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Nokia erect a giant remote control signpost in the middle of London
You decide where to point this giant signpost in the center of London.
Catching up on emails and enjoying this digital signage project from Nokia
Stndrd_ open source approach to standards and practices for digital and integrated production.
via stndrd.org
B-Reel released Stndrd_, an open source attempt to address standards and practices for digital and integrated production.
Stndrd_ features a digital RFP checklist, a delineation of the digital production process as well as a wiki.
Today, integrated production company B-Reel released Stndrd_, an open source attempt to address a much-awaited industry need, standards and practices for digital and integrated production.
Stndrd_ features a digital RFP checklist, a delineation of the digital production process as well as a wiki. The site will update tools for production partners and clients based on the wiki feedback from the industry, and will be made available as downloadable pdfs
Stndrd_RFP_Checklist.pdf (application/pdf Object)
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via stndrd.org
B-Reel released Stndrd_, an open source attempt to address a much-awaited industry need, standards and practices for digital and integrated production.
Stndrd_ features a digital RFP checklist, a delineation of the digital production process as well as a wiki.
CAT london recapped
A large theme that emerged was how information is jumping off screens and into the real world.
Perhaps the brainiest speaker in a day packed with intellect was Nokia’s head of design direction, Adam Greenfield, who talked about networked urban spaces—imagining a city that could collect data and adapt to how its residents used public spaces and services, like traffic lights and buildings.
He said, “We need to stop thinking of the city as bricks that don’t communicate. In the computer revolution, every constant in the world becomes a variable; everything around us is scriptable, which makes everything deeply interactive.”
http://creativity-online.com/news/highlights-from-creativity-and-technology-london/140653
Condé Nast Prepares Tablet Magazines for Apple Device
Here’s yet another content creator convinced that Apple has a tablet device in the works: Condé Nast says it will have a digital version of Wired magazine ready for the rumored gadget by the middle of next year and will eventually create similar versions for all of its 18 titles.
But Condé, like other publishers, says Apple (AAPL) won’t actually talk to the company about its plans for the device, or even acknowledge that it has plans.*
Condé’s plan, meanwhile, is to create digital versions of its magazines that will work on all the upcoming tablets, using new software from Adobe (ADBE). Those tablets aren’t actually on the market yet, but the publisher says it’s confident that we’ll soon see multiple versions of machines featuring large color touchscreens and wireless connections.
So who’s going to make those gadgets? Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend says his company is working closely with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and that it has also been communicating its plans to Apple. But Townsend made a point of saying that Apple executives themselves refuse to acknowledge that they’re actually planning a tablet: “They’re not talking to anybody openly,” he says.
Adobe is creating a publishing tool for the new format, as well as magazine-reader software that may come pre-installed on the devices or may require a download. The software company says it is working exclusively with Condé now, but will offer its tools to other publishers next year.
[Important technical point several readers have brought up: Adobe says its new reader software will run using its AIR platform, which works on multiple operating systems, including Apple’s desktop system. But neither AIR nor Adobe’s flash software works on Apple’s iPhone, so if the new mystery device runs on that operating system, there’s a problem. I’m following up with Adobe to see what it has to say. UPDATE: Here’s Adobe’s response.]
Condé says its work with Adobe won’t preclude the company from joining the “Hulu for magazines” storefront/distribution joint venture it has been discussing with Time Warner’s (TWX) Time Inc. and other publishers. “Those discussions are ongoing and important and imminent,” Townsend says.
Okay. So what will Condé’s magazines look like once the tablets appear? The publisher has been showing a demo video to advertisers, industry executives and employees, and I’m trying to convince the company to show it to the rest of the world. (UPDATE: Here’s a partial, low-quality version of the video).
But until then, you can get a sense of it by checking out the publisher’s first attempt to port a magazine to the iPhone, which was released today at the iTunes App Store.
