Even Nokia use iPhones.
IRONY. i’m actually not sure this is even an iphone, but either way it could be. see my tags for my thoughts on this.
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You need to watch this video interviewing Forecast Founder / CEO & Designer Rene Pinell. Firstly, because it’s fascinating and concerns a new awesome app on the location based scene. Secondly, because there’s a hilarious and unexpected twist at the end that reveals how reporters likely feel about tech / social innovation.
Forecast is a really awesome app that tells friends where you’re going. I am very intrigued by Rene’s previous app Hurricane Party as well, which let’s you discover parties and tell friends about parties you’re throwing. Hurricane Party has the potential to fit right into (and arguably already has) social life in an organic way, allowing friends to notify one another and locate cool stuff that’s happening.
Forecast— still in beta testing — takes it one step further and predicts where you’re likely to go based on your location check in habits. It leverages the sort of “what’s the point” Foursquare check in data and provides insight into what’s likely so it can be used for social planning. By the time you check in somewhere with Foursquare it’s often too late for friends to coordinate and we all know the social media induced angst that can create. If you’ve been spared it goes something like this:
Friend A: I’m at X location fsq/linkydinkdink with Friend B, C, D, and E! yay for us and this band / these drinks / generic awesomeness!
Friend F: sadness. I wanted to go to that but didn’t know that anyone else did.
Friend G: you douches, I work a block away from there and am now home. WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME? lol #resentful
Friend H: I was there last week, love it! Have a mojito for me. #jealous!
Friend A: [with delay probably] Oh come here now you guys wooo #awesomeness #notawareofinconveniencingothers!
Friends G/ F-Z: no we are already home / traveling / working / chilling somewhere equally awesome slash awesomer #wishyouplannedaheadmore
So as you can see, Forecast is filling a crack in the social zeitgeist that you may not have realized existed. I love how it’s more about the behavioral insight than it is about the location-based check in data, and that’s why I’ll be jumping in as soon as it hits android.
*Also in this video the interviewer from the Weather Channel in the red dress TOTALLY rolls her eyes at him. She’s going to regret that! So unprofesh, so hilarious!
Oh look, it’s a smarter and more interactive version of American Apparel’s Lookbook! We all know that the “trend” of social shopping is here to stay, and Uniqlo has executed on Facebook in a smarter way than I’ve seen it done by a fashion brand so far. Well done!
Users can like and dislike looks on Facebook and any item can be purchased by clicking “Buy The Look” — which redirects you to the store site. It appears that all the user-generated looks are rigorously moderated for legitimacy (eg. are they a Uniqlo product) and it appears that comments are also moderated.
The site is translated into 7 languages so far but it seems that the Facebook app is not (can’t confirm). Also, rumor has it that the brand is going to extend UNIQLOOKS to mobile in March with an iPhone app (scoop via www.thedrum.co.uk).
Great work by Uniqlo is not news— here’s a bit of an archive of past work. Still, this is pretty impressive. Most exciting of all to me is the way that the models’ / consumers’ personal social links are included within the site and app. Very, very cool and user-friendly.
I’m very curious who the AOR / digital agency on this work was? Any tips would be appreciated!!!
Uniqlo recently launched Uniqlooks - a Facebook integrated online photo sharing community featuring on-the-street style looks.
Georges Ripert, Famous French Jurist
The whole notion of 100% uncrackable security is dead. when will hardware (game console, wireless, computing) dinosaurs get it?
New Sony drama - they are taking 3 hackers to court. FOR TRYING TO DO CREATIVE STUFF WITH THEIR HARDWARE. GAHHH when people buy something it should become THEIR OWN!
Sony, wake up this is the future. Spend resources on making cooler shit that kids will want rather than whining about innovation that YOUR product served as the base for. If they were really smart, Sony would hire Hotz rather than spend tons of money on a law suit intended to scare others. Sony would also be well served to flip this whole mess on its head and create a big crowdsourcing site where kids can upload their own content and Sony gets the glory for A) being cool and B) providing RICH, DYNAMIC, EVOLVING CONTENT.
Full WIRED story on Sony the bully and hottie George Hotz
It is now legal to jailbreak an iPhone. Yes, it voids warranty, but at least it’s allowed! i cant even describe how happy this makes me!!! Yesterday lots of tweets were shooting around after I posted the Wired story of the legal news & everyone was all proud of the USA. It was so sweet to see pride and even patriotism from so many geeks who rarely feel heard/ understood by govt.
This will open up so much for developers — and it deregulates a lot of app dev that Apple was otherwise holding tight reins on for their own profitability. Understandably. But now that cannot happen anymore. That said, I agree with Tarah:
if you’re going to jailbreak your iPhone, you have to respect the hardware that you’ve been given, but it’s up to you to figure out how to create a positive user experience on your own (or with the developer community), because, in my opinion, it comes with a pretty superb user experience upon purchase. Ethically, though, I agree with this decision - if you buy a machine, you should be able to do whatever you want with it, as long as it’s not endangering anyone.
-Tarah (more @ his post: BIG digital rights changes yesterday )
How might this change things immediately for you? theoretically, any phone can now be sold and unlocked on any carrier (if supported)! That means when you travel you can hook up a world phone without contract (sometimes) & a host of other small awesomenesses that should have ALWAYS existed.
Additional Links:
*more formal info on this ruling over @ EFF
*some interesting comments on the Magnussen-Moss Warranty Act @ SlashDot
*Apple’s PR on warranty void etc @ Cult of Mac
HAVE NO DOUBTS ABOUT IT. THE FIRST IMAGE IS PRECISELY THE SAME AS THE SECOND. THIS IS ANDROID GODZILLA’ING THE MARKETPLACE. RIGHTFULLY & GLORIOUSLY, I MIGHT ADD.
& here imagine if you will an epic anthropomorphizing scene of the marketplace as the android honorably and gloriously stomps around as the crappy iphone 4s are unable to phone 911 for help as they lack reception. the blackberries gaze up to the godzilladroid and the storms begin to rain & lightening. the curves roll around and whitescreen lock up in panic. sad lil ancient LG flip phones clickedy clacking “HELP HELP!” all the media-heavy, otherwise-useless Samsungs start playing “STOP, in the name of love” as an attempt at ringtone defense. but no one can stop androidzilla! because it’s smarter, faster, multitaskier, cuter, opener, and just BETTER.
the happiest i see my friends now is when they get their first iphone.
