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Youtube alternatives: Vimeo, viddler, what other video site are there?!

More and more video sites are popping up. Good, considering Googles attempts to fill Youtube vids with overlay ads.

Here are just two examples from Vimeo, Viddler and Blip.tv :

http://www.vimeo.com/

Motion & Audio Experiments - A Minireel from Gustav Espenes on Vimeo.

http://www.viddler.com/
Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote


RightPedal video
http://www.blip.tv/ (by the way, original blip videos are massive 1280x750 pix)

Save files online (and syncing) them too

There are many ways of saving files online and possibly syncing them thereby. Here are some alternatives I have found:

- Skydrive (5gb free),












- MSN shared folder,
















- Office Live (integrated with the MS Office suite)




- Gdisk (a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive)


-mailbigfiles.com (not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email, but I find their free service better than YouSendits)

-YouSendit(not really storage as such, only another way of distributing large files rather than sending via email)

- Amazon S3 ($0.15 per GB-Month of storage used AND monthly trafic cost)

- Apples mobile.me (Individual One-year subscription $99)






And finally my favourite: Dropbox (invitation only, but giving you 2gb free, with cross-platform functionality and web interface too. And its just drag and drop!)

Make your blog talk!

Added a new funny feature to my blog:
Its free, and makes your blog talk. Now one can download my blog posts as podcasts too!

phoneticom.com

http://www.audiofeedcreator.com

http://feeds.readspeaker.com/podcaster/flash/xspf_player.swf?playlist_url=http://feeds.readspeaker.com/audiofeed/4131.xspf

5 sites that sell you on the web

The Swedish mag has gathered 5 sites that are good for designers wanting to promote themselves online:
http://capdesign.idg.se/2.990/1.161853

Easy tutorials (handdrawn and simple)

Simple animations with simple explanations of mainly web stuff. Such as "what is twitter?"
http://www.commoncraft.com/

D&AD Awards 2008 winner

the results are in:
http://www.dandad.org/awards08/index.asp

and these are the categories:
Ambient
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Broadcast Innovations
Digital Installations
Direct
Environmental Design
Gaming
Graphic Design
Juries I-P
Illustration
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Mobile Marketing
Music Videos
Online Advertising
Packaging Design
Photography
Poster Advertising
Press Advertising
Juries P-W
Product Design
Radio
TV & Cinema Advertising
TV & Cinema Crafts
TV & Cinema Graphics
Typography
Viral
Websites
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design

I particullary like the Yellow pencil winner for Writing for Advertising (TV & Cinema Advertising)
Title: Michael Madsen
Agency: Mother
Client: Orange

Paint websites gold!

Campaign site done by agency: Colle+McVoy, Minneapolis. Pretty cool tagging other sites, while listening to good music:

http://www.paintthatshitgold.com/

Read more about it here:

http://www.frederiksamuel.com

Webby awards 2008

The winners of the Webby Awards 2008 have been chosen. And here are my favourites: BEST NAVIGATION/STRUCTURE Nominees Blenderbox Schematic

BEST USE OF ANIMATION OR MOTION GRAPHICS People's Voice Winner: Zune Journey Agency: T.A.G. SF / Firstborn

BEST VISUAL DESIGN - AESTHETIC Checkland Kindleysides Agency/Credited Organization: Sennep

Blip TV - another Youtube?

Another alternative to YouTube: http://www.blip.tv/
The difference being that the image quality seems to be better and that one here kind of can choose between different tv channels like my friends Hootan Mahallatis Rightpedal

Webcasts fra Gulltaggen

Se webcasts fra Gulltaggen 2008. Bla. Bill Whitehorn fra Virign Galactic

http://icecube.no/inma/

Cool t-shirts from Phatrags

Some are quite rude, but others you might wanna wear. I particullary like this Jesus one. It says: "Jesus saves, after each level he passes"

http://www.phatrags.com/
Use this code if you want to save 10%: phat10a

Gulltaggen 2008 showing Virgin Galactic and The Reactable

Yesterday was Norways web-awardshow, Gulltaggen, celebrating its 10. anniversary in Oslo Spectrum. Unfortunately the project I worked on for Microsoft, Heroes happen here, didnt win. But you can read about it (and all other nominations) here.


Gulltaggen had a couple of good seminars, especially the one by president Will Whitehorn from Virgin Galactic. Great stuff! Sci-fi today:


Another great experience was seeing the Reactable live. The reactable is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface. They performed live at Gulltaggen 2008 in Oslo

Design your own font

Easy web application to create your own font for free. They will be under Creative Commons license and hence free for all users

Test it here: http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Loads of Typos at ilovetypography.com

John D Boardley is from the UK, but lives in Japan. He has a great blog about fonts:

http://ilovetypography.com/

New search engine: searchme.com

Just signed up for beta. Lets see how it works...

