Silk: Write With Smoke
Need a site to waste 5 minutes on? Check out Silk, a website that lets you write in smokey patterns.
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Desktop Images from Desktoppr
I like to keep my desktop fresh looking and will rotate a new desktop wallpaper image in every month or so. I’m always on the lookout for good sites to find desktop images, and have been collected a…
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Real-life Hotwheels Loop
This is pretty awesome… Hotwheels sets a world record by racing two cards through a 6-story vertical loop.
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Eraser Makes New Chalk Out of Chalk Dust
I don’t know if this would be categorized as tech or not, but it’s really really cool. Designers Yonggu Do and Eunha Seo have created a concept for a chalkboard erasure that turns the dust that is erases into…
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Tower Defense in Google Maps
Do you really enjoy Tower Defense games? Have you always wished that you could play Tower Defense in your own back yard? Well, wish no more. MapsTD hooks the Tower Defense you know and love to Google Maps…
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Getting the Most out of Google+
Tuesday, March 13 – 3:30PM – 4:30PM Keri Kandel Prod Mktg Mgr Google Inc This session was a core conversation, which means the room was filled with Google+ users talking about the product. The session was facilitated by…
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The Battlefield Art of Design Triage
Tuesday, March 13 – 5:00PM – 6:00PMAngel Anderson Experience Dir Crispin Porter+Bogusky We are constantly being asked to go faster and faster. What is Triage? "To sort" produce sorting battlefield medics Necessity is the mother of invention. War…
Continue reading →When Filmmakers Meet Interactive Teams
Tuesday, March 13 – 2:00PM – 3:00PMAmit Breuer Pres Amythos MediaGhassan Fayad Pres KngfuChris Harris Head of Online Content Shaw Media Group Storming JunoA Canadian file about storming Juno Beach in WWII. The interactive portion of the film…
Continue reading →Lie to Me: CSS3 Demystified by Haakon Wium Lie
Tuesday, March 13 – 11:00AM -12:00PMHåkon Wium Lie CTO Opera Software CSS Timeline 1994 – Cascading HTML style sheets 1996 CSS1 1998 CSS2 2012 CSS3 Where is it?? HTML has a simple structure, universal semantics, media-independent. It doesn’t…
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Al Gore and Sean Parker Conversation
I sat in on an interesting conversation between former vice president Al Gore and Napster creator Sean Parker about how technology could be used to hack democracy. They talked a lot about their current endeavors as well as…
Continue reading →Auto Meets Mobile: Building In-Vehicle Apps
Monday, March – 12 3:30PM – 4:30PM Michelle Avary Natl Mgr Toyota Motor CorporationZach Brand Sr Dir Tech NPR Telematics: When the vehicle is aware of its location and can engage in 2-way conversation. Telematic Features/Services Safety &…
Continue reading →Own the Media. Or the Media Will Own You
Monday, March 12 – 11:00AM -12:00PMCristina Monteiro Mktg Mgr PepsiCoLucas Mello CEO Live ADMauro Silva Creative Director Live ADRicardo Guerra Head of Consumer Channels Banco Itau The Rise of Own MediaNew digital technologiesImpact of startup culture on brandsFacebook…
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A Brief History of the Complete Redesign of Google
Sunday, March 11 – 5:00PM – 6:00PM Evelyn Kim Visual Designer Google IncJon Wiley Lead Designer for Google Search Google IncMichael Leggett Design Lead, Google Apps Google IncNicholas Jitkoff User Experience Designer Google Inc In the summer of…
Continue reading →Simplify CSS Development with Sass & Compass
Sunday, March 11 – 3:30PM – 4:30PMAlex Lemanski Founder/Web Craftsman Bitfyre Slides, Links, Examples: Saas allows for variables so you only have to replace elements in a single place in your style sheet. Nesting selectors so you don’t…
Continue reading →Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces
Sunday, March 11 – 12:30PM – 1:30PMStephen Woods Sr Software Engineer Flickr When working on the desktop, we’re worrying about browsers. You have to cover every case with various browser-specific CSS. On mobile, we worry about devices and…
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