Augmented reality became popular since the recent release of FLARToolKit, an AS3 library that can be use with flash 3D Engines. Everybody now can give it a try without installing any software, only a browser and the flash plug-in are required. (see the links below).
Augmented Reality with Flash
However a major inconvenient remains: we have to print a black and white pattern which will be used by the computer as a reference to create the interactions between the real and virtual images.
Without these patterns nothing works. Unfortunately most of the time I’m just too lazy, I feel it’s not worth the effort and click away…
Here comes the bright idea: print this pattern on your business card!
No more effort for your customers and they will come on your website to check it out for sure.
What is more, you can make this demo interactive and link to you products or your portfolio, see the video:
Horizontal Scrolling was considered evil before, but now it’s considers as one of a unique way (mostly for showcasing Things) of approach in web design
Just saw there is a new version of FogBugz available. We use FB now for 2 years I think and we could not live without it anymore. We mainly use FogBugz to track tasks across team members.
We create feature requests for each new project and assign them to the user responsible for implementation. While this was a very manual task in the beginning the team is now using the system on auto pilot and assign tasks between each other depending on the requirements which smooths our workflow a lot.
The bug tracking user interface was one of the best ones available when we decided to go for FogBugz (probably still is) and makes it easy to create new cases due to its auto completion as well as screen capture tool. The wiki was alright, but the new version seems to be much more advanced.
One of the drawbacks we experienced is the memory usage and database size of the installation which seems to be quite high. Somehow unnecessarily high, but considering the low memory and hard disc costs these days this is only a small minus.
The du music challenge is one of my favorites this year. It’s very simple and connects the online and offline world. The way it works is that users can go the either Mall of the Emirates in Dubai or Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi. There they can visit the du road show stand and mix a track using real DJ equipment. The song is then automatically uploaded to the web server and displayed on the website. Friends can now vote for the track or download it – the DJ with the highest votes each week can win a prize. The website is also set as an external Facebook application, so users can login using their Facebook account and post comments. See online
Just saw there is a new version of 
The du music challenge is one of my favorites this year. It’s very simple and connects the online and offline world. The way it works is that users can go the either Mall of the Emirates in Dubai or Marina Mall in Abu Dhabi. There they can visit the du road show stand and mix a track using real DJ equipment. The song is then automatically uploaded to the web server and displayed on the website. Friends can now vote for the track or download it – the DJ with the highest votes each week can win a prize. The website is also set as an external Facebook application, so users can login using their Facebook account and post comments. 
