Mark Bult Design: San Francisco, CA, Established 1988
Web design and development for small and large business, e-commerce, b2b, b2c, SAAS, and community websites. User experience design and usability testing.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Bombs away
GiantBomb relaunched Monday, blossoming from a simple video game blog into a full-featured wiki-style site with user-powered content already adding loads of content to the underlying relational database. Alongside the member content are videos, reviews, and podcasts from the small team of mostly ex-Gamespot and -CNETers (you may have heard about Jeff Gerstmann's unceremonious firing from Gamespot last year).
I spent a few hours perusing the site today, mostly watching the videos. They've come a long way since the March soft launch, and the new site boasts magnitudes more features; it's going to be exciting to watch how it progresses, and I'm not even a gamer.
To give you an idea of how powerful the platform is, and how well the user experience has been thought out, watch this how-to video from their Help section.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Blogger video upload test
Blogger's added the ability to upload videos. I'm just testing to see how it works, and where the video file lives if you're hosting on your own domain, like me.
How to take a product-shot photo on a white background A pretty simple method. I tried it out the other night, and while it's a little harder to get a really good result than it might first seem from this tutorial, it works pretty well. www.sxc.hu/blog/post/133
New Belgium's Fat Tire has been my favorite beer for a couple years now. But when I saw this video and the supporting website FollowYourFolly.com, I realized I liked the company even more.
7-hour catnap, time lapse video And Velma thinks I'm just joking when I say "Orson just sleeps all day while we're at work." » videosift.com/story.php?id=17999
Man builds a living out of LEGO Seriously cool sculptural art made out of everyone's favorite little colored blocks. And yes, that's Han Solo in Lego carbonite. » www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/05/31/lego.artist/
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
Thursday top 5
Picnik Really well done online photo editor that works with your Flickr account, uploaded photos, photos on the web, or pretty much anything. » picnik.com
"Flagpole Sitta" by Harvey Danger, interpreted by the employees of Connected Ventures Now this looks like a fun place to work. » vimeo.com/clip:173714
Branch I really want one of these cat scratchers but there's no way I'm gonna pay $84 for a chunk of corrugated cardboard. » branchhome.com
The Forest in the Winter This is a really interesting (and slightly disturbing) animation of the Little Red Riding Hood story in Russian (I think) with incredible subtitle translations ("Forest is truly blood-hungry and life-jealous, and violence") and even more incredible commercial breaks (in Japanese!). » billsneed.com
Giant Steps This is a really cool Flash animation based on a Coltrane song. » michalevy.com
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Monday, May 14, 2007
The Gap's "4 Kids by Kids" clothing line
Okay, if you don't get it, here are a couple clues:
A) It's the Onion (if you still don't get that, I can't help you, you just have to come out from under the rock you've been living under for the past 15 years and experience the Onion yourself).
Bay Area Action's Schools Group started a campaign against the Gap in 1999 and did tremendous work over several years, educating the public about the Gap's sweatshop labor practices and applying public pressure by means of public protests, signature gathering, and more. Eventually, one of the Gap's VPs called up our high school students and invited them to the Gap's headquarters in San Francisco to talk.
Since then, the Gap's been the target of lawsuits and multiple campaigns by numerous human rights, labor, environmental, and social investment groups.
In 2004, CEO Paul Presser said, "When I decided to join Gap Inc. in the fall of 2002, one of the first things my teenage daughter asked was, 'Doesn't Gap use sweatshops?' " Read the article...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Thursday top 5+2
Learning kinesthetically I liked this story about a mom and her daughter who "works hard to read and write" http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif(her words). » jugglingfrogs.blogspot.com...
MakeADifferenceMovie.com Aw, man, this is sooo cheesy, and yet it still made me all teary-eyed. » www.makeadifferencemovie.com
"Young Folks" by Peter, Bjorn & John This song is uber-catchy, but I had to look up the lyrics online because I just couldn't figure out what the girl is singing/slurring. » www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0
Music.Download.com's weekly picks I used to work with these people. And now they're doing video podcasts. Awwww, all grown up! » www.cnettv.com...
Igor Siwanowicz's incredible reptile and insect photos I may have posted this link before, I just don't remember. But these are fantastic pictures. » www.photo.net/photos/siwanowicz
Big Poppa E's follow-up video "This should serve as a lesson to companies nowadays: Fuck over your employees, and they could strike back on YouTube and make you look really stupid." » www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLCmpCAguI
Is multi-touch the future of UI? You've seen it on the iPhone demos, and astute readers of this blog will remember Jeff Han's demo from when I posted it a while ago. However, this new demo takes it several steps further. » link.brightcove.com...
2007 Bloggies Some well-deserved wins and some interesting blogs I've never seen before. Now all I need is about 43 free hours a week to read them all... » 2007.bloggies.com/
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Is Orson as smart as Nora?
Velma got a book from the library on clicker training your cat. She started a couple days ago on the training, and despite one setback that left her punctured and incredibly bloody, she's had a bit of success.
My guess is it's going to be slow going with our somewhat dumb vampire cat, but we'll see. I'm staying out of the clicker training for now. But I'm hoping Velma can eventually teach Orson to play chopsticks...or turn out the lights...
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