For everybody interested in an overview of the FLIRT model of crowdsourcing, here’s a comprehensive (but not exhaustive) checklist in slideshow format that clarifies the main points as they now stand (no examples or nothing, just plain beef):
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This is a very intriguing one indeed. Traxmeet, a virtual training community was launched some weeks ago and I’ve been eager to blog about it since then. Been busy busy busy since then, but Sunday nights are always good for blogging.
What makes this sports community especially interesting is that it is owned by Elisa, a […]
Tags: marketing · tools · technology · design
…it’s just not evenly distributed”, said William Gibson (a quote that has since been widely quoted by e.g. Tim O’Reilly). What better way to describe my sensation when today I saw this:
“Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact […]
Tags: technology · design
Finnish TV channel Nelonen allows people to submit their own inserts for ad breaks between the shows in their christmas campaign. The best inserts are shown on TV, as could be expected. Sounds very neat indeed but in my opinion, the execution falls short of the promise. I’ll try to briefly analyze the competition through […]
Time to rant a bit, since I’ve been very positive lately: which gadget, service, building or vehicle offers the most irritating & frustrating user experience in your daily life? For me it definitely has to be the elevator. Any given elevator usually has some or all of these exquisitely gut wrenching feats:
When you push the […]
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Stumbled upon a great book this week while visiting London: The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda is a nice general introduction to designing for simplicity and value.
John has adopted a very down to earth and accessible approach in laying out his Ten Laws of Simplicity and illuminates the different contexts to which they apply […]
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BMW launches PACE, a Pursuit Across Europe. Advergaming is not anymore a flash banner, where you try to hit the target with the product advertised. PACE is a full-length race game through the cities of Europe in 3D! The game is divided into episodes and you can (after registration) modify your BMW by buying different […]
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Summer is slowly creeping to northern hemisphere, although the weather during Vappu was still quite freezing. As a result, bikers are again beginning to fill the streets of Helsinki, a great biking city by the way, although not quite at Amsterdam’s level.
Because of this, I wanted to bring forth some of this year’s cool bike […]
Tags: design
An excellent campaign by Fleim.fi (a Finnish youth magazine / web community promoting Christian values and viewpoint). They encourage people to make religion a more personal issue by pimping their bibles and posting them to the website where they are then rated by everybody. Paint, felt pens, cloth, glue, wire, or anything else people can […]
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The tagline of the blog is, after all, Design : Business : Technology.
Onitsuka has a very nice promo site for Onitsuka Tigers, madeofjapan. The shoe on the site consists of pics taken from japanese websites and acts as a portal to those sites. Furthermore, the shoe is built anew in different colors every time a […]