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Mother New York Wants The World To Crash On Their “Mother Couch 2.0”

April 2nd, 2009 No Comments

This past Wednesday, the Mother New York ad agency threw a major rager in honor of a couch. Okay, it wasn’t so much a rager, but it was a launch party for their latest creation, Mother Couch 2.0. What is Mother Couch 2.0, you ask? In the words of the ad agency behind the couch: […]

Tags: Advertising · New York · Technology

Boxee – The World’s Gone Digital

March 24th, 2009 1 Comment

Chances are your digital life is strewn across more places than Dick Cheney has houses. mp3s on your computer, iPod, and phone, pictures on your phone, camera, and on Facebook, MySpace or Flickr – you’ve got more dignity than Photobucket, please tell me you do. and you’ve got DVDs, TiVo’d shows, and movies you’ve downloaded […]

Tags: gadget · Technology

Internet Births Yet Another Beautiful Baby: imgfave.com

March 18th, 2009 No Comments

I love the internet–love, love, love it–for a number of reasons; one of those reasons is websites like imgfave.com. Last weekend imgfave founder and creator Gabe Ragland was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about his innovative image bookmarking community. We’re delivering it to you in an exclusive Retrospective interview.

Tags: Design · Technology · web2.0

Microsoft Unveils Songsmith at CES – Now anyone can make mediocre music.

January 13th, 2009 1 Comment

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E Before I go on a tirade about Microsoft’s new program Songsmith, let me just state that I am fully aware of the ever changing times, and how much technology has influenced the way we create, market, and consume music.  That being said, I still don’t think that it’s OK to completely remove the creative […]

Tags: Technology

Putting Back the Music in MTV

November 1st, 2008 2 Comments

MTV is saying goodbye to the Hills? Well, not exactly. However the newly launched Mtvmusic puts the focus back on music. Really! Viacom’s MTV Networks launched MTVmusic.com, a user-friendly online collection of 16,000 music videos including “Unplugged” performances. The site resembles Hulu but MTV has added a social networking component. A streaming online collection seems […]

Tags: Technology · web2.0

Zannel – Twitter on the roids

October 11th, 2008 No Comments

First, explaining to someone what “micro-blogging” is can be a hard and funny task, but a lot of us are doing it every day without knowing it. Besides the ubiquatous staple micro-blogging site Twitter, if you use popular services like Facebook and Myspace and update your “status” you’re essentially micro-blogging. The one difference being that […]

Tags: Technology · web2.0