If you have been paying attention to some of the major buzz words being thrown around by the online community, you have most likely heard people talking about social media, GPS turn by turn navigation, and mobile gaming in one context or another. What seems like three totally random and independent topics just joined forces in a new mobile platform called Waze. The app is free on all the major mobile platforms, including Android, and it brings

If you’re Adidas and you’ve got a Star Wars-inspired collection rolling out in January, what better way to promote it than by using social media? Adidas, however, has taken its online marketing initiative one step further integrating Facebook and Google Maps to create the Star Wars Death Star Superlaser. The Adidas Originals application uses Facebook Connect to personalize the application experience, even granting you power over the Death

Tweeting via Fax Machine Dorothy Miller has hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, but the 80-year-old grandmother doesn’t use a computer or mobile device to update her status. Nope, Dorothy tweets away with the help of a fax machine and a New York-based service called Celery. Celery allows users, many of them computer-phobic senior citizens, to submit tweets, blog entries, Facebook updates or emails via fax machine and then posts the content onl

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Google has already monopolized the world wide web, leading in several markets such as search, email (Gmail), mapping (Google Maps/Earth/Street View) and video (YouTube). If Sergey Brin and Larry Page are ’sick and tired’ of the online business, maybe they would consider venturing out to other non-tech-related businesses, and grab a slice of the pie in the the auto, airline, or even the entertainment industry. Below are some pictures of what w

So how often do you see a page like this on Google? Graphically designed, almost creative, quirky copy writing, animated even? Almost never, let alone as a “maintenance” page for Google Wave… Ok so it makes complete sense for Wave, but rarely do you see anything like this from Google! So enjoy the moment, or perhaps what might be the start of more to come! Click here to check it out!

Sometimes its not enough to know how to design, because you also need to know how not to design.  Enjoy this selection (unbelievable how some “designers” make this kind of mistakes and still make it to the cover of a magazine) : Maxim Magazine had a photoshoot with Kata Dobo. Think she’s in nice shape? Maybe, but its funny that the tiles on the walls are not so in shape. Here we have an example of a self-firing weapon.