In regards to my post earlier (in December) about services like Last.FM, iLike and Pandora, here’s a new service where the basic idea is about the same, but the UI is quite different: Musicology. While I like the colorful design, mindmap-like approach and the ease of use, the music collection isn’t nearly big enough to [...]
Skype founders’ Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis project Joost (formerly called ‘The Venice Project’) promises fullscreen P2P TV, like Babelgum, which is loaded with several handy features in its UI. Both projects are now in beta testing, and Joost say it’s already expanded into a global venture employing more than 150 people. While the content [...]
News at Seven is a service that automatically generates a virtual newscast pulled from stories, images, videos and blogs from the web, all linked by a common news topic. In other words, it’s RSS-enabled news and blog articles read to you by a computer-generated news anchor. While I myself am not so fascinated by how [...]
Developed by a small team of people working at Nokia, WidSets brings Widgets to cell phones. Currently in its beta stage, WidSets (I wonder if they came up with this modification of ‘widget’ just because most native Finnish speakers find it much easier to pronounce sounds like ‘ds’ instead of ‘dg’? can already bring Flickr, [...]
(This is actually a bit old news already, but…) Just as the fuss over MySpace has started to calm down, another social networking site, Bebo, has quickly been gathering momentum particularly in the UK. While there are, of course, several other MySpace rivals, some of them way older than MySpace itself, like Faceparty, Friendster, and [...]
The Big Picture is a special feature on the CNET News site, connecting the stories, companies, and topics within the site in a mindmap-like interface. While the interface could be made a bit clearer and visually more interesting, I dig the idea a lot and hope to see more news sites use a similar “connector” [...]
Conceptology is the personal blog of Karri Ojanen, an interaction design leader, usability consultant, creative director and digital marketing strategist. The posts cover a wide area from advertising to corporate culture, mobile technology to social media, and product design to design techniques. . Subscribe via RSS »
