The flash design and viral campaign for office max called “Elf Yourself” is back and has just gone live for it’s 4th year. You can create up to 5 elves and select from various dancing styles like hip-hop, dance, country and more…
The flash design is just about the same, but this year it includes instant ordering right in the flash module, and having your elves plastered on all sorts of quirky materials is just a single click away. check out the flash site created by JibJab http://www.elfyourself.com/
The new Droid phone’s design looks good! With this new inbuilt GPS app! Google Maps streetview GPS in beta, which should ship with the new Droid phone on the opensource Android 2.0 platform. The video above is a demonstration from the Google product team running the navigation project and includes some of the tech on exactly how it works along with a pretty good visual demo of what to expect!
People with Verizon service, and those of us who just can’t seem to switch over to AT&T for the iPhone might have something from Verison that rivals the iPhone. It’s called the DROID, it runs Google’s Android and it seems to have everything that the latest iPhone has and more… except for 100,000 apps. (it has about 10,000). It is scheduled to release on November 6th 2009 – and I am excited to see it first hand. It’s tough to tell what the design of it is really like from a picture, but nonetheless the design looks good!
Google has released it’s social search. So what exactly is this? It is all explained in this video from Google. It’s quite simple, and combines search from Google with your social networks and all the people you are connected with by displaying their posts and reviews right in Google search results. So let’s say I Google web design in New York City, and one of my connections on any of the social networks I am subscribed to has posted something relating to web design in New York then that will show up in my results page.
