Posts tagged in ‘innovation’

YouTube adds captioningPosted on August 28, 2008

YouTube have recently announced their new captioning features for all videos being uploaded onto their video service. The interface is quite simple and can be accessed through your “My Videos” interface, all you have to do is click the edit button on any videos you have uploaded in the past.
This is pretty cool. I know [...]

Tags: accessibility, innovation

Is this the future of music?Posted on August 26, 2008

I’ve mentioned before that I hate buying CDs - they just add clutter and I just convert them to digital anyway.
So I’m pretty excited about a new venture by some forward-thinking music executives (isn’t that an oxymoron?) about a new site that gives you the chance to invest in new acts and help them [...]

Tags: innovation

Google maps finally recognises walkersPosted on July 22, 2008

One of my small gripes with google maps has finally been rectified - they now do walking directions. I try to walk everywhere and I usually use google maps as a reference to see the distance to my destination.

At first glance it seems pretty good. They give walking time assuming about 19 minutes per [...]

Tags: Development, innovation

When your phone runs out of batteries… dance!Posted on July 9, 2008

Orange in Europe has just collaborated with GotWind (terrible name) to launch a mobile phone charger powered by dance. In what sounds like my worst nightmare, when you move your arms along to the music, a specially designed system of weights and magnets, similar to that found in kinetic energy watches, creates an electrical current [...]

Tags: innovation

Dexter is back with a brand new viralPosted on

I’ve blogged before about the brilliant dexter viral campaign they did a bit over a year ago.
Well they’re back with a second viral for season 3. Since blogging about it originally I’ve become addicted to the show and have watched season 1 and 2 back to back.
This viral is much the same in [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Marketing, innovation, memes

Flickr adds find-your-friends functionalityPosted on March 31, 2008

Flickr just launched a feature to help you find friends in your gmail, hotmail or yahoomail address book.
It’s great functionality as Flickr is only really fun when your network are all using it - there’s no point in uploading photos if noone is going to leave smart-arsed (or sometimes nice) comments and notes all [...]

Tags: innovation

My new personal assistantPosted on October 23, 2007

I’m beta-testing a new personal assistant. Ok, she’s not a real person, she’s I Want Sandy, an electronic organiser.

It’s pretty simple to use, I email or text (well, in the US I could text her, from Australia I can’t yet) a message like “remind me to buy a birthday present for Josh on Friday [...]

Tags: Cool websites, innovation, trends

Virgin CharterPosted on October 17, 2007

Virgin has been very busy in America, launching Virgin Charter (although the service won’t be live until February). It’s the perfect premise - as air travel gets more and more unpleasant, particularly in the US, why not make it easy for people who can afford it to charter their own plane.

It’s something I’d definitely [...]

Tags: innovation, trends

Web Design Survey from A List ApartPosted on October 16, 2007

A List Apart has just released their findings of their first Web Design Survey.
It’s very interesting, they had 33,000 respondents so I assume it’s one of the biggest surveys undertaken in our industry. I think they have learned a lot for the next survey, such as not asking ambiguous questions - when asking ethnicity [...]

Tags: Analytics, innovation, trends

Call a blind charity instead of Alan, Alicia and AaronPosted on October 10, 2007

A great idea for a charity fund raiser comes from the Netherlands, where “Lingue Braille” have setup a service called “A Blind Call“.
The premise is pretty simple - you save their number in your mobile with the name as A Blind Call. I assume they’ve done research into how often people leave their phones unlocked [...]

Tags: Cool websites, innovation