Collaborative Agencies Popping Up

Nov 11th, 2009

Collaborative Agencies Popping Up

Victors & Spoils is taking it to the extreme with crowd sourcing, like an elite version of 99designs, but this is where the industry is heading.  We’ve been preaching about a collaborative approach for over 10 years and this is a great thing to see.  How can you have the best of the best in-house for every possible [...]

Nov 11th, 2009

The new mass creative collabor…

The new mass creative collaboration http://victorsandspoils.com

New product/app (Fitbit) to passively track fitness and sleep

Nov 5th, 2009

New product/app (Fitbit) to passively track fitness and sleep

This is really impressive.  I want to try it out just to see how well it works.  I think it might be a pain to wear the sensor constantly, but for anyone with issues or goals for their sleep or fitness, it seems like a great product.   Anything that gives you this much feedback, [...]

Nov 5th, 2009

Just installed #Akismet on th …

Just installed #Akismet on th no|inc blog to filter out spam. Works great!! http://bit.ly/J9J0N

Sep 2nd, 2009

Forcing class import with dynamic classes in AS3

Recently I came upon a situation where I’m trying to dynamically instance classes based off meta data loaded externally.  Flex compiles ok, but running fails… Futher investigation while debugging during runtime shows the following error: ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable MyClass is not defined. It turns out, that because I have no reference to using the class statically, [...]

Jul 20th, 2009

Xbox Live 1 VS 100: A Great Next Step in Social Gaming

I found out about 1 vs 100 from a few friends who play X-Box live. 1 vs 100 is what is great about social games right now. The premise for the game is simple. Either the one wins or the mob wins. You get a few help cards you can play but they are limited. Think Who [...]

Jun 19th, 2009

how to overclock your palm pre and enable the TI OMAP3430 SmartReflex mode

ok, well i think this is a new one as i havent seen anyone do it yet.  this is fresh and not fully tested so please feel free to post any results you might have 1. root your pre & login… mount -o remount,rw / 2. make a file in /etc/event.d named something you like (like “opt-overclock”) 3. [...]

Jun 18th, 2009

so i hacked my palm pre…. and other pre related ramblings…

i got my pre this past sunday. ive been playing with it quite a bit. it took me a little while (i’d say about 1 day..heh) to let go of the raw dog mentality that i had developed using my severely modded/hax0red windows mobile phones for so long….  and embrace the new skool tech rounded shiny [...]

Jun 18th, 2009

The Age Old UX Question… Submit Button on the Left or Right?

A touchy topic to some, but the fact of the matter is either treatment is very much acceptable. In addition, its one of those things where the most intuitive placement or treatment is simply because of convention. Unfortunately, convention isn’t always an indicator of efficiency or ‘elegance’. Following convention blindly would be a smack to the [...]

Jun 16th, 2009

Facebook Connect and The Washington Post

I think this is a good and obvious play. http://mashable.com/2009/06/15/facebook-connect-washington-post/.  Merge this with an app that allows you to construct a virtual newspaper created from the authors and articles your friends are reading and you have yourself a interesting business.