Ladies and gentlemen, we have a color for 2010. Last year it was Pantone 14-0848 Mimosa, a bright yellow encouraging a positive outlook towards the anticipation of a gloomy year. This year, in continuation of the uplifting colors theme, Pantone has unveiled its color for 2010 — 15-5519 Turquoise. It…
In last month’s article “How Tablets Could Influence Online Marketing“, the issue of enabling Flash on mobile devices was raised. On January 27th, Apple revealed the much anticipated tablet we now know as the iPad. One disappointment (though expected) was that, like the iPhone, it would not play Flash. So what’s…
It has become a tradition to welcome the new year by attending the Crunchies Awards hosted by TechCrunch. Clearly in competition this year with attracting an audience that might otherwise be at CES, the ceremony welcomed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerburg, Google’s VP of Engineering Vic Gundotra, Linkin Park vocalist Mike…
Rumors of this year’s new electronic devices are bubbling as the first week of a new year wakes up from a light doze. Google phones (Nexus One just announced), a possible Apple tablet (Apple Mobility event Jan 27th), and more eReaders (Barnes & Noble nook just won Best New Gadget…
There has been a lot of conversation recently–both online and off–about the coming demise of social networks (especially Twitter, which seems to be a favorite target these days). It’s amazing how our online lives have accelerated the pace of uncyber lives; the pace of the Twitter fad uptake, and then…
As computers find their way further into our daily lives, the skills that many of us are developing are becoming vital for things beyond just searching the web. Take this recent post from e-consultancy, where the writer does his best to attempt to check out a bunch of fennel from…
I received an alumni newsletter the other day that announced the retirement of my college professor, Hanno Ehses. After 35 years as a professor in the design department at NSCAD University, Ehses is signing off. It is during a time when the communication design industry should be looking back at…
To my mind one of the most stunning developments on the web this year have been the almost total unhinging of content ownership. One must wonder what this may mean for the professional content developers, such as journalists and even bloggers, not to mention the content developed by a company…
Want to know if your Android application customer demographic has changed since Verizon’s launch of the DROID? Just look at your app’s comments on the Marketplace. Over the past few weeks, the language has dramatically changed from a constructive comment like “great app but needs some work” to a more…
It has been a long wait, but I finally received my invitation to try out Typekit—a solution to the agony of being restricted by web-safe fonts. Created by Small Batch Inc., Typekit will allow web developers to write their CSS, link it to a font file, and have that font…
