September 16, 2008 • 6:10 pm 1
Regular readers will remember I have posted about the One Thousand Paintings project before; here and here in fact. I even bought my own 956.
There is now a Google Tech Talk video about the project, which really demystifies the whole thing, and adds a tonne more too.
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March 25, 2008 • 10:52 pm 0
Here’s a nice little idea.
And here’s the visual cues:
Plenty of scope to copy that in B2B campaigns. And I will. Unashamedly.
Filed under: Buzz, CPG, Cool, Design, Printing, ideas, marketing , CPG, idea, Noisy Decent Graphics, wine label
• 10:03 pm 0
Sliderocket presented at Under The Radar in the US yesterday – scooping, wait for it, three gongs….Best in Show, the Judges Choice award, and the Audience Choice award.
I think this is one of those ‘Miss it – Miss out’ moments.
You see, SlideRocket is a rich internet application that provides for every part of the presentation lifecycle. It integrates authoring, asset management, delivery and analytics tools into a single hosted environment that allows you to quickly create stunning presentations, intelligently manage your assets, securely share your slides, and measure the results.
SlideRocket differentiates itself from other presentation products by being Web-based, feature-rich, easy-to-use, secure, and complete. SlideRocket is also unique in that it includes a community marketplace where content and services can be shared and transacted.
SlideRocket is the first online productivity application that embraces business level features such as collaboration, robust security, dynamic data binding and business integration with applications like Salesforce.com. SlideRocket also embraces the best of the Internet with features like asset tagging, web content mashups, embedded data services and seamless rich media support.
Very cool.
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March 12, 2008 • 9:51 pm 0
February 14, 2008 • 9:15 am 1
Information Architects have presented their Web Trends Map (2008 beta). This time they have taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By the way, I posted about previous versions before, here.
Ok so what is it? In simple terms its 300 of the most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. All the real detail, irony and laughs are captured here. Absolutely wonderful.
I could spend days looking at this. And I will when they get it down to 1024 x 768!
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January 2, 2008 • 10:27 pm 6
October 1, 2007 • 12:59 pm 1
The first time I saw seam carving in action, I thought it was an optical illusion. It isn’t. Back 1 month ago it was a proof of concept. Now you can finally use seam carving on your own images!
First, a quick summary of the technique: Typically, when you resize a photo, you
just make everything in it smaller. Simple, right? Well seam carving is like a
smarter version of resizing. Your computer analyzes the photo and figures out what’s
important and what isn’t, then it eliminates the less important areas first as you
shrink the image.
That means you can resize a photo to be half as wide without shrinking everyone in
it, or even make a photo wider without making it look stretched. You can even pick
areas you definitely want to leave alone, or areas you definitely want to lose,
making it a super easy way to remove an ex or a stranger from a otherwise lovely
photo.
Well, enough already. You really need to give it a try for yourself.
Rsizr Free seam-carving image resizing on the web
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September 14, 2007 • 12:22 pm 0
Inside CRM editors have listed 12 effective strategies that Apple uses to create loyal customers.
In essence ‘complete solutions’, ‘familiar formats’ and the ‘cool factor’, keep customers coming back – but the full list is worth reading.
Filed under: Apple, Branding, CRM, Cool, Customer service, marketing
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March 14, 2008 • 10:42 pm 0
Please help
Sport Relief
(I should apologise for bringing you here by illicit categorisation and tagging, but I won’t. You might have wasted just 10 seconds. Hopefully you will make the choice to change someone’s world in less than a minute).
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