December 2008
TESLA (Time Elapsed Since Labs Attended) and RMU... →
In a recent post on Boing Boing, Clay Shirky talks about the user research approach used at meetup.com:
[…] Scott pulled me into a room by the elevators, where a couple of product people were…
YouTube - One Of The First Vocoder Machine →
Originally posted by dan.r from Delicious/tag/electronics, ReBlogged by Roddy on Dec 30, 2008 at 04:32 PM
Mums furious as Facebook removes breastfeeding... →
Facebook has become the target of an 80,000-plus protest by irate mothers after banning breastfeeding photographs from online profiles.
Facebook’s policy, which bans any breastfeeding images…
More On ‘Recession or Reorder?’ →
There’s much discussion about the significant change we are witnessing accelerated by the financial crisis. In a piece called Recession or Reorder I used some data to suggest that shifts in work,…
The "Webcam" vs. the "Particle Beam" →
The “Webcam” vs. the “Particle Beam”
A web camera is placed into a particle beam to show visually the affects of space radiation on electronics. This video shows the particles striking…
How to choose a social media agency →
Philip Buxton, the former editor of Revolution, has written a great checklist for brands choosing a social media agency:
A new approach - since everyone claims to ‘do’ social, look for…
Benrik Pitch: The swearing news →
Swearing is everywhere except for on the news - let’s make a swearing news programme
Xbox’s New Marketing Plan: Targeting Moms... →
The Xbox 360 is utilizing a marketing strategy that is reminiscent of the Tupperware and Mary Kay Cosmetics parties of old and despite the radical change in product, the target audience…
Urban honey →
Certainly one of the most intriguing urban project I’ve encountered lately: miel béton (which means “concrete honey” in french): the production of honey on urban roofs in the northern…
MINI: Augmented Reality Advertising a Reality →
MINI has produced a spectacular advertisement, that’s one of the first of it’s kind. The car company created a print ad that when viewed though a web cam produces a virtual 3D model of…
Everything you know about ARGs is WRONG →
Warning: this post contains explicit language.
This is a re-version of a talk I gave at the Let’s Change the Game conference held on Friday 5 December 2008. It was a very casual,…
Triggering the dreamy state →
The great British neurologist John Hughlings-Jackson famously described the ‘dreamy state’ reported by some epileptic patients during seizures where they experienced complex hallucinations -…
Dead Ringer →
When defense attorney John Jacobs passed away from pancreatic cancer three years ago, he was buried with his fully charged Motorola T720 phone. His $55 Verizon bill gets paid every month and…
Social networking boom for mobiles →
The number of people using their mobile phones to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo and keep in constant touch with their friends has rocketed this year, according to a study…
ARToolKit makes it to the iPhone →
This iPhone app lets you run the ARToolKit v.4.4 on the device at 10fps with realtime tracking and more features to come! Check out the video to see it in action, pretty limitless things…
What is viral marketing? →
Viral marketing is an idea that spreads—and an idea that while it is spreading actually helps market your business or cause. Two kinds of viral marketing: The original classic sort in which the…
Yahoo sets new standards for net privacy →
Yahoo threw down the gauntlet to bitter rivals Google and Microsoft yesterday by cutting the length of time that it retains information about what its users are doing online.
It will now keep…
Open Sesame - Using a CD rom drive and SSH to open... →
Nice hack!
Emmanuel Florac and the rest of his officemates had a bit of a problem: while they could freely leave the office as they pleased, none of them could get back in. Undoubtedly,…
Course teaches how to become a professional... →
A new course is offering members of the public the chance to learn how to become a professional computer hacker – without ever leaving the house.
The lessons in so-called “ethical hacking”,…
CIA Super Hero Calendar 2009 →
Fresh from the UK ~ Justine (aka RUGenius) just sent over a bunch of pics of the new CIA Super Hero Calendar for 2009 that just showed up! It was seen as #17226 ~ and we featured their
Omniture to Measure iPhone Apps →
Omniture SiteCatalyst is now measuring iPhone app usage. With the App Measurement, advertisers will have insight into ad clicks, page views, and purchases. Editor & Publisher reports.
