ZURBis a well-known interaction design firm with clients such as Facebook and Britney Spears. What makes ZURB even cooler than their big name clients is their playground. TheZURB Playgroundisn’t the kind with plastic slides and monkey bars — it’s a section of their website featuring ‘creative experiments and new ideas contributed by the ZURB team’. Not many firms are known for giving away fantastic tools to other designers, but the Silicon Valley company is one of them....

For yet another year, The Next Web conference brought together professionals working in technology, from all over the world, for three days of networking, fun and inspiration. Our busy agenda for 2011, included a hardcore hackathon, a tough startup rally and a number of keynotes by speakers on topics that varied from mobile trends in Africa and real life lessons on entrepreneurship to a debate on privacy and hacking the future!...

Tomorrow is Presidents Day here in the United States. It’s a national holiday, and with all important holidays we have come to expect the Google Doodle to show homage of such occasions. Sadly if the last decade is anything to go by, there will be no doodle to celebrate the first president of America, George Washington. Rather than go into thedebateof Google’s political tendencies, lets look at theGoogle Logosof the past....

Radiohead, undoubtedly one of the world’s most innovative bands, both musically and marketing-wise, released its latest album “King of Limbs,” describing it as “The World’s First Newspaper album.” King of Limbswas released on February 19th, 2010 in 2 10-inch vinyl records, a CD, several large pieces of artwork, 625 small pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degredeable plastic to hold it all together. The complete package costs $48 with an MP3 download and $53 with the WAV download....

I would never say that New Yorkers are known to be unkind. But it’s a tough city. I fear this concrete jungle is slowly, day by day, killing the hippy inside me, particularly at moments when I find myself pushing young children out of the way to get on the L train. ForImprov Everywhere‘s latest mission, the spontaneous theatrical group left a megaphone attached to a wooden lectern in New York City’s Union Square with a sign that read, “Say Something Nice....