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RIPE NCC

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Vivint

Alarm Security Solutions, Inc., one of the largest security and home services companies, has recently launched new products and services under the name Vivint. And what does “Vivint” mean? Well: “it combines the words ‘vive,’ meaning to live, and ‘intelligent.’”

Thanks to Dave Nagy for the tip.

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RockMelt

Rockmelt is a new web browser that integrates social networking with all the amenities of a modern browser. Rockmelt is backed by the venture firm of Marc Andressen, he of Netscape co-founding fame.

Via @WolffOlins.

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Traffic

Traffic is a newly established website design and development company based in Brighton, UK. Brighton neighbor Transmission designed their new logo.

Opinion BY Armin

HTML5 Validates with New Logo

Over the last six months or so, some of the hardcorest web developers and designers have started to test the possibilities of the newest markup for building websites, HTML5. I realize that some might not even be aware that there was HTML1, 2, 3, or 4 or what it even means for coding language to be upgraded. In a nutshell: HTML, overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C for short), is the gobbledygook text that gives structure to a website; in its first iteration, the amount of things you could do with it was limited and in each version it has added bits of language that allow for more versatility. This latest version reflects the advancement of the web in general, by natively allowing the use of multimedia or web fonts, for example, as well as having a more robust set of “tags” — i.e., the ‹em› tag makes things ‹em›italic‹/em›, but that’s just the most basic example — that power each website. HTML5 has gotten a lot of support and generated plenty of excitement and the W3C wants to encourage its use so they are introducing an official HTML5 logo that will serve as a badge for those that are adopting the latest and geekiest markup language. In charge of designing the logo, identity, and a set of icons was Honolulu, HI-based Ocupop.

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Nextag

Established in 1999 Nextag is a very handy and powerful comparison shopping search engine. New logo rolled out late last year. Bonus: New logo cupcake picture.

Thanks to Wayne Burrow for the tip.

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Eniro

Eniro is “the Nordic region’s largest search company. Both consumers and companies can use Eniro’s services to easily locate where to buy services and products — regardless of whether the channel is internet, catalog or mobile.”

Thanks to Anders Landström for the tip.

Interview BY Armin

The Man Behind @GapLogo

With the end of the year closer and the need for closure looming like a pre-new year resolution, I had the opportunity to provide you all with closure on at least one loose end: Who is @GapLogo? That snarky, sneaky, prolific fake Twitter account that served as the emcee for Gapgate. Even though we are not the first to reveal its identity — SwissMiss had him for lunch over at her studio and then tweeted his real Twitter account — we are happy to bring a tell-all (not that there is much to tell as you’ll see, but still…) interview with the man behind @GapLogo: Alex Lawrence-Richards.

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Opinion BY Armin

A Refined DivX

Manned by 350 employees through offices in seven countries, DivX Inc produces its eponymous technology that enable the conversion, distribution and consumption of high-quality video and media experiences across mobile devices, computers, televisions, and other devices. Even if you are not fully aware of it, you might have a DVD player or TV that can play back DivX encoded media. Around October, DivX introduced a new identity.

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Gmail adds a Touch of Make-Up

Since its launch in early 2007 Google’s Gmail service has become one of the most popular online e-mail programs offering whale-sized storage allowing users to keep e-mails in the realm of gigabytes, whereas its competition early on allowed for mere megabytes. I tried to find the number of Gmail users but found conflicting information: It’s either 170 million users or 36 million. Either way, that’s a lot of. Earlier this week, Gmail made some changes to its log-in page as well as some tweaks to its logo.

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