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Awesome Papervision3D experiment - 3D pixels vs. Kraftwerk video

February 12th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

This is one of the coolest Papervision 3D experiment I have seen.

The screenshots don’t really do it any justice. It has to be animated to really get the cool effect.

Check it out here.

More information can be found in this blogpost.

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Flash Video and the love of commercials: Firebrand™

February 11th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

firebrand.pngAwesome web app sorts all the famous video ads by client. The application itself is really well made with a sense of depth and stage.

It has, however, consistently crashed Safari on close.

Check out Firebrand


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

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Processing can generate some amazing work

February 11th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

Check out Dave Bollinger’s work.


Design: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆

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Flash app by M&M’s - Design your own and photo studio

February 9th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

This full on app by M&M’s lets you create your own, dress it up, and star it in a photo or movie!

It’s quite useless and frankly I doubt they got much out of it (considering the budget behind it). But when something is cool, who cares?


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

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Flex app: Yahoo! launches Live - Broadcast yourself.

February 8th, 2008 by Nicolas Noben

yahoo live.pngThis is an early beta of a new Yahoo! service called Y! Live.

Yahoo live lets user create their own channel and be live on video I guess. It’s cool and all but frankly I wouldn’t do it. Some You Tube freaks might be craving for it tho, time will tell.

This early beta craps itself all the time. The app looks promising although unclear as to what it’s trying to achieve.

Check out Yahoo! Live.

Love the holycow (url) error.


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

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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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