Creative Circus Trends Spring 2014 2

Product design company launches a digital warehouse to bring the showroom experience home.

A new set of applications are turning touch devices into a mobile suite of creative tools that empowers artists.

PSFK, with The Curve Report from the NBCUniversal Content Innovation Agency, is examining how the Internet is giving rise to a new form of media celebrity.

Supercharge your devices in less than a minute.

The Amazon Dash is a WiFi and voice-enabled barcode scanner that lets people add items to a shopping list.

When has mobile web ever been the optimum experience?

It's sad when we have to make everything a game for people to pay attention even when it's for their own benefit. . .

So what's the next stepping stone for mobile tech? Everyone hops on the same tech train fad till it becomes obsolete and the sheep move on to the next pasture. Wearable tech is fun and such but I'm ready for the eye screens and technological body mods...but I'm just a dreamer yeah?

Now you can stay glued to your phone sans annoying low voltage...great. This is a genius invention though. Thank you Eesha.

This is Phonebloks! I guess it was sold to Google's Motorola...good for them. They're going to have a monopoly on everything eventually. Google will be the new dictator that you never notice.

This is thee bomb.

I've been waiting forever for the phone USB

Article discusses rumors that Comcast may be planning to introduce a mobile service that would depend chiefly on wifi where available and suggests that the company would lease access from traditional mobile carriers to supplement the lesser availability of wifi in some areas.

Article is about yet another court case in which Apple is suing Samsung for copyright infringement. Samsung has already paid Apple $930 million in damages for other infringement cases, and Apple has a strong case for even more. This case and similar ones have implications upon Samsung's ability to compete with Apple for mobile market share.

Discusses Instagram's failure to develop a platform for advertisers that treats them as more than individual users. Suggests that Instagram would do well to adopt some of the more brand friendly practices of Facebook and Twitter.

Article profiles a startup called Jana Mobile, which recently released a marketing platform called "Marketplace," a platform designed to bring mobile users in emerging markets together with brands. The fundamental principle of the company is to compensate mobile users in Asia and Africa (where mobile data is still very expensive) for the cost of the data required to view branded content.

Discusses initial details of Apples plans to introduce in-app video ads. Where currently a user has to click a banner within an app in order to view the advertiser's video, the article reports that now videos will play automatically within an app. Sounds annoying as hell.

Outlines the increasing reach of messenger apps and their trends toward becoming quasi-platforms, with internal mechanisms for social interaction, gaming, person-to-person payment, etc.