Prof. Dipl.-Des. Oliver Wrede

Author: Oliver Wrede

  • Simplicity in Linz

    Tobias, Tim and Konstantin visited the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz. The topic was »simplicity«. They have provided some insightful comments. With the exception of a presentation of John Maeda (video, website) there seemed to be little progress in the discussion about the notion of simplicity. Obviously the term »simplicity« is a term that can’t…

  • Flickr Map

    Flickr has released a major new feature: mapping & geo-tagging photos. I just tried this feautre with some of my own photos. The application is working like charm. It is very well designed: it’s easy and fun to use. There have been over three million photos geographically tagged in the first few days since this…

  • Weblogs & Discourse paper new link

    Weblogs and Discourse – BlogTalk 2003 paper moved.

  • WebnoteHappy

    WebnoteHappy is a nifty little application that makes life with bookmarks (both in browser and on del.icio.us) much easier. It is a $25 dollar shareware with a 30 day free trial. More generally thinking I asked myself how many people actually do Paypal donations on “donationware”? Would these little applications make a better profit if…

  • Plone 2.5

    There is a new version of Plone out for some weeks now as well as a roadmap for future releases. The homepage of plone.org has also been redesigner to emphasize the key selling arguments of the Plone CMS. I have seen in the “inner workings” of a number of content management systems. I think Plone…

  • Plazes goes mobile

    Plazes has released a mobile version of their locator application. It allows to find places and access point nearby: Read more on the Plazes blog.

  • New Last.fm player

    Last.fm has released a new player for Windows and MacOS X. The new player features scrobbling (notifying Last.fm servers of recent songs played by you) and streaming audio. It shows song and artist information about the current song played. This way you can learn things about the bands and artists you have in your iTunes…

  • Leopard preview

    Keynote presentations from the WWDC are always very entertaining to watch – even though the author of this Wired article thinks the presentation was uninspiring. I don’t think so. The business numbers were impressive. Apple sales and market share is growing. That is a change. Apple always had a small market share. The machines were…

  • Aptana IDE for Eclipse

    The Aptana IDE is an add-on that turns the Eclipse IDE into a comfortable HTML Editor. The screencasts indeed look very promising. See yourself.

  • ScoutPress

    Tobias Jordans finally finished his diploma thesis: ScoutPress. It’s a system based on weblog software (WordPress) that allows foundations and fragmented organisations to effectively communicate and organize the scattered and distributed information. Tobias used the German Scout Association (DPSG) as a live example (therefore the project name) but it is in no way limited to…

  • Mnemomap

    Tim and Simon from send|recieve presented a verly early alpha version of Mnemomap one week ago on the Webmontag event in Cologne (which happened to be the first one in Cologne I couldn’t attend). I am sure they’d love anyone to try Mnemomap and drop some feedback about it. The About page states: mnemomap is…

  • Gapminder

    Search statistics about human trends through Google and watch it move with Gapminder. This is an interesting Flash application allowing to see changes of data over time. [via Tim Bruysten] There is also a video of the presentation. I especially found interesting what the presenter was saying about designers. He was showing this slides like…

  • ‘Ladies and gentlemen, Flock is on fire!’

    Paul Stamatiou wrote a long review of the first Beta release of the »social web browser« Flock. I have tested the prior releases (up to 0.5.X) and decided these versions are not ready for daily use yet. The 0.7.0 release (the first Beta) seems to be much better, but it still consumes a lot of…

  • GK VanPatter at Zollverein

    GK VanPatter (co-founder of the NextDesign Leadership Institute) will be speaking at Zollverein Design School in Essen next Saturday. I can’t be in there that day, but I am sure here are others that would like to attend that event.

  • The missing tool for the long tail business

    Shopify.com let’s you create an e-commerce shop in minutes.

  • Alahup CMS

    The CMS Alahup! seems to endorse a lot of the interaction design techniques of Web 2.0 applications (blind ups & downs, yellow flashes, spinning activity icons, etc) even though it appears to be a desktop application. The website states that the interface is based on Flash. So this application may well be an example what…