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chiefheretic

  1. Not the cleanest animation, but VW and their agency, McCann Erickson Istanbul, made a flipbook on their Facebook page. ow.ly/bbtMO
  2. Facebook just acquired Bolt | Peters to help improve the user experience via design research (at least that's the hope) techcrunch.com/2012/05/24/fac…
  3. And here comes Ballmer lumbering into the social network universe (besides $240 million in Facebook eh). Here's "So.cl" news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57…
  4. 'round and 'round she goes (the Dell consumer advertising account) - back to Y&R from Sid Lee: adweek.com/news/advertisi…
  5. Netherlands adopts net neutrality. It cares about people more than corporations - an idea so crazy it just might work. bof.nl/2012/05/08/net…
  6. Beautiful 3D photo "tours" of landmarks in Google Maps using WebGL maps.google.com/maps?t=w&layer…
  7. Click-Through Rates May Matter Even Less Than We Thought adage.com/article/digita…
  8. @jocke very nice score. congrats. i've had "pri.net" since 1994 and one day... one day it will pay off! ...uh. #dotnetdreams
  9. @jocke definitely becoming a mobile world (and as a designer, drives me nuts. at least when we were restricted to 640x480 we could predict.)
  10. @jocke which language did you have to settle for?
  11. Evolution is finally paying off for nerds - cheezburger.com/6107945984?sit…
  12. 1024x768 is dead. Long live 1366x768. Of course, mobile devices will soon force it to be a responsive Web design world. tcrn.ch/HBG64N
  13. Social networking and Reddit.com actually used for good. Watch the 11 min short film Cain's Arcade: cainesarcade.com
  14. Facebook gobbles up Instagram. facebook.com/zuck/posts/101…
  15. "Pinterest is Now the No. 3 Social Network in the U.S." That was fast. Just shows you, you never know what's next. mashable.com/2012/04/06/pin…
  16. "...less (sic) than one-third of [top 100 Internet retailers] have optimized their sites for tablet commerce": gigaom.com/2012/03/31/ama…
  17. "Tumblr continues to grow at an incredible pace, hitting 20 billion posts... doubling in size in just over 6 months." tnw.to/1DpOY
  18. Five refined UI technologies "coming soon." mashable.com/2012/03/26/com…