This is the last edition of DesignFlip Magazine, another great reference for design tendencies.

For over 50 years Rams has been one of the most influential industrial designers around, producing elegant, stripped-down and flawlessly balanced everyday objects in such enduring forms that one is hard-pressed to identify a design of his that hasn’t stood the test of time.

Interesting new way to market music and benefit from it.

Strategic buyers are "looking for opportunities to accelerate growth and tap into new business models," according to JEGI. To gain market share and keep more revenue in-house, global media companies are focused on building integrated solutions across multiple media channels.

Pay your friends to do things.

Interesting channel over at YouTube. Their channel strategy is clearly a run at TV networks, and an interesting approach given that these channels are very subject-driven. Much more vertical than what we currently think of TV channels.

Amusing bit about the two software giants 'just trying to get along' online.

I think user privacy settings are going to be big in the near future, as people become aware of just how much data is out there on them. Facebook is experimenting with this, testing with some users now. The article notes how complicated their current privacy settings interface is, and the need to simplify it.

Alex Bogusky has an afro.

Moonfruit, a site builder tool, pretty much copied another twitter campaign but improved upon in. All tied to a Macbook giveaway. Whether or not these winners converted to using Mooonfruit, it built awareness of the company because of the increase in exposure on twitter.