Some of the most popular sites are the most fugly. It makes me feel good about my dorky-looking blog. :)
http://www.ebay.com/
http://amazon.com/
http://www.facebook.com/
http://www.comcast.net
http://imdb.com/
http://www.weather.com
http://sportsline.com/
JPG Mag - Social photo-sharring (a la Flickr), meets an artsy magazine; some really beautiful photos here.
RIP Odeo - Mega Blogger Om Malik reports on cannibalistic buy-out of Podcast start-up Odeo, which suggests what seems to have been a DUH! thing all-the-while — podcasting is very niche and has little future next to richer mediums like videocasting. One thing to note: the conversation about this move by Evhead is filled with questions about what will really happen to Odeo.
Byespace? - Via the On The Turning Away blog, the Wall Street Journal reports that there is a notable decline in traffic to Myspace and Facebook. Is this “seasonal” as the sites claim, a small tremor, or a the begin of steady shift?
Hi, my name is Ross and I’m a design strategist, passionate about studying how audiences connect with products and ideas. I'm a lead experience designer at Modernista!. And I've worn many hats: a market researcher and consultant at Forrester Research, a game designer at Harmonix, a grad student at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, a composer and teacher at New England Conservatory. You can reach me at ross.spw@gmail.com, or follow me on twitter.