Like the iPhone version of GQ’s December issue, Condé says its tablet magazines will feature the same content found in the print versions, including original advertising, with the ability to view pages in their original form or in formats designed specifically for the device. They will also import multimedia content, like videos, and offer the ability to synch up with social networks and other Web sites.
Condé also thinks the business model for its tablet mags will mirror that of its iPhone app. The company intends to charge readers for each title, and it plans to convince the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the magazine industry’s standards board, that its online sales are equivalent to newsstand sales. That will allow Condé to charge advertisers the same rate as for print ads.
If all of this works, it’s a dream scenario for Condé and other publishers. The magazine industry gets to keep the revenue streams its print publications generate without having to make the “analog dollars for digital pennies” discount that the Web requires. Meanwhile, Condé gets to bask in the benefits of digital–lower distribution costs, more engagement with readers.
Or put another way: Publishers hope the new devices will repair all the value destruction the Web has wrought.
But all of this assumes that consumers, who’ve shown no inclination to pay for this stuff on the Web, will be willing to pay for it once it appears on devices no one owns yet. We’ll find out soon enough.
*One possible exception is the New York Times (NYT), where editor Bill Keller refuses to talk about possible talks with Steve Jobs and company.
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Microsoft Outlook To Become More LinkedIn
Professional social network LinkedIn
is showing a little Microsoft love today. In conjunction with the announcement of the beta of Microsoft’s Office 2010 at its Professional Developer Conference,
The add-on to Outlook will provide professional and social context to any Outlook users everyday email experience. When you received an email from a contact who happens to be a member of LinkedIn, Outlook will show a collapsible pane that will show information on what the contact’s latest activity is on Linkedin.
via techcrunch.com
Orange social media project - Twitter and People Projects
via intomobile.com
Orange is launching People Projects, a new Facebook application that lets people communicate with their social network and create groups online… and announces partnership with Twitter allowing send / receive Twitter updates directly from mobile phones using text messaging. http://bit.ly/lzafV
The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.
The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the senior Android guys at Google are now carrying around and testing, at least as of a couple of weeks ago. If you’re willing to give up the Droid’s keyboard, the Dragon/Passion is going to be a really cool phone. It should be fully available very soon.
But it isn’t the Google Phone. Everything up until now has just been a warm up to the Google Phone.
Way more interesting are the rumors we’ve been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).
There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.
That’s it for confirmed, super-high confidence information, which frankly isn’t a whole lot more than we all heard back in late October. But we also have a few more details as well that we’ve gathered from a number of sources. Everything that follows we still consider to be just well-sourced rumors:
One source told us that HTC, a Taiwanese company, is building the new Google phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some fairly good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsung. Samsung has multiple parts in the iPhone and could be pressured by Apple not to work with Google, which says LG is the more likely partner for Google. So rumors like this one may be much more important than they first appear. But either way, the best information we have right now points directly at Korea as the birthplace of the Google Phone.
We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.
That’s all we have for now. We don’t yet know what the device will look like, how big it will be, or even if it has a physical keyboard. But we do know that Google is getting into the phone building business directly, and doesn’t seem too concerned about competing with all the other device manufacturers building Android phones.
Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
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The British have taken to smartphones like the iPhone and Blackberry with gusto, according to new research from The Nielsen Company. The number of people in the UK using smartphones increased 10 percent between the second and third quarters of this year, from 5.6 million to 6.2 million. While this growth is solid, smartphone share of the overall UK mobile market grew from 14 to 15 percent, indicating that significant growth opportunities remain in this segment.
So what are Brits doing with their smartphones? Mobile web browsing was the fastest growing activity, with 10.4 million using that function in the third quarter, up from 8.8 million in the second quarter. Downloading applications was the second fastest growing activity, with 1 million new users in the third quarter to 4.1 million.
Android devices comparable to iPhone for social networking and higher for other social activities
via emarketer.com
Q3 2009 data from Nielsen shows that Android users are actually more likely than iPhone users to use video, apps and the mobile Internet.
