Facebook is partnering with Spotify to add music streaming to the site. While I’ve never actually missed the ability to play music within Facebook, I wonder if we’ll collectively have a “how have we lived without this” moment in a few weeks.
Listening to music with friends within Facebook already sounds like what turntable.fm offers but with a much larger audience. Depending on how many friends you have, that could be good or bad. It will be an interesting social experience nonetheless.
TAT has produced another video demonstrating the potential future of screen technology has surfaced. This one does a good job showing how any surface can be turned into a touchscreen.
Recently Acquired by Google, Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered “walls.”
Since its introduction on TED Talks, BumpTop has evolved and now features a unique touch interface.
It will be interesting to see how Google integrates this technology into their offerings (part of Android OS? a competitor for the iPad?).
A well-rounded presentation from Jeff Blais of Sapient describing best practices when designing for mobile. From IxDA’s Interaction10 titled Designing for Mobile Experiences
With much ado about the state of Flash Player and the mobile web, Adobe has released some compelling videos of what its technologies have to offer here and here.
We mentioned Adobe is collaborating with Wired for a digital version of its magazine:
Android, Palm and Blackberry are working with Adobe to fully support Flash as opposed to Apple which has shut the door.
Here’s an interesting idea – digital board games on the iPad! Yes please
‘The multi-touch display is perfect for moving pieces around a board and because the iPad is a computer it can store thousands of games and add a variety of interactive features. In addition to animated Monopoly playing pieces, for example, you could also use the iPad’s Wi-Fi or 3G to play games with friends and family across the world. There’s even scope to create an iPad board game that works with iPhones.
Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.’
Interactive touchscreen prototype by Hush studios and Uncommon Projects. The experience is intended to allow users to interact with real time HD content in a tactile manner, be customizable for any brand and includes iPhone integration so you can use your phone to control and navigate content.
