...
May 1st
April 2010
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Apr 30th
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Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies... →
It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable. Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute. It is as vivid an emblem of the city as the Statue of Liberty, beloved of property masters who need to evoke Gotham at a glance in films and on television.
Apr 30th
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Thoughts on Flash - A Message from Steve Jobs →
Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot access “the full web” because 75% of video on the web is in Flash. What they don’t say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads. YouTube, with an estimated 40% of the web’s video, shines in an app bundled on all Apple mobile devices, with the iPad offering...
Apr 29th
Announcing The Vimeo Festival and Awards
According to the Vimeo blog and everyone else it’s official: Yep, we’re doing it, and it’s going to be awesome. The Vimeo Festival and Awards will be a celebration of the best original and creative video that has premiered online. Our goal is to reward the individual creators behind online video and acknowledge the internet as a quality medium of expression and distribution....
Apr 26th
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Vimean
So get this: I’m the new web designer at Vimeo. In a strange bit of nostalgia-inducing luck I find my new desk not far from where I sat in the beginning of FiLife back in 2007. Thinking back to my first weeks at FiLife, in New York, in the start-up world, I’m amazed by how much I’ve learned since then. I’m proud of what we built and what we managed to achieve. I’m...
Apr 26th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
“If you can help us get in touch with Gray Powell, we’d like to fly him to Munich”
– @Lufthansa_USA with accompanying letter. Now that’s taking advantage of a moment for some great PR. Well done on the Social Media side for Lufthansa. via @panelfly
Apr 22nd
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Preview: Instapaper on iPad - Instapaper Blog →
This is a really eloquent and well-thought out post regarding the launch of Instapaper on the iPad by Marco Arment. In it he discusses design decisions, challenges he faced, and business reasons surrounding app development. Overall, a very nice piece about an app I love. It’s nice to know things I use a lot are in the hands of thoughtful, intelligent people. Also glad to hear my pro version...
Apr 22nd
Apr 16th
Chrome Comes Out on Top for HTML5 Test
I used the HTML5 Test today to check out the three major browsers I use: Chrome (day to day browsing), Firefox (development), and Safari (occasional browsing, testing). To my surprise Chrome came out the winner. It didn’t have a perfect score but it was pretty close.
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March 2010
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Squared Eye Notebook: It's Not Just The Little... →
first Square gives the receipt an update and now @squaredeye. An important element of real world user experience finally gets some attention. If you haven’t already been following Josh Brewer and Josh Porter at 52weeksofux.com, you need to start now. It’s a great read on some of the realities, questions, and problems of User Experience design, both on the web and in the natural. The topic of...
Mar 28th
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kung fu grippe: Block you. →
Merlin makes a great and entertaining point as always and you should absolutely go read the entire post. I hate talking on the phone as much as the next guy and this seems like a good idea at first glance but I wonder if all of that is a little much to go through for a food delivery guy who can’t find my apartment. I’m pretty sure asking for a list of the cell numbers for all delivery...
Mar 24th
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Oh, Snap!
Mar 23rd
TechCrunch: PayPal Launches Revamped iPhone App,... →
nickdouglas: Get ready to never ever ever leave your phone on the bar, ever.
Mar 22nd
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Twigs & Buoys: Info-What? →
such a shame to see a good candidate for an info graphic come out so poorly. According to this chart, is it more expensive to live in Shanghai or New York? It took me a second to figure it out and these folks even wrote an article with the wrong answer (which was picked up by Racked NY and now poor little fashion-lovers everywhere will be confused). The answer…
Mar 21st
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Can Ads Elicit Emotion? A Brief Look at a Recent...
Have you seen these HSBC ads? As I ride the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan everyday I get a chance to look at a lot of ads. Having worked in advertising I tend to pay a little more attention and be more critical, as is anyone who’s once created what they’re viewing. I’ve seen these HSBC ads around the city and thought they were clever. I’m a pretty sappy guy but I’m not likely to be...
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Adding to the Flock
I just followed a gaggle of new twitter people. All are in the web world and most are at SXSW where I am sadly not. They all are people mentioned by people I’m already following most notably @squaredeye who is a new addition to my list himself and one I’m enjoying quite a bit although learning he was in fact not a whale was disappointing. Hi new people!
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“Audience members took turns, often in pairs, using the Chatroulette station on...”
– We Went to a Chatroulette Party Last Night — Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/03/we_went_to_a_chatroutlette_par.html#ixzz0h3gG0S5b I am absolutely fascinated by chatroulette. Sometimes technology makes something possible socially that is brand new, interesting, a little...
Mar 4th
Mar 3rd
Review of NOW! That's What I Call Music Vol. 2
Read this now. This is a (admittedly long) fantastic critique of pop music in the late 90s written by The Onion’s AV Club. I highly recommend you fight through your “TL:DR” impulse and give this a chance. Load it up before you get on the subway and you’ll be done by the time you hit Brooklyn. Pieces I like the most: On Britney Spears in the …Baby, One More Time era: ...
Mar 3rd
Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids – Quix →
This app is incredible. I just installed it and will report back in a couple weeks after I get used to it but right off the bat the list of things it does is staggering. It really is Quicksilver for the browser.
Mar 2nd
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Season 5, Episode 16: Hooked Discussion →
Just posted my recap for the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother. It’s long, but it was a good episode.
Mar 2nd