Genoco: Phil Lu: Portfolio

http://genoco.com/
"I am a multimedia designer with three years of experiences working in various dynamic and collaborative environments. Detail oriented and open minded to tackle various kind of design challenge. Eager to learn new skills, adopt new ideas and work to be an excellent team member. Experienced in graphic design, multimedia design and photography"

wallpaper*: Design Awards 2008: the winners

http://www.wallpaper.com/news/design-awards-2008-the-winners/2029
"Unless you’ve been holed up in bed for the last ten days, you won’t fail to have noticed our countdown to the annual Wallpaper* Design Awards. And you’re probably aware that last night the event itself took place to great effect – winners were revealed, runners-up clapped graciously and a very good time was had by all.
In true Wallpaper* style we’ve gone one step further than simply opening an envelope to reveal the winners. Instead, we’ve teamed-up with digital animators, Mainframe, to produce animations for each winner of the Judges’ Awards. To heighten the suspension a little more, refresh your memories and take a look at the shortlists for each award by clicking on each category on the right."

Apple Gazette: Where to find LIVE coverage of the Macworld 2008 Keynote

http://www.applegazette.com/macworld/where-to-find-live-coverage-of-the-macworld-2008-keynote/
"The 2008 Macworld Keynote is only a few days away, and below is a complete list of everywhere that you’ll be able to find live blogging of the event. If you are planning on covering the event and don’t see yourself listed below, please contact us and I’ll get you added as soon as possible."

Staff Tool

http://www.stafftool.com/
"stafftool is the easiest way for churches and non-profits to manage their people, events, and communications"

Time: 50 Best Websites, 2007

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1633488,00.html
"Our 2007 picks are the best examples of what's new and exciting about the Web right now. Here we honor sites with exceptional style and smarts, sites that offer new and improved ways to access and share content, generate our own and otherwise enrich the online (and off-line) experience. What do you think of our choices? Take our poll and let us know."

Techcrunch: 2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Withttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifhout

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/2008-web-20-companies-i-couldnt-live-without/
"This will be the third annual post on “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without.” The first post, for 2006, is here. The 2007 post, written a year ago, is here.

This is a list of the products I tend to use daily. Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Google Docs, etc.), some are for fun (Amazon Music, Amie Street, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.

The list changes a bit from year to year, and is also getting longer (see chart). Five products have been favorites all three years (Flickr, Netvibes, TechMeme, Skype, Wordpress). Five more were favorites last year and this year, but not in 2006 (1-800-Free-411, Amie Street, Digg, Gmail, YouTube). Two were off the list last year but are back now (Delicious, Technorati). And there are seven new products on the list (Amazon MP3 Store, Facebook, Firefox, Google Reader, TripIt, Twitter, Zoho). Some of my picks might be surprising, like Firefox just being added to the list this year (I used Flock previously and was unhappy with Firefox on the Mac, but the 3.0 beta is performing very well). Some of these are close calls (I love Pageflakes, but just not enough to fully switch from Netvibes, for example). And there are a bunch of startups that didn’t make the list to keep it short. I’ve put a few “almosts” at the end to round out the list, as well as a couple of favorite gadgets."

Seattle Pi: Simple, tiny computers forcing Microsoft to make change

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/346547_flashpc09.html
"LAS VEGAS -- Amid the gigantic televisions and booming speakers at the Consumer Electronics Show, a tiny laptop computer stands out for its minimalist approach.

The Asus Eee PC is about the size of a small hardback book, and weighs two pounds. Rather than storing data on a spinning hard drive, it uses the type of solid-state flash memory more common in portable music players. It comes with the Linux operating system preinstalled, and it sells for as little as $300."

Colour Lovers: Happy Blue Year: 2008 Color Trends

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/01/09/happy-blue-year-2008-color-trends/
"According to color supplier Pantone®, the color of 2008 is Blue Iris. The blue is a radiant, calming hue, dark, but not dark enough to be in the realm of navy, and is a sharp contrast to the 2007 choice, Chili Pepper Red.

“From a color forecasting perspective, we have chosen PANTONE 18-3943 Blue Iris as the color of the year, as it best represents color direction in 2008 for fashion, cosmetics and home products,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute®. “As a reflection of the times, Blue Iris brings together the dependable aspect of blue, underscored by a strong, soul-searching purple cast.”

pingdom: Web hosting names that make you go “Huh?”

http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=233
"There are a lot of web hosting companies out there with unusual, strange, or just plain weird names (and URLs). We have collected some of the strangest ones in this post."

