Dropbox Online Storage versus Apple’s MobileMe iDisk

At first I was very hesitant to see the movie. I thought it would be another boring, teacher wasting their students time kind of documentary. I was wrong. I enjoyed every second of it and yes, I am a design nerd. Though there are varying opinions of the font, the documentary does a great job getting insight from both sides of the debate (I wonder what side this guy is on?). Not only does it reintroduce us to some familiar faces in the design world, but it gives us a history of the font and the reasoning behind it’s creation. If you haven’t seen it I would highly recommend watching it. This may be my inner nerd talking again,but I think it’s kind of cool to learn a little something about a font that we use/see everyday. I guarantee after you watch this movie you will start spotting Helvetica everywhere. Even if you would like Helvetica to fall off the face of the earth, it’s worth the rental. ( http://www.helveticafilm.com/ )

If one of your friends asked you to send them your latest credit card statement for the purposes of posting it online for all of your friends and family to see, would you do it?

If you’re on twitter and you’ve seen a tweet like this: (@Walgreens) http://4sq.com/87bMtr, you know what it is. It’s someone checking in at their current location through foursquare. It’s becoming more common and doesn’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon as users and businesses are taking full advantage of this new media.

In the coming months there are a few interesting social media events/meet ups in the area that we thought you should be aware of. Take a look and let me know if we missed any in the comment section.

Google just released it’s new social media product called Google Buzz this Tuesday for most Gmail users. We just started looking into our Stream Profile with google Buzz today and just like everyone else have questions on what are it’s capabilities and how to get started. Here’s a list of some interesting articles that seem to give a good overview for both what it is and how to use it. Please leave a comment if you have any other good resources about it and if you think you are going to give it a try, we’d love to follow you.

Having proper backups of our data is an important part of our workflow.  In additon to the redundant file backup in our studio, we carry external hard drives home with us each night to a) protect our data against fire, theft, etc. and b) allows access to our files at home (vpn doesn’t really work all that great for us because of file size). Each night I run Super Duper! to make a cloned backup of my work files.

One of the things that draws us to social media is the concept of transparency. We feel that social media has held companies more accountable and makes them more customer-focused. A few years ago, a company could run a marketing campaign, claiming to be the best at this or that. They could also claim to be solely focused on their customers needs – even if they weren’t – and it was difficult for customers to prove them wrong (at least at a global level).

Here at Stream Creative we pride ourselves in being at the forefront of adapting new technologies.  I love testing the latest software, downloading new iPhone apps, etc.  Upgrading to Snow Leopard seemed like a no brainer.  My understanding was Snow Leopard was supposed to just improve performance and stability over OS 10.5 Leopard.  Well, having used it for 2 weeks now on one Mac in our studio I have to say I am not happy with the results. In general, the OS seems snappier and some of the new features are nice, but I instantly noticed my web browsers and Mail seem slower.