Eric Paul Snowden is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn

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New Apple iTunes App Store Layout

Apple has slowly been pushing out updates to it’s app store today. Not all apps are benefiting yet from the new cleaned up interface, but our Rob Thomas Fanbase application was switched over a few hours ago. The layout has a lot more whitespace, larger download/buy button and multiple detail images of the application on [...]

Geekend 2009 Recap

This year I was lucky enough to be a speaker at the first annual Geekend conference. For three days last weekend self proclaimed geeks descended up Savannah Georgia for talks about design, social networking, technology and gaming. The keynote speaker Friday night was Aaron Draplin from Draplin Design. He set a hilarious, open and friendly [...]

The 4G Connected Car Prototype

Today Alcatel-Lucent and QNX announced the 4G connected car prototype in New York. As part of the NG Connect program (an ecosystem built around 4G connectivity) Atlantic Records was proud to create a version of our award winning Fanbase platform for the music fan on the road. The car contains 4 internet connected screens allowing [...]

Adobe MAX Award nomination and conference participation

Last month, I attended the 2009 Adobe Max conference and wanted to share a few exciting developments at Atlantic Records in conjunction with Adobe and the Flash platform. We were nominated for a Max Award and showcased two new products, one for connected TVs and set top boxes and another for the connected car. Below [...]

Interview in Adobe’s Edge Newsletter

I was interviewed a few months ago by Adobe for an article titled “From black box to contextual applications” which ran in this month in Adobe’s Edge newsletter and on the Adobe.com site. The goal of a contextual application is to provide a unified experience across multiple devices, while leveraging the unique capabilities and qualities [...]

Vote for Fanbase Mobile!

At Atlantic we have been working on a project called Fanbase for the last 18 months. Fanbase is a suite of applications that collect content about musicians from all over the web into a single spot that can be viewed on computers, phones and other devices. Earlier this year we won a Webby award, a [...]

Dissecting the iTunes LP

On September 10th, Apple launched the iTunes LP – a new music format that they hope will be the digital replacement for vinyl album packaging. The format is a single DRM free package with .mp3 files for music. Below is an example of the how the Bob Dylan package appears in iTunes post download. The [...]

2009 Mobile Excellence Awards – Finalist

Fanbase Mobile is now a finalist for the 2009 Mobile Excellence Awards. We’ve been included in the Best Adapted or Companion Program category along with DirectTV and Zannel. Congrats to our partners at Agency.net who built the Flash Lite app for us. Check out our nomination here.

Ustream iPhone Recorder Application

Ustream launched their long awaited video recording app today on the iPhone. While it doesn’t support live video (what Ustream is known for) it is still full of great options. You can share your videos on Ustream, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube as well as managing your Ustream account on the go. Check it out here.

A great project management checklist from our friends at Agencynet

A great project management checklist from out friends at Agencynet. It deals with the full length of an interactive project – from defining the SOW, beginning the project, executing creative, the build, qa and launch. It’s an in depth list that I think can benefit PMs of any level. Read On.