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The blog is a sounding board for our thoughts, a reference point for industry news, and a guide to the latest developments in business, technology, and design.

The posts included herein are the opinions of their individual authors and are not meant to be representative of frog design as a company.

Facebook Gains Marketshare

compete.com, September 5, 2008

Check out the web metrics on Facebook vs MySpace vs Plaxo, above in blue, red and green, respectively. Compete.com provides great metrics like this for free, more in-depth stuff for a price.

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Lessons in Innovation from Spore

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How Will Google Chrome Change the User Experience on the Web?

By Gianluca Brugnoli, Principal Design Analyst in frog design 's Milan studio

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Understanding Google Chrome

Google's new Chrome browser is an interesting entry into the revitalized "browser wars". Given Google's Apps and Gears, the browser has essentially become the "OS" that contains them, so it makes perfect sense that Google would want to extend into that area to give it more control, and provide custom functionality that could not be accomplished with other browsers that it does not control.

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Coca Cola: In Search of non-Soda Success in China

Just hours ago, it's reported that Coca-Cola offered HK$ 17.9 billion (about $ 2.3 billion) in cash to buy Huiyuan Juice Group (HKEx1886), China's biggest pure juice maker. In the statement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Huiyuan Juice said, "The Coca-Cola Company is expecting to use its expertise as a global beverage company to further develop the Huiyuan Juice brand.

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Who is Sterling Cooper?

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Trust Your Instincts And Do What You Know Is Good And Right

It would be nice to make a personality quiz for people to ask them what they want out of life so that they can see themselves.  Many do not really know but many know all too clearly, and sometimes, painfully.

I just read in iconoculture that a survey was conducted that asked: If you could trade your job to become an artist with no reduction in pay, would you do it?  To me, quite a sizeable amount of people said they would be an artist.

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The Obama SMS: (Un-)Gratifying Instantification

So the SMS went out to hundreds of thousands of Obama supporters. Not everyone got it at the same time (according to Textually.org, it took about 15 minutes for the bulk of the messages to get through the carriers' systems) or, in some cases, at all, but overall, the pre-announcement buzz (including some fake VP announcements -- "Michael Phelps!") was palpable and the word was spread.

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On Being a bit Dramatic

Douglas Haddow of Adbusters posted an article July 29, 2008 which warranted 1425 comment. I do not know a lot about the company Adbusters but would tend to think, just going by the name, that the people in the organization have a high sense of purpose, and maybe because of that, tend to be on the outer edges of thinking, thus, polarizing themselves and leaving little room in the middle. In blunt terms, they speak in blunt terms and maybe get others riled up about it.

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The Death of Large Trends in the Fashion Industry and Beyond

Erin Magner of the JC Report wrote a three part story on the death of trends in the fashion world, and I highly recommend you read all three articles

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