links for 2006-12-24
December 24, 2006
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Second Life gets it right: there’s always a camera available, and you can turn it on at any time. Every desktop OS should work like that.
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In this post we look forward to 2007 and ruminate on what trends will be important over the coming year.
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So a more accurate, if puzzling, picture is that, open or closed, the entire universe has always been full of stuff. The big bang did not happen at some center and stuff is flying out. No, the big bang happened everywhere, all at once, and nothing “flew o
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slick..
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Campbell Ohme – 90% designer, 10% goth. Brilliant chap. Excellent designer.
links for 2006-12-23
December 23, 2006
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oh, to go..
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The car will launch forward violently (depending on the road surface, probably accompanied with much screeching and smoking of tyres) and the engine’s revs will climb quickly, so be prepared to change up sharpish!
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The show, Starring Amanda Congdon1, has already hooked up deals with a new Unilever Dove-brand product and video chat community Paltalk2 for sponsorship, and blip.tv3 for hosting.
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spell with book covers. api heaven
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Example of Content from Intent. So vain…?
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“People Doing Stuff” is a site that automatically inserts a random name and verb into Google Image Finder each time you hit reload. The resulting image sets always have something interesting in them. Here’s a cool picture that showed up in a search for “v
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10 current trends in the mass media that ought to disturb us
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NEW YORK Publicis Groupe has agreed to acquire Digitas for $1.3 billion in cash, a move that will greatly expand the French holding company’s digital marketing capabilities.
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Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site
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Far from seeing advertising as visual pollution, Venturi likens it to the mosaics that decorate Byzantine churches. “Grand advertising Jumbotrons atop buildings in Tokyo and Osaka can, along with temple hieroglyphics and mosaic iconography, work as preced
links for 2006-12-22
December 22, 2006
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Kewl. Add overlay text to a movie – even youtubes
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In response to the interim preventive measures specified by JASRAC and others, the company replied: “YouTube is willing to post notes on copyright protection in Japanese
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The English word festivity derives from the Latin word festivitas meaning “holiday”, and the related word festus meaning “feast.”
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“ModernCaptcha” is a simple script in order to prevent spam in a very user friendly way. In a few words, your visitors don’t have to type some characters as you see on the most websites, the verification is made by choosing the company name belongin
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How we got the unusual symbol used for the menu command key
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PS3 vs Wii video advert. Simple Genius.
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Drilling a molar in a rally car – are you having a laugh?
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Another creative agency
links for 2006-12-21
December 21, 2006
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Every two months, shots magazine readers enjoy news, views and fascinating features such as top international press and poster campaigns, post-production features, and director profiles and interviews.
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Ever wonder how to save the videos you see on YouTube, MetaCafe, Veoh and the like so that you can store them or take them on the road? What used to involve some complicated steps is now as easy as copying and pasting a URL into Vixy and choosing a format
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FOR theater on a grand scale, you can’t do better than the audience-participation dramas performed at airports, under the direction of the Transportation Security Administration.
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Almost inaudible amidst the buzz about Amanda Congdon working for ABC News5 and web6-enabled7 reality television is the sound of media possibilities changing in a very fundamental way.
links for 2006-12-20
December 20, 2006
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MUST GET ONE.. (Via RussellDavies.com)
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Michela Ledwidge is a film director with a background as an Internet systems architect. As a child she wanted to be a zoologist, and then a funk superstar. Michela accepts that she may also be a geek since she has been involved in ‘new’ media since writin
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First there was Snakes, now we have Penguins..
Genius way to make cash out of natural history film Libaries…Someone should have done this at the BBC Creative Archives.. -
Bored with Flickr? Try these
links for 2006-12-19
December 19, 2006
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and yes, it’s brilliant!
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wonderful stuff..
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Shame be doesn’t have a blog…
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Not the best video/audio recording
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The UK overground
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perfect, I hate ’em
links for 2006-12-18
December 18, 2006
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Some mothers do have ’em
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Today’s “Weekend Arts” section of the NY Times has a great recursive cover.
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No 4th Wall to Break is a webcomic that was originally written and drawn by Chris Whetstone. The name of the comic comes from the saying “breaking the fourth wall”, which refers to a character in a piece of artwork who directly acknowledges the audience.
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wtf… Authentic Media at it’s cleanest (via kottke.org – How does he find this stuff..?)
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The original plan had been to create an online game. But they were just about out of money. And then Butterfield had this crazy vision of building a photo-sharing website, and before you knew it Flickr was a cultural phenomenon. Ya-hoooo!
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o position oneself on a subway platform such that, when the passenger steps off the train at his destination, he’ll be as close as possible to the exit or stairs to his transfer. Used and done often in the nyc subway system.
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Lifestyles of the Rich & Fascist
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“No, no, don’t answer it!” I yelled. “It’s your parents! They’re calling from the future!”
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Rocketboom Finds Audiences Beyond the Digerati, Host Joanne Colan Tells Beet.TV — Wiki Translation of Show Is in German
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dotSUB is a resource and gathering place for subtitling films from one language into many languages using our unique subtitling tools. These tools expand the power and reach of films by making it possible for people to view and enjoy films in their native
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Join other people from around the world to play a fun game of online sketching!
