The folks at MakeZine published this video showing Collab, a Manhattan-based workspace where co-working is a common practice.
I’m a long-time fan of co-working and have been following co-working expert Massimo Carraro and his CoWO project growing up, so I’m happy to see CoWo people around the world gathering together.
I strongly believe that co-working is the way to go, not just because of the economic downturn we’re now facing: it’s the right way to get creative people together, share places and facilities, get more from brains than the mere sum of people.
Facebook Timeline: love it or hate it, that’s how your Facebook profile (and mine as well) is gonna be like.
A streamlined and time-oriented timeline (that is!)
User experience has changed since the very first Facebook look and – it seems – there’s some online disappointments raising from users unwilling to accept changes in their beloved FB look&feel.
Twitter on Thursday announced a program for Facebook-style brand pages.: such brand pages will let advertisers customize their headers to make their logo and tagline more prominent. [more updates included revamped iOS apps]
Twitter’s embrace of brand pages, which had been rumored since April, comes about a month after Google introduced brand pages for Google+.
Looks like there’s a lot more to study, understand, exploit and engage users into in the social media arena!
Sounds great to me! 😉
As reported by our friends at theifile.com two of the essential apps all iOS users must have just released their latest (and still best) updates ever!
Flipboard: one of my favorite social media aggregator, now available for iPhone too (and with a single Flipboard account you can have the same content cloud-style on all your iOS devices).
Box.net: now updated with (at last!) photos and videos upload (as well as all other files – PDFs included aimed at iBooks collections).
Too much has been written lately about Steve (Jobs): too many magazine covers and lots of people witnessing personal stories about him.
I guess there’s nothing like watching the very one Steve, listening to his words and try to understand how far he went from there.
These videos back to 1994, right in the middle of the NeXT era, just a three years before getting back to Apple as CEO.
In this 1994 film interview conducted by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association, Steve Jobs emphasizes why it is so important to take risks.
His very words?
Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail… if you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
Here are some pretty statements about life (at large).
I love animation, I love graphic design but… where is the boundary between animated films and motion graphic design?
This video (9:30″) helps you see the different kinds of animated graphics and motion design approaches that can be used in everyday communication, through any media.
The video is part of the Motion PLus Design project which aims to bring inside an exhibition centre in Paris, the work of Motion Design artists.
Ok, it’s Cyber Monday (the online version of Black Friday), along with the unavoidable craze but… where did it come from?
Mashable just published a cool infographics that recalls Cyber Monday six years, the rise and fall (we’re facing an economic downturn, aren’t we?) of sale revenues.
Online orders should have topped the billion dollars mark this year and, believe it or not, jewelry and luxury items sales rose up 89% compared to last year.
We all know Black Fridays shopping turn people craziness on and this year, with the economic downturn it may seem it’s even worst. Mashable reports that
Black Friday is starting to look a bit more like Cyber Monday. According to IBM’s study of 500 retailers, online sales on Friday were up 24.3% over last year, suggesting that people stayed home to avoid the crowds and in-store havoc.
Mobile devices accounted for 14.3% of all online Black Friday traffic, up from 5.6% last year, and they were responsible for 9.8% of online sales. The iPad proved to be the king of post-Thanksgiving retail — its users were more likely to purchase than other mobile users, with conversion rates reaching 4.6%.
Ecommerce sales increased from last year in many retail sectors, from home to apparel to beauty, and web traffic catapulted department store sales to 59% higher than last year’s Black Friday.
Black Friday was a hot topic on social media channels, too. Visits to Twitter and Facebook were likely to yield chatter about Black Friday sales, out-of-stock items, parking troubles and long lines. The volume of Black Friday dialogue was 110% more than last year, and there was “a spike in positive sentiment” around and anticipation for Cyber Monday.
This video footage anyway, from a WalMart in Mesquite, Texas, shows a different side of Black Friday: the worst.
Take a look a watch out for the woman being almost ripped off and the security guy shouting “Hey!”:
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This time is about holography – and an under $ 100 kit should get all of us making holograms at home, albeit quite small and not so detailed… (but what the heck: it’s DIY holography after all!)
I really want to know how many aren’t eager to try out this one at home!
Check this video from Matt Richardson and his experiment in 3D-land:
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