Month: November 2010
How to get an invite to Facebook Mail
It's rolling out over the next few months, but if you want to speed up the process, and fancy having that fly [email protected] email address before everyone else, sign up to request an invite on the Facebook Messages page. Go to the Facebook Messages page, sign in, and hit Request Invitation. See more: Facebook Mail:…
Facebook Mail: 10 Things You Need to Know
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Mail today. Here are ten things you need to know about it: 1) Everyone will get an @facebook email address, but slowly, at sometime over the next few months. 2) It's based on instant chat, not email. 3) Using your friends and your friend list on Facebook, Facebook will filter your…
Facebook Announcement: yes it's Facebook mail and Zuckerberg got the idea from teenagers
Facebook messages will start to replace email, Mark Zuckerberg announced at a press conference today. The social network is amping up its messaging service to create a smooth, lightweight mail system based more on instant chat than what they believe will be the It's not email, but it includes email and aims to become the…
But I like all my 417 friends! Why the 50 friend limit on social network Path is wrong
Path is a new social network that restricts the number of friends you can have to 50. But that's not a problem say the founders - it's a strength - it's intentional! We quote: "Path is the personal network. A place to be yourself and share life with close friends and family.... Because your personal…
Drop the LOLcats: 4Chan attack Tumblr for overusing their memes and being girls
Though the vigilante power nerds on 4chan are best known for exchanging manga porn, they sometimes decide to launch cyber-attacks on their enemies. At various times, their enemies have included Youtube (for taking down a lot of free music videos), the British woman filmed putting a cat in the bin (they tracked down her house)…
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Jim Boulton on why websites are disappearing and we need to archive them now!
We caught curator of the Archaeology of the Web exhibition Jim Boulton, at the launch on Thursday and asked him to explain why he had gathered all these gems of the web together and put them on a bunch of retro monitors. It's for a very good reason - he thinks the web as we…
OK Go Collaborates With Range Rover To Create GPS Enabled Art
The US rock band OK Go, has become infamous for their creative often low-budget music videos, including their most famous, Here It Goes Again which received over 50 million views. OK Go's latest attempt to find creative ways to promote themselves, comes in the form of a collaboration with the car manufacture Range Rover, to…
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Designer on how pioneering site Requiem for a Dream mimics drug addiction
Unearthed in the Archaeology of the Web exhibition is a gem from 2000 made to promote the 2001 film 'Requiem for a Dream'. We talked to designer Alexandra from the agency High Res. The designers wanted to create a website that mimicked the effects drug addiction and the result is still avant-garde Playing with space…
GALLERY: Vintage Web Design from the Archaeology of the Web Exhibition
Visiting this exhibition was like time travel, taking you back to the internet circa 1999. Curated by Jim Boulton (interview up soon), it cherry-picked the most pioneering websites from 1990 up to the mid 00s, and displayed them on real vintage machines culled from eBay. The aim was to preserve the fast-vanishing crop of websites…
VIDEO: Headphone wars – Philips O'Neill Stretch headphones vs the Retro i-Megos
Gerald put two top-performing headphones through their paces other day. The retro-tastic i-Meegos with their steel grilles are more club-wear, while the Phillips Stretch headphones - a collaboration with Animal - are all about extreme sports and listening to music while you're bungee jumping and suchlike. Gerald doesn't bungee jump below, what he does do…