A while back Sven posted a link to a flickr stream with some re-imagined movie-2-book covers. Well today I found a site that shows the real thing and oh how glorious they are. I present to you; The Art of Penguin Science Fiction. This site collects science fiction covers published from 1935 to Read More-->>

Apple announced it’s first quarter results yesterday and the numbers are truly astounding. Check out these figures (courtesy of Silicon Alley Insider):

Key stats:

• March qtr. revenue: $7.69 billion consensus (6% y/y growth)
• March qtr. EPS: $1.09 consensus
• March qtr. GM: 32.5% guidance, 33.6% RBC estimate
• March qtr. Mac shipments: 2.1 million consensus
• March qtr. iPod shipments: 10.0 million consensus
• March qtr. iPhone shipments: 3.3 million consensus (some analysts at 3.7 million)
• June qtr. revenue: $8.28 billion consensus (11% y/y growth), guidance could be $7.8-8.1 billion
• June qtr. EPS: $1.12 consensus, guidance could be $0.92-1.02
• June qtr. GM: 33% consensus, guidance could be 30.5-31.5%

These guys are crushing it (while their counterparts in Redmond are struggling with the latest Windows release and the stillborne Zune). Drilling down in the results, the numbers are even wilder. Apple has shipped 37 MILLION iPhones and iPod touches since launch. And the App Store recently recorded its 1 BILLIONTH app download.  These are game changing numbers. Read More-->.

Google is thinking they can reinvent how people get their news… how dare they! Google News Timeline mostly works. There are some bugs when watching some news videos (“get off of my cursor video window!”). You can customize the queries for gathering the news it shows. It’s still in the Labs section but it’s showing some potential.

For more check out the site here.

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This morning’s NYTimes Tech section has an article regarding Adobe’s push into the broadcast realm. They are hoping to get Flash used as a primary video source & format for tv and set-top boxes. Read More-->

I had the good fortune to attend David Meerman Scott’s  launch session for his latest book, WORLD WIDE RAVE back in March. It’s taken me a while to get around to reading the actual book but that’s okay. Ultimately, the book does a very good job of capturing David’s live presentation. And David’s live presentation does a very good job of capturing both the power of social media and digital marketing and communication in general. Read More-->.

Last night, we received the very welcome news that we were an official honoree in this year’s Webby awards. Zemoga was recognized for it’s work on A Million Reasons to Vote, one of eight honorees in the Politics category (we received a similar award in 2008 for our “Crazy Redux” video). While it’s incredibly gratifying to be recognized by the leading interactive design awards (and to be selected from a field of over 9000 entries), I was struck by the nature of our fellow nominees. They included CNN, the Guardian, Politico and Salon. All major players with significant financial backing. And there was our site (along with a couple of other independents) keeping company with these media giants. Read More-->.

Has this ever happened to you?

You’re running out the door to an important client meeting (or a dentist’s appointment or to meet a friend for lunch) and you’ve forgotten their address. So what do you do? if you’re like most people you head straight for the company’s web site. You look on their home page for a “Contact Us” button and click Read More-->.

Yesterday, Facebook passed the 200 million user mark. That’s bigger than most countries.

And still there are naysayers. I mentioned FB’s new user numbers to a client yesterday and he was dismissive. “What’s the business model? Their advertising sales, suck.” And this was coming from someone who regularly designs campaigns and promotions for Facebook.

It seemed to me that his work and his clients were actually answering his own question. Read More-->.