Photoshop / The Largest Photoshop Brush Resource Site on The Internet
If you need Photoshop Brushes, this site has tons of them, in addition they’ve add a great Stock Photos section so you can find lots of free stock photos.
Awesome!!!
Product / Apple iPhone
The amazing new Apple iPhone has been previewed at MacWorld. The new Wi-Fi phone is a portable version of OS X with features that include music and video (iPod), Internet (Safari), impressive phone characteristics, widget integration, mail, calendering and so forth. Apple has also partnered with Yahoo! and Google to incorporate Maps, email and search functionality.
The interface (3.5 inch screen) has redefined usability on handheld devices using clever hand actions such as ‘finger pinching’ and ‘flicking’ to navigate through a visually rich menu system. iTunes users will be familiar with the music interface pulling largely from iTunes 7 (not suprisingly).
Unfortunately the phone will only be available in Australia from 2008 and at present is scheduled to come in 2 sizes, 4 and 8 gigabyte.
The interesting thing for us as advertisers will be the opportunity new rich-media devices will offer.
Website / Kink Kommunity
3 is trialing large-scale social networking on your mobile here in Australia and the UK. Most of the established communities are moving this way but it will be interesting to see the take-up of a network built in reverse - mobile first.
From the site: Kreate, konnect and share. Kink Kommunity brings the world of Social Networking right to your mobile, and guess what? You won’t be alone! Kink Kommunity Global allows you to chat, post your own video & photo’s, rate, search, build friend lists, tag, private message, and well what ever else you want in real time with real people from around the Globe, we call it Kink Kommunity Global. Get kinking today, luv, Kit (your Kinky hostess).
http://www.kinkkommunity.com/au/index.htm
Article / The dollars will follow (The Australian - IT)
Another interesting article on social networking. How to convert large numbers of users with small revenue into viable offerings - something beyond a phenomenon.
“IT is the sheer pace of growth that is astounding. Piczo will be an unfamiliar name to many readers, yet in just 13 months this networking website for teenagers has grown eightfold, increasing its number of users from 1.2 million to 10.5 million.”
Blog / Type for you
Interesting mix of links, articles, styles, showcases and reviews: http://typeforyou.blogspot.com/
Website / Thomas Tallis Speciality Art School
Visual social-commentary/blogging interface at the front-end of this site. Allows users to read comments, make comments and sort comments in a fun, colourful and easy to use interface.
http://www.thomastallis.co.uk/tallistalk/
Article / Games are going mobile (SMH)
The mobile games market must be booming if gaming giant Electronic Arts has come out to play…
http://www.smh.com.au/news/games/games-are-going-mobile/2006/12/10/1165685544813.html
Ideas / Series of clever/witty diagrams
Article / Free-to-air copping a download (News.com.au)
AUSTRALIA’S $3.5 billion free-to-air commercial television industry is being threatened by the internet more quickly than expected, with a new online study showing 53 per cent of respondents regularly download TV shows from the internet, most of them illegally.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,20922909-10229,00.html
Article / Top tech trends to watch in 2007 (SMH)
- Blogosphere growth tapers
- Vista take-up slows, Linux following grows
- Web 2.0 start-ups weeded out
- HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format war decided
- Continued migration from desktop to online applications
- VoIP takes off
- Computers in the living room still won’t fly
- Mobile video proliferates
- YouTube won’t feature in the 2007 Federal Election
- Microsoft ramps up its online business
- Downloadable movie space heats up
- Wii wins next-gen console war