The object of the game is simple. Each player gets a chance to draw a word which the other players will try to guess. You can play anytime for free, 24 hours a day! -
Germany’s answer to Rocketboom
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Amanda Congdon, 24, is running through the wintry streets of Manhattan in a purple cape and leotard. This may not seem like a milestone in Internet history, but it is: The perky actress is starring in the first commercial to be aired in a brand-new medium
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Each episode features a problem that is rectified by the episode’s namesake cocktail, which is scribbled on a prescription pad by Dr. Tiki (Macpherson) and “filled” by the bartender Johnny Johnny (Gamble) who explains the construction of the cocktail.
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more than 1000 links compiled (and updated!) during the last decade of work in the areas of art, technology, education, and networking.
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“Prediction: the mockummercial will become a big thing next year, as more and more marketers get the inspiration to taunt their competitors via YouTube with nicely produced parodies of popular commercials.”
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Apparently, they have such a pathetic product that they’re having to resort to spam and highly deceptive marketing and astroturf campaigns to sell their snake oil.
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Class…
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follow the widening gap between that haves and the have-nots — the “gap” that this tool refers to — prepare to be enlightened..
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Hubbubtv: Shel Israel
links for 2006-12-16
December 16, 2006
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Lead-based business click value measurement (via seth godin)
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For most people hungering to watch a programme they remember fondly, the reality is that faced with that cassette of Tucker’s Luck or Cloppa Castle that desire is satiated by the time the theme-music has faded out. And that’s how it should be – if a theme
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The microsoft art collection.. I kid yee not.
links for 2006-12-15
December 15, 2006
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IBM will launch an official group in January to deal with Second Life and other virtual realms from which the company hopes to profit.
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Learn how the top CG film, computer game and web development companies have saved significant time and money on their projects by optimizing a digital asset management systems and streamlining production processes. Success stories of Sony Pictures Imagewo
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A beta version of The Venice Project launched today. It is the Internet TV start-up from Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
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Here it comes…
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They will. And when your ad is on YouTube, they can. Poor AOL…
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FUTEF API provides a search API to explore and find Wikipedia content – including faceted categories.
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AVANT GAME IS networked play that is: immersive, pervasive, collective, ubiquitous, massively scaled, collaborative, superheroic, mobile, social, benevolent, contagious, conspiratorial, mixed, hybrid, real, everyday.
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If you aren’t familiar with ARGs, here is how they typically work.
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Can an interactive web site produce false memories?
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Car companies open dealerships in virtual world. Extended warranties not needed, optional dragon heads available.
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How to do an ‘Under construction’ motif in Secondlife. Very cool..
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The Ghost Relations Dept. is a weekly blog with new, obscure or just plain odd information about the Disney Haunted Mansion’s.
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Now they’re watching you as you hunt for innovation loopholes..
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Apparently, Suzanne Vega is the ‘mother’ of the MP3 format…
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To badly butcher a quote: “Ask not what SecondLife can make you do, as what you can make in SecondLife.”.
links for 2006-12-14
December 14, 2006
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a todo list that lets you forward e-mails to future days, so you don’t have to deal with them today.
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superbowl adverts – reviewed…
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Toyota pairs up with Swedish agency SWE to create On Toyota’s Mind, a site that’s supposed to creatively communicate to Swedes what Toyota’s philosophy and values are without directly selling vehicles.
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Brilliant.
links for 2006-12-13
December 13, 2006
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Viva the Brand experience
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Mozilla, facing renewed competition from industry leader Microsoft, will begin airing user-contributed video ads for its Firefox browser1 on television tonight
links for 2006-12-12
December 12, 2006
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13 Most Beautiful Avatars, an exhibition in Second Life’s increasingly popular Ars Virtua gallery –a virtual nonprofit arts organization– captures the most visually dynamic and celebrated “stars” of Second Life.
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Erwin Wurm’s big, fat stonking art, neatly summarising how we Westerners behave.
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“The great thing about the digital world is you can capture these events,” said Christian McMahan, brand director for Smirnoff Ice, owned by Diageo. “People can see them whether they were there that day or 3,000 miles away.”
links for 2006-12-11
December 11, 2006
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The Origin of Emotions identifies the purpose, trigger and effect of each emotion.
links for 2006-12-07
December 7, 2006
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50 ‘works of art’ to see before I die..
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Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data.
links for 2006-12-06
December 6, 2006
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Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold – the page view. While it’s not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among
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The internet spiral
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Google skipped right past the third dimension and landed directly in the fourth (time) by offering historical maps on Google Earth.
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Can anyone think of a content business — meaning a company that produces original content — that has scaled dramatically in recent years? I can’t. Look at the businesses that have scaled — Google, MySpace, YouTube — all platforms for content, bu
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“The fundamental error in most discussions of disaggregation is that they assume that the goal is to provide more value to the end-user. It’s exactly the opposite: the goal is to provide a greater return to the producer.”
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If you want a glimpse of the future of advertising, you can hire a consultant — or you can travel to Britain.
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Like Flickr, but without the photos. Really really really good stuff.
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