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Mobile payments are on an exponential trajectory.
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Via BI
PayPal revealed that they processed nearly $4 billion in mobile payments last year, up from a miniscule $25 million in 2008. To give you an idea of mobile commerce's astronomical growth, PayPal initially predicted $1.5 billion in mobile payments for the year before raising before raising projections to $3 billion in June.
With rival Square now processing $11 million a day (up from $4 million in July), we are very bullish on the mobile payments market.
Forrester estimated in June that mobile commerce will reach $31 billion by 2016, and even that may look conservative now. Yesterday at CES, eBay CEO John Donahoe said that PayPal expects to handle $7 billion in mobile transactions this year.
Facebook says it has 800 million active users. Building a chart based on previous user number announcements, iCrossings says Facebook will probably reach 1 billion users sometime in August 2012. In the past, "active" has meant that these people log in once a month. What's truly stunning is that Facebook says more than 50% of its users log in every day.
Via Business Insider
The Obliteration Room… totally cool.
This space has been transformed into a series of domestic—style rooms, reminiscent of the average Australian home, filled with furniture and objects painted entirely white. This functions as a blank canvas that becomes ‘obliterated’ over the course of the exhibition through the application of brightly coloured dot stickers.
This series of images shows ‘The obliteration room‘ in its pristine state before the exhibition opened, along with the application of the very first dot stickers.
You can revel in ‘The obliteration room‘ during ‘Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever‘, on display at GOMA until 11 March 2012. You can also read more about Yayoi Kusama and the exhibition at ourdedicated website.
Love the illustration and colouring on this idea from designer Hugo Silva.
A very cool collection by designer Mats Ottdal
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What do you get when you mix a fashion photographer, and a master of animation? If you said beautiful gifs, then you are 110% correct! Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg have teamed up to bring us beautiful animated photographs, a.k.a Cinemagraph. These Cinemagraphs are more than a picture, but not quite a video. Their main goal is to visually illustrate a short story. To give you a comparison, think of the magical newspaper from the movie Harry Potter.
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It highlights a few key points, some of which are already known, but some of which don't get talked about enough:
Appshaker recently launched a unique way for people to interact with the amazing world of National Geographic Channel's content from around the globe.
Using the principles of augmented reality, people could immerse themselves in different scenes such as dolphins, leopards, the space landings, dinosaurs and more.View the video here:
Jawbone, a company best known for making fashionable Bluetooth earpieces, announced today that it will sell an all-in-one smart fitness gadget that aims to help people totally improve their personal health and fitness.
The $99 device, called Jawbone UP, is a simple-looking wristband capable of collecting data about a person's activity throughout the day as well as sleep patterns at night.
Paired with Jawbone apps on Apple mobile devices, such as iPhones and iPads, Jawbone UP also collects and analyzes the data to help you make better sense of your habits and lifestyles, identifying, for example, the effects of exercise on your ability to sleep deeply.
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(via PCMag.com)
If you haven't seen or used Litmus before I suggest you do. It provides a great testing platform for EDM campaigns.
App allows access to Dribble - a creative showcase for digital designers. However, Images are pixellated on retina displays which could be fixed easily and loads slowly. That's the bad points. Good points is that it's otherwise a well designed and detailed app. Would also like to see compatibility for portrait mode.
The missing part to this app is a map / guide of all the numbered installations around The Rocks and Circular Quay.
This kind of mapping functionality could of opened up more site specific social and contextual features.
1) Why have visual ads in an app that use use when you go to sleep?
2) Requests: Mozzie zapper, rickety fan, distant thump of doof doof from the apartment next door. Actually edit - already got that 4 nights a week.
Simple app that does it's job well. Clear design and basic features make it worth a couple of bucks. Could use a few more features but I guess it would lose it's charm.
It's mostly the stuff you wouldn't even buy at a garage sale - but hey it's free. They will need to introduce more current content for this service to be successful.
Finally a golf game I'm Happy Gillmore would play, reworked for touch Flick Golf slices through the competition and puts a whole new spin on stroke play.
I like this iPhone app for the simplicity In the design and attention to detail. For me this is an example of how to customise the application design to create a unique and memorable brand.
This app is one of the best Safari replacements I've used. The features include full screen browsing, ad blocking, unlimited tab windows (unlike Safari's odd "new window" tabbing), customisable gestures and plugins.
A great replacement for the standard iPhone weather app. Sources the latest weather and allows you to preview the next 7 days. The app also comes with 5 themes, which are pleasingly unique, and provide more than just the usual colour changes.
Now I'll admit, I'm biased when it comes to Reddit, but I use this app more than any other on my iPhone. Alien Blue is a full featured Reddit client with a multitude of features and a clean user interface. Also try the Alien Blue HD for iPad app.
Depict is an addictive "charades" style drawing game. You are placed in rounds where you must either guess what is being drawn (as pictured) or utilise your pixel drawing skills to convey the subject you are given. A simple idea executed well.
