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• Arc Mouse White Contest
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• Samsung 3D Campaign

As one of the newest additions to the growing spate of crowd-sourced apps for mobile devices, Blockchalk puts user-friendly, location-based bulletin boards in the palm of users hands in over 13,000 neighborhoods worldwide.

Developed by Delicious alums Stephen Hood and Dave Baggeroer of the Institute of Design at Stanford, Blockchalk’s purpose is to restore neighborhood-specific connectivity on a more local level than the kind typically achieved by Facebook and other social-networking platforms, or even search-based classifieds listings like Craigslist.

The program, currently available for iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices, uses GPS technology to let users post neighborhood tips, lost-and-found alerts, queries and recommendations, random musings, event announcements, social invitations and more onto location-specific digital forums from wherever they happen to be.

Because of Blockchalk’s easy-to-use, commitment-free design—they don’t require a membership or username—users can immediately leave messages or respond (“chalkback,” either publicly or privately), as well as browse posts made by individuals in other neighborhoods.

Support for Blackberry and Nokia’s devices is expected to roll out in the next few months.

The most exciting new hardware launched by Apple since the iPhone, the iPad presents a brand new platform for consuming online content. To perfectly tailor our publication to the touch-screen medium, we developed the Cool Hunting application—a free app (downloadable now from iTunes).

Pulling off a project like this takes an amazing team. In our case we worked on the design with BBH and development with Front-Ended. None of this would have been possible without our launch sponsor Cadillac or our ad network Largetail.

Combining the strengths of the iPad with those of our recently re-designed site, in landscape mode you can scroll laterally through all of our stories or filter by category. With a simple two finger swipe, you can move from one story to the next, with images bordering the top and information displayed on the left hand side. Videos expand to consume the entire screen, taking advantage of the iPad’s gorgeously crisp display. While the horizontal view is more visual and immersive, the portrait view puts the focus on headlines, allowing you to quickly scan articles.

While many publications are taking a more literal approach to translating their content from print to pad (or web to pad), we chose to create an interface that best suits the user experience and creates new opportunities for our advertising partners. For Cadillac, the first brand to leverage our custom, single-sponsor approach, we worked with BBH to create a section that contains weekly updates of iPad-only Cool Hunting stories, advertorial and content specifically about the CTS-V Coupe.

Available for free from iTunes, we couldn’t be more excited about the application and the seemingly endless possibilities presented by the iPad.

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pBack before the iPad was revealed, a href=”http://berglondon.com/”Berg/a and a href=”http://www.bonnier.com/betalab”Bonnier/a sent us a concept predicting the very same, exploring, in particular, its implications for the digital publishing of periodicals. You can see that video a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/mag_the_magazines_digital_future_15528.asp”here/a./p

pIt’s interesting to review the reader comments from that post, given what we know now. Michael Janzen commented that, “If the predictions are correct Apple will continue to move into the old-school digital and print world drawing in new customers and inadvertently putting the old-schoolers out of business simply by following a steeper innovation curve.” And J.R. points out that “something like this will only succeed with the blessing of strong, strategic partners such as the remaining magazine dynasties and other publishers, a la itunes arrangement with record labels.” /p

pWell, it’s only been a few months, but the announcement of the iPad gave the Mag+ development team their chance to make this thing real. Though it may not put magazines out of business yet, they’ve certainly succeeded in teaming up with said strategic partnersmdash; the April issue of Popular Science is the first to be digitized for the iPad in this way. a href=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/popular-science/id364049283?mt=8br /
“Downloadable/a from, yes, iTunes, the magazine goes live tomorrow, and may be a nice way to immediately test out the iPad’s multi-touch chops./p

pAbove, Bonnier demonstrates Popular Science +, including dog-earing and background obfuscation, and discusses the new opportunities for art direction that Mag+ presents. /p

pFrom the team:blockquoteOur design vision has been to avoid what our friends at BERG call “a wrist screen running clock software” – we wanted to build the watch. It should feel like you are touching the actual magazine, using your natural body language – not looking through the screen and layers of buttons./p

pMagazines are a luxury that readers can lose themselves in. We have built a digital magazine for a device you can curl up with on the coach. It allows readers to lean back, away from the browser, and just focus on the bold images and rich storytelling. We wanted to build a linear story with a beginning and end. Because we believe that reducedbr /
complexity increases your immersion. And that the sense of completion is important./blockquote/pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/something_to_read_on_your_new_ipad_mag_goes_live__16316.asp”(more…)/a
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Un musée moderne conçu par les architectes Migliore + Servetto et consacré à l’oeuvre de Frédéric Chopin. Il propose un dispositif technologique audiovisuel et interactif. L’inauguration a eu lieu cette semaine à Varsovie à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du compositeur.

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