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TechCrunch has screenshots of the MySpace redesign that launches next week. Adaptive Path were involved in the design and IA process.

Los Angeles based social network MySpace, which has 115 million monthly visitors worldwide (Comscore, April 2008), will be launching a redesign of its site next week. The first phase of the project, internally called “MySpace 2.0,” will launch on Wednesday June 18.

The changes affect five major areas of the service: homepage, navigation, profile editor, search and the MySpaceTV Flash player.

Search looks very much improved, as does the home page. The profile theme editor also looks much easier to use.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/redesign-a-first-step-in-bringing-order-to-the-myspace-chaos/

Camspace is pretty slick. The people at CamTrax are demoing the PC camera-based interface. At first blush, I thought it similar to the gimicky Eye Toy games, but this is much better. CamTrax is a software-based technology that enables the tracking of hand-held objects in real time, with high reliability. What you see in the demo is that the software recognizes the hand-held objects and effectively turns them into pointers and other controls that can be used to act on the simple end as a cursor, and on the more sophisticated end as a game controller.

On a related note, you might be interested in checking out Chung Lee's experiments with alternate control of the Wii.

http://camspace.com/

Aza Raskin demonstrates a touch interface concept for a Firefox Mobile browser. The mocked up prototype includes features including spatial browsing of browser tabs, and touch gestures for summoning application menus.

http://azarask.in/blog/post/firefox-mobile-concept-video/