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Top Marketing Geeks Make Their Predictions for... →
Will 2009 be the big year for corporate transparency, for a global conversation - perhaps for bargain basement online marketing tactics instead of old-school huge commercial campaigns? …
MoMB | The Hot 100 →
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Warp Release On The Hour →
Alan Partridge, Peter O’Hanraha-Hanrahan, Kevin Smear, Rosy May… just some of the characters that were originally created for Chris Morris and Armando Ianucci’s satirical On The Hour…
Does Google Really Want Net Neutrality? →
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, Google has approached major broadband providers in an attempt to get a “fast lane” for its content over the Internet. If true, the…
Mahalo Picks Up Where Google Answers Left Off →
Human-powered search engine Mahalo is adding a big new piece to its business: a Q&A feature that competes with the likes of Yahoo Answers. The twist is that there is a payment system, allowing…
Enlide Screencast : iGoogle widget in 8 minutes.... →
Enlide is a new powerful social web based IDE for building next generation web applications. Right now, developers uses web technologies ( css, html…) to build web apps. With Enlide, the…
Precocious Baby Starts Twittering from the Womb →
Think you’re an early adopter, huh? @kickbee has you beat.
Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He…
Brian on Harry Hill →
In case you haven’t seen it, here’s Brian on Harry Hill’s TV Burp. :)
"My left at floods turned upside down" →
James Hook ran the theme song to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air through Microsoft’s speech recognition mechanism. I pulled up to the house around seven or eight And I yield to the cabbie your…
Risque Behavior on the Rise for Online Teens →
Uh oh. Parents, you’d better lock the kids up and throw away the camphones - it seems that the younger generation is up to not-so-innocent hijinks online. The recent “Sex and Tech”…
Kickbee: Baby’s First Twitter →
It seems it’s never too early to get your kids started on sharing their thoughts and emotions. Designer and expectant father Corey Menscher has created the Kickbee, a device worn by…
Do Brands Belong on Twitter? →
Dr. Mark Drapeau is a biological scientist, government consultant, and regular contributor to Mashable.com and other venues.
Behind every Twitter account is a person. But some of these…
The Bourne Infrastructure « Magical Nihilism →
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Matt Webb's 100 Head Cattle Drive 2008 →
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Lili Lite - Enlight Yourself →
Lili Lite is one of the most creative bookshelves around. It combines a book shelf, a bookmark and a reading light all in one. It features a sensor that switches the light on as you pick up…
Twitter + Blogs = TwitBlogs! →
You love Twitter, but you find its short form messages a little restricting? Or perhaps you want to add images and videos to your Tweets? TwitBlogs, which just went live in alpha, could…
Hip hop albums re-created with Lego! →
Hilarious work by Formatmag.
More images here: Booooooom!
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Go Pepsi, Go →
source: flickr I spent seven years working for Pepsi at the height of the Cola Wars. I’m still a Diet Pepsi and Pepsi Max fanatic to this day. The hardest working Pepsi logo was…
Final countdown: After 4,750 shows, Carol's... →
She was introduced in a characteristically cringe-making way as “our vital statistician” and “a pretty good figure”. Twenty six years, 4,750 episodes, 320,000 letters and 57,000 dur-dur…
Charlie Brooker's screen burn →
Another week, another column diverted from its planned trajectory at the last minute.
I was supposed to write about Horizon: Where’s My Robot? (Tue, 9pm, BBC2), an affable lightweight…
A victory for irony as Elton John loses Guardian... →
Sir Elton John is well known for his quick temper and outrageous behaviour. A documentary of his life said it all - it was called, knowingly, Tantrums and Tiaras.
But a high court judge ruled…
I *heart* my geek… « I love kittens… →
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Lovemark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
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Bad Science: How the Sun boobed over Britney... →
Just to be clear, nobody listens to a word I say. More important equation news from the Sun this week, with the exciting headline “How to tell if the boobline is too low … use this equation…
Thoughts on brands leveraging Twitter as a... →
This week I got an email from a client asking for some advice on how a brand (specifically their brand, obviously) should get involved in Twitter. At Leo’s suggestion I decided to respond…
Chocolate Research Facility →
Chocolate Research Facility is a completely new concept applied to a chocolate shop. In a world dominated by chocolate in different flavours (in Italy we have dozens of chocolate…
Portable Social Graphs - Imagining their Potential... →
Facebook Connect is being rolled out on more and more sites but its not always being used to its fullest potential. Here are some provocative ideas for how Facebook Connect can be used to…
JanRain - Products - RPX →
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