February 2011
1 post
Hello 2Screen Advertising
From Wieden+Kennedy:
“We have also created a ground-breaking digital app that introduces the ability to ‘play’ with a television commercial using a mobile phone. The app allows viewers of the film to ‘catch’ the animated characters as the commercial appears on screen.”
Lovely to see the first blossoms after banging on about it for the last couple of years. I feel a bit...
January 2011
1 post
World's Smallest Instagram Gallery →
December 2010
1 post
2010 in Music: My Top 10 Albums
The 10 albums that I listened to the most, enjoyed the most or affected me in some way in 2010. The album covers are Spotify links to the albums, where available.
Here we go:
10. Interpol - Interpol
The fourth offering from Interpol perhaps doesn’t even deserve this spot, but I guess some part of me still very much holds onto what I felt when I first listened to Turn On The Bright...
October 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
Give us a vote and come round for dinner!
A couple of weeks ago, my mum and I entered a cooking competition called Nom Nom Nom.
We wrote a post about it over at the Nom Nom Nom website. Give it a read.
The competition is now up for public vote and we thought we’d do something a little bit different.
Here’s the deal:
- Vote for us on Nom Nom Nom. We are ‘Like Mother, Like Son - Utku & Armagan’.
- Come...
July 2010
1 post
On Old Spice
The brilliance of Wieden + Kennedy’s Old Spice marathon has been written about at length. For me, it’s the best example of content meets social we’ve seen. But it’s something that happened around it which got me really thinking: Old Spice Voicemail.
For the unfamiliar, here’s a short summary. A user called Pandarr on reddit requested an answering machine from Old...
January 2010
4 posts
“As simultaneous web and TV use gains popularity, TV producers will be encouraged...”
– ‘Internet can boost TV audiences, says Deloitte’ on MarketingWeek.
#2screen
“It’s one thing to suggest that videogames may be making us smarter. It’s another...”
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Game Changers: How Videogames Trained a Generation of Athletes by Chris Suellentrop on Wired 18.02
“With the Myspace Fan Videos, the magic isn’t in the tech. It’s in the moment...”
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Fran Hazeldine on the thinking behind BBH London’s lovely ‘Myspace Fan Video’.
Full article on BBH Labs.
“It can be a bit of a let down if you come in expecting another blockbuster like...”
– I’m glad I didn’t write a review for Spoon’s new album Transference now. Pitchfork said everything I wanted to say in their review’s final sentence.
Meet them halfway. It’ll be worth it.
December 2009
4 posts
2009 in Film: My Top 10
10. Erasing David
David Bond has nothing to hide… but does he really have nothing to fear?
Shocked and appalled by the amount of data corporations and government hold on us, David decides to do something extraordinary. He disappears off the grid for 30 days and hires a couple of private investigators to track him down using whatever data they can find on him. Will they find him before the 30...
Here & There and Inception
I watched the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie Inception earlier. It’s got that ‘Nolan Look’ and I’m looking forward to seeing it. One thing though, something in the trailer immediately grabbed me. It was this scene:
A cityscape curving? Hmm, now where did we see that before?
Ah yes, BERG’s Here & There! Coincidence? Artistic licence? Or...
Top 5s of 2009: Albums
The 5 albums that I listened to the most, enjoyed the most or touched me in some way in 2009. The images are Spotify links to the albums. Here we go:
5. Dan Black - Un
Yes, it’s fluffy, but in a good, cheerful way. And it’s smart. Smarter than you might think. Dan has made 45 minutes of great pop and I enjoyed it immensely. I love how it becomes more subdued as the album carries...
Christmas has come early. In a mysterious, shiny...
Update: On Slashgear & Gizmodo.
This morning, I had a big box waiting for me at the office. We quickly opened it.
The card said:
We made a right mess with the foam balls. A wrapped box within a box? Hmm.
Let’s unwrap it!
It’s a mysterious black box from Nokia! And seemingly no way of opening it. But what’s this?
There’s a mini-USB port on the box, a USB...
November 2009
3 posts
The bookshop is dead. Long live the bookshop!
Reading Bash’s article on the death of bookshops this morning prompted me to write up something I’ve been thinking on music retail, which translates just as well to literature.
