Two technologies spotted on CNN during Elections 08 season, supposed to enhance the viewer’s experience.

1/ Interviewing an hologram

2/ Large Touch Screen that allows the anchor to manipulate images and data

Both have been heavily mocked by the Saturday Night Live and Daily Show teams, and you can understand why. But I really enjoyed watching the presentator dig into layers and layers of data, state by state, last Thursday.

The Esquire issue with an e-ink cover, that we were mentioning last month, is out! Who’s gonna be one of the happy fews to get one?

10 Tips for Being a Greener Web Designer: buy green energy, use green hosting, ditch your desktop machine for a laptop, switch your old CRT monitor for an LCD, turn off your computer and monitor overnight… More at sitepoint ›

Once again, blogs/tumblr/twitter were first to report the earthquake in LA, beating the mainstream media.

A fake ad for… Aww well, I’m not gonna ruin your fun. Your turn to do the work and tell me!

via buzzfeed

Seth Godin just reminded me that I have been planning to write about Powerpoint best/worst practices for a while but never started. So here is a first tip from him: if you use charts in your presentation, you will want to follow these 3 principles:
1. One Story
2. No Bar Charts
3. Motion
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Time Inc. will launch in September Maghound, an internet service that will allow, for a small flat fee, consumers to receive as many magazines as they want at home, and to change the magazines they receive at any time. Like Netflix for magazines. Brilliant!

I hate instant messaging (I gave up a year ago, the “you-need-to-reply-in-the-next-20-seconds, no-excuse-available” attitude was giving me panic attacks) but I could change my mind thanks to made-for-the-iPhone version of Google Talk. Especially when you do the maths and realize how much we’re being ripped-off by cell-phone networks to send/receive text message: Crunchgear did the maths; if AT&T charged data downloads at the rate they charge text messages downloading 1MB of data would cost you an insulting $1,310.72.

More details + screenshots of Google Talk for the best-phone-ever on Venturebeat ›

How to make a successful viral video? Ask your nephew! Ben Stiller vs. Kung-Fu Panda (Jack Black) vs. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) @ MTV Movie Awards 2008.

Pretty neat set of banners for the Sex and the City movie. Simulated 3D effects and micro-site feel. In case you’re not overwhelmed yet by Carrie and her desperate crew. Too bad the site itself sucks bad time.

(Achtung: Some banners in the sets are really lame, I’m talking about the ones with the NY skyline made of B&W pics)