We’ve been fans of Animoto.com since the Beta launch in August 2007, to celebrate their one year anniversary Animoto have announced that they are finally coming out of Beta.
This site allows anyone to create cool animated videos complete with music and creative image transitions – all you do is load up your selected images, set [...]

Google Suggest is the latest product to graduate from the Google Labs, this feature helps you figure out what you’re searching for by auto-completing search terms using various suggestions.

Leading tech and trends blog Read Write Web featured a post on what they feel are the 10 most promising developer platforms for the Web. They didn’t cover the already well known sites like Facebook and Twitter but focused on some ‘lesser known’ web developer platforms.

LivePlace.com (owned by Brad Greenspan one of MySpace co-founders) accidentally provided a preview of a 3D virtual world called City Space. City Space is rendered in OTOY which is a privately held company who are working on streaming interactive, high-quality 3D graphics over the web.
The actual launch date of City Place is still unknown, but [...]

The basic principles and guidelines of good design rarely change and the main keys to successful design apply to design disciplines across the board from industrial to web to architecture.
Take the 10 commandments of design as expressed by Dieter Rams in the 1980’s – his criteria are still very relevant today. Dieter Rams is a [...]

Earlier this week Yahoo! announced that would allow consumers to opt out of targeted advertising on Yahoo.com amid increasing congressional scrutiny about consumer privacy on the Web.
From the Yahoo! news site “Yahoo strongly believes that consumers want choice when customizing their online experience and they have also demonstrated a strong preference for advertising that is [...]

Many of the collaborators on this blog are designers – with this, and the fact that we’re a web-focused collective in mind, we’re constantly looking for the latest online trends and the best electronic design tips.
This post is taken from a Smashing Magazine story earlier this year. We feel it’s a very comprehensive well presented [...]

In 2007 the web was 5000 days old, in a thought provoking TED Talk, Kevin Kelly discusses the next 5000 days of the World Wide Web…’It’s amazing and we’re not amazed’…..
“We have to get better in believing in the impossible.”

Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.
Social bookmarking applications have been a well-adopted starting point for many people to easily store, share and catalogue content. Applications like Delicious (recently redesigned), ma.gnolia.com, stumbleupon, digg [...]

A recent information week article reports that Chinese consulting and research firm BDA have announced that more people connect to the web in China than in any other country in the world. China has now surpassed the US as the biggest using internet nation.
At the end of 2007 Nielsen/NetRatings counted 216 million US internet users [...]