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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Best of Yanko Design 2008

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With just a week left in the year we've wrapped up our best of the year designs in one big post for your reading pleasure. 2008 has been an eventful and inspiring year, and it's hard to put all the top news in one place; still, if there's one Yanko Design article you want to bookmark this year, this should be it.

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

50) "DesCom" by Sung-kyu Nam. Permalink Hits: 26524. Comments: 52

49) iStick by Alexei Mikhailov. Permalink Hits: 27034. Comments: 63

48) Collapsible Surfboard by Nicholas Notara. Permalink Hits: 28269. Comments: 84

47) "Ceramix For Mix" by Florian Dussopt. Permalink Hits: 28380. Comments: 32

46) Metamophing Computer Interface by Jonathan Lucas. Permalink Hits: 28584. Comments: 40

45) E-Paper Slap Bracelets by Chocolate Agency. Permalink Hits: 29458. Comments: 46

44) The Shooter Fire Extinguisher by Junyi Heo. Pemalink Hits: 29489. Comments: 44

43 ) Forest Fire "Clear Cut" Robot by Daniel Shankland II. Permalink Hits: 29509. Comments: 38

42) Pocket Light by Hyun Jin Yoon. Permalink Hits: 29564. Comments: 75

41) SMS & Email Pen by Reuben Png. Permalink Hits: 30277. Comments: 71

40) Making Your Own Clock by Bomi Kim. Permalink Hits: 30794. Comments: 72

39) The Edge Phone by Chris Owens. Permalink Hits: 31255. Comments: 72

38) BMW Gina. Permalink Hits: 31657. Comments: 67

37) Febot Recharges Batteries by Ji-yun Kim. Permalink Hits: 31805. Comments: 67

36) High Tech Napkins by Avery Holleman. Permalink Hits: 31918. Comments: 52

35) The Ripple Faucet by Smith Newnam. Permalink Hits: 33107. Comments: 59

34) "F1/Carbon GMT" Watch by John Pszeniczny. Permalink Hits: 34266. Comments: 37

33) Nokia Liquid Phone by Rune Larsen. Permalink Hits: 34881. Comments: 39

32) Follicle Reference Hats by Nagi Noda . Permalink Hits: 35251. Comments: 23

31) The Future of Books by Kyle Bean. Permalink Hits: 35621. Comments: 41

30) TeaCube Makes Steeping Easy by Jieun Yang. Permalink Hits: 36400. Comments: 49

29) Speed Bumps That Flatten for Slow Speeds by Jae-Yun Kim. Pemalink Hits: 36981. Comments: 62

28) The Yuno PC by Jason Farsai. Permalink Hits: 37217. Comments: 94

27) The Most ATTRACTIVE Curtains Ever Made by Florian Krautli. Permalink Hits: 37282. Comments: 32

26) Mooon+ Phone by Sunman Kwon. Permalink Hits: 37933. Comments: 78

25) PSP 2 Tai Chiem. Permalink Hits: 38124. Comments: 73

24) iBangle by Gopinath Prasana. Permalink Hits: 39144. Comments: 94

23) Window To The World by Mac Funamizu. Permalink Hits: 39436. Comments: 82

22) Zenvo ST1. Permalink Hits: 40155. Comments: 24

21) Urban Security Suit by Tim Smit. Permalink Hits: 40173. Comments: 64

20) Blow-up Mouse by Bongkun Shin. Permalink Hits: 43596. Comments: 121

19) Laptop/Desktop Hybrid by Won-Seok Lee. Permalink Hits: 43811. Comments: 93

18) MacGyver Tries iPod Speakers by Dmitry Zagga. Permalink Hits: 46196. Comments: 56

