amazing creative talent, low tech animations with praxinoscope and record player, great hand drawn illustrations. the idea, concept and everything has been put together by david wilson for moray mclaren’s music video “we got time”.
here is the making of and more on david wilson’s blog.
[tags: moray mclaren, we got time, david wilson, animation, praxinoscope]
do you feel tired, overworked and pasty? then you should try this revolutionary new way to keep you looking healthy, young and attractive in the office. computertan provides a free application that converts the electrical impulse of your computer into radiated factor-free uvc rays emitted through your monitor.
log on to computertan.com for your free online tanning session.
[tags: computertan, computertan.com, rubber republic, viral marketing, skcin, tan]
“so we’ll be taking your money anyway”
“you probably thought it was smart to buy a foreign import of superior quality, with better mileage and resale value. maybe you even thought that years of market share loss might prod us into rethinking our process and redesigning our products with better quality in mind. but you forgot one thing: we spend a shitload of money on lobbyists. so now you’re out $25 billion, plus the cost of your subaru. maybe next time you’ll buy american like a real man. either way, we’re cool. we’re the big three. we don’t need to compete.”
(via adfreak and you might want to check out lawrence lessig’s rant on bailouts)
[tags: economy, bailout, american, cars, financial crisis, auto industry, gm, chrysler, ford]
i have been a nokia fan since i got my first mobile phone, the nokia 8110 which became popular as the matrix phone. since then i went through probably 10 other nokia phones until i switched to the iphone, then iphone 3g and android g1 and nokia wasn’t catching up, until last night. nokia just launched the n97 at nokia world 2008 in barcelona.
a very slick and beautiful full touchscreen plus slide-out qwerty keyboard ‘internet phone’.
“the world’s most advanced mobile computer, which will transform the way people connect to the internet and to each other. the nokia n97 introduces the concept of ’social location’. with integrated a-gps sensors and an electronic compass, the nokia n97 mobile computer intuitively understands where it is. the nokia n97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving approved friends the ability to update their ’status’ and share their ’social location’ as well as related pictures or videos.”
the symbian s60 os based n97 will be released next year with 32GB of memory at an estimated €550. i like the phone but won’t buy it at this price and i hope that ’social location’ equals recently acquired location based service plazes.
[tags: nokia, n97, nokia n97, internet phone, g1, apple, iphone, social location, plazes]
i attended the under the radar conference on wednesday, met a lot of friends and made great new connections. i was impressed again by all the innovative ideas and startups presenting their services and products for the first time. i don’t want to go into detail about all of them, you can find some more info at www.undertheradar.com but two of them really stood out for me.
my6sense - bringing sense to your digital life
my6sense ranks content from your different information streams based on what matters to you the most and allows you to interact in one click, it is focused on solving the ‘firehose effect’ of information deluge on mobile handsets.
“the amount of information that flows into our lives daily is growing rapidly. not only that, each information stream includes many pieces of content. the volume of information leads to lack of attention. the situation is getting worse with mobile. with our first consumer product, my6sense, we are aiming to solve a very big problem in a unique way — by presenting consumers information they need most”
“starting with cutting-edge machine learning technology, my6sense found an ingenious way to elicit the relevant variables needed for effective personalization. what is remarkable is that my6sense avoids added burden to the users and dramatically enhances the quality of their experience. the result is a groundbreaking solution for the mobile user.”
you can sign up to become an alpha user at www.my6sense.com / twitter.
soocial - online address book done right
soocial provides a one address book solution to contact management. no matter where you add or change a contact, it will be changed in your other connected devices or web applications. a problem that most of us are facing everyday and soocial is providing a solution for it, hassle-free contacts across different platforms, computers, mobile devices and online address books.
“our philosophy is that there is no good hassle-free solution yet to the contact management problem. we aim to link all currently disconnected address books to each other. a change in one of these address books will result in a change in all your connected devices.”
read more about their approach here, soocial is available at www.soocial.com / twitter.
dialplus won most of the jury and audience votings - “dialplus enriches the standard phone call experience by automatically and simultaneously providing dynamic, contextually relevant visual information about the called or calling party before the call is answered, during the call and after the call is over”. two friends and jajah partner companies announced their new services, iotum with calliflower going mobile and mobivox.
keep it going kristie, avinoam, barak, daniel, stefan and alec, it was great to see you!
[tags: under the radar, conference, my6sense, soocial, dialplus, iotum, mobivox]
mashable just kicked off the 2nd annual open web awards, an international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. through an online nominating and voting process, the open web awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 categories. this year, mashable is partnering with over 100 blog partners and i am one of them. the first open web awards achieved over 250,000 votes combined between mashable and 50 international blog partners.
now it is time for your nomination, the open web awards are now accepting nominations in 26 categories via the widget below. you may nominate a site/company in as many categories as you see fit. however, there is only one nomination per category per e-mail address, so choose wisely.
nominations will be held from november 5th till sunday, november 16th 2008. the voting round will be held from november 19th till december 15th and winners will be announced on december 16th.
if you want to support your favorite service/company, here is how to grab the widget and preset the category and company name.
please find all the info at 2nd annual open web awards
[tags: mashable, open web awards, nomination, voting, innovation, web technology]
good friend and jajah iphone interface designer thomas marban just launched the first twitter client for the t-mobile g1 google android mobile phone called twidroid.
it’s the first twitter app for android mobiles. some of the highlights of twidroid’s feature set are: fully featured twitter client (postings, replies and direct messages), user detail information, follow/unfollow a user, auto-completion of your contact names, secured operation via ssl, directly integrated photo-posting from cam or disk via phodroid.com, directly integrated search through all public tweets, background notifications for replies and direct messages, auto layout for landscape and portrait mode.
i just installed it on my t-mobile g1 and it works like a charm. i always admired thomas’ taste for great ui design, creative skills and eye for details and this is a great piece of work. so if you twitter and have a g1, go to ‘android market - applications - communication - twidroid’ and get the app, you’ll love it.
(via thomas marban at tombot)
[tags: twidroid, twitter, thomas marban, google, android, t-mobile, g1, app, client]
product placement is not a new way in advertising products and services, it has been around for centuries and is known from many movies. we got used to it, just spend enough dollars and james bond will drive a bmw or will smith an audi - cell phones, laptops, furniture, tobacco, deodorant, food, all sorts of consumer electronics, you name it.
now the industry seems to have taken this approach a step further and professionalized ‘brand dropping’ in songs of popular music artists, simply selling elements of their songs to the highest bidder.
“that’s the news from wired who shows how artists are approached by agencies to include brand placements in their songs. and if you check out the opening flash sequence for the kluger agency there’s a couple of product placement jingles that will sound mighty familiar.”
“things have gotten so weird in the music business that high-profile acts are inserting ads into their song lyrics. the next time you hear a brand mentioned in a song, it could be due to a paid product placement. and unlike magazines, songs are not required to point out which words are part of an advertisement.”
i appreciate that artists need to embrace a variety of revenue opportunities to make it today, but selling song lyrics seems to go over the line.
a further spin to the story is how a sales rep of adam kluger of the kluger agency tried to pitch jeff crouse of the anti-advertising agency and double happiness jeans, probably the last people on earth who kluger would want to receive the pitch e-mail, now threatening him with lawyers because he published the story on his blog - the whole story at wired.
(via mandy de waal, jeff crouse and wired)
[tags: product placement, brand dropping, the kluger agency, adam kluger, jeff crouse]
