Who Knew?

B-Roll [April 8-9, 2009]

• Bumptop (a novel user interface inspired by a physical desktop) has been floating around as a cool demo video for a couple of years, but now you can download it for your Windows PC.


• P2Pblog points to an interesting analysis of how the used CD market could be a huge factor in declining sales of new music.


• “Ford will hand over promotion duties for its newest car to 100 twenty-somethings who have no advertising experience.”


• RIM (maker of the BlackBerry) hires a “VP of user experience” who was once employed by Apple for 8 years - developing OS X and probably lending a hand with creating the iPhone software (blogosphere-created myth, sorry. Should have caught that one - but he did help with OS X for eight years, so still an interesting hire.)