Virtual Lanlords and (the Lack of) Free WiFi
Joanne Lee from the Singapore based The Straits Times comes up with an interesting term that complements some of the experiences Team PSFK encountered during some recent travel (- and we’re thinking...
View ArticleTour de France Live Tracker 2008
Our friends over at Ubilabs have put together a new version of their Tour de France Live Tracker application. Features include improved performance of the map interface and a neat Streetview...
View ArticleThe Front Row
A recent edition of Süddeutsche Zeitung‘s highly awarded SZ-Magazin features a brilliant photo series of music fans in the first row. The photographers visited a total of 23 concerts featuring the...
View ArticleH&M’s Summerstore
Once again, the clever Marketing Folks from H&M have put up the H&M Summerstore at one of Hamburg’s oldest Beach Clubs- Strand Pauli. Backed by a huge H&M Blowup, the store fits nicely into...
View ArticlePICNIC’08: Collaborative Creativity
PICNIC is a three day gathering of creative people in Amsterdam. The event is in its third year and brings together some of the most interesting media entrepreneurs, thinkers and creators to share...
View ArticleWe Are Numbers Global Photo Project
We Are Numbers is a fashion/art project initiated by Twan Verdonck, a young designer based in Antwerp, Belgium. It aims to celebrate being different by basically numbering ‘anyone’ or at least as many...
View ArticleThoughts On Dell’s Digital Nomads Campaign
Bedouin Workers, Digital Bohemians and Digital Nomads are all terms more or less widely used to describe the same phenomenon. People all over the world tend to work less in a fixed-contract and...
View ArticlePSFK Germany at IFA Berlin
PSFK Germany is holding a series of short lectures on “Family and Media” at this years IFA in Berlin. IFA is one of the world’s leading trade shows for the general public and the CE industry’s number...
View ArticleNikki McClure at Giant Robot SF
During our recent stay in San Francisco we had to drop by the wonderful Giant Robot store, just around the corner from Haight Street. The shop still is a reliable source for great books, graphic...
View ArticleDigital Music Distributor Calls Last.fm to Order
Hamburg-based finetunes, one of the leading independent European distributors for digital music and audio content, have just called Last.fm to order. The obvious reason given is copyright infringement....
View ArticleMuxtape Forced To Realign
During the end of this Summer Muxtape, one of the nicest music applications on the internet, had to shut down its service. Muxtape allowed anyone to create a virtual mixtape along with its own unique...
View Article90 Mobiles in 90 Days: The Aftermath
Mobile design strategist Rachel Hinman took a creative recovery from her job at Adaptive Path to conduct an ambitious project: protoype 90 mobile related ideas within 90 days. The project site is a...
View ArticleGPS Gaming with Wolves and Sheep
This year’s Ars Electronica Festival showcased some great interactive artwork, games and applications. One of our favorites was Wolves and Sheep, a multiplayer location based game involving GPS enabled...
View ArticleDesignboost 2008: Long Live the City!
We are delighted to be participating in this year’s Designboost conference in Malmö, Sweden, taking place from Oct 15-17. Designboost is a knowledge company that aims to share design knowledge through...
View ArticlePSFK Germany Presents: Checkdisout –‘Music is Okay?!’
PSFK Germany is proud to announce checkdisout, the first installment in our new panel series. Every two months our German office based in Hamburg will curate panel discussions on topics from the fields...
View ArticleUrban Screen: Creative Use of Media Facades
Click to play Urban Screen are a creative collective based in Bremen, Germany. They create interactive installations and performances using facades and architecture as their stage (or screen if you...
View Article‘Music is Okay?!': Interview with Eric Wahlforss from SoundCloud
Our new event series checkdisout for PSFK readers in Germany is quickly approaching. The first installment, ‘Music is Okay?!‘, will take place on November 20 in Hamburg. It will tackle current topics...
View Article‘Music is Okay?!’: Interview with Oke Göttlich from Finetunes
Our new event series checkdisout for PSFK readers in Germany takes place next Week, November 20 in Hamburg. Tickets for the premiere ‘Music is Okay?!‘ are almost sold out, so be quick if you want to be...
View Article‘Music is Okay?!’: Interview with Ruben Jonas Schnell from ByteFM
Our new event series checkdisout for PSFK readers in Germany kicks of this Thursday, November 20 in Hamburg. As of today, the very last ticket for the premiere ‘Music is Okay?!‘ can still be purchased...
View ArticlePSFK Talks to David L. Sifry, Offbeat Guides
PSFK Germany recently had the chance to talk to David L. Sifry – whom many of you probably know as the founder and CEO of Technorati. His most recent venture is Offbeat Guides, an online service for...
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