Austin is a very cool city, it reminds me of Madison and other college towns in many ways. I’m not a big fan of Texas overall with its monster bigness, dusty, ugly terrain, Dallas and Houston are blah to me. Austin is another world, nestled in the hill country with tons of trees, a river, [...]
More on the death of Myspace, social networks and user generated content. I just ran across this article in the latest issue of Fast Company. And in reference in my previous post questioning what is the next cool thing, Tag World may have the most traction to be the "Myspace Killer". I gave Tag World a [...]
Leapfish created a nifty little tool that estimates the value of your domain name. Obviously not really accurate as the intellectual value of a brand would need to be valuated based on tons of variables. For example they calculate www.google.com as being only worth a little over 2 million. Obviously they could get a hell [...]
Getty Images teamed up with five design agencies to produce 10 promotional interactive pieces exploring what makes visual language powerful and where it can take us. My favs are the two by Sumona. I spent too much time mesmerized and zoning out at work playing with this. It will suck you in and it’s a [...]
Crackspacers be afraid, check out this article on Star-Telegram that contemplates what could happen when people get bored with it and kids (although Myspace says their demographic is 18-34) move on to the next "cool" thing. I have to admit Myspace is pretty retarded, of course thats why I’m on it. But with 61+ Million [...]