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Loving these four amazing Beatles illustrations by Oliver Barrett. He has created portraits of each member from his favorite era of their career. Oliver depicted each Beatles member’s array (or lack of in Ringo’s case) of instruments through vector silhouettes.
The illustrations are for the Charting the Beatles project.
Via design work life
Group messaging was not as useful as we thought it would be this year at SXSW. Whether you were using Beluga, GroupMe, Kik, Yobongo or Fast Society or others, everyone had high hopes for a breakout group messaging app, simply because we spoiled tech brats are already bored with the ones we already have.
I know it’s old school, but towards the tail end of the conference simple SMS won out (for me at least), because SXSW isn’t about hanging out with the same groups of people all the time, but rather about having variety of exclusive options. In practice group messaging is kind of weak on the exclusivity thing, because you’re almost always roped into groups with at least one person you don’t like which prevents you from sharing potentially useful information regarding your whereabouts.
While my co-worker MG doesn’t seem to think there is any clear SXSW winner, if you had to pick a frontrunner among the group messaging apps, in my opinion, it would be good ole’ GroupMe, if only because it seemed like the one most people used (unless you count Instagram as a group messaging app).
The data above (provided above by the folks at Pop Agency) agrees with me, in infographic form — tracking how much each app was mentioned on Twitter and sentiment analysis from March 11th through March 15th, with the added bonus of providing a helpful features checklist for the SXSW group messaging Winner, Second Place and Best In Show.
And yes, this graphic does beg the question, “If we’re judging the winners by Twitter mentions, doesn’t that mean Twitter actually won?” Well, welcome to tech.
Barence writes “British ISPs could start charging customers depending on which device or which type of data they’re using, according to a networks expert. ‘The iPad created a very interesting situation for the operators, where the devices themselves generated additional loads for the networks,’ said Owen Cole, technical director at F5 Networks. ‘The operators said “If we have devices that are generating work for us, this gives us the ability to introduce a different billing model.”‘ ‘The operators launched special billing packages for it, which is in direct contravention to net neutrality,’ said Owen. ‘If things are left to just be driven by market economics, we could end up with people paying for the amount of data that they consume to every device and that would not be a fair way to approach the market.’ Owen also foresees a billing system that charges less for non-urgent data, with an email costing less per bit than either Skype or video packets that need immediate delivery.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
This infographic by Piotr Kowalczyk illustrates the 40-year history of ebooks. In the minds of many, digital reading has only been around for a few years. I’ve been reading books on PDAs since the year 2000, and there are people who’ve been reading on mobile devices for even longer; my own father has been doing this since the 80s. Thought ebooks were new? Think again–they’ve been around since 1971.
