January 2010
53 posts
Ideashop →
Ogilvy are opening a shop in brixton, offering it’s services free of charge to locals…. nice idea.
Interstellar Marines →
awesome 1st person shooter built in Unity. … flash has some work to do to keep up ! http://www.interstellarmarines.com/game/bullseye/?guest
AdNectar wherebranded virtual gifts to turn... →
More and more brands are using branded-virtual gifts to extend their reach and bring the brand experience into social networks in a way that consumers find fun and engaging. Campaigns fielded through AdNectar:
reach socially connected consumers where they spend the most time online
extend the brand experience into social networks
turn consumers into brand advocates through the simple act of...
Watch“Avatarize Yourself“… great work by McDonalds here are some stats from the latest Oddcast email update: “Our [18-]country, 7 language deployment has already racked up more than 4mm user sessions in a few weeks, with an average session time of 9 minutes, 45 seconds! One out of four sessions results in sharing via email or social networks, generating almost 1.2mm earned...
Inspiring examples of tactile creative execution →
Before computers became useful and the internets invaded our homes, people made things from wood and fabric and paint and sticks. It was messy and sometimes smelly and quite often you’d cut your finger.
Why the Apple Tablet Is a Games Changer →
When was the last time a company other than Apple launched a device with this much media frenzy? http://bit.ly/8wyfxG
Almost Genius: Augmented Reality as a... →
“Augmented Reality” is an amorphous word. On the one hand, you’ve got AR smartphone apps that lay data over the real-world—e.g., restaurant ratings or wayfinding icons. Those can be pretty useful. On the other hand, you’ve got codes that you place in front of your Webcam, to reveal a 3-D animation. These have been bullshitty indeed—gimmicks in 3-D. You know who...
Apple, Adobe, and Flash →
A very interesting take on Flash on the iphone / islate
WatchTaking on Google in 90 days
Mercury News has an interesting post on what it took to get Bing indexing Twitter’s real-time feed. Like any good project, it went down to the wire with the team getting the system finally working just 40 minutes before the live demo at Web 2.0 last year.
Google's YouTube starts movie rentals. →
YouTube gets into movie rentals. Article : http://bit.ly/5egxlA Movies : http://www.youtube.com/movies
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter →
Combining Robert Morris’ Box With the Sound of Its Own Making with Baudrillard’s writing on the art auction this sculpture exists in eternal transactional flux. It is a physical sculpture that is perptually attempting to auction itself on eBay. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its...
The Fastest Text Input Test: Laptop, iPhone, Pen,... →
In this totally unscientific but reasonably fair test, one man writes a long paragraph on several different devices (including pen and paper) to test speed. The results may surprise and anger you
2010 Digital Marketing Outlook →
WatchThis is a really nice widget people can add to their site to distribute Fatboy Slim’s new track for free …. now if the person who embedded this got a percentage of the deal, that would be interesting
quirky | social product development →
Quirky is a “social product development” community. Users can pay to submit an idea for a product which is then evaulated and refined by a larger community. If the product gets enough love, then it goes into manufacture with a percentage of profits going to all the users involved.
adidas Originals: Death Star →
A lovely tie in with Star Wars, which pulls all your information from facebook.
300&65. →
A site dedicated just to Ampersands
Lynx Twist →
Lynx recently launched Twist, with is choose your own adventure facebook App
PostRank - Top blogs of 2009 →
PostRank Analytics list the top bloggers from 2009 in terms of amount of audience engagement broken down into different topics.
Coca-Cola Zero →
Find another you ! this Brilliant campaign site for Coke Zero, allows you to find your doppelgänger, The tech works so very well.
Donate to Haiti through Farmville thanks to Zynga →
Zynga is conducting a special relief campaign in three of its top games—FarmVille, Mafia Wars and Zynga Poker—which together reach more than 40 million users daily. Specifically, players of those games can now purchase limited-edition in-game social goods, and 100 percent of the proceeds will go towards supporting emergency aid in Haiti. Within FarmVille, there’s white corn that will not...
Virtual Farmers Market UK →
I do really like the idea of bringing together a host of market stalls in one site. But I am not sure if the 3d world is the best way to experience farmers market, thankfully there is a more conventional way to find what you are looking for
A font made from iPhone Icons ? →
Yes this is a font made solely form existing iPhone App Icons…
Unleash your lego →
Great Ad for Lego from Norway.
50 Superb 3D Flash websites. →
A great showcase of 3D Flashwork.
What type are you? →
Pentagram have created this fantastic type based personality quiz. have a play and tell us what type are you?
The URL Saatchi & Saatchi didn't buy →
Unfortunately Saatchi didn’t buy this URL, which is the perfect home for this great little viral.
monoclops. you, simplified. →
Ever wondered what you would look like with one eye ? This lovely simple app does this for you !
Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2010 -... →
Some great business trends forming here !
Farmville made real →
How it works? Users first select a garden size based on the number of people they’d like to feed; 30m2 is sufficient for 1–2 people and costs EUR 850 per year. The virtual gardener can then choose from 40 different types of vegetables, using a highly intuitive interface that includes information on expected yields and harvest times. Optional extras include a photo album of the garden’s...
Reknit: Sweater = Scarf →
Each month, Reknit will unravel old sweaters and re-knit them into a different item; this January, it’s scarves. Consumers begin by choosing from two different scarf styles—each priced at USD 30—and sending their old sweaters to Boston-based Reknit. Then, “my mom will turn your old sweater into a new scarf,” as the site’s creator explains it. Visitors to the site even get to vote on...
Lady Gaga Named Creative Director Polaroid Imaging... →
LAS VEGAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—PLR IP Holdings, LLC, owners of the Polaroid™ brand, today announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Lady Gaga, who will serve as creative director for a specialty line of Polaroid Imaging products. The partnership brings together one of the world’s most iconic brands with today’s fastest rising musical artist and cultural...
AppMakr →
How would you like to offer an iPhone application for your website or blog? Check out AppMakr if you do. It allows you to make an iPhone app for your website or blog without any programming skills in a few minutes. The cost to create an app is as little as a one-time $199 fee.
more at http://appmakr.com/
Experience Pandora →
Augmented Reality used to great effect in this campaign by McDonald’s for Avatar.
http://avatar.mcdonalds.com/RainForest/en-GB/Demo.aspx
Google takes the Browser wars to the street. →
This is such a ballsy move by google, and it seams to have paid off, as they are now above Safari.
2009 IE8 IE7 IE6 Firefox Chrome Safari Opera November 13.3% 13.3% 11.1% 47.0% 8.5% 3.8% 2.3%