One of the Interweb’s most visited blogs is BoingBoing. My relationship with BoingBoing has evolved over the years. It went from being one of my favorite blogs, to a blog I only cared moderately about (sorry, not interested in steampunk ukeleles). And by now now the only reason I scan it diagonally is to know [...]
Tags: blogs, boingboing, google, iPad, play, reader, the future is now
I just watched this, the whole half hour of it. Definitely worth it. It’s not just about games, and it’s got some interesting examples of how you can turn things more compelling and addictive by designing a game layer into it.
Also: from an advertising standpoint it looks like the gaming industry is now at [...]
Something that’s been bothering me for a while, yet I’ve never been able to put my finger on is the “always new” thing you get with digital media.
I’m not really into new stuff, my furniture, while not being antique, is always bought used. My house is built with reclaimed materials. My car and my [...]
Tags: digital patina, post-digital, postdigital, usability, UX
Stumbled upon this video yesterday.
My life will never be the same again.
It’s the weirdest friggin’ thing I’ve seen in my life.
Who made this? Why?
Somehow I don’t want these questions answered.
I’ll just continue to marvel at the fact that people make these things for no other reason than to please themselves and the the interwebs allow [...]
I ended up on some dodgy sites the other day that had banners for Adult Friend Finder. An ” online sex and swinger personals community website.”
They served me these kind of banners:
What’s puzzling me is the “Tremelo” part.
Because I live three villages over from Tremelo.
So what I’m wondering about is:
Is this because their IP positioning [...]
Found here, a Yahoo Pipe that plots your Twitter followers on a map.
These are my followers:
{“pipe_id”:”1dbe1f87e89793dbda93bc67942c2b34″,”_btype”:”map”,”pipe_params”:{“username”:”andymurd”}}
Tags: data visualization, Twitter, yahoo pipes
So skittles forwards the skittles.com domain to the twitter search results page for the word skittles….
…and all the usual social media suspects go for the standing ovation.
I think it’s crap. For several reasons:
0. Been done: Zeus Jones, Modernista
1. What’s the outcome of this? Not a page of people twittering about skittles but a page of [...]
Tags: skittles
The “Online and all other positions relative to the line.“-post, just got summed up in a few lines here (3rd comment) by Tim of Sugar:
In other words, DONT start a digital/interactive agency. Start an ideas company with 21st century behaviours at its core driving brand engagement across all channels, unified by digital audience behaviours. Mobiles, [...]
Tags: duh!
