Posted by Courtney | May 26th, 2009 11:12am
The news on the web today is that Twitter may be heading to Hollywood.
Variety reported that a Twitter TV project was announced by Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment yesterday, May 25th. According to the Twitter Blog, they have merely a “lightweight” agreement with the producers, although there are a lot of related ideas in the works.
One of Brillstein’s exec producers involved in the potential project, Jon Liebman stated:
“We’ve found a compelling way to bring the immediacy of Twitter to life on TV.”
Of course they did.
It’s too soon to tell when we can expect an official Twitter television series, but we’ve been warned.
Posted in Fun, Internet, News, Social Media & Emerging Technolgies
Posted by Courtney | Mar 5th, 2009 5:18pm
Aoife (pronounced Eee-fa) has been tweeting ever since one of my roommates finished his internship and found himself with more time on his hands than usual.
It’s pretty funny: http://twitter.com/aoifecat
Posted in Fun, Internet, Social Media & Emerging Technolgies
Posted by Tony Johnson | Feb 6th, 2009 11:03am
As Annette said in a previous post, we just spent two days in Denver at WebDirections North with some of the web’s brightest minds. The conference itself was tightly organized and highly professional, which is always a relief.
One of the main themes throughout was to define the “state of the web.” That’s a heavy question, especially given the uncertainty surrounding everything else in the world right now — but let’s take a look at just a few of the exciting things that are happening. Who knows, perhaps today’s innovations will play a role in dragging the world’s economy out of the doldrums.
- Mobile: In the past 18 months the iPhone has revolutionized the way the world views mobile computing and mobile web use. Why does that matter?
- Well, roughly 80% of the world’s population is not yet online — and a great many of them live in developing countries with no broadband access. One mobile expert here predicted that by Q3 2009, mobile devices will reach the threshold of 10% market share. That’s a big deal.
- Internet Explorer 6 Strategy: There’s a consensus that the time has come to change the way we approach Internet Explorer 6. By combining new technologies such as font embedding and CSS3 with old techniques, we can begin to move beyond the great anchor.
- In these times we must consider and communicate the costs of designing for IE6. So, what is the new approach for forward-thinking and cost-conscious organizations? Show IE6 users a site that works, but do not demand an exact replica of the site that is shown in modern browsers. That’s not so bad, really…
- Open Web Platform: This got me excited because more than ever, we need to be efficient — and like all web designers, I spend too much time searching for answers on the web.
- Mozilla announced that they’re working on a centralized “open web platform” for developers. Designers and developers could go there to get help documentation for any technology, look up the current browser usage stats, interact and save lots of time.
- They also previewed a new text editor called Bespin that works like Google Docs. Why does that matter? Well, it’s free — putting development in the hands of more people, it makes it more efficient to collaborate with with others in the code, and it demonstrates the amazing things that can be done using the vector-graphics based Canvas. They expect Bespin to be released in Labs this coming week.
Posted in Conferences, Events, Interface Design & Prototyping, Internet, Mobile
