How Mark Zuckerberg became a millionaire and grew up in the process. [New York Magazine] Do you want a UNIQLO app that talks you awake every morning? This will either be creepy or amazing to you. [UNIQLO] Via Gabriela, Novel design of the day, a USB condom to protect your computer from viruses. [Yanko Design]…
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Hillman Curtis, the recently deceased designer and documentary maker, is honoured in this Gary Hurstwit post. [Urbanized] The Verge breaks down Twitter’s new Innovator’s Patent Agreement. [The Verge] A very clever Volkswagen ad that uses Facebook photo controls. [Facebook] Via Gabriela, Six succesful Twitter hashtag campaigns. In case you don’t know, these are really hard….
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Offscreen is a beautiful print magazine for web designers. [Offscreen] Someone makes up an Amazeballs cereal on Twitter, Kellog’s responds by making the a box and sending it to the writer. That’s how you use Twitter, people. [Buzzfeed] Speaking of, R.L. Stine published a horror story on Twitter. [Onion A.V.] Via Justin, Pinterest, it seems,…
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Brand New takes on the re-branded Western University. [Brand New] Playfic is a new community launched by developer Andy Baio that lets you create and share interactive fiction. [Waxy] Should we invest more time and money into making our garages look good? [The Fox is Black] Seventeen radical ideas from Google’s Top Genius conference, including…
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Tweetbot, our favourite Twitter client on iPhone, just got better now that it teamed up with Readability. [Readability] A profile of Apple’s first designer, Jerry Manock. [7 Days] So it turns out the Lego office is as cool as you think it is. [Co.Design] Speaking of, check out these playgrounds of the future. [Popsci] A…
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Learn about Hydraulic Fracturing by scrolling down your web browser. This is seriously good web design. [Dangers of Fracking] Via Ryan Briggs, More good web design. Check out this wild scrolling animation in a WebKit browser. [Acko] The new Vimeo is being tested! Apply to check it out. It’s a wonderful and much-needed update. [Vimeo]…
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Wikipedia is blacked out for 24 hours today to protest SOPA. [Wikipedia] So is Reddit. [Reddit] And WordPress. [WordPress] And BoingBoing. [BoingBoing] And Wired… [Wired] How members of congress stand on SOPA. [Pro Publica] A concept for a smartphone with replaceable brains. [Co.Design] How did I miss this one? Brand New takes a look at…
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Facebook is going to advertise in your news feed, and here’s how it works. [Simply Zesty] Sprint.ly is a beautiful project management system. [Sprint.ly] Kickstarter once again breaks down their year in a well-designed report/website. [Kickstarter] Day One is a great little daily writing app. Check it out. [Day One] Via Ian Capstick, Tamar Adler…
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The Verge shares the best tech writing of 2011. [The Verge] Do we need another article about Vice magazine? Sure, we do. Tom Freston, fired from MTV for not buying MySpace, makes Vice into a media giant. [Forbes] A great look at an Ottawa artist who has been scamming the local art community. [Ottawa Citizen]…
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YouTube buys a company that handles music royalties. My prediction: record labels continue to hate the Internet. [New York Times] Obligatory link to the new Twitter. [Twitter] And OpenFile points out that the new Twitter slogan might be familiar to those of us in Ontario. [OpenFile] Trust me, you aren’t expecting this: architectural draftsman Ice…
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