Google releases new browser called Chrome!

It's going to be available in couple of hours, 18:00 GMT.

Prerelease info and comic can be found at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html

New work from Flash Fabriek

We've released couple of sites I want to link here:

www.NunnaUuni.nu - Finnish fireplace company, main site is www.nunnauuni.com but www.NunnaUuni.nu is a launch site for the new designer Figuro-models.

www.valkoinenkori.fi - Finnish cancer organisations are looking for monthly donors.

www.earlyjack.com - Finnair airlines promotion of fast direct routes from Europe to Asia.

www.earlyjack.com/japan - Finnair airlines older promotion of fast direct routes from Asia to Europe, dubbed in japanese by Shin Aomori as Jack and Shingo Hiromori as Joe. Definitely worth a look :)

www.akuankka.fi - Finnish site for Donald Duck. We created the flash elements and flash games for the site.

Yours truely,
Sami Korhonen
Project Manager
Flash Fabriek

Nokia and Microsoft team up on Silverlight

Nokia announced today that they will be making Microsoft's Silverlight available to S60 Symbian OS, Series 40 devices, and Nokia Internet tablets.

You can read the Nokia's press release, or last100 blog about it.

Microsoft will demonstrate Silverlight on S60 during the opening keynote at Microsoft's MIX08 conference on March 5 in Las Vegas. You can view the keynote speech online as well.

New Finnair campaign - Early Jack

Phenomenal Early Jack -viral video and Early Jack -flash campaign site.

Youtube goes mobile!

Point your phones to http://m.youtube.com/

With Nokia it streams videos with Realplayer. If you have Nokia's N73, E65, N95, 6120c, 6110n or Sony Ericsson's k800i and w880i you can download the application for a quicker access to your favorite Youtube dirt: http://www.youtube.com/yt_mobile_app

Here Comes Another Bubble

LOL.

Web 2.0 in design and production

It is totally different thing to design print and tv ads, simple web sites and banners, then it is to understand the complex world of interactive and consumer collaborative Web 2.0.

There is no single, clear, definition to Web 2.0, since it is much more then advancement of web technologies. John Seely Brown made good quote material when he said "Web 2.0 is a profoundly participatory medium". Tim O'Reilly, the man who originally coined the term Web 2.0, made an excellent list while trying to clarify what the term Web 2.0 meant:


Web 2.0 means more collaborative work, information sharing, inviting people to participate, giving them more power to voice their opinions. Sites and applications are more interactive, more rich in media, and give better user experiences.

Loosely quoting O'Reilly: Trust your consumers. Let them play. Participate, don't publish. Listen, don't shout. Remember, your site should get better if there are more people using it. And finally: Web 2.0 is an attitude, not just technology.

I'ts not a Gphone, it's an Android

Despite rumors, and us Google-geeks waiting for an actual hardware phone, Google didn't publish one, it published "Open Handset Alliance", and "Android".

Android is supposed to be "first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications -- all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation."

I knew there was a reason I didn't start coding with Symbian, lol. I guess this "old" project manager found a new hobby. ;)

Cheers Google.

http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/

Information R/evolution

Mike Wesch explores Digital Ethnography. This is continued work from The Machine is Us/ing Us.

Google takes a stab at social bookmarking

Google has released a new tool for sharing web pages with your friends. It includes also support for 3rd party services, like Facebook, Furl, del.icio.us, Social Poster, Reddit and Digg.

Check it out:

http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff

Google Earth goes into space!

Check out this short introduction video, and then head for the download!



http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Mobile social sharing

Nokia launches a new site, MOSH (mobilize and share), bringing Youtube, MySpace, Facebook type of stuff optimized to mobile devices. It's still in beta.

Click here if you are browsing web with a personal computer: http://mosh.nokia.com/

And here if you use a mobile device: http://mosh.nokia.mobi/