Ok, I’m going to keep this brief. There’s a movie. It might be a monster movie. It might not. It might be called Cloverfield… We know it’s written/directed by J.J. Abrams, it probably is… and every geek on the Internet is talking about it.
Archive for January, 2008
17 Jan 2008
Shoot The Ship!
It’s a Space Invaders scarf, which you can purchase on-line from Office Lendorff.
Each garment also features a secret message encoded in a 2-dimensional barcode, that can be read using a mobile with a QR-code scanner.
Cool. Or should that be warm.
Via neatorama.
17 Jan 2008
Is the PS3 living?
I guess the 96 sheet says “the PS3 is going to hit me like a tornado”. But, I’m not so sure. All I can say for certain is its going to hit my wallet, and maybe my wife will hit me if she finds the £350 receipt.
The PS3’s launch penetration is similar to the 360, and I know its far too early to say if the PS3 is going to seriously struggle – but you’ve got to admit it is an ‘awkward’ console. read full post »
17 Jan 2008
The new metrics of campaigns
Jeff Jarvis has written an interesting post writing off polls and listing a number of new ways to take the pulse of the nation during US election campaigning. They include:
- Google searches
- AdWords demand
- Mentions of candidates in blogs
- Textual analysis
- Web traffic
- Video traffic
- Microblogging traffic (Twitter)
- Social sites
- Prediction markets
- Bookmakers odds
16 Jan 2008
Who’s the most powerful man in the world? Some think it’s Tom Cruise
There’s a strange battle raging on the internet at the moment and it’s all over a little piece of video. Okay, it does feature Tom Cruise and depending on your beliefs we’re watching a genius or a mad man.
The story goes… as fast as the clip gets posted ’someone’ is pulling it … already on and off YouTube more times than Mission Impossible sequels, it’s now started to appear on several other random sites. I have my own copy of course and I suggest you get it while you can (last seen on gawker.com).
16 Jan 2008
Apple’s Latest Revenue Stream - Gouging iPod Touch Users
An amazing slew of news from Apple yesterday, including an unbelievably sexy ultra thin laptop, the MacBook Air and much needed updates to iPhone software. For innovation and design, Apple must make it hard to work for any other consumer electronics hardware brand.
Part of the string of announcements caught my eye, however, which was an upgrade to the iPod Touch software (which lest we forget is ‘the world’s best Wi-Fi mobile device’). 
14 Jan 2008
Turning People Green
A post on PSFK prompted me to think about the huge communications challenge around changing people’s behaviour - especially when it comes to “saving the planet”.
Somewhat hysterically, the article about the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) called it “an orgy of poison”. This was due to the fact that so much of the technology on show contains environmental pollutants and that the consumer electronics industry itself encourages us all to buy pointless gizmos which create a huge uneccessary carbon footprint.
13 Jan 2008
Two great new paranoid conspiracies to enjoy
The last weeks of 2007 and first weeks of 2008 provided a double helping of brilliantly scary new tech conspiracies to be very afraid of. This is great news: I haven’t managed to reach this level of paranoia since reading Whitley Streiber’s Communion in the ‘time before X-Files’. Here they are:
13 Jan 2008
More than just “Bling for your page”
There are loads of new tools that make it easy for anyone to create really slick broadband storytelling experiences and share them online. The quality and sophistication of these was previously available only to those with expert knowledge and resources, like media owners. Now, sophisticated animation and custom video creations are within reach for non-experts. It’s the next chapter of an accelerating process of media democratisation that started with cheap digital cameras and photo-sharing, YouTube and blogging. The newer tools are significantly more impressive than RockYou-style Facebook and MySpace bling. Here are three examples:
10 Jan 2008
DoggySnaps wins Yahoo’s ‘Social Find of the Year’ 2007
Okay, I’d better start by saying that I was responsible for this site. I’m in no way impartial. In fact, DoggySnaps was probably the most fun of any social site I’ve worked on so far. It’s also been a really useful example for explaining how conversational media works. In every presentation and talk I’ve given since it launched a couple of years ago there has been a ‘DoggySnaps moment’: the slide with the cute doggies on it when even the hardest hearts melt, senior media executives go “ahh” and everyone finally ‘gets’ online community. Now, the site they call Facebark has finally received some recognition by winning Yahoo’s ‘Social Find of the Year’ 2007.
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