Smashing Magazine: 100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/
"High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog."

techdirt: Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period

http://techdirt.com/articles/20070215/002923.shtml

reply from informationarchitects.jp:
http://www.informationarchitects.jp/how-to-compete-with-free

Engadget galleries: Windows mobile 7?

Galleries > Is this Windows Mobile 7?

http://www.engadget.com/photos/is-this-windows-mobile-7/

NY Times: Innovative Minds Don’t Think Alike

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30know.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin
"IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which we think are thickening along with our experience.

Andrew S. Grove, the co-founder of Intel, put it well in 2005 when he told an interviewer from Fortune, “When everybody knows that something is so, it means that nobody knows nothin’.” In other words, it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself."

Slate: Don't Fear Starbucks

http://www.slate.com/id/2180301/pagenum/all/

"The first time Herb Hyman spoke with the rep from Starbucks, in 1991, the life of his small business flashed before his eyes. For three decades, Hyman's handful of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores had been filling the caffeine needs of Los Angeles locals and the Hollywood elite: Johnny Carson had his own blend there; Jacques Cousteau arranged to have Hyman's coffee care packages meet his ship at ports around the world; and Dirty Dozen leading man Lee Marvin often worked behind the counter with Hyman for fun. But when the word came down that the rising Seattle coffee juggernaut was plotting its raid on Los Angeles, Hyman feared his life's work would be trampled underfoot. Starbucks even promised as much. "They just flat-out said, 'If you don't sell out to us, we're going to surround your stores,' " Hyman recalled. "And lo and behold, that's what happened—and it was the best thing that ever happened to us."

Smashing Magazine: 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/01/19/53-css-techniques-you-couldnt-live-without/
"CSS is important. And it is being used more and more often. Cascading Style Sheets offer many advantages you don’t have in table-layouts - and first of all a strict separation between layout, or design of the page, and the information, presented on the page. Thus the design of pages can be easily changed, just replacing a css-file with another one. Isn’t it great? Well, actualy, it is.

Over the last few years web-developers have written many articles about CSS and developed many useful techniques, which can save you a lot of time - of course, if you are able to find them in time. Below you’ll find a list of techniques we , as web-architects, really couldn’t live without. They are essential and they indeed make our life easier. Let’s take a look at 53 CSS-based techniques you should always have ready to hand if you develop web-sites.

Thanks to all developers who contributed to accessible and usable css-based design over the last few years. We really appreciate it. Thanks!"

Mayang's Free Texture Gallery

http://mayang.com/textures/
"Our texture library has over 3400 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures.
Online at www.mayang.com/textures"

Bittbox: Random Free Vectors - Part 9

http://www.bittbox.com/freebies/random-free-vectors-part-9/
"I had fun making these. I’m constantly trying to push my Illustrator skills to the limit, so I was experimenting, and I came up with this set of freebies in the process. I don’t even know what to call these free vectors. Swirls, ornaments, swooshes, I don’t know. Call them what you want, but I hope you like them. Download AI, EPS, or SVG."

Brusheezy: 20 Photoshop Brushes

http://www.brusheezy.com/brush/530-Paint-Brush-Strokes
"Here I have 20 paint-brush stroke brushes for Photoshop CS 2! Made with an actual paint brush on paper, then scanned in at a large resolution. The zip-file includes a jpg image so that older Photoshop-users can define them as brushes separately."

Smashing Magazine: Best of October 2007

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/14/best-of-october-2007/
"Every month we take a look around and select some of the most interesting web-development-related web-sites. We read articles, check out tools, analyze the advantages of new resources. Below you’ll find useful references, tutorials, services, tools, techniques and articles we’ve found over the last 30 days - an overview of web-sites you shouldn’t have missed in October 2007.

All images can be clicked and lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken."

Pop Upon Magazine: Geek Trends: 15 Footers with great usability

http://yample.com/popupon/?p=54
"Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

On the search for effective integrated footers we collected a few that are amazing for creating engagement to produce internal traffic and brand awareness. We present you an alphabetical order list of 15 Footers with viable integration."