Once again the fine work that Raincity Studios has done on the Spin magazine website is featured by Apple.

When Raincity Studios crafted the SPIN magazine site, we didn't expect to see it appearing anywhere aside from well, ... SPIN.com. However, this online music magazine turned community has popped up all over the place.

Anecdotally, i noticed it on screens at SXSW but that's no huge surprise since SPIN was there, ... but when i saw SPIN in a video showing off those new schmancy Apple 3G iPhones (recently released in Canada), I almost sneezed out my coffee with surprise!

The Steve Jobs-esque narrator (well he's wearing a black, mock turtleneck anyhow) was showing the myriad features and then *Wha-zam!* right on the web browser was our familiar project - SPIN - looking just fine in the iPhone screen.

As it turns out, the iTouch demo includes SPIN as the example page too demonstrated by another black-clad Apple-ite.

Sure exposure like this is just a fleeting moment of glory and fun, (and no, i don't think a mystery box of goodies is coming from Apple anytime soon ;-)). However, it is nice to see Raincity Studios work "in the wild" doing it's job of communicating to audiences and looking good while doing so.

Props to my colleagues who did the heavy lifting and cheers to SPIN and Apple.

Cisco Gets Jealous Over Apple's Dream Toy

Based on the fact that it's Apple, and Steve Jobs, and a tagline that reads: "Apple reinvents the phone", I think that Cisco doesn't have a hope in hell, and Apple Inc. knows it.

As of late Wednesday, Cisco Systems is suing Apple Inc. in US Federal Court for their trademark on their own handheld device, IPhone. That's with a capital "I". Apparently, Apple has been repeatedly asking Cisco for its' permission to make use of the brand, a name the company has held for 7 years.