Record stores have been dying for a lot longer than the bookshop. It’s not too long ago Virgin Megastores became Zavvi and shortly after disappeared from the high street.
But I don’t think...
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A tale of two video games
This past week, I have been regularly playing two games; Uncharted 2 on the PlayStation 3 and Canabalt on the iPhone.
They couldn’t be more different.
Uncharted 2 has a movie-grade script and complex game mechanics. It offers the most photo-realistic graphics achieved on a console, excellent voice acting and 12 hours of unique gameplay. It cost twenty million dollars to make and retails for...
NaBloPoMo
I’ve gone and done something a bit silly…
NaBloPoMo, that’s ‘National Blog Posting Month’ in human, is a drive to encourage bloggers to post every day for a month. I have pledged to do just that.
Always berating myself for never getting round to turning the scribbles and sketches on the Moleskine to coherent words, this may just be the kick up the backside I need.
...
October 2009
6 posts
“There are lots of things that have never been done with print before, just...”
– ‘Owning distribution’ on Newspaper Club
September 2009
6 posts
June 2009
2 posts
June 2 - International Iceberg Appreciation Day
niceberg:
On any given day, you would think of icebergs once maybe, in passing. Somedays you might not even think of them at all! But you should. Here’s some good reasons why:
Icebergs are also known as ‘bergs. Ergo, they’re hip and down with the kids.
When an iceberg melts, it actually makes a sound, and this sound is called ‘Bergie Seltzer’. Imagine calling your kid that.
The National Ice...
May 2009
8 posts
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between...”
– George Orwell
Favourites on Twitter - Surveyed and visualized
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about favourites on Twitter and how people use them. So last week, I ran a survey on Twitter to collect some data on this. I then went away turned the raw data into infographics.
Presenting Favourites on Twitter - Surveyed and Visualized.
View on Flickr.
Recommended: Download the PDF.
Best viewed on paper.
Please feel free to leave feedback. I hope you...
Metric - Electric Ballroom - 19 May 2009
This is a cross-post of my review at the Londonist
Having played sell-out shows across the UK in the past week, Tuesday night saw Metric finishing their UK tour with a triumphant performance at Camden’s Electric Ballroom. The band, on an adrenaline - and most likely exhaustion - high, jubilantly asked our permission ‘to rock our faces off’, and rock, they did.
For the...
"London Undersound" won a prize at Yahoo Hack Day →
iamdanw:
For ‘best local service’, from a pool of 200 developers submitting 51 apps. Yay! Write up, code and deployed app to come next week after I recover from being awake for 36 hours so far.
Awesome work Dan! :-)
Graphic Design: The Forgotten Web Standard
The slides from Mike Kus’ talk at FOWD London 2009.
April 2009
3 posts
The Friday Soundtrack
Listen here.
Brownie points for guessing which films the not obvious ones are from. :-)
#dailyplaylist
March 2009
22 posts
The Guardian - Now exclusively on Twitter →
Happy April fools’ everyone!
More on Twitter change - It's not just UI, it's...
Earlier I mentioned Twitter had a UI change and @replies were now @mentions. Well it turns out this change goes a bit deeper than that. It’s actually an API level change; requesting for replies now gets @mentions, as well as @replies.
Here it is already in action in Tweetie.
This makes the Replies section of client apps exponentially more useful; as those of you who rely on...
UI Change Tuesday
Tumblr
Tumblr is now “question-mark aware”; If you end your post with a question mark, it will display a dialog for comments answering questions. It will be interesting to see whether this leads to less re-blogs to comment.
(Post by Dan W)
Twitter
Twitter has renamed the Replies tab to “@username” and now displays in-line mentions, as well as replies that start with...
The Friday Journey
Listen here.
#dailyplaylist
Rainbow Thursday
Inspired by a suggestion from @m1tzy.
Listen here.
#dailyplaylist
Earth Hour
On Saturday 28 March 2009, at 8.30PM, the London Eye will be switching off its lights for an hour. So will the Eiffel Tower in Paris. And the Sydney Opera House. Even the “24/7 on” Coca-Cola lights in Piccadilly Circus.
But why? It’s all in aid of Earth Hour, a WWF campaign to bring environmental issues, climate change in particular to more immediate attention of world...
Loosely Themed Monday
Listen here.
#dailyplaylist