Amid the iPhone 3G launch hysteria, we made a pronouncement that, looking back now long after the dust has settled, pretty well nailed it: forget hardware, it’s code that counts. Code via the juggernaut that is the App Store, which allowed the iPhone to truly came into its own as a mobile platform.

Now, our first official look at T-Mobile’s G1, the first
Android-capable phone built by HTC, is less than 24 hours away, and the same adage holds true now more than ever. Android’s openness puts the emphasis even more squarely on the code this platform will run, making the hardware almost an afterthought. And while it’s still quite early in the game and things won’t really kick up until the G1 becomes available sometime in October, the Android Market is already looking like an equally if not more vibrant place for great apps for your phone. (more…)

Watch Android engineers demonstrate that applications on Android exist without borders. Apps on Android can access core mobile device functionality through standard APIs. Through intents, apps can announce their capabilities for other apps to use.

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The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was
announced by Paul Gubbay at the “Sneaks” session that shows cool tech
that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) service is
called Meer Meer and it is genuinely useful. (more…)

SoundManager 2
is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been
missing. It’s a Javascript library which wraps and extends Flash’s
sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform audio functionality to
Javascript. (more…)

TypeNeu
is an odyssey in typography. TypeNeu reports on the past, present and
the future of typographic culture, with main focus on typefaces and
applied typography in different forms. You can see many different
typography from book, fashion, illustration, magazine, packaging,
poster, print and etc… (more…)

There are many different kinds of stunning logos. Some are
aesthetic, some conceptual, and some cultural. It is also becoming
disturbingly clear that logo design has become a public sport. As the
public controls their own media more and more-Tivo-ing this, blogging
that, YouTube-ing and Googling everything else-people are no longer
satisfied to simply consume what is placed before them: They have
opinions they want to share. So when a large corporation reveals its
new identity, there are hundreds of internet sites flinging their
opinions back at it. Even when the village board of Remote votes on a
new logo for its two police cars, citizens take to the streets waving
pitchforks and copies of their own designs. Committeecide seems to be
rampant. (more…)

Since May 2005, the Fubiz
site is centered on the subjects of the graphic world, the urban
culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. Currently, there
are more than 14,000 RSS readers which has proven the success of Fubiz.
You can get some really inspiring and creative pictures from Fubiz. (more…)