Netdiver Mag

Facebook where’s our $$$ bags?

August 18 (15) 17:37 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: privacy — social media

Facebook Should Pay All of Us by Tim Hu.

The most valuable innovation at the heart of Facebook was probably not the social network so much as the creation of a tool that convinced hundreds of millions of people to hand over so much personal data for so little in return.

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If interested, this is why I deleted all my Facebook accounts + pages.

Read the discussion.

Server down

August 16 (15) 16:43 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: insider — technology

Netdiver dedicated box went to lalaland due to a DNS problem a few days ago.. We have no clue how long the outage was.

Thank you Chris!

All good now.

Remembering Netscape

August 12 (15) 12:17 pm Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: technology — web design

Netscape IPO 20-year anniversary: read Fortune’s 2005 oral history of the birth of the web by Adam Lashinsky

ndlr: Netscape logo redesign as an homage to a great company by White Rabbit studio.

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If you were around the nascent www in ’95 – walk down memory lane. If you came in later, amplify your web history knowledge.

Excellent read.

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Suggested readings:

20 Years ago. My personal recounting of the birth of Netscape and how it shaped the future of Netdiver Mag.

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Think Different <- We’ve seen what M$ vs Netscape (and all others led to). Just think of IE6, if you are amnesic.

Microsoft And Netscape: Case Of Friend And Foe <- article deleted but page title maintained. Exactly what happened. Netscape was wiped out.

Browser Wars <- History of browsers (map). Thank you Wikipedia for your accuracy.

More search results.

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Browsers market share today:

Goodbye Fiftytwo

August 10 (15) 13:37 pm Wanna see more? — imaginative {c/y}
#TAG: art direction — branding — business of design — creativity — digital media — graphic design

Goodbye Fiftytwo by Daniel Howells

Fiftytwo was an experiment in creating a professional network for creatives whose constraint was the ability to post just one piece of work (new, or work-in-progress) every week.

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It was my take on the “slow web” movement; a response to the deluge of Twitter posts where meaningful work updates got lost in the noise.

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7,975 registered users, superb design work posted, connections established between creatives, closed and private, meaningful feedback..

What went wrong???

Startup fail.

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Daniel Howells is a London-based web designer/developer, founder/editor of siteinspire.com

Whitestone is???

August 5 (15) 15:45 pm Wanna see more? — industrial {c/y}
#TAG: interactive design — music — product design

Whitestone is the first platform for interactive music experiences. A place to create, collect, and truly experience music online. This is what what music will look like in the future!

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We are a group of artists, designers and programmers with a vision to bring album art to the internet, using the medium to create special interactive editions of albums and videos.

Streaming is just the beginning, we want to take it a step further.

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ndlr: New logo exploration

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Goodbye BKSGE, welcome Whitestone. Or why the change of name took place – so late in the game.

The platform concept, business model and interactive functionalities as well as ui/ux design, all remain the same.

Dieter Rams interview

August 3 (15) 11:44 am Wanna see more? — industry news {c/y}
#TAG: book — business of design — creativity — product design

>Dieter Rams interviewed by Gary Hustwit, an excerpt (worth reading) from Helvetica/Objectified/Urbanized: The Complete Interviews as published by Fast Company.

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Dieter Ram design philosophy in 10 points:

Good design is innovative.
Good design must be useful.
Good design is aesthetic design.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Good design is honest.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is long-lasting.
Good design is consistent in every detail.
Good design is environmentally friendly.
And last but not least, good design is as little design as possible.

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This reference book – is a must in your library: Less and More. The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams. A new re-edition can be pre-ordered.

Hence, where the Less is more quote and design principle comes from. Never forget how much we owe this creative giant.

GoldRush / posters

July 28 (15) 08:16 am Wanna see more? — illustration {c/y}
#TAG: poster — print

GoldRush is a 3D series that takes the popular gold naming for a spin and tries to depict these products literally or how they would look like, if they were truly made out of gold designed by Črtomir Just

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How amazing are these? Printed and part of an exhibit. Stunning surfaces!