The Pepperspective

We’re proud to see Ryan has a new article on All Facebook. He writes about the new freedom developers have to customize Facebook’s Like button so they can create buttons that actually make sense to click in context – because who really wants to Like an article about a disaster? Wouldn’t you rather just Read it? And wouldn’t it be nice to express the difference in likes between products you Own and ones you Want? 

Knowing Ryan, he’ll be making buttons that say Whoa and Busted until we physically detain him.

Check out the article here:

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-likes-2011-12

In early 1983, Apple had committed to shipping the very first Mac that coming fall. It didn’t ship then. Actually, the project became months overdue as the software team worked through Christmas break. By the first week of 1984 the team was working around the clock. No sleep. Soon, the new deadline was less than a week away and it had became clear to the engineers that there were still too many bugs for the Mac to ship.

Everything is a Remix is a 4 part series that proves to us just how much creativity is made up of 3 elements - copying, transforming, and combining.

The above video is Part 3. It shows how Apple straight-up copied almost everything Xerox had already done with history’s very first PC, then combined that with their own user-experience and marketing ideas, thus, creating a FRIGGIN EMPIRE.

Proof that:

1) being in touch with innovation +
2) strong UX design +
3) good marketing

may just be all it takes to start your empire.

Watch the entire series of Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson, here.

Ever since OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”, I’ve followed SyynLabs fairly closely. They’re the groups of creatives who engineered the Rube Goldberg machine for the video. They do all the things you [i] did when you [i] were [was] 12 and it was raining out and

A good number of those who follow us seem to eventually wonder, and often ask, “Do you guys ever get any work done?” and/or “What kind of work do you do?”

So, we thought we’d try to take a (small) step back from our culture and put our work, our passion, in the forefront. After a few hours of curating and exactly three Kernel Panics, we present to you some of our recent “work” and in under 2 minutes.

Nike just launched a super slick mini-site all done up in HTML5. The site promotes their “this is what we are doing to go green” campaign titled “Nike Better World”.

Super. Slick.

Word on the twitterstate is that Ian Coyle put this bad boy together. I am inspired.

We heart augmented reality. Other than being burned alive if you step foot within these walls wielding any object resembling an actual pepper, it’s one of the first lessons you learn as a rookie redpepper. So naturally, my first project here at the r-p was to feature some A-R in our own holiday card.