September 29, 2006
National Geo Kids Spookiecard
We just launched a Halloween Ecard tool for National Geographic kids, which lets kids dress up their new mascot. Nathan J supplied the beautiful vectors.
We also launched the GeeForce simulator for the Red Bull Air Race.
Little People
Little People is a photoblog of tiny figures in real life situations.
Little Superstar is an Indian movie sensation that the western world is going nuts about. If there was an "India's Got Talent" he'd win for sure.
Line Rider
This little flash toy is extremely addictive and has inspired a whole bunch of Youtube videos. People with too much time on their hands are cool.
The Dave Carter Show
Dave Carter falls into that basket of people who are extremely talented but with a warped sense of humour.
Earth Wallpapers
Google Maps + screengrabs = Earth Wallpapers.
Ash is now king of this Google Maps quiz.
September 11, 2006
Programmed by People
Chaired by Al Gore, who is 'real hot right now', about one third of Current TV's cable programming is from viewers, loaded online and voted on by other viewers at www.current.tv
On the quainter side of the Atlantic, BBC2 has been quietly building it's Video Nation for ten years plus. This brilliant view of English life and lives, big and small, is constantly updated by thousand's of amateurs every day.
And we can't forget little people power – Nick is letting kids in on the programming thing at Turbo Nick.
Anarchy In The UK
We love Paris, but not that one. A phenomenal piece of princess-slashing, self-promotion, came from UK street artist Banksy when he replaced 500 copies of Miss Hilton’s debut CD in 48 different record stores with his own remixes and cover art.
Here's an example of his shameless efforts, the 'making of' video is of course on YouTube
And you can see his other cunning stunts at his website.
Pandora's Box
Come on, we all know internet radio makes FM radio, and the precious iTunes collection, look a bit flaccid. Access to literally millions of songs, and the regular pleasure of hearing something new you actually like, streamed thought a very clever recommendation engine.
Try out Pandora and Last.fm for starters.
Queer As Folks
Another term used a tad too often at the moment is "folksonomy". Seems to keep popping up in press releases from "Web 2.0" startups, while Wikipedia, Digg, YouTube just let "folks" go about their business.
A weakness with all this is that it relies on "folks" who may think the Great Wall of China was built to keep out the rabbits. See what Stephen Colbert did to Wikipedia here.
Thank God for Snacks
Someone at Soap was the first person in the WORLD to use the term 'snack entertainment', apparently. Now even the slowest to adopt anything, TV companies, are doing it...
At one end of the scale, the first seven minutes of Fox Network's 'The Simpsons' season opener will be available as a preview on MySpace, IGN TV and Fox.com.
At the other end, lil' old Channel 10 is letting viewers download packages of four to eight minutes of "snack TV" from the new Thank God You're Here website.
Nice and Fluffy
Oh, for a simpler life... weather your head is in them or full of them, clouds can be useful sometimes. Here’s a site dedicated to the lovely things.
September 04, 2006
Agency Blogs
Every week you read more BS from people talking about blogs, but how many of them actually walk the walk? Here's a few of our fav agency blogs from around the world. So 2.0 right now.
WK [UK]
See [AU]
Organic [US]
Hi-Res [UK]
Leo Burnett [CA]
And there also little ol' Bannerblog from us.
Flickr Maps
You can now Geo Tag your photos with Flickr!! Letting you show your friends exactly where you took that photo. And for those interested this is where we have our Weekly BBQ.
Strand Beest
We'd love to say we knew all about Theo Jansen before this BMW ad but sadly we didn't. Reminds us of Soda Constructor.
Strange Statues
No big banana, pineapple, prawn or dunny? Australia is sadly under-represented.
In Sync Challenge
Educating people about insurance doesn't have to be a mundane task.
