Best of the Week #134

by GenCept | August 29, 2010

It's time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we've selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what's going on out there!

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Friday 08/27

Which Type of Entrepreneur Are You?

Google buys Angstro to add another exec to build Google M

ShareThis Starts Measuring Social Reach, Facebook And Twitter Account For Nearly Half

Paraty House / Marcio Kogan

Google Realtime Search Gets New Name, Its Own URL, And Kick In The Pants

Square: The Perfect Solution For Tricky Drug And Prostitution Transactions?

Foursquare Now Lets You Know How Close You Are to Mayorships

Breast Cancer Foundation

Digg Responds to User Outrage: Upcoming Stories Will Return

Blockbuster's Bankruptcy Could Be the Beginning of the End for DVDs

Apple to hold 'special event' September 1st... we'll be there live!

Microsoft set to up bit rate on Xbox Live voice comms, pwners everywhere rejoice

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Staples, OfficeMax, Office Depot, and YouTube over patents

Fennec (a.k.a. Firefox Mobile) goes alpha for Android and Nokia N900

Aplicativo Moeda converte valores antigos diretamente no iPhone/iPod touch ou iPad

Corita Rose

Women Illustrations

Vodafone: Facebook Vs. Lewis Hamilton

Build a Cheap DIY Tabletop Studio to Capture Great Small Object Photos [Photography]

Stop Brazilian Funk

Kombis Corporativas

Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources

Thursday 08/26

What Digg Needs To Change To Keep Its Users Happy

Google launches new Real Time Search tools

Blockbuster “prepares to file for bankruptcy”. Netflix, Lovefilm and Redbox wield the knife

Ben Thomas: Knee Deep in Talent

Canon Residence in California by Space International

Bruno Quinquet

Is a color just a color?

David Quartino

Letters Only: Typographic Posters

Wednesday 08/25

(Really) Cute Animals Illustrations

Sátira: O maior case de todos os tempos

32 Extremely Original Retro Style Illustrations by Dan Page

A Complete Guide to Progressive Enhancement

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Alien Skin Software

Marty McFly já sabia: Nike registra patente do tênis que se amarra sozinho

Foodspotting Investors Put Their Money Where Their Mouths Are With $750K Seed Round

Google Voice Integrated Into Gmail. Make And Receive Calls From The Browser

Business Plans Are Dead, Long Live Business Plans

Inside the Digg Relaunch War Room (Photos)

Mili PowerSpring 4 doubles the battery life of your iPhone 4

Netflix adds iPhone and iPod touch compatibility in latest app version

Google introduces Call from Gmail, free calls to US and Canada (update: impressions)

Tuesday 08/24

Nine Great Uses for Private Browsing that Don't Involve Porn [What You Said]

Gears of War 3 - Everything about the Game

Rik Oostenbroek

4 Reasons to Track Time on Projects

5 Hours of Power, live broadcasts!

Ford lança novo Fiesta no Brasil explorando o botão “Curtir” do Facebook

Leme House by Paulo Mendes da Rocha

MTV: If you drink, don’t drive

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Illustration Work by Cláudio Cigarro

Google Voice inside Gmail is confirmed. Google VoIP is coming to your desktop.

Is Facebook Places Boring? Foursquare CEO Crowley Thinks So

The Inevitable March of Progress: Facebook Soon Will Have More Visitors Than Yahoo

Dude, I Am So High Right Now

Understanding the Consumer of the Future

Dree Hemingway for Louis Vuitton Travel 2010

Windows Phone 7's short-term future includes phone-to-console gaming, Twitter?

The Sword: Warp Riders

Photoshop For Beginners: Understanding Layer Masks

Porque os projetos de mídias sociais falham?

Foley & Corinna

AD Round Up: Beach Houses Part III

Unusual coins from different countries. Nice...

5 Window Treatments Ideas to Implement in your Home

Moika Krukov by Erick van Egeraat

Interview: When Design Meets Architecture with Carolyn Trevor

You Can Block Any Facebook User Except Mark Zuckerberg

How Twitter Can Help You Quit Smoking

Chatroulette has gone offline. Holding page says “The experiment is over”

Gmail and Google Calendar push notifications come to the iPhone

Apple and Google Battle for Your Remote

55 Excellent Examples of Websites Using HTML5

A DJ Set made of Lego

40 New And Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

The RECONSTRUCT Project

Android developer anecdotally claims AdMob brings home the bacon