6ix Passions

Get A Life Tweet!

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:13:30 -0400

Get A Life Tweet!

"iPhone Instapaper App + Read Later = Best App of 2009. Period."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:53:00 -0400

“iPhone Instapaper App + Read Later = Best App of 2009. Period.”

- JiPé strongly recommending Marco Arment’s Instapaper.

Seagate Freeagent | Go for Mac Small External Hardrive for your...

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:28:00 -0400

Seagate Freeagent | Go for Mac

Small External Hardrive for your Mac with Triple Wire (FireWire 800, 400 and USB 2.0), docking station and a slick case to carry it wherever your go. My friend Mike just got one. He always get the latest gadgets. Bastard!

Too bad Seagate didn’t have it yet when I bought my also ultra-slick, but only USB 2.0, Wester Digital My Passport

Posterous - Just Email Us

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:19:00 -0400

Posterous - Just Email Us:

Posterous is a blogging platform. A blogging blatform where everything can be post by email. If only it was that, it would be great.

I like the way they succeed to simplify their sign-up process without even having one. You simply email them at post@posterous.com and your account is done.

I also like how they succeed to implement an easy, but hightly powerful structured process to email your medias and text to other social sites. For example you can email your pictures to flickr@posterous.com and they will be post to Flickr. This way you don’t need to remember all the private-easy-to-forget-emails (ie: adamDFR23@flickr.com) of each of your social media sites who accept email posts.

The problem in their platform is they try to be and do everything. It’s become difficult to understand what it is and how it can be useful: just the idea of being able to blog everything by email is an amazing feature. Why having added (and be forced to explain) all the other features? By extending your offering you may also loose your main focus and strength.

Tumblr for example, who offer mostly the same set of features (except trying to be an hub for your other social sites - and thank your for not trying) succeed without overwhelming their users and ever loosing their main focus: being the easiest blogging platform.

"I don’t want to use a tool unless I’m going to use it really well… If you want to..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:12:10 -0400

“I don’t want to use a tool unless I’m going to use it really well… If you want to be in multiple social media and also have a day job, you’re going to need a staff.”

- Seth Godin - On social media and the need not to be everywhere.

Thanks Fred.

"There’s a common attribute that makes for good designers, good engineers, good employees, and..."

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:46:00 -0400

“There’s a common attribute that makes for good designers, good engineers, good employees, and good companies. For a long time, I couldn’t figure out what it was. Was it practice? Was it skill? Was it innate ability? Turns out, it’s none of those. It’s taste.”

- Dustin Curtis - Dear American Airlines - The Response.

Yes it’s a long article, but you should read it ALL.

Follow me on Twitter Experiment

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:57:00 -0400

Follow me on Twitter Experiment:

A quick study exploring the power language has on clickthrough rates.

Dustin Curtis made an experiment to see how he can increases his followers on Twitter by editing the call-to-action and measuring the results.

A very interesting user behavior experiment.

Eternal moonwalk - A Tribute To Michael Jackson

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:37:11 -0400

Eternal moonwalk - A Tribute To Michael Jackson:

Some videos are very original while some others are boring, but the idea is brilliant and viral as hell.

(via Etienne)

Stardust 2009 Reel Great music, great motion, a great...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:12:00 -0400

Stardust 2009 Reel

Great music, great motion, a great feeling.

Stardust is an award-winning creative production company, specializing in motion design, animation, visual effects and live-action production.

Niagara Falls in Motion (Fast Motion) Very nice! (via Etienne)

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:10:25 -0400

Niagara Falls in Motion (Fast Motion)

Very nice!

(via Etienne)

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have..."

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:29:10 -0400

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

- Steve Jobs - You’ve got to find what you love

"Isn’t it nice that Apple doesn’t have to worry about copying Apple?"

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:24:10 -0400

“Isn’t it nice that Apple doesn’t have to worry about copying Apple?”

- Jacob

Gmail Back to Beta For the ones who cannot stand the fact that...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:06:00 -0400

Gmail Back to Beta

For the ones who cannot stand the fact that Google Gmail is out of Beta after 5 years, (please repeat after me: 5 YEARS), you can put back the Beta in the Gmail logo.

Please! More ridiculous things like that in Gmail Labs and I’ll puke.

For the posterity:

Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007. As of July 2009 it has 146 million users monthly. The service was upgraded from beta status on July 7, 2009, along with the rest of the Google Apps suite.

Ken Block on Top Gear Again, just fuc$#@ impressive! James May...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:53:00 -0400

Ken Block on Top Gear

Again, just fuc$#@ impressive!

James May of the British television series Top Gear goes to the US to meet Ken Block and ride with him…

Not sure there is a better freeze frame than this one:

I first wrote about Ken Block here.

SamParkour Wiland Pinsdorf’s Samparkour short movie was shot...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:39:00 -0400

SamParkour

Wiland Pinsdorf’s Samparkour short movie was shot in HD with 35mm lens adapter showcases the beautiful city of São Paulo (Brazil). It features Zico Corrêa who uses every obstacle like a new possibility.Where people see obstacles, Zico sees a challenge.

It let me think of the creator of Parkour, David Belle.

HP - invent Brillant! Response to D&AD Student Awards brief...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:31:00 -0400

HP - invent

Brillant!

Response to D&AD Student Awards brief set by Hewlett Packard.

Brief: “Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive.”

The PEN Story on Vimeo A life in stop motion. This is the...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:28:00 -0400

The PEN Story on Vimeo

A life in stop motion.

This is the Olympus PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. We hope you enjoy :-)

Snow Stack - CSS 3D Visual Effect Cooloris (or Piclens for the...

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:32:16 -0400

Snow Stack - CSS 3D Visual Effect

Cooloris (or Piclens for the early adaptor) but only using javascript and css 3 under Safari and its latest javascript open source engine: Webkit.

Office 2010: The Movie Lame, but at least they try to look cool.

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:01:11 -0400

Office 2010: The Movie

Lame, but at least they try to look cool.

Star Wars Uncut, a collective effort to recreate Star Wars New...

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:54:00 -0400

Star Wars Uncut, a collective effort to recreate Star Wars New Hope one scene at a time.

Hello! You and 472 other people have the chance to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope. Below is the entire movie split up into 15 second clips. Click on one of the scenes to claim it, film it, and upload it. You can have up to three scenes! When we’re all done, we’ll stitch it all together and watch the magic happen.

Go to the site and pick your scene(s).

(via jamiew)