The lovely fellows at Joost have just provided us, the humble Beta testers, with additional invitations to hand out to friends etc. If you’re keen to give Joost a try but don’t feel like bidding for an invite on eBay, drop me a line and I’ll send you one. In the event of demand exceeding [...]
I’m really pleased I came to ad:tech this year and I want to summarise my impressions from the last few days: Our industry is hot. Everyone is talking about interactive/digital being the future of marketing and advertising. This includes big media/publishers, agencies, and the big brands. I’m particularly encouraged by the very bold campaigns being [...]
I’ve been contacted a few times this week regarding recent references I’ve made to The Venice Project – mostly people wondering what what on Earth I was talking about. There’s so much more to this than I can (read: ‘have time to’) say now, but here’s the low-down. Remember Kazaa? Well, the two guys who [...]
Dear Santa, I’ve been a really good boy this year: Saving orphans from terrorists by making bombs out of used tea bags; Using the Stargate to bring peace to the universe; and Being a full-time love god to aunts Patti & Selma. With all that good karma under my belt, please please please PLEASE can [...]
Quite a good report from the BBC that I stumbled across this morning. I’m not sure, but I think that New Zealand’s accessibility laws are pretty slack, whilst I know that the States and the UK have quite strict laws, as is mentioned in this article. Worth the watch i’d say.
As of October 2006 this is how the distribution of browsers looks: Source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp This is sure to dramatically change once Microsoft release IE 7 as a “High Priority Update” via the automatic Windows Update service as announced on their IE Blog. Users will have the option to not install this, but in reality many [...]
But this sums it up perfectly, they all do look very similar. The Web2.0 Logo Creator, just add latest buzzword! Here’s our one:
This I want. Yesterday.Though I’m loathe to compare things to other things, think Minority Report. Apparently this project, called “TouchLight” has been developed by Microsoft. It makes use of different cameras positioned behind a holographic projection material screen. While I wish that they’d show some more traditional interaction using this new system, the image resizing [...]
Diesel Heaven is a very slick Flash site. Cool use of video, imagery and sound. The navigation gets a little annoying after a while and it is probably highly offensive to various religions, but hey, it is definitely an innovative use of the medium.
Starwood Hotels are launching a new hotel chain called Aloft in the US in 2008. They have taken the unprecedented step of turning their artists concepts and plans into a complete virtual hotel in the online virtual world Second Life. There is also a blog describing their progress. This an amazing concept and I think [...]