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Atlantic Participates in Adobe’s Flash 10.1 Mobile Launch

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:57 +0000

Today Atlantic launched our first round of mobile websites in conjunction with our partners at Adobe. We launched 8 artist’s sites targeting Android 2.2 and Flash 10.1, with iPhone and iPod Touch coming later this month. This is a launch we were very proud to be a part of, and a project will be iterating on in weeks to come.

I’ll be posting more infomation on our new sites in the next few weeks, everything from getting started in mobile web development to Flash 10.1 specific issues.

Special thanks to Mike Mignano and Rob Beatty on my team at Atlantic Records for their continued help on this project.

Check out the press release here.

Check out my quote below:

“Flash gives us another great avenue to deliver music and videos to our fans on mobile devices, and beyond. Scale is key for us and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 allows us to create a great mobile experience, using content we already have, and familiar tools. We have already optimized some of our most popular artists’ websites for Flash 10.1 and are working to deliver new ones each week.”
– Eric Snowden, senior director, Creative and Technology, Atlantic Records

Check out the full list of quotes here.

Seen a font and want to know what it is? Check out What The Font.

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:20:11 +0000

Over the course of my career I’ve been asked (or have asked) “do you know what this font is?” hundreds of times. MyFonts.com has solved this problem by creating What The Font, a simple online tool that can identify fonts. You upload an image of a font, double check to make sure it recognizes the letters in the image properly, and click a continue. The font has been identified you are presented with buy links, the ability to rate the font, or the option to submit the font to the site to have it matched manually. The app works best when the font is isolated from other images or background texture, but in my experience it has proven very reliable.

Check out What The Font.

Usability Assessment of MySpace Apps Leaked

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:11:35 +0000

MySpace has never been know for its simplicity or usability. Fortunately for users they were trying to do something about it. Unfortunately for MySpace those documents leaked online. MySpace was seeing poor install and retention rates for their apps compared to Facebook and hired a usability team to make some web design and user experience recommendations. It’s more pixel pushing than redesign, but a very interesting look into one do the largest sites on the web and how they strive to improve their business.

Click here for a link to the document.

CSS iPhone – Showcase of iPhone Formatted Websites

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:25:35 +0000

CSS iPhone is a great resource for well designed iPhone formatted websites. Good for anyone researching mobile web design and looking for inspiration.

Check out CSS iPhone.

Flash Runtime Written Entirely in Javascript

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:07 +0000

Gordon is a open source Javascript based Flash Player written by Tobey Tailor that allows users to playback Flash content without having the plugin. It currently only supports Flash 1 & 2 so Actionscript users are out of luck. Right now browser support is pretty limited but it’s an interesting project worth keeping your eyes on if you are hoping to playback Flash animations on platforms (Apple) that don’t support the plugin.

Check out the project on GitHub.

I Fight Dragons Website Launch

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:15:07 +0000

Today Atlantic Records, Photofinish Records and the WMG D2C team launched a new website for the Chicago based band I Fight Dragons. The six piece band plays Chiptune-Rock, which is one half rock music and one half original music made using old videogame soundcards from the Game Boy and NES.

Beyond a fun site designed in house by Edith Levin, IFightDragons.com features a great 8-bit inspired Flash game and keyboard shortcuts for navingating the site.

Check out the new I Fight Dragons website.

Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:33:14 +0000

Fontfeed.com has a great article on Helvetica and it’s alternatives, reviewing several fonts that have a similar clean feel to Helvetiva without feeling so repetetive.

Read the full article here.

Estelle Music Website Launch

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:50:17 +0000

Today we launched a new EOS powered website for Estelle. It was designed in house by Amy Stein and built by the D2F team at WMG in conjunction with Atlantic.

Check out the site.

SXSW – The Future of Online Music Videos

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:15:24 +0000

Yesterday I spoke on a panel at SXSW titled The Future of Online Music Videos with Nick Stahl from Brightcove, Alexander Kisch from VEVO, John Sasso from SONY Music Entertainment, Inc and William Wilson from NARM. We discussed different delivery points for video online, from band’s direct to fan sites to large destinations like YouTube and Vevo, and how the right blend of these options can help build a band’s brand and drive revenue.

Read the full description on the SXSW website.

Read the review on Pop Matters.

Circa Survive Launch

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:15:21 +0000

Today we launched a new site for Circa Survive designed in house by Amy Stein, project managed by Jeremy Kutner and built by D2C team at WMG. The site focuses around a series of webisodes the band is recording on tour and a growing community and tour archive.

Check out the site here.