Posts tagged in ‘trends’

Google and Bing drink from the Twitter firehosePosted on October 21, 2009

It was only last week that we mentioned in our Web Directions talk that Google and other search engines were trying to get access to the Twitter firehose but didn’t index the information yet.
Well the “future” we spoke about is here, with Google and Bing both returning Twitter results in their feeds.
Google said: [...]

Tags: Development, SEO, twitter

The future is here (II)Posted on September 24, 2009

So most people know, Sydney woke up to an apocolyptic scene on Tuesday as a 400 km wide and 2000 km long dust cloud covered the city and produced the craziest light.
For an idea of how insane the dust storm was, check out the video below (it’s worth watching until the end).

The media [...]

Tags: Cool websites, innovation

How does the internet see you?Posted on August 19, 2009

The personas project is a brilliant project by the folk at MIT, to show you how the internet sees you.
It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one’s aggregated online identity.
It basically trawls through your data and categorises what it finds into predetermined set [...]

Tags: Analytics, Cool websites

A brilliant campaign from ElementPosted on August 13, 2009

I’ve just seen a campaign for Element Skateboards that has made my afternoon and given me hope that all advertising is not cynical.

Element’s vision is to “bring progress to skateboarding”. Skaters can be an anarchistic bunch at the best of times, and it only takes a whiff of corporate cynicism for them to accuse [...]

Tags: Marketing, social networking, trends

Beautiful stop-motion from OlympusPosted on July 10, 2009

Regular readers of this blog know of my obsession with stop-motion films. Olympus have just released a really beautiful stop-motion, using 60,000 pictures, 9,600 developed prints and 1,800 shot pictures - with no digital post-production.
It’s absolutely gorgeous, and a beautiful tale of a life well lived.

I do wonder if he walked out on [...]

Tags: Cool websites, Marketing

Bill Posters gets prettyPosted on July 7, 2009

This just brightened my morning. We’ve all seen the ugly “Bill posters will be prosecuted” signs that go up on every blank surface - they are much uglier than the posters. In fact, I love how posters appear on every temporary wall, it’s the main way I find out about concerts coming to Sydney.
Happy [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Reflections on living in the futurePosted on March 15, 2009

I had one of those moments last night that made me stop and think and realise how much technology has crept up on us and how much we take it for granted.
We were driving over to a friend’s place for dinner (looking up the address from my email into Google Maps in the car [...]

Tags: random thoughts, twitter

Vanity search on steroidsPosted on January 14, 2009

We’ve all googled ourselves to see what comes up. If you haven’t, you’re either much less vain than me or probably not really into the whole internet thing.
CVGadget is like googling yourself but with steroids.
You not only get the results in the regular Google search, but it also aggregates results from Google Images, [...]

Tags: Cool websites

This is where we livePosted on December 16, 2008

I’ve posted before about my love of stop-motion - it’s just the most aestetically pleasing medium, I’m not sure why photographs are so much more interesting than video but they just are.
The 4th Estate took 3 weeks and a bunch of animators to make This Is Where We Live, a beautiful animation that combines [...]

Tags: Cool websites

Barter for an awesome “work dress”Posted on

Via Virginia Murdoch, I’ve discovered OurGoods, “a peer to peer network for the exchange of goods and services between artists, designers, craftspeople, and anyone with a creative project.”
Their first project is the Work Dress, a cross between an apron and a tool-belt.

Interestingly, it’s not for sale, it’s only available by bartering goods - so [...]

Tags: Cool websites