information aesthetics
a sophisticated online collection of about 48 design patterns that describe distinct methods for the display of interactive information graphics, their active behavior as well as the forms of user interaction with them. as part of the written thesis in Interface Design from Christian Behrens, a freelance interface designer (Read More)
Submitted by Aurobinda:
In an aggressive bid to deliver the rich graphic Web experience available on desktop computers to mobile handsets, San Jose softwaremaker Adobe Systems Inc. is partnering with the five biggest cell phone manufacturers to smooth the way to deploy its Flash technology.
Adobe's plan, called the Open Screen Project, will remov (Read More)
Submitted by Buzzsonic:
Marc Cohen writes a challenging post on The Myth of Music Discovery. Citing a Digital Music News report of two venture capitalists agreeing that "the next big thing is going to be music discovery", Marc says this ought to be enough evidence that it won't be. (Read More)
: Very interesting article, and not only because it challenges what has become the accepted wisdom about social networking/recommendation models for music discovery, and by implication how this can be turned into yet another Web 2.0 service. It also discusses another thing that really matters to anyne who loves music, and that's the sound quality. It's not true, by the way, that downloads are inherently better quality than streaming media, as Marc wrote: I've just joined a start-up that has already developed technology that allows streaming radio, or downloaded MP3/WMA/whatever, at hi-fi quality, and that has been running a classical music webradio station for months with great success using this technology. I'm probably biased, but I think that from the piont of view of the music industry, this is much bigger than any kind of music discovery. After all, taste in music is a very individual matter; but the difference between crappy compressed digital music and high fidelity is something that everyone (almost) can hear and enjoy, and that can be measured scientifically.