ooo, this could be interesting, an iphone / smartphone app for recording and converting audio and then sticking on tinternet replete w tags and geodata

"MySpace is launching a UK MySpace Developer competition to build “the best sustainably social application,” and they’re throwing some money into the pot to incentivise developers out there. It’s obviously an attempt to kick-start more MySpace apps, but at least they are putting their money where their mouth is."

splitting feeds and recommending other stuff from them using calais

Aleks K on three systems that games designers put into game development.

The framework for how to do UXD. Explains what you to do and what you need to deliver...

Blog on the emerging and developing apps, products on services coming out of Nokia's labs.

Building beautiful things out of boring data. Lovely stuff.

wowsa. currybet pointed me at this wondrous resource. never be without a pattern design example again.

a good round-up of where we're at and the pros of using pragmatic means to mine the [newly] metadata rich world.

Circulated after developer overheated. Thanks Rob :o

An old keynote by Will Wright talking about Spore. Talks about game narratives, how people share content, tell stories through games and shared experieces.

5 example of how the mobile phone is being mobilised (hah!) around the world for social activism

for all good reasons and most importantly because they work closely with their audience already and have great feedback loops. the apple example is more interesting... but they have super strong brand and service support.

Tom Austin on why design research matters

Makers of Halo.

tile based resource.

A heartwarming story about the good ol' days at Apple - seriously, this just wouldn't happen anywhere else.