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Kevin Kelly's take on the next phase of web development that involves data sharing from the Web 2.0 Conference. He takes us through what might happen in the next 6,500 days of the web.Some highlights.1. Not be anything like the web2. Be a single machine- everything is connect to the same thing.We...

Many of us have been struggling to find the ultimate example of brand utility, something that goes beyond the cliche that Nike Plus has become, but now I think I have found it.Created by an enterprising design company in the UK, Wattson and Holmes (the Brits are good with naming puns) are an...

Adaptive Path has been working on an interesting project with Mozilla to explore the future of the browser. They made a film, shown below. to introduce the concept and show how users might access, share and collaborate with data found through their browser. The concept demonstrates interesting ways...

It's Chipchase day here at Influx Insights, so here's another post with a great slide from his deck. Mobile is a huge business and I am not sure we quite realize how big.One billion + phones are sold a year!!Worryingly, 400,000 phones a day are retired in the US. One surely has to question the...

The visualization of data is fast becoming the next art form. This is a nice example that comes from JK KellerHere's how he creates the visuals. "This is a program I wrote that reads a source text and looks for words that are used repeatedly. The more the word is used, the larger its cube gets. Red...

R/GA's Nike+ site, although created in 2005, has been much heralded this year as the gold standard in "Brand Utility". It has been the marker to judge this new hybrid world between the banner and the website, sadly, nobody, not even R/GA has come close to the excellence of the Nike site. So, while...

Cool story about the Movable Type art piece in the new New York Times building in New York. The concept is all about breaking the original content down into small elements and finding connections between the pieces. Posted by Ed Cotton

Valve, the makers of the game Half-Life , are sharing all kinds of stats on their web page. One of the most interesting are the "death maps" which show the locations, on certain game maps, where most players get shot (as heat).It's just one example of how rich and detailed information can be...

The constraints of integration too often put limits on the creative application of a single medium. The idea that interactive should follow the lead of television often doesn't make any sense. It's refreshing to see an idea that seems so perfect for the interactive medium and one where the agency...

Boing-Boing is the breakout blog, the one that most people have heard and perhaps even visited.The wacky commentators that trawl the web daily for their weird, funny and compelling stuff are now breaking out of their blog home and moving onto and into a new format for them, one called television....

Intro from the movie Stanger than Fiction. Developed by MK12Original pitch video hereVia Information AesetheticsPosted by Ed Cotton

...it actually wasn't meant rhetorically in a recent survey by the Pew Center in Washington.The conclusion was that there is a 14% increase in the proportion of Americans who say environmental problems are indeed a major global problem (23% in 2002 to 37% in 2007). U.S. concern is low when looking...

Some interesting new "rules" from the BBC. (Via Tom Loosemore)1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) 2. The very best websites do one thing really, really...

Many Eyes is a great site, developed by IBM, that allows you to add your own data sets and apply a number of different visualizations to it. All the data is also shared, so there's a chance you can find some interesting stuff. Here's a tool that allows you to examine the nutritional content of the...