SpeakLike is a new translation platform with a new plug-in for WordPress that combines automation with the principles of crowd-sourcing. The system relies on humans but makes the job easier by introducing consensus-reached shortcuts and other automations…
This is what we like to hear about: MTV has launched its “A Thin Line” campaign, with support from Blue Shield of California Foundation, with “Over the Line?”: an app to help young people draw their own “line” — a rubicon between digital use and digital addiction.
Audiences are also encouraged to vote on the three finalist ideas vying to win a $10,000 prize and a potential development budget of up to $75,000 in the “Redraw the Line” challenge.
It was a super awesome newsletter highlighting some quick tips on combining type. H&FJ are some of the best type designers in the business and we’ve often times used their typefaces to spruce up our client work here at Ninthlink. They lay out some good tips in their newsletter this morning and provide some amazing examples as well.
The FCC has launched a new broadband speed test site at broadband.gov to give consumers a “trusted” source with which to test their connections at various times during the day. The test is performed by a basic Java app that is free to download.
You can go elsewhere, though, if you don’t trust big government systems. DSLReports.com is one of the longest running testing/forum sites that allows you to record your testing histories and compare them with other customers in your footprint. The site also contains dozens of additional tools to help determine what else may be slowing you down.
Speedtest.net from Ookla has a more visual interface.
At the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, Lenovo unveiled a smartphone running Google’s Android platform which it plans to release in the Chinese market soon. Lenovo is betting that the mobile Internet will be “it” for growth over the next few years.
The Federal Communications Commission’s plan to expand high-speed Internet service – broadband — is due to Congress by Wednesday, March 17. The agency will publicly preview its proposals in Washington.
More airways for mobile use of the Web will be “a core goal,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has stated.
As of a little less than an hour ago, the Code Aurora Forum has a rockin Facebook page. Most of what we saw when checking out examples on the Custom Facebook Page Gallery (thanks, Matt) was either static images with image maps, or Flash apps. We wanted to do something more css/ajax-y… READ MORE
Over at The Adaptive Path — a great website we highly recommend — we found a post by Leah Buley that we’d like to share – it concerns the notion of “sketching” as a methodology of increasing creativity in the work environment. Leah writes:
Over the past few years, we’ve seen sketching grow from being the hot “new” method to just another skill we use to get the work done. Which means that sketching, and more importantly learning to sketch, is a rite that a lot of us now share.
The idea is similar to doodling to get the imaginative juices flowing, or even writing maniacally on a chalk board during a brain storming session.
In 2008, the Ninthlink team installed a bike rack in the offices to encourage our employees—and other businesses in town—to think green, keep the car at home, and bike to work, saving gas money and eliminating a little less fuel pollutants in the air.
Google seems to be catching on to the trend, and we dig it!
They just unveiled the beta version of their Bicycle mapping option on Google Maps, which assists in identifying the best urban bike routes across 150 U.S. cites (they also have this for car and public transit.)
This app, timed for release during the National Bike Summit in Washington this week, folds in trail data from the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy combined with other publicly available bike route data.
What you do: type in where you’re starting from and where you’re going to and Google Maps will identify the easiest – that is, least hilly/dangerous — route.
Yes, Google is working on a GPS-powered mobile version.
Rhythm NewMedia is a fairly new mobile video ad network that has introducing a “developers kit” to allow media partners monetize their own iPhone apps by adding integrated ad units into their video.
The site’s “Application Launch” ad unit provides brand messaging via a full screen video ad presented to the user during those few seconds while a new app loads.
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