09/09/09 – 09:09… odd numbers on odd dates. Great sequence.

To celebrate: a 999 song for punk’s sake.

Noticed the date today? If you like numbers & patterns, the timestamp of this post must be a time-gasme for you. It is now 12h34m56s on August 7 of 2009: 12:34:56 – 7/8/9.

Picture by “in touch“

Last night, my sister pointed to a developing story about a young British designer, Samantha Beeston, copying/stealing the graphic work of Chicago based designer Lauren Nassef.

Go ahead and read the whole story at:
http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/fineart/a-sad-story-must-read

What intrigues me: she used the internet as a source for her theft, the same internet discovered her scam and is now eating her (online) reputation. Literally.

In 24h googling her name climbed to 65.000 hits, mostly mentioning her plagiarism, links are being bookmarked on tumblr and delicious, re-tweets are filling the life streams, blogposts are trackbacking to the original posts reporting the story (and willing to archive it for future references), posts on famous design blogs -about the price she won with the stolen goodies- are flooded with comments about the case and the prize sponsor TEXPRINT is investigating the case and “will respond appropriately.” She rushed to take her site offline, with little success as the google beast is still caching it, revealing the ultimate proof of her crime.

In an era where Online Reputation has become crucial, Samantha Beeston made a mistake. A big one. One that can ruin her future career. Wandering about the follow-up on this…

update 11/8: the Texprint statement on the case.

Happy New year everyone! Make it a tripping year…

A while ago, I tried to enter the 3D world of Google. I failed. Still don’t know what went wrong.

Lively is shutting down. Rooms and avatars will not be available after December 31st, 2008

It appears that Google is giving up on Lively. Wander if they are giving up on the 3D hype in general… cause I did long time ago…

More at:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com