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Nike Live Stong Chalkbot
I know I’ve been offline for a while, but how did I miss this? A new friend in NYC just sent me the link to the Chalkbot created by Deeplocal for Nike and the 2009 Tour de France, the idea lives on the website ‘Wear Yellow’. In short you can send a message of hope [...]
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Mapping visualisation of 250 million Facebook users
This visualisation could be better, I want to zoom in and out, explore countries and cities… but it does get the point across. Facebook is very well connected. Personally I have a love hate relationship with the platform… but that’s inevitable with something that I joined almost four years ago, friended everyone in the first [...]
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The Internet Symphony playing now in NYC
They did it. The Internet Symphony is complete. Nice work by my mate Tom Uglow at Google in the UK – who’s at Carnegie Hall NYC right now. See my original post on the project here.
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More twitter data visual tools…
Via @art_s discovered Twitter Stream Graphs (screengrab), Twit Arcs and Twitter Spectrum. All provide data visualizations for twitter profiles and keywords – tools created by @JeffClark.
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Twitter data – the anti timesheet?
Katie Chatfield mentioned Xefer.com/twitter data visualisation tool at Ad:Tech Sydney. The tool allows you to plot a ‘twitterers’ behaviour over a week. Simply enter their profile and with a mixture of Google’s Chart API and Yahoo Pipes it magically plots the ‘twitterers’ habits. With a mild fascination in data and understanding online behaviour – it [...]
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10 informational diagrams, by Mr Armano
Mr Armano, can I call you David? David [amongst other things] creates diagrams that simplify this quagmire of information that we try to make sense of on a daily basis. These ‘informational graphics’ make the complex simple and provide [me] a way to frame my thinking. The following diagrams aren’t in any particular order. They’ve [...]
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Choosing a social media agency
Here’s a check-list for evaluating social media agencies – with my thoughts inline. First posted on Connect. 1. A new approach – since everyone claims to ‘do’ social, look for those seeking to develop new models for approaching it, not those seeking to map on their existing models. That’s for sure. If your business model [...]
Single Origin – best coffee in Sydney
Single Origin Gypsy Friday from Scott Drummond on Vimeo. Julian just directed me to this great video on the Single Origin coffee shop in Surry Hills, by Scott Drummond (Scott, if there’s a better link, shout and I’ll change). This little coffee shop is where I start my working day – everyday. Not only does [...]
Twitter helping to find ‘indie’ the cat – be vigilant!
Woke this morning to discover I’m being followed by ‘Lost in Bondi’, thought it might be a backpacker, but no its the beautiful looking ‘indie’ the cat – who is sadly lost. Tweet, blog, put up posters – spread the word. Let’s find ‘indie’. 20/12/2008, UPDATE: Indie has been found… !!!!
More Mad Men – The Lives of Others
This is probably my final new media article for INSIDE FILM (#116) magazine. Final, because Rachael Turk (the then editor) has moved on to focus her passions firmly on film creation (and me). The story, which we wrote together, was born from our combined love of Mad Men and initial investigation I’d made into the [...]
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YouTube’s – collaborative online orchestra
Inspired use of the YouTube platform to bring classical musicians together and create a world first (well I think it is). The promise; to be part of a collaborative virtual performance and (if you’re really good) have the chance to play at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 2009. At the heart of the idea [...]
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Followers of Mad Men on Twitter
I’m a new convert to the brilliant show Mad Men. Not just the show but its extension online. I’m currently doing my best to decipher the Twitter experience that’s running in parallel. My reason is that when I posted a Tweet on the fact that I was enjoying series one, within 24hrs Betty Draper started [...]
Also posted in advertising, digital Tagged facts, mad men, social media, social twitter strategy, stats, twitter 8 Comments
oneConnect is following me
I’ve been keeping my eye out for the Yahoo! oneConnect app for the iPhone (its not available in AU yet). The app uses your social connections as an address book and universal messenger – which sounds cool, and is exactly what I want. This morning I awoke to a message that ‘oneConnect’ in now following [...]
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