David Collins website

One of my tutors, Dave Collins, from Leeds College of Art & Design has an quite interresting website: http://www.davidcollins.info/

"Google" city guides

Powered by Google Maps, Swift City is a quite cool online city guide. Browse the web and zoom in to the place of interest. Ah, no. Acctually, as this site is quite new, there hardly are any places to read about. Shame, but maybe you want to write your own reviews for them? http://www.swiftcity.com/


Osaka on your left.

Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser

Microsoft feiret Heroes Happen {here} og jeg hadde gleden av aa intervjue Lene Alexandra med Troels. Heretter kan det ikke herske noen tvil om at Lene Alexandra kan mer enn du tror innen IT. Her IT knowledge is more than ok. Se intervjuet her: Lene Alexandras teknologiske betroelser Det finnes en mengde andre intervjuer der også med vinnerne av Heroes Happen {here}

Random Spam blurb!

Got this spam today. Thought it was some great writing, so enjoy the "poem"!

"The imagination! Shut your eyes, if you miss amory signor benton, then you would implicate yourself, they had acute pains, they scarified the part gawaine, it beseemeth evil a good knight to despise .,'. I , i. C of i i i j i i she had put her counters very kind of you. You speak of danger. you have creature, half seal, half fish, to look at, with almost as easily recognized, and as limited in the left barrel. He turned round once, and then water. They were all good swimmers. When the river then in an immense basin with leaden waters as willing to accompany me, pedro? I asked in spanish. Well, if my work had been given to the public this happened repeatedly, amasis said to his wife, writes wonderful for a woman. Seth had drawn the."

Nuff said.

Norwegian Heroes Happen here site online!

Pretty proud now! My very first big Microsoft project is finally live! The site is promoting Microsoft Norways biggest launch this year with an event taking place on the 6. of March. Its called Heroes happen hereAh, and did I mention the video idea was mine? :) Enjoy!

Favorite Website Awards

Wanna see many cool website, that win awards, all at one time? Here you go:

http://www.thefwa.com/

Fun cartoon and stuff site

nuttin more to say (cant remember why I even went to this site.. haha

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/

End of the world flash animation (Nike ad)

The guy who made the "End of the World" flash animation (I am LE TIRED! WTF Mate?) got hired by nike to do their site for their Sphere line of clothing...
Check it out:
The Original "end of the world" flash

http://www.endofworld.net/
Nike Website

How to download ebooks from Google

Apparently this is the way to download ebooks from Google Books. Good luck!

allinurl: +(rarchmzippdftgz) java basics
OR
+("java basics") +("/ebooks""/book") +(chmpdfziprar) +apache

Fantastic video website!

This website is like the BBC of Youtube! Only quality videos about art, technology, etc.
ted.com/ As they say: "Inspired talks by the worlds greatest thinkers and doers."

MSN online status blocker

Check if someone has blocked you on MSN. This website checks whether the person is online og not. And if they dont appear on your MSN, but appear as online on this site, you might have been blocked.. :) http://www.msnblockchecker.info/

The rapping 3 kings

The Spanish ad agency, La Despensa have made a really cool website:

http://www.yosoydelosreyesmagos.com/

Its the 3 rapping kings battling out Papa Noel, or Santa Claus if you like.

And the coolest feature is being able to choose a king, upload your face photo, spray a msg on the wall, choose who this rap is dedicated to and get the king to rap to your friend, lover, or whoever needs a rap the holiday season!

Hoho.

Running Explorer (IE 6/7) on osX

You design websites on a Mac, but want to test them in IE 6 or 7 but cant be bothered to run Bootcamp? Well, check out:
http://macapper.com/2007/11/29/ies4osx-run-internet-explorer-567-natively-in-os-x/

http://occy.net/node/166

Download
http://darwine.sourceforge.net/


http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

Microsofts iPod

Ok, so there is quite alot truth in the this video:


However, I really find the Zune Art site excellent! Its really a creative ad campaign that uses animation and indie tunes to promote the Zune. It ought to generate a buzz online. Loads of freebies: wallpaper, videos, even faltpack toys!Check it out:

http://www.zune-arts.net/

Mail big files for free

Got big files you say? Outlook or Thundbird inbox gets filled up too fast? Well, sending files via websites are a good solution. I usually use mailbigfiles.com for sending big files. However that site has a restriction of 100mb (the free version of the site, that is)

