Early last year I lost a few extremely creative and intelligent colleagues, which was sad. What wasn’t sad at all was why they left—to work on a project which inspired and excited them all to the point that they’ve rarely spoken about anything else since. And now, finally, after plenty of sweat and stress, they’ve given birth. Tempodome is live. My first impression after a few minutes kicking the tires is good. They’ve built it with a nice, simple design which creates a suitable mood, and at the heart of it is an exciting idea: live concerts online. The idea of doing something cool online with events and music seems to be in the air this year, judging by how many cool ideas I’ve heard about, but Tempodome is the first so far to get their ideas online. So a hearty congratulations goes out to the Tempodomites, and I’m looking forward to your first concert and your future!
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Matt also collects like anyone else.
del.icio.us- Cooler Business CardsBeen thinking about my own cards, and Inspiredology has the best collection of original, well-designed cards I've seen anywhere. And their name's pretty cool, too.
- Tiled Backgrounds DesignerAs you can see from my site, I love wallpapery tiled backgrounds. Here's a tool to help design them.
- Type is ArtBuild something beautiful out of pieces of typography. I could play for hours with this thing. Also a nice type education.
- Dr. HorribleJoss Whedon, creator of Buffy, is sick of the writer's strike and has taken matters into his own hands. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a musical super-villain mini-series epic, released free on the interwebz and for $1.99 an episode on iTunes.
- "Gorilla" Usability TestingSilverback, Clearleft's user testing app, has entered beta and Garrett Dimon gives us a comprehensive review of it.
- Cooler Business Cards
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