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Now You Can Karaoke Online!

Ever been in a bar or at a party and there’s karaoke, your friends are bugging you to get up and sing, and you say, “Not until I’ve had a few drinks,” to get over the fear of performing in front of people? Well, now your fears are gone if you have that karaoke itch – you can sing your heart away online! Stingray Digital's Karaoke Channel online karaoke platform has launched an iPhone app for the intro price of…
December 13, 2009
Design

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No It’s Formata Bold!

Which is the typeface that was used for the Washington Mutual logo before they got all fancy modern with WaMu. But that didn't last too long anyways because they got bought out by Chase. And now we get the excitement of watching these 8 ft tall typefaces get trucked down from the twentieth floor of the building across from ours. Matt asked a great question concerning the final resting place of these gigantic beauties. Where do they go? Could it…
December 10, 2009
Design

Matt Stallings Art Exhibition Opens Friday December 11th

This December, Subtext invites you to come experience a post nuclear world of skewed reality by San Diego’s own Matt Stallings. In After the Bomb Popped, Stallings has conceived an altered world where candy and popsicles have come to life. Icons of pop culture are turned upside down and inside out. Michael Jackson has become a monkey, Mickey Mouse is now a pig, polar bears are hunted for their Icee juice, — there’s even a chocolate Jesus. For his first…
December 10, 2009
Development

Online Privacy…

Here is something that concerns us all, reported by NY Times' Media Decoder blog:  the Federal Trade Commission has initiated its first in a series of Exploring Privacy roundtable discussions in Washington D.C.  What’s that?  Seems to be a “fact finding mission” to uncover current data collection practices in social networking, cloud computing, online behavioral advertising and mobile marketing. They are examining tactical changes and PR initiatives, looking into whether or not our rights to privacy are being usurped or…
December 9, 2009
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Trends and the Meta-trend

We’ve been noticing this a lot lately:  Internets users seeking our those trends happening right now on the web, in the real world, and in one’s backyard.  We’re part of that crowd over here – we try out best to keep on top of not only today’s trends, but tomorrow’s. Google is well aware of this need, and has launched a series of advances in real-time, mobile and social-related (intelligent) search that integrate query results with real-time content from across…
December 9, 2009