Art | Looking Forward to Now at the ITP Show

Posted by Evan Cordes | May 13, 10:50 am

The ITP Show is billed as “a festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators,” and it is just that.  ITP, the Interactive Telecommunications Program, is an arts graduate program at NYU that continually attracts great people and delivers great ideas and work.
This past Monday night, I got a chance [...]

Around The Office | Dell Should Have Consulted More Women

Posted by ssautter | May 13, 8:18 am

Realizing perhaps that the female netbook/notebook computer market is steadily growing, Dell decided to launch its own specialized shop called Della. Nothing fancy here. Really, it’s just your usual specialty shop highlighting some Dell products designed with the women users in mind.
Product MakeoverAnd of course, highlighted in the store is Dell’s very own Inspiron [...]

Culture | Camp O XVI: Day 1 Kicks Off w/ the Moth! (and strawberries, Shane, a broken water cooler)

Posted by Daniel Turman | May 13, 5:06 am

Culture | Camp O Kickoff! JVP Sits VIP to Vegas

Posted by Daniel Turman | May 12, 8:04 am

Ready for takeoff @ Camp Organic 16. 

–J. Van Pelt

Media morphing | Six Reasons Why Twitter Has Zero Chance of Defeating Google

Posted by mstrickl | May 12, 5:30 am

Good News! Twitter search to focus on relevancy. Bad News… is it doesn’t matter.
The blogosphere has a fascination with rooting for the underdog. A wanting for the new kid on the block to take out the older, established, seasoned, and extremely profitable bully. The new kid we’re talking about here is Twitter and the bully [...]

Engaged consumers | Are Small Restaurants Dishing It Up Properly On Twitter?

Posted by ssautter | May 11, 5:47 am

If your favorite restaurant was on Twitter — or maybe they already are — would you follow them? First, what could a local restaurant have to say in 140 characters or less to whoever might be listening? Second, is Twitter really the place for them?
Some restaurants seem to think so. They have realized pretty quickly [...]

Creative Sensibility | We Want Your Ideas and Your Info

Posted by ssautter | May 7, 7:25 am

Idea collection tools with some required fields are pretty standard and decently implemented collectors see a lot of contributions (think: Starbucks). But when these tools ask for a login, they need to offer something that makes signing up worth the effort.
“You dream it. Asus builds it” with “Intel inside” is the promise on the other [...]

Emerging Platforms | From gimmicky to something fun and useful...

Posted by kojanen | May 6, 4:01 pm

Fanta Virtual Tennis on YouTube
No doubt about it, augmented reality is one thing that’s on virtually everybody’s lips right now. That has been noted here on ThreeMinds earlier, and YouTube is bursting with clips showing examples of basic AR applications, both mobile and desktop. But so far most of those examples are either of the [...]

Consumer trends | New Meanings to "With the Beatles"

Posted by ssautter | May 6, 6:30 am

A Note on the Loss of Quality in Audio, Image and Video
On September 9, 2009, EMI will at long last issue newly remastered
versions of the Beatles’ albums and singles in stereo and mono on CD. 
On that same day will be released a version of the popular videogame
Rock Band featuring the Beatles’ original recordings, which very [...]

Creative Sensibility | 1st Grade Math and a Good Bowl of Ice Cream

Posted by mstrickl | May 5, 7:16 am

Making Better Digital Experiences
If you’ve never met me, you might wonder how a bowl of ice cream could inspire an article about creating great digital experiences. If you have met me, I don’t need to tell you that sugary treats are the motivation for a lot of what I do.
How does 1st grade math come [...]