Digital, Interest
We’ve heard plenty of talk this couple of weeks since the launch of the iPhone questioning why there are no instant messaging apps. Well the answer is pretty simple – the telcos make too much money from sms to allow a live message based service run free on mobiles.
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Digital, Interest
The public beta of
Qik a live mobile video streaming service has gone live today.
A direct competitor to
kyte and
Flixwagon, Qik has taken nice steps with it’s service by adding features specifically for groups and events.
The groups features, allow users to select who can upload and view selected clips. Included privacy options are:
public groups – anyone can post tor
restricted groups – anyone can view, but only select users to post
private groups – restricts viewing and uploading to a specified group of users
The events options are essentially a temporary group that is associated to a particular event.
Last week they announced the iPhone to their
list of supported devices.
Techcrunch walks you through a
nice breakdown of all three services side by side.
Digital, Interest, Opinion
Now that iPhone 3G has launched find out what
F/F think about the future of mobile web – ‘NextWeb’
Read more.
Digital, Interest
So whats the big deal eh? Here we offer a quick break down of some of the things that have taken place in the last week since the big 3G launch.
Design, Digital, Interest, Recommended
Clean Up The World, an initiative of Clean Up Australia have discovered that over 80% of all office paper printouts end up in the bin. Disturbed by the statistic they have taken action with this simple downloadable desktop image produced by DDB Sydney. Though a very simple and somewhat ‘old school’ device it makes total [...]
Design, Digital, Interest
The people over at Adobe Labs have made the beta versions of their Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 applications free for public trial.
Digital, Recommended
Twhilr – if you like to Twitter this is the desktop Twitter client. Built with Adobe Air. Pownce – essentially an instant messaging app with better options for sending and sharing larger files + an online presence like a mini blog. Built with Adobe Air Ebay Desktop – a slicker richer experience than the now [...]
Digital, Predictions
This is something we having be mulling over for a while, but with the every other web app now having some great desktop add on as well it does raise the question where do we see this all heading. A simple sweeping assessment is that one way or another once internet connections are fast/robust enough [...]
Digital, Interest
If you haven’t, do so here – if you have you might be wondering what some of the new behavior is about, especially when you go to type a url and a bunch of results based options come back. Well this is all down to the new Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar. If you haven’t read [...]
Digital, Interest
searchme.com refers to itself as a ‘visual search’. Essentially when running a search filtered by web, images or video the results come back as tidy re-sizable coverflow stream of web-pages, images or videos. Beneath the view is a more conventional list of results. Much like Google Reader there is no need for pagination as the [...]