Got the blues?

If you are struggling to find that perfect colour palette for your design concept, check out this (not so new) online colour tool from Adobe called Kuler.

There is also a tool (still in BETA) called "Pulse", which includes all the data on the downloaded colour themes. Interesting to see colour popularity!

There is also some great links on the site to colour theory and analytics websites, like "In The Mood".

jQuery is your friend...

Many designers may feel that jQuery is eating into long held territory of Flash. But more than likely, this is the chance to create slick user interfaces that may not have previously been possible due to negative publicity for Flash and other plug-ins. Regardless, you should get up to speed on some of the latest techniques and Smashing Magazine has posted 45 great examples. Knock yourself out!

(Thanks Doug!)

What is your latitude?

Google has recently released Latitude... not highly accurate, but interesting nonetheless!

Open Video Player Initiative!

Related to my last post, if you are keen on online players streaming video and open standards, check out the Open Video Player Initiative.

It's not all You Tube you know!

You could be forgiven for thinking Tube was the only platform for delivering video content online. However, there are alternative services out there. Services with better security, such as Akamai as used by the Whitehouse Presidential addresses.

Vimeo looks like a great little service too! If you have your own web server and don't mind paying for data, you can always encode your own videos in Flash and playback (with a buffer) online, or set them up for streaming using Flash Media Server.

"Marketing with video media can produce response rates of up to 60%, compared to 0.1% for print media". Not sure how they worked that out exactly, but it's obvious there would be a big difference in impact.

I like this statement: According to Nielsen/NetRatings, more than 72 percent of Internet users do more than just surf the Web, and popular Internet activities include watching video clips.

Really? OMG... that is amazing! :-)

Here is a list of some other video related services...

http://www.ustream.tv/
http://www.mogulus.com/
http://live.yahoo.com/
http://www.blogtv.com/
http://www.kyte.tv/
http://www.stickam.com/
http://operator11.com/
http://www.livevideo.com/
http://yaika.com/
http://www.veodia.com/
http://www.streamavideo.com/
http://www.selfcast.com/

Knock yourself out!

Interesting websites # 42

Interested in interactive multimedia projections and other cool stuff? Check out Making Things website!