The 2010 Social Media Map
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Pulse of the Nation
I love data visualisation, in fact I was given a wonderful book entitled “Information is Beautiful” by David McCandleless as a present a few days ago… anyway I just stumbled across this on Mashable The video shows the mood in the U.S., as inferred using over 300 million tweets, over the course of the day. […]
Continue ReadingiPhone 4 35mm Lens Adapter
In an update to the post I made a couple of weeks ago about attaching 35mm lenses to the iPhone 4, the guys at Vid Atlantic have adapted their EnCinema 35mm Adapter to fit to Owle Bubo Video shot with a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 DSLR lens on the EnCinema 35mm Adapter attached to the […]
Continue ReadingMagicPrefs, makes your wireless Magic Mouse… errr, Magic
How did I miss this little gem, if you bought Apple’s bluetooth Magic Mouse, then realised it didn’t have as much functionality of the wired USB Mighty Mouse, fear not, as MagicPrefs is here to save the day! (and yes I agree, they are ridiculously named products!)
Continue ReadingThere’s Music in the Air
I’ve been using Airfoil by Rogue Amoeba for years to pump audio from my Mac to my Airport Express… but I hadn’t realised they’d created a FREE app named Airfoil Speakers, that turns your iPhone/iPod/iPad or any Mac or PC on your WIFI network into a wireless audio receiver. That’s saved me buying another airport […]
Continue ReadingiPod Video Wall
I have to admit that I do have several iPods and iPhones laying around here that I’m not really using, but not this many! We Like Small
Continue ReadingiPhone Lens Kits & Camera Mounts
Keeping with the iPhone theme, I noticed on a friend’s Facebook page this morning a ridiculous looking iPhone lens modification (which unfortunately wouldn’t really work that well with a 35mm lens, due to the tiny size of the sensor in the iPhone, unless you wanted a super zoom lens that is)… although this looks weird […]
Continue ReadingFirst iPhone 4 Music Video
This is pretty amazing when you think it was shot entirely on an iPhone!?!?! An extract from Marty Martin’s Vimeo page “In an effort to release the first iPhone 4 music video, my good friend and musician Steve Failows [AKA flakjakt] and I collaborated over a period of less than a week to create the […]
Continue ReadingiPhone OS 4, does this mean I’m lazy?
Over the weekend I installed the Developers version of iPhone OS 4 (one advantage of being an iPhone Developer), and I must say the multi-tasking is great, although unfortunately several of the apps I’d like to use and test it with haven’t released compatible updates yet… but regardless of that the I’ve found OS 4 […]
Continue ReadingIt’s Hip to be Square
On Friday I downloaded a wonderful app for my iPhone named Hipstamatic… in essence you now have a Lomographic camera on your iPhone. The array of films, effects and lenses you can add are excellent. The whole interface and user experience has been beautifully thought through and is a joy to use. The app is […]
Continue Readingthe future is no paper
Anyone that’s in magazine or print design and isn’t looking seriously at the iPad and eBooks is on very dangerous ground… it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee Magazines of Tomorrow
Continue ReadingVideo Name Tag
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Continue ReadingVideo Jukebox Anyone?
Want to download a video from YouTube (or most websites?) Install this plugin for Firefox http://www.downloadhelper.net/ Of course most files stored on YouTube are in Adobe’s Flash format (.flv), so you will require something to play them back. You can use VLC, but wouldn’t it be better if you could us QuickTime? Download and install Perian (you’ll need […]
Continue ReadingiPad
After five years of speculation and 15 years after The Steve canned the Newton (still have my three in the attic!), Apple have announced the iPad. I have mixed feelings on the iPad, from a business & user perspective, I think it’s great, it’s been well thought through and it looks gorgeous, sure the big […]
Continue ReadingThe Apple iPad
mmmmmmm… not quite what I was expecting from Apple!
Continue ReadingLeft a bit, a little bit more, ah there you are
Staying with the Augmented Reality theme, BrightKite announced last month that their partnership with Layar to offer AR of your BrightKite friends posts over live video on your mobile, is now available on the iPhone (originally only available for Android) Another AR app recently launched on the iPhone is Wikitude, that overlays live video with […]
Continue ReadingThe Business cARd
I stumbled across these pieces this morning. First a business card and a video ident sting for E4, both of which use the popular method of using a pattern encased in a square, but the third example uses a different approach, whereby the camera recognises any pre-stored image, in this case a photograph on a […]
Continue ReadingAugmented Reality Coming To A Bookshelf Near You
Having already tested the water with an issue using e-Ink technology, it’s interesting to see Esquire extending the user experience of their paper based magazine with online media, I see this as a terrific medium for marketeers & advertisers, but also educational titles or children’s books where the story or information can be brought to […]
Continue ReadingThere’s An Ad For That
You have to admire Verizon’s audacity in creating this advert to try and snag AT&T customers over to their network, by playing upon Apple’s “There’s an App for That” tagline used in their iPhone & App Store adverts (in case you’ve been living in a cave for the past year, you’ll find plenty of them […]
Continue ReadingDon’t Click It, Multi-Touch It
This morning I was sent an interesting video demonstrating a conceptual approach to a Multi-Touch GUI (Graphic User Interface). The concept has been well thought through and the video speaks for itself, so I won’t go into detail here, but they also touch upon (no pun intended), the notion of a 3D OS (Operating System). […]
Continue ReadingThe Social Media Revolution Fad
As I’ve re-quoted before “Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital“ Aaron Levenstein This video makes compelling reading/watching, but read between the lines, there’s more to this than meets the eye, major changes are unfolding in the social media environment, information/data/ID aggregation is becoming the new hot […]
Continue ReadingWave Goodbye to Closed Networks
Google said they’d have something interesting to demo at the Google IO Dev Conference, oh boy they weren’t kidding… Hello to Google Waves! The Video below is 1.5hrs long, but it’s worth a look