17) P-Per Mobile Phone by Chocolate Agency. Permalink Hits: 47605. Comments: 46

16) Saverclip by Tsunho Wang. Permalink Hits: 47971. Comments: 78

15) No-key Keyboard by Kong Fanwen. Permalink Hits: 52217. Comments: 139

14) Flying Stick Camera by Tsunho Wang. Pemalink Hits: 53300. Comments: 80

13) Grass Balls by Yuli Sung. Permalink Hits: 57277. Comments: 51

12) RGB Glasses by Luís Porém. Permalink Hits: 58508. Comments: 46

11) Pea Speaker System by Lu Le. Permalink Hits: 66600. Comments: 64

10) Plants Tell You What They Want by Junyi Heo. Permalink Hits: 67025. Comments: 131

9) Puffy Bookmark by Jung-Hyun Lee. Permalink Hits: 71945. Comments: 53

8 ) Curved iMac by Nuno Teixeira. Permalink Hits: 81496. Comments: 113

7) Bedroom in a Box by Marcel Krings. Permalink Hits: 99566. Comments: 48

6) USB Digital Camera by Sungwoo Park. Permalink Hits: 103933. Comments: 122

5) Beauty & the Geek Jeans by Erik De Nijs. Permalink Hits: 117595. Comments: 163

4) Compose Music All High Tech by Ouyang Xi. Permalink Hits: 119951. Comments: 51

3) Virtual Wall by Hanyoung Lee. Permalink Hits: 120799. Comments: 164

2) The Dry Side by Sungwoo Park. Permalink Hits: 123821. Comments: 85

1) Nike Hindsight Gives You Unparalleled Vision by Billy May. Permalink Hits: 219023. Comments: 82

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Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web?

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/362092101/is_facebook_the_most_popular_social_bookmarking.php

ShareThis reports that it is now.

How do website readers prefer to share stories they find with friends? According to the company behind the widely used sharing widget ShareThis, after emailing a link, the most popular method of sharing is now Facebook. The numbers are interesting - but there are also some big caveats to keep in mind.

The Numbers

In our enthusiasm for Web 2.0 style tools, many blog publishers may forget just how popular sharing by email is. It's clearly the favorite method. Email sharing does tend to be one to one however, having items shared on Digg or Facebook has the potential to reach many, many more people.

The big surprise here, though, is that Facebook and MySpace have emerged as hugely popular ways to share items from off-site. Have they found greater mainstream success in the relatively short time these sites have supported item sharing than dedicated social bookmarking sites that have in the years they have been online? It appears that may be the case.

We found these numbers via Amit Agarwal's blog, which is always a great place to discover new things about the web.

Why This is Important

When publishers add the ShareThis system to their websites, they can choose which services to include buttons for. It's an important detail to take into consideration and knowing which services are most popular can help make this decision. Here at RWW we don't use ShareThis, we use another service called AddThis. Looking at the numbers from ShareThis, though, would lead us to believe that sharing by email needs to be added and sharing by Facebook needs to be given higher billing in our widget. Other sites might make other decisions based on this data. GigaOm, for example, doesn't offer sharing by Facebook at all - something our friend Om might want to change.

Caveats

A few things to take into consideration, however, include the following:

Your site's audience may vary. Different communities around different content topics probably have different trends in the sharing tools they use. We assume, for example, that there aren't a lot of people sharing ReadWriteWeb stories on MySpace - but maybe we're wrong!
Some of these services use bookmarklets. These numbers aren't for all sharing, just sharing that goes on through the ShareThis widget. Delicious users, for example, don't necessarily think of what they are doing as sharing (it's often bookmarking for personal use) and that service has its own bookmarklet.

None the less, the take away here for us is this: email, Facebook and MySpace are very popular ways for people to share things online. Publishers neglect them at our own risk.

High-End Retailers Forced Into Heavy Pre-Christmas Sales

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Wracked by recession, high-end brand retail chains have been forced to offer some of the steepest pre-Christmas discounts they've ever had to suffer. Ad Age retail reporter Natalie Zmuda and Brand Experience Lab chief David Polinchock take a tour of New York's swankiest Fifth Avenue stores. And what they find portends badly for the future of high-end retailing.