Friday Links: Google Wave, Bing, and Archie chooses a wife
- Tim O’Reilly on Google Wave: “. . . re-imagined email and instant-messaging in a connected world, a world in which messages no longer need to be sent from one place to another, but could become a conversation in the cloud. Effectively, a message (a wave) is a shared communications space with elements drawn from email, instant messaging, social networking, and even wikis.”
- Typekit made Web designers everywhere shiver with glee.
- Archie proposes to Veronica, brunettes everywhere say “nyah, nyah, what’s that about blondes having more fun?”
- Microsoft wants you to Bing rather than Google
- Ten logo design tips from the field: “Restaurant logos don’t need to show food, dentist logos don’t need to show teeth, furniture store logos don’t need to show furniture. Just because it’s relevant, doesn’t mean you can’t do better.”
- Apple vs. Microsoft, A Website Usability Study.
- Why underdogs should take more chances.
- If you have 3 minutes and 11 seconds to spare, take a gander at Sorry I’m Late a charming stop motion movie.
- How to turn high-profile employees into brand ambassadors.
- 21 amazing movie posters recreated with Legos.
Matt Albiniak on June 1st, 2009
re: Wave (and Bing).
I’m not sure who crapped in the water, but there’s been a surprising amount of negative response to both of these services from the snobs in the Valley.
Then again, these are the same people that thought email without folders wasn’t email (turns out, it’s gmail), and Microsoft should “leave the internet business behind them.”