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3G iPhone Madness

If you said it went off without a hitch, you'd be lying. The iPhone 3G launch has suffered widespread activation problems, yet Apple was still able to sell 1 million units by Sunday! That's just 60 hours of business. WOW!

"iPhone 3G had a stunning opening weekend," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. To say the least.

Just over a year ago, Apple sold just over 270,000 iPhones during the first two days of release. Beyond this, sales figures were never very forthcoming but we do know that it took the company nearly two and a half months to sell its one millionth unit.

"It took 74 days to sell the first one million original iPhones, so the new iPhone 3G is clearly off to a great start around the world," Jobs added.

The big difference of course is that last years opening weekend iPhone sales took place exclusively in the United States. This year there was a simultaneous launch in 20 addition countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK.

Micro Interactions 2.0

I StumbledUpon this slideshow over at David Armano's Logic + Emotion and I was pretty impressed. In the digital world it can become all to easy to forget that good customer care is still primary to any business activity. I regularly find that the calls I am promised will be returned, never are. That the emails that will be sent 'shortly' never find their way to my inbox. Whether you deal with the public or with other businesses, you're outward serving interactions define who you are. This is a great example of the movement towards microinteractions, and how to do it well.

RA DIOHEA_D - HOU SE OF_C ARDS

Radiohead have just released their new video for the song House of Cards (from In Rainbows). In themselves Radiohead videos are usually worth a watch, but this one is particularly interesting.

Imagine making a music video without using cameras or lights.

Instead the band have used Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR to capture 3D images. Using 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute, all exterior imagery was created. Check out this 'how the video was made' documentary.

What is love to you?

The Cartier foundation recently commissioned a number of young artists, from across the world, to explore and reflect on the idea of love. Each artist interpreted love through musical compositions, a series of twelve love stories on film, photography and drawing. The results were used as part of Cartier's Love Day (June 19th 2008) website.

This year twelve international artists and performers also worked with Cartier with an aim to combine charity with musical expression and fine jewelry.They created twelves original songs. These songs are now available online where they can be listened to and downloaded for free.

So, the question posed by each work is, how far would you go for love?