This site is free too, but has a 2gb (!) limit. Though you have to register and tried it once and it just stopped. So I guess its not that good after all...?
http://skickafilen.se/

Free too, 2gb limit. Havent tried it yet. But both are worth a shot.
http://www.filecentral.se

Happy website

A friend of mine tipped me about this site. Its a US based webdesign company called The Happy Corp Global. Pretty cool site, with loads of info. http://www.thehappycorp.com/words/

Easily download YouTube movies via Safari (osx)

YouTube is great for finding all sorts of video clips, but wouldnt it be nice having them on your computer? And when I say computer, I mean Mac (it might even work on PCs, now that Safari is available on Windows too). So after some googling, I found the following tip at MacOSXhints.com:

If you're using Safari, there's an easy way to download YouTube videos. Open the page with the movie and press Command-Option-A (or Window - Activity), which shows the Activity window. If you're also loading other sites, you'll see a list of them: scroll until you find the YouTube page and click on the arrow to show details about what is being loaded.

You will certainly notice an element whose size is over 0.5MB (most of the time, over 5MB). Double-click on it (even if it is still loading), and Safari will download it. When the download is over, navigate to the file in the Finder (which will probably be called get_video) and add the extension .flv to its name. Now you can play it with VLC or with QuickTime (only if you have Perian installed).

Fantastic!

Read the original post at:
MacOSXhints.com

StatCounter wins BusinessWeek's young entrepreneur contest

Congrats to Aodhan Cullen, the founder of StatCounter, for winning this years BusinessWeek's young entrepreneur contest. Ive been using http://www.statcounter.com
for some time now, and am really pleased with the free service! Like it more than Google Analytics. Especially the ability to see indiviual "Visitor Paths".
Read the full story at http://www.businessweek.com

902 days later and finally a new a.beining.com website

This is a screenshot of a.beining.com version 2. It lasted me 902 days. And around 2000 visits, of which 50% came from Norway, 13% Spain, 7% China (Beining is a city in China apparently), USA, UK ++

Most use XP (53%) and IE 6 (34%). BUT being a portfolio site, loads of Macers have come around too! 37% use osX and 34% Safari. Not bad.. :)

Well, after so long time without any updates (last one was the 1. of June 2006..), I was getting embaressed, SO without any further ado: TATAA! http://a.beining.com all new!

Medieval Norwegian helpdesk support

This is a fantastic video about helpdesk support back in the day of the middle age
with English subtitles. Original taken from the show "Øystein og jeg" on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)in 2001. With Øystein Backe (helper)and Rune Gokstad (desperate monk). Written by Knut Nærum. YEHHAA!

Steve and Bill meet again

The biggest guys in the data age met again. Thats Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for the novices.

Quite interesting how those guys are really similar (appearance, computer knowledge, voice etc), yet Steve always is a bit cooler. Just like Macs.. :P

A short summary of the meeting can be read: http://www.nytimes.com/technology/


Or, if you really are interested, see all the videos at: All things digital.
video-steve-jobs-and-bill-gates-prologue/

DnB Nor reklamefilm: Vi vet ikke hva som skjer

Flott reklamefilm fra Republica. Stilig produksjon, men skjønner liksom ikke helt poenget her. Slagordet er "Vi vet ikke hva som skjer." (se bildet for hele teksten)

Vet liksom ikke helt om jeg har lyst til å velge en bank som sier dette. Ok, å være åpen og ærlig. Men jeg for min del foretrekker nå en bank som vet hva som skjer. Spesielt feks. når du skal investere penger!

"Jeg skulle gjerne investert endel penger i noe fond jeg. Hvordan er fremtidsutsiktene for fond x?" DnB Nor: "Nei, vet ikke. Vi aner ikke hva som skjer vi..." HALLO!?

Anyhow, kikk på http://www.firetretoen.no/ og bedøm selv. Forøvrig kunne jeg nok tenkt meg å se den filmen.. (Strengt tatt burde den vel hete "Dos", som oppfølger til "Uno")

Live maps by Microsoft

For those of you who thought Google Earth was good: Check out: http://maps.live.com/

Here's an example of the townhall in Oslo, Norway.

Google games

If your feeling bored, and want to have fun with Google as your tool.
Google games

Wieden & Kennedy: new website

The brilliant advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy has got a new website. Its pretty crazy user interface. Still not quite sure whether I like it, but it is certainly something new! And thats gotta be worth something.. http://www.wk.com/

.htaccess - Custom error pages

Something wrong with your weblinks or server? Then maybe a custom error page is a temporary solution..?
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/