Georg Cockburn

“You don’t have to mess with a web page to watch TV anymore.” At least that’s what Boxee TV promises in their short introduction film to Boxee-tv on Vimeo. A few have tried connecting the TV to the several sources on the web  before, see Apple TV or Samsung’s TVs with theirs built-in YouTube-browser.
Boxee manages [...]

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One of my biggest projects of 2008 just went online today in Germany: The new Mercedes-Benz Brand World. This mainly meant structuring the site’s huge amount of content in a more accessible way, developing modules for the brand’s different facets, highlighting some great content within flash modules and integrating the section within the new Mercedes-Benz [...]

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Finally we got there: Mercedes-Benz.tv 2.0 is online. It’s been a lot of work the last few months and we relaunched the website yesterday. Thanks to a great team of art directors, developers, project managers, information archtitects and tv production companies this is an advanced site in terms of user experience. Different channels ranging from [...]

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This makes you want more: Mozilla Lab’s Aurora is a study for the future of web usage with a strong focus on collaboration and interaction with other users. In this series of videos from Adaptive Path’s Lead Designer Jesse James Garrett you get a glimps of what intuitive browsing could be like in the future. [...]

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For a long time we had to handle interfaces that didn’t seem to be made for humans. Keyboards and other awkward input devices aren’t made for spontaneously interaction. Seemingly engineers had forgotten that we are, after all, living beings who want to touch and move things in a natural way.
Now slowly companies [...]

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The CHI - Computer Human Interaction - Conference 2008 will be taking place in Florence, Italy from Saturday, 5th to Thursday, 10th of April.
During CHI 2008 Luca Chittaro will keep an updated blog in English and Italian where he will write about “news, interviews with internationally-known researchers, and the latest trends and discoveries in human-computer [...]

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Create or Die Magazine recently came out with a special issue called ‘Video revolution online’. In it you can find some articles about current developments in online video. I contributed an article about Mercedes-Benz.tv. Read more about how we planed and developed that plattform in this PDF (sorry - currently only available in German).

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As the web is increasingly leaving home, it offers completely new chances to reach customers.
For a long time we have looked at the real world and the digital world as two completely different entities. That’s what we express when talking about phenomena as “second life” vs. “real life”. Up till now this might have been [...]

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While many of you probably use them frequently, RSS-Feeds haven’t really yet hit the masses. That’s probably because people aren’t used to organizing they’re own content structure. They mainly want it delivered ready to consume. There are customizable start pages like Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, etc. and they’re very handy if you’ve got the time to [...]

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