…how we experience content via connected devices – laptops, phones, tablets, wearables – is undergoing a dramatic change. The idea of an app as an independent destination is becoming less important, and the idea of an app as a publishing tool, with related notifications that contain content and actions, is becoming more important. This will change what we design, and change our product strategy…
interesting article: the end of apps as we know them?
this is a post i wrote as contributor to the amsterdam ad blog ‘something related to amsterdam’ column, originally posted on the 16th of october 2014…
Google wave
Most people would recognise the ‘Google camera car’ if they saw it, these days. But how about the ‘Google camera boat’? Just over a month ago, a specially rigged boat (low to pass under the bridges) was circling around Amsterdam for three days recording the view from the canals.
Google have not given a release date yet, but before long you can join all the fat, wine-sipping yuppies & noisy students without even leaving your home.
We are not the first, venice can be seen here. Judging by that example what we are most likely to see are fat yuppies, noisy students and tourists; pointing their own cameras back at that strange boat, sailing by.
the poster project by my buddy jarr geerligs has turned into a franchise; he recently helped to create a new version: posters in… mumbai
being a famous hollywood actor undoubtedly makes it a bit easier to get attention for your little app idea, but in the case of this retro typewriter app from mister tom hanks, it is actually quite a nice idea and certainly well made… check the hanx typewriter for ipad
as the bbc recently reported: …an american academic is creating a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images. kalev leetaru has already uploaded 2.6 million pictures to flickr, which are searchable thanks to tags that have been automatically added. The photos and drawings are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages scanned in by the Internet Archive organisation. The images have been difficult to access until now…
check the internet archive book images here
