I came across this beautiful piece of digital work recently. Essentially it’s a interactive music video. It got me thinking whether this is what music videos will become. Just from playing with this I felt an affinity with the artist and music which a standard music video could not give me. Here is another prime example for Arcade Fire from a year ago.
After a while away from the blog I’m back.
Skittles have abandoned the typical big flashy brand site and have moved their brand site into the sea of social media. The new app/site (not sure what to call it…suggestions?) reaches out to various social media communities (flickr, Youtube, Wikipedia, Facebook, twitter) and pulls content relating to Skittles. This is a brave but forward thinking step for any brand, as they do not control a majority of the content that is pulled in. This lack of control gives the brand a certain air of accessibility and authenticity that you couldn’t get through a regular site.
Here is another relevant article over at bannerblog.
Snuck this one off of mashable today. And particularly relevant given the recent numbers talked of at AIMA (Mobile Landscape) last week suggested that iphone addicts are spending 6 times more time on the mobile web than non iphone users. Much of this is time is spent searching and browsing. It’s then no surprise that Google the clever folk that they are has launched Adwords for Iphone and G1 devices.
Good news for anyone seeking to launch an application or iphone optimised web property, and another option to distribute beyond the App Store.
Kanye West – made famous for being on the cutting edge of urban culture. The beats, the cameos, the fashion and most of all the heightened level of urban entertainment.
A man that knows what he likes and it looks as though he’s found something new from us that he likes, check it out here:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
… scroll down below Louis Vuitton.
Check out the Website here:
http://corolla.com.au/
Thanks to Jon Knight for this find.
So Yahoo, after so much as dropping out of the Search race, refocuses its attentions toward the ever popular and exciting world of application developers – the new super heroes of the internet. Y!OS (Yahoo Open Strategy) is essentially Yahoo opening its API’s and back ends to developers so they can build cool applications for Yahoo users.
This actually does have some potential and is definitely a strategy to both keep up with the Google express train, and to also keep the internet masses that still use Y homepages and mail from defecting to igoogle and others.
Wow, its really a boom time to be an applications developer
Interesting read from yesterday’s Adnews.
Young Aussies are fitting 38 hours of activities into every 24-hour period thanks to multi-tasking, new research from Synovate has found.
The annual Synovate Young Asians study, which covers 11 markets across Asia Pacific and looks into youth media perceptions and consumption, has for the first time published findings on Australian youth.
The survey found that 52% of Australian youth say their internet usage has increased from the previous year, compared to 16% of respondents who reported an increase in TV watching, 17% in reading newspapers, 13% in reading magazines, 30% in playing sports and 27% in “offline†meetings with friends. Read more
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