Olive Juice

This is the most useful AND chic iPhone app I’ve seen come to market yet. And if you’re anything like me, you’ll need to download it immediately.

My problem: I have a fabulous collection of clothes, shoes, and accessories. Boo hoo? Well, I’m also so disorganized that it takes an hour to find an item, altogether forget what I have, or just opt for whatever hanger pops out first.

StyleBook is your closet manager and style assistant application and sure to be your staple in living fabulously. Watch the Demo video, and check out their blog for photo tips and feature highlights.

I’ll have to budget out a rainy Saturday afternoon to upload wardrobe photos – but I’ll never unknowingly make a repeat-purchase again!

About 2 years ago I stumbled upon Textile Arts website, a showcase and for deco-chic fabrics – and their respective wall hangings, bags, and shower curtains available for purchase.

I had bought the Lumimarja wall kit for about $70 and it’s garnished three different apartments since. Their new designs are tempting me all over again – take a peak! Easy chic!

 

SocialThing guys were experimenting at FOWA with long-exposure photographs of iPhone air-traced images.

Found this link I Twittered some months back - http://tochka.jp/pikapika/ – PIKA PIKA uses Flashlights, and series of images as pseudo-animations. Also have presented internationally at conferences.

Super cool.

Ben and Joel – post your photos when they’re up!

Although FOWA has hardly come to an end (double-days of Nikki Beach parties beginning tonight!), and tomorrow I’ll be winning the MacBook Air… however, some notes on todays happenings.

Kathy Sierra opened with a keynote “Creating Passionate Users” and cognitive seduction, stating the seemingly obvious but so often overlooked methods for relating to people and engaging users in exceptional experiences. Kathy spoke of our duty towards humanizing technology, getting people to meet – offline, while making more usable/human software. Develop easy-to-master-FAST apps, leaping to the “passion threshold”, where users are able to be great at what they *do* with the tool. It’s not about the tool. It’s about what the tool allows them to do. Get through to feelings and legacy brain. And place a “WTF” button nearby for your site’s users.

Blaine Cook, Twitter Engineer, held together his whimsical panel throughout audience notifications that Twitter was, no surprise, down. Cook warned of feature creep and the importance of adding what users *strongly* request, keep it clean, open APIs, and “use and love” the app you are creating. If you don’t love the service, others won’t either.Leah Culver, Pownce, followed, also pressing “opening code” as a top priority for any web service. 

Microsoft showcased the ever-awesome Photosynth, and a rad 3D maps application, which I didn’t catch the link to.

A panel pointing “what makes the next great startup”: Brilliance, team, confidence/ambition, depth of knowledge/research/ capital structure/right vw/legal issues, open!, distribution, extremism, and of course serendipity.

Remember the Milk’s Emily Boyd presented a quite enjoyable panel on FTM’s birth and lifespan, $0.19 budget, and various interface options (including the iPhone, yet available to the Aussies) (and a hacked GMAIL! love it). 

Off to the party, hosted by Scrapblog!  

There’s a Beantown event, if you are nearby and interested in the urban arts scene – I definitely recommend:Legends of Style (Boston) Urban Art Eventhttp://www.legendsofstyle.net/