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Hiraki Sawa was born in Ishikawa, Japan. He currently lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include Experimenta Playground, International Biennal of Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia and 12e Biennale de l' Image en Mouvement, Centre Pour l'Image Contemporaine, Saint Gervais, Geneve.

Most of us who are working as part of a design team in a services company, a product company, or even a design boutique have to live with a generic intranet. This article describe how to leverage your company’s intranet and how to build a community around an intranet for a UX team.

“Today’s Internet-related technologies will give rise to massive changes that we can now only imagine.”

Hotel Droog * A shabby one-star hotel on Via Mercato is temporarily renamed Hotel Droog. At first sight everything is what it used to be. No real changes have been made to the hotel’s interior, but in each room something is added by the participating designers. The focus is neither on the space itself, nor on creating yet another arty hotel, but on transforming this cheap place into an extraordinary design experience with just a few additions.

iPhoneModem.app provides the easiest and safest way to use your iPhone as a modem to connect you to the internet.

Some 69% of online Americans use webmail services, store data online, or use software programs such as word processing applications whose functionality is located on the web. In doing so, these users are making use of "cloud computing," an emerging architecture by which data and applications reside in cyberspace, allowing users to access them through any web-connected device.

Apple's new music recommendation system for iTunes probably only took a few people to write. But the potential value dwarfs Last.fm, which sold for $480m last year

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reating a social site sounds great until you get around to actually designing that ambiguous ‘social’ part that’s central to its success. Enabling and encouraging your community to participate is a complex challenge that only gets more sophisticated as the populace on your site grows. In many critical areas, you’ll come up against the curious juxtapositions of designing social interactions.

At the center of most (if not all) web development projects is the old chestnut we call content management systems. Choosing a CMS for your website, or indeed for your enterprise is no easy task – in Europe alone, you have around 500 systems to choose from.

WordTwit is a plugin that utilizes the Twitter API to automatically push a post to your Twitter account when it is first published. It allows all your Twitter contacts to keep up to date with your blog posting

Jan Chipchase conducts exploratory human behavioural field research for Nokia. Living and working from Tokyo, his home since 2000, he splits his time between exploring and bringing real world experiences into the company – using them to inform and inspire the design of new applications, services, products and systems.