donderdag, april 27, 2006

Het beste Nederlandse ontwerp allertijden!


De stembus is open!

Maak je keuze uit de longlist van 25 ontwerpen en kies je eigen favoriete "Beste Nederlandse Design", een initiatief van NRC en de Premsela stichting.

Het logo van de NS, de maxi cosi of de audio cassette van Philips?

Stemmen kan op nrc.nl, achtergrondinfo op premsela.org en meningen van anderen op design.nl

web 2.0 in full effect, the BBC reboot competition!


excerpt from the reboot:bbc.co.uk website:

Help us discover what bbc.co.uk 2.0 looks like. We don't just want you to redesign the bbc.co.uk homepage, we want you take it all the way back to the drawing board… Throw out the existing content, throw out the existing focus, throw out the existing expectations, limitations and assumptions – and help reboot:bbc.co.uk


It might harness the wisdom of crowds approach by exploiting the the APIs and feeds offered by such services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg, YouTube,Technorati, Wikipedia, and Yahoo!. It could be influenced by "personalized" modular homepages such as Microsoft Live, Pageflakes, netvibes, and Google. It could be a search box. It could be a Giant Dalek. It could be 1 link, it could be 250 links. It could actually be a working prototype. It could just be an illustration, a diagram or a picture.

The WinnerThe winner will receive a high end Apple laptop, a visit to the BBC and have their design implemented and showcased on the bbc.co.uk homepage later this summer.

The Runners UpAt least ten of what the BBC has to call "MP3 Players" are in the offing. The number and range of runner up prizes is more likely to be dependent on the volume and quality of entries.

All valid entries will be showcased on open.bbc.co.uk/reboot/


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A very cheap way of getting ideas, input or concepts. A quote of an agency will exceed the price of a apple laptop. But the beeb is a not for profit, right?

product ontwikkeling


Alweer zo'n mieters product dat de kwaliteit van leven vergroot!


Een electriek ijsjeslikkerdevice...

Sense and simplicity in zijn zuiverste vorm.

(bron: wired)

google earth "blurred" gevoelige Nederlandse targets

(foto: ministerie van defensie)

Op verzoek van de Nederlandse overheid heeft Google earth (earth.google.com) enkele gebouwen en plaatsen welke op de nieuwe scherpere beelden goed zichtbaar waren "verwijderd".
Het betreft defensie objecten en gebouwen van het koninklijk huis (zogenaamde "vitale objecten")

(bron emerce)

internet explorer vs firefox (courtesy kill bill's browser)

1. You'll only see porn when you want to.

Sick of seeing pornographic pop-ups all over your computer while you're helping your daughter with a research project? Since Firefox blocks pop-ups, you won't get tons of porn in your face when you're least expecting it. On the flip side, since Firefox stops spyware from taking over your computer, there will be nothing to slow you down when you go and look for porn.

2. Your kids will only see porn when they want to.
Sorry, buddy... the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

3. Your computer won't spend its free time telling the world about Viagra soft tabs.
Experts say 80% of spam comes from hacked PCs. Firefox has much better security, so your computer will get hacked less. Do it for the children, the children! (caveat: reducing Viagra spam may also reduce total number of children.)

4. Mozilla doesn't inflate prices and use the money to vaccinate children in Africa.
Uhh... wait a second. Maybe Microsoft's monopoly hasn't been all bad. Better donate to Oxfam. Seriously, you should.

5. If we knew web designers would hurl themselves off it, we wouldn't have put the Golden Gate bridge so close to San Francisco.
Every year, hundreds of web designers take their own lives rather than continue the hopeless struggle of making their websites IE compatible. Is that what you really want?? Dead web designers????? Cause that's what you're going to get!!!!!! See if I care!!!!!!!!!!

6. Keep squinting and your eyes will get stuck like that, stupid
Unlike IE, Firefox makes it easy to make text bigger. Just hit Control and "+" at the same time. And Control "-" makes it smaller.

7. It will make Bill Gates soooooooooo mad.
Seriously-- super, super mad. And even more than Bill, let's think about Steve "I'm going to fucking kill Google" Ballmer for a second (actual quote). If there's anyone that's going to absolutely blow a gasket when they see this website, it will be him. (video proof of Steve Ballmer being a crazy, sweaty man.)

8. Mozilla has never made a talking paperclip.

9. Ritalin is fun, but A.D.D. is not.
Tabbed browsing, ad blocking, and pop-up blocking make it a lot easier to stay focused. Better for epileptics too: with Firefox's ad blocking ability, there won't be as many large swaths of flashing, pulsating colors on the websites you visit. Nothing worse than getting thrown into a seizure by a "Test your IQ!" ad.

10. It's like switching from dating a 14-year-old to dating an 18-year-old.
...for a 16 year old, we mean. You know, it's a win-win.

11. Reduce your weekly family & friends tech support load to 8 hours.
You won't miss hearing this:
"I verified my credit card number since the computer said it had spyware, but now I can't email..."
"Honey, I found a new business partner in Nigeria but I can't email him our bank account info because the internet is broken..."
"The Secret Service called this morning and said that our computer sent 20,000 scatalogical emails to the President..."

12. More effective than throwing pies.
Switching to Firefox works better than throwing a pie in Bill Gates' face. Pies just make him more determined, but Firefox steals his mojo.

13. Because the Department of Justice Lacks Balls.
They spent years and years on the Microsoft anti-trust suit and it did absolutely nothing to reduce Microsoft's monopoly. Great work guys. It's time to take the law (erm, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?) into our own hands.

(source: killbillsbrowser.com)

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