Yahoo cut back workforce

Batten down the hatches
Yahoo! said it would cut 7% of its workforce after net profit fell by 23% in the fourth quarter, compared with a year earlier, to $206m. The company also predicted that it would soon face “headwinds”. Analysts anticipate a squeeze in advertising revenue this year.

In Store TV works for Walmart
Instore TV is working, I must have woken up in a parallel universe today. In Store TV could be a great content opportunity but knowing retailers they will want to spoil it with a barrage of price call outs and hard sell.

sweetgifs

Nice one NicSpic

NEC old but still going

NECs tree planting scheme is still going. They have planeted 1070 trees supported by all the traffic from messages to their site.

Guardian digital archive

Search over 150 years of news from the Guardian.

try type on fontshop

fontshop have been doing this for a while but the type test is great for trying new fonts with out loading.

softporn or fashion

Just like beards, 70s typography and recession is soft porn back in. Afters years of unlimited hard core online are we yearning for the days when some of nature was left hidden. Mr Teller being the king of soft core surely knows.

touch music

bfi film sharing

download from the archives.

eat the seasons

Herb Lubalin

Herb Lubalin was the typographer that made me want to work in advertising. He made type have a whole new layer of meaning, he some how managed to mix the best of European design (Avant Garde) with the best of American brashness. His scamps were art pieces in themselves. Good to see this poster, it feels so relevant.

star wars canteen

at last group94 launch their site

But we miss the video excuses. Bring them back.
Nice site though.

adobe kuler site

Create palettes of colour and name them. It's colour community.

chemical brothers site

A little late but here goes, I met Tim from 3ev this week and he seems like a nice bloke, so here's his site for chemical brothers. The chronicles and fans memory section is a great UGC idea.

last.fm learn from mistakes

I really agree with Hannah Donovan, Last.fm’s head of creative, for building a successful web application. Her top tip? Make mistakes read more.

The important thing is to build the audience and then improve stuff as you go. Clients often look at digital as a one hit wonder when really it is about a long term progressive dialog with the users. If something doesn't work change it, if something is out of budget do it next quarter. This thinking is true for stats as well, use the real stats to give the user more of what they want.

C4 ping pong trailer

Very well done in post.

mamiya

Buy the set of all 26 illustrations at T26 here

millau bridge

$100 laptop

just a blip

more web tv and this and that.