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Papervision 3D: Varywell - Stunning website

February 8th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Love how the windows wobble, the navigation and even their work is great.

Check out Varywell…


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Funny Puff seats - Cool idea, flash + web app

February 7th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Funny Puff Seats - flash site

Funny penis and boobs seats. Great concept! The website allow customization of the puffy seats via a flash web app.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Digg pics - Flash app to browse visually (could be better)

February 7th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Digg’s newest lab experiment called pics lets you browse their images content. Looks cool, but somehow it feels a bit too basic.


Design: ★★☆☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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95.7% of Flash player 9 Penetration!

February 6th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

New December 2007 figures show a 95.7% penetration level for Flash 9 and 98.3% for Flash 8 in US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan.

View all the figures, per months and per version here.

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Adobe’s New CTO: Kevin Lynch

February 6th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

“Adobe Systems brought the chief technology officer title out of retirement Tuesday and applied it to Kevin Lynch.”

“The CTO role will include core technology that spans across our businesses, and that could include elements that become features in future versions of our applications.”

More information here and there.

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Lipton tea Microsite / Viral

February 6th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Very close to the dodgy ladder website (which is now unfortunately offline) is the Fight the Indooritis microsite.

Visit the Lipton tea viral site.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Adobe: Stock Photo Service to be shut down!

February 5th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

To be able to focus on other projects, Adobe has announced that it will discontinue its stock photo service (on April 1st).

The fact that sites such as istockphoto are so cheap makes it a very difficult market to compete into. Better spend the dollars in others area of expertise. Maybe a new IDE* for Flash?

More information here.

*: One can dream, yeah?

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iminlikewithyou - A cool social flash environment

February 5th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

I’m in like with you, social/gaming environment in flash.

Play some games with friends or strangers, get points and say bye bye to a boring job.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Samsung Mobiles - Your music microsite

February 4th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Promotional site for Samsung. Funky and young. Simple and effective.


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★☆☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

Samsung Mobiles - Your music

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Crazy illustrator: amazing work

February 4th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

That’s what I would call, Creative.

On this one, the only interaction is with your brain though.


Design: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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Yahoo Finance - RIA that doesn’t (totally) suck

February 3rd, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Yahoo Finance has a new charting app in beta. It’s not too bad if you love charts, but still pretty useless being delayed by 15 min; unless you’re into the long term trends.


Design: ★★★☆☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★☆☆

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Henley properties - stunning flex Flash app for display homes

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Besides the buggy deep linking in their flash, it’s a very well done web app.

Update: it’s a Flash app, excuse the title.

Henley Properties display homes


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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MaxHaus Virtual Apartment Builder Application

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Impressive web application to design your Sao Paulo apartment, the way you like it.

MaxHaus Virtual


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★☆☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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Coaching your new years resolution!

February 1st, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Make sure your new year resolutions sticks with Start a resolution!


Design: ★★★★☆
Usability: ★★★★☆
Execution: ★★★☆☆
Overall: ★★★½☆

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