your finger creates furniture

from veryshortlist and also on the how design blog, check out these really cool furniture pieces created by someone's finger.

comfy or not, the process is what's interesting. using mo-cap the finger is traced and then the captured data is grown from a resin base. check out the youtube video

this is emerging media if i've ever seen it. maybe soon we can all step into a studio for $100 or so and sketch out our ideas in thin air, then walk out with a physical representation an hour later. how cool would that be?

google video having trouble

i believe that google video is going to have trouble creating a great deal of profit from an online video source, and it appears they are running into trouble as the nba has withdrawn its content.

do you think google video or youtube can generate any revenue?

iAmoeba

i thought this was pretty clever. apparently seth godin asked for an iAmoeba and Allan made one, i thought it was kinda funny so i post now.

It doesn't do anything much. But every once in a while it divides, and then you have two

dynamic seating

we are all exploring how we can make dynamic furniture and architecture in second life, but check this out. you can mess around and make your owns words. is it more comfy if you spell "pillow" instead of "nails"? what word would you spell?
how blog

reuters in second life

reuters is now showing a presence in second life. what do you think the response will be? i really wouldn't go there for my news because there are more efficient means for me already on the internet, but maybe i would if second life was more immersive for me.

download from youtube

check it out, a legal way to download from youTube and convert it to mp4, automatically. it's free and there are no spyware and all that junk. check it out: iTube

new names in second life

Individuals who want to use their real last name will incur a $100 setup fee and a $50-a-year maintenance fee.

micropersuasion

gooberTV episode 2

episode 2 for gooberTV is now up!!! it's pretty kinky

engineers v marketers

i thought this was pretty interesting and somewhat humourous

Engineers - think it will catch on simply because it’s possible

Economists - think it will go mainstream when it’s cheap enough

Marketers - are sure it will explode if they spend millions marketing it

But the most important thing is that it will not catch on before it’s user friendly and easy to understand!

eirikso

what tweens would miss

an article on emarketer was very interesting to me. it stated what type of media our kids and tweens would miss the most if it were removed. internet seems to replace tv as numero uno as the kids age. also interesting (and somewhat humourous) was the fact that none of the age groups cared about newspaper and magazines.

is email old?

do you guys think email is too old now? what? i don't think so. check out the other opinions

87 percent of teenagers in the US now use the Internet, and many of them prefer instant messaging to e-mail.

personally, i still prefer email

rocketboom raking it in

apparently rocketboom has struck a huge deal, according to this article by marketwatch.com

rocketboom has signed an ad deal worth $80,000 for a week on the program

digg viz

check out these news ways of visualizing the content coming into digg.com

space tourism vehicle

check out the new line of space tourist vehicles. tickets are expected to be less than $200,000 US.
TEDblog

choosing happiness?

check out this awesome speaker from TED conference (technology, entertainment, design). it will change the way you think about "true happiness".

Dan Gilbert is a psychology professor at Harvard, and author of Stumbling on Happiness.

need help with goober

ok guys, i need help with our project; gooberTV. what can we do to get the word out? who can we call and email? please comment or email us with any ideas. also, it will help us greatly if you link to our site anywhere and everywhere you can. thanks for the help!

joshua davis

noted designer that was mentioned in class. check it out
joshua davis

all tv signals to digital

dean mentioned stuff about hd tv, so here is the 411 on the senate recommended switch to digital signals. after this date you will have to have a converter or a tv made for hd signal

April 7, 2009 is the date the Senate Commerce Committee recommended for the end of analog television, when broadcasters will turn off their analog signals and transmit only digital ones

original story

gooberTV

gooberTV, our group project, is now in blog form. the address is http://goobertv.blogspot.com. episode 1 is now up and running so check it out!

bearly halloween

first new vidcast that i have finished. recorded it sometime ago but finally got around to finishing it. i have other ideas that i am going to try to create.

viral posts and movies

interesting article about the viral nature of popular youtube/googleVideo movies

And here's an intriguing question: Can YouTube and Google Video figure out a way to make this a business? If so, could they become the web's equivalent of the broadcast networks?

original article, cnn
the emerging media brings on emerging business

Website Tweakers

here is an interesting job "title" that could be very useful now and in the coming years. we need people to...

change the look and the feel but not the bones... plastic surgery for websites...I figure if I'm looking for a tweaker, others are too

seth godin's blog

i figure this is a great opportunity for us designers who don't necessarily want to dive into javascript, php, and other coding languages. but we would rather deal with the visual aspects...what greats the visitor's eye

crazy software teaches itself

check this out

This is software for generating new ideas on the basis of existing ones, and it has already written music, designed soft drinks, and discovered novel minerals that may rival diamonds in hardness.

Experimental AI Powers Robot Army
cool story

just some blog recommendations from class

pouringdown.tv

scriggity.com was kinda lame......basic girl thing showing the news thing that "lonely" guys want to make her their friend on myspace thing......thing

abc news video podcasts

now these aren't the same content as the tv version. it is slightly different and directed towards a younger audience. same anchors only a different attitude. they even did a story on one of the anchors atari system.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Podcasting/

i just subscribe through iTunes

is it coming?

our site is hopefully coming by the end of the semester. till then i am going to be experimenting with podcasting to the best that i can and with the amount of time that i have after all my other stuff is finished.

although here's a cool thing if you want to make your own ringtones. you can send any audio file to your phone for free (except your provider charges) using this site; check it out. click here

getting the project finalized

well, we are getting our group finalized and our project is coming together. as you may or may not know, the gubernatorial elections are coming up and we have 5(?) candidates. we are going to get some of their followers on camera and see what they have to say. if we can, we are going to get the candidates themselves on camera. we'll see how that goes.

then once we have our content we are going to create a video-cast, or vidcast, or whatever you want to call it. furthermore we are going to try to put this into secondlife as well as a classical website with an rss feed. so check it out....

__lame title for first post__

well, this is the first post for this new blog. i'm new to the class, but i recognize a few faces. i very may well be the youngest person in the class which is a welcome change. so far i am finding my grad work much more interesting than the undergrad work that i am finishing up in december. more to come....