Nice little app for you bedroom bangers, could of been easily improved with the addition of retina graphics. Doof Doof Doof.
Both the game and the singer are from the 80s.
Nice custom UI all round. Product shots and background info make add to the brand experience.
Some real life games just don't translate in to digital, give me the real deal. But this games has great 3D and game play for touch.
I love cricket as much as the next graphic design / Internet dude does, which is to say not much. What started with great hopes (with a name brand backing this app) ended with the first of many under designed screens and poor ux - my fav being how tabbed content has been implemented as a new screen loading and sliding into view... It should just refresh the current view.
The app does have access to a lot of poorly formatted data, which is good for the punter - but overall it didn't bowl me over **ha**
I was introduced to this app by a mate who scoffed at the coolness of Instagram (but he does only have an Android). So hearing his case I decided to download PicPlz.
So with less filters, no friends and an awesome feature where it doesn't save the processed images to your library, I bided this app fair well and opened up Instagram.
The iPad version replicates it's Flash based desktop counterpart enabling access to live news coverage from ABC and TV shows from the last 7 days.
Video content is excellent quality and streams pretty fast across wifi, so can't fault the the development of that key component. Interface design is ok, but lacks the detail of say the BBC or USA Today apps which are both stellar.
Niki & The Dove - DJ Ease My Mind is at number 1 on the binarystudio user chart.
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die is at number 2 on the binarystudio user chart.
Lana Del Rey - Video Games is at number 4 on the binarystudio user chart.
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks is at number 5 on the binarystudio user chart.
YACHT - Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire) is at number 6 on the binarystudio user chart.
Typhoon - CPR / Claws Pt. 2 is at number 7 on the binarystudio user chart.
Galapaghost - Never Heard Nothin' is at number 8 on the binarystudio user chart.
Friendly Fires - Live Those Days Tonight is at number 10 on the binarystudio user chart.
Fever Ray - The Wolf is at number 11 on the binarystudio user chart.
Ponderosa - Pretty People is at number 13 on the binarystudio user chart.
Martin Solveig - Hello (Feat. Dragonette) is at number 14 on the binarystudio user chart.
The Tallest Man On Earth - Like the Wheel is at number 15 on the binarystudio user chart.
Ndf - Since We Last Met is at number 16 on the binarystudio user chart.
The Morning Benders - ECHOMIX2 is at number 17 on the binarystudio user chart.
Pendulum - Set Me On Fire is at number 18 on the binarystudio user chart.
Justice - Phantom + Phantom Pt. II (Troublemaker Remix) is at number 19 on the binarystudio user chart.
The National - Fake Empire is at number 21 on the binarystudio user chart.
Large Professor - I JusWannaChill is at number 22 on the binarystudio user chart.
Chromatics - Running Up That Hill is at number 23 on the binarystudio user chart.
Phantogram - Let Me Go is at number 24 on the binarystudio user chart.
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Cosmic Wanship Avengers is at number 25 on the binarystudio user chart.
Pantha Du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer is at number 26 on the binarystudio user chart.
Xinobi - Valsa in NJ is at number 27 on the binarystudio user chart.
Pretty Lights - I Can See It In Your Face is at number 28 on the binarystudio user chart.
These New Puritans - Orion is at number 29 on the binarystudio user chart.
Rykarda Parasol - A Drinking Song is at number 30 on the binarystudio user chart.
Caro Emerald - That Man is at number 31 on the binarystudio user chart.
The Knife - Heartbeats is at number 32 on the binarystudio user chart.
Marina and the Diamonds - Hermit the Frog is at number 33 on the binarystudio user chart.
U.S. Girls - Red Ford Radio is at number 34 on the binarystudio user chart.
The Knife In Collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock - Colouring of Pigeons is at number 35 on the binarystudio user chart.
Florence and the Machine - Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) is at number 37 on the binarystudio user chart.
The Swell Season - In These Arms is at number 38 on the binarystudio user chart.
calypso - casually sad mercedes is at number 39 on the binarystudio user chart.
DJ Zebra - Get it on my mind is at number 40 on the binarystudio user chart.
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead is at number 41 on the binarystudio user chart.
We Were Promised Jetpacks - Ships With Holes Will Sink is at number 42 on the binarystudio user chart.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll is at number 43 on the binarystudio user chart.
The xx - Heart Skipped A Beat is at number 44 on the binarystudio user chart.
Casiokids - Gomur Mamma is at number 45 on the binarystudio user chart.
Volcano Choir - Island, IS is at number 46 on the binarystudio user chart.
Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me is at number 47 on the binarystudio user chart.
Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe is at number 48 on the binarystudio user chart.
Tamaryn - Mild Confusion is at number 49 on the binarystudio user chart.
Tiesto - Feel It In My Bones (Feat. Tegan & Sara) is at number 50 on the binarystudio user chart.