Adobe just released their first online photo editing software called Adobe Photoshop Express. It’s based on Adobe Flash and you can experience it at www.photoshop.com/express and try it out the many photo editing features.

This may just be one of the best current examples of an Rich Internet Application (in my opinion)..

UPDATE:  And the blog ReadWriteWeb has now released an article about how Adobe is going inline with many of their applications. Very interesting if you ask me.. Read the article!

Whooo! Check out Google’s corporate website. Super simplistic, non-corporate and totally anti stylish. But OK, if a service or a product has enough substance, style becomes less important. Or apparent lack of style becomes the style in itself. Just a thought, but this no nonsense approach has lots of potential if you ask me:)

120 scanned pages of logos from the mid-70s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_carl/sets/72157604144345854/

Adobe did it again – a great campaign video..

Check it out at http://adobecards.com/

As described on the ReadWriteWeb blog, many new and interesting ways of visualizing the content/use of the internet are popping up all over the place. Fx. LivePlasma uses an intelligent Flash engine to displays semantic relations between music and/or movies.

Another example is flickrvision that displays the latest flickr image posts in real time. The service is able to display the images on 2D maps and as a 3D globe like in Google Earth.

Recommended links:

• Fidg’t – social networking address book
• Aharef: Websites as graphs
• Packet Garden. Grow a world from network traffic
• Crazyegg – visualizeyour visitors

Flew over Las Vegas a few months ago (landed there too) and got a shock as you do sometimes seeing a city from above. This picture shows just a tiny part of the area of the city, where two million people live. Looks like a city made by a harvesting machine – and 95% of inhabitants work in service or entertainment (not a lot of production going on there).

This city didn’t really exist 60 years ago. There’s a sci-fi feeling to it, maybe because we know that more and more people move to the cities to work in service or entertainment, as manual labour is taken over by machines.

It might well be a picture of our future seen from above…(and with global warming, maybe even the weather in northern Europe would become more like Las Vegas – one can hope:-)

I know! We have all heard this before.

Nevertheless, I still think it is worth repeating over and over again, since it looks like many companies still don’t to get the message. Or at least are doing something whole-hearted about it!

So what is it I’m talking about. Well, it’s the experience you get when you buy a new Apple product. (And this has nothing to do with the never ending battle between Mac or PC.)

This is about something completely different. It’s about the feeling you get – as a consumer – from you open the designed package, read the designed manual, set up the designed product etc. Even when you connect the special designed plugs. The Apple feeling is there – all the way. And that’s unique.

It is the total user experience – and it is worth noticing – not only for the product design or features. Others may try to copy that – or make even smarter products. But if they don’t follow through – e.g. in packaging and communication – they will never succeed in getting that same feeling.

Nevermind that the white gets kind of dirty in the long run or that you can’t use all programs on you Mac. You will always remember that first feeling you got, when you unpacked your new Apple product. They made me feel that they did it all just for me!

Are you feeling it too?

One can wonder, why this hasn’t been made before. It’s not like devices that charges via USB is a new thing. But here it is – Belkin has made a USB charger. Just plug it into the outlet and start charging your devices.

Whatever you design be prepared for surprises. Everything will be used in ways you never imagined. Here’s the proof, spotted in a Shanghai cab! The creative cab driver found this interior detail in his car useful for keeping his stash of favourite toothpicks at hand. I admire this guy for his creativity and sense of personalisation.