Archive for February, 2008
An entirely new system of infrastructure is currently being explored in one of the busiest and most densely developed areas of Tokyo. The scene is the labyrinthine environment of the Ginza shopping district, which contains hundreds of restaurants, bars and shops, and yet no street names whatsoever. For many Western visitors this provides quite a hefty dose of disorientation, on top of the difficulties presented by the language barrier. What initially appears to be a fantastic tourist destination can easily become a confusing and frustrating puzzle environment. However a new public information system, which promises to one day solve the problems of all those poor souls not native to Ginza’s streets, is currently entering its largest viability trial to date.
The…
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iPhone SDK
Apple’s Software Development Kit for the iPhone is/was due out sometime this month, based on the company’s initial projections for a release date, announced at the end of 2007. The SDK will allow third-party applications to be created for the iPhone, and will hopefully (for Apple) establish them as the leading smart-phone open platform. However, with just over one week of February remaining, no specific date is yet known and instead we are faced by a strange situation whereby details have become oddly tricky to establish…
The current state of play is that Apple never set a single date for the SDK launch, but rather initially announced February as the release period. Latest rumours have suggested that the SDK’s arrival…
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CSSMania.com has become the latest distinguished web-gallery to add the etonDigital homepage to its ranks of outstanding designs. The gallery works as a collection of some of the most creative and effective work across all sectors of web development, giving quality designs a platform from which to be seen by the whole web community.
Previously, Screenalicious, CSSDrive, and TheBestDesigns have all also awarded etonDigital a place in their galleries of excellence, and helped to promote the high standard of our work. We are honoured and delighted to have received these accolades from such established measures of distinction, and wish to thank those at all the above sites for this recognition.
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QR code containing etonDIGITAL URLMost of us with WAP enabled mobiles would probably agree that up until now the feature has been a little clumsy, slightly awkward, and quite a lot short of delivering on its full potential. The small size of phone screens meant that sites could not be viewed or used as their designers had intended (apart from a select few websites which developed specific mobile browsing versions), and the lack of a mouse made browsing a laboured process at best. In short, aside from using it to access useful (but brief) information on the move - such as football scores or traffic updates, mobile WAP has hardly been the main use of our mobile phones. All this…
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This week has seen some interesting developments concerning two of Web 2.0’s biggest stars; YouTube and MySpace. While MySpace unveiled its rival to Facebook’s Platform system (more on this later), YouTube announced the launch of its Partner Programme in the UK. The scheme will enable users to earn money from their videos by becoming ‘YouTube Partners’, qualifying them for a share of revenue generated from advertising that runs alongside their videos, proportional to the popularity of their clips.
Initially tested in the US, the programme promises to consolidate YouTube’s superiority as the number one video-sharing website, despite the huge success of Facebook’s own video application (which does not operate a similar feature). The significance lies in the fact that YouTube now…
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