Epic Yahoo FAIL

Almost only counts in hand grenades and nuclear bombs. Not Fantasy Football live drafts. Hasn’t Yahoo heard the news? …lots of problems today across the board – not just me. The message boards and (ironically) Yahoo Answers were lit up with complaints and rants about how poorly prepared they were this season to handle demand….

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GMAPS Adds Local Businesses

Love it!

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Ghosts of Old Ideas

While checking out Info Aesthetics this morning I read a piece on datamasher.org, a visualization site that combines data feeds from data.gov to provide insights into underlying data relationships.
This makes me think of a concept I had a while back called “Know Your Vote”. It’s purpose was to cull and parse congressional vote data to…

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Times Reader is Here – For $3.50/wk…

I saw this demoed at Adobe Max and was blown away. The experience they’re creating in AIR makes you want to read the newspaper. After seeing the demo I wanted to run out and subscribe. But some time has passed and the newness/hotness/gotta-have-it-ness of the application has worn off a bit and I’m left wondering,…

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Great List of AE/3DS Max Video Tutorials

For those with some free timeĀ  I recommend delving into some tutorials provided by our friends at Smashing Magazine. Be careful thoiugh, linked content may become addictive.

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I’m In This Book

Although I’m not attributed :-/ Season of Surprises is on p.286

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Comparisons and Nostalgia

Check this out for site design comparisons dating back 5, 8, 12 years and older.
My Favorite:

Can you guess which is older? I’ve hated this design from the beginning. At least they’re consistent…

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Papervision Killing It Some More

(via papervision blog)

The new site for the Canon EOS 400D camera is certainly one of the most impressive Papervision3D efforts so far.
It combines navigation and exploration in an immersive experience over three different playgrounds.
The entire piece flows beautifully, showing attention to detail and a good balance between creative and technical.
A good example of an experimental…

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