The off-licence group behind Threshers is partnering a new Facebook application which allows people to buy their friends real, rather than virtual drinks. The application works by allowing users to select a drink for a friend, pay for it through Facebooks Google checkout system, then a hard copy of the voucher is posted to the recipients house for them to redeem in any local store.
Designers are, on the whole, visual people. They remember something by what it looks like. So, is the way current search engines return their results the best way? Viewzi is a new visual search engine that presents screen shots of all the results, meaning you can see what you’re looking for.
Common Craft make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos. It’s a great idea which is being used by the big boys, including Google and Microsoft.
This video from TED.com is a tad New York focused, but it’s got some good insights into where social communities on the web maybe heading over the next few years. It gets going after about six minutes…
“Outside.in’s Steven Johnson says the Web is like a city: built by many people, completely controlled by no one, intricately interconnected and yet functioning as many independent parts. While disaster strikes in one place, elsewhere, life goes on”.
It’s always interesting to see new ways in which technology is interacting with the user. I recently read an article on Smashing Magazine which showcases ten new pieces of technology all of which look very futuristic, in both the way they interact and in their overall appearance.
New from TED.com… “Technology enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks ‘What does technology want?’ and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.”
