Awesome looking tool to allow you to truly personalize your emails. Making them personal letters, somewhat. Excellent by the advertising by Pilot, I wonder how bic will strike back at this one? Zippo already has the iLight, now Pilot grabs the headlines with this project.

pilothandwriting.com

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…and introducing Lenny Linux.

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Are you human? from GDFB.tv on Vimeo.

So what about you, are you really human?

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Google just announced a very functional font resource with an API which will help using custom fonts within web pages. The days of when you receive an art directors mock-up and you have to ask them whether you can’t use standard web font seem to be over.

Yet another excellent Google initative. And while I am at a Google post, make sure you take another look at Wave, as they updated their UI, and seems much less buggy now, then when launched.

more on code.google.com

When living in the real world, we don’t pass our messages to a central hub, which in turn hands it on to our friends. Our social media interaction should work the same way. This is where Diaspora comes in. Diaspora promises to become an open source alternative to Facebook, respecting user privacy. And, more importantly the team has managed to gather some momentum over on kickstarter.com, where they have collected over 100k to work on their concept.

Diaspora: Personally Controlled, Do-It-All, Distributed Open-Source Social Network from daniel grippi on Vimeo.

Though I must admit that these workstations do look nice, I would disagree with Guy Kawasaki on his wonderfully composed adjective, as all of them still seem to be made for the mouse and keyboard age.

But that might just be me…

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Earth Day may have just passed, but the Google Earth team loves it too much to let it go. So we’ve found our own special way to celebrate Earth Day (a little late) by making an announcement that we’ve been working toward for a long time: Earth view in Google Maps.

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Facebook having announced their own push into the search market, as well as wanting to push their own new standards (even rumors about a Facebook tablet) and their union with Microsoft (via docs.com), there is yet another front opening up. Watch this space. Adobe screaming murder in apple’s direction. Bing and Yahoo’s failed union vs Google. Now Microsoft’s trying it again with Facebook. Interesting indeed.

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from browserlab.adobe.com :

Preview and test your web pages on leading browsers and operating systems – on demand. Adobe BrowserLab makes it easier and faster than ever before to see how your designs appear to your customers and audience. Get your results in real time, from virtually any computer connected to the web.

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New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.

Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard

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Chris Garrett interview from Michael A. Stelzner on Vimeo.

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A few instructional videos on every-day chores and some not-so every day. The first one of I saw on The Daily What blog. A whole series of them can be found here.

also check out I’m on a Mac

First there was the website that announced it, and now the funeral was actually held. I will totally send this to clients when they ask for an IE6 compliant site, telling them that they are using a dead(!) browser. Apparently Microsoft themselves sent flowers.

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And I would like to add…

48. Everything you do, has already been done.

Neat little web-application

by the same crew that is behind the One Sentence Diary and the Twitter Counter GigaTweet, that is counting up to the 10 billion Tweet Mark.

After having listened to both part 1 and 2 of the The Virtual Revolution

I looked further into the whole BBC offering on the topic. The microsite holds a variety of topics, stories and resources to learn more on where the web came from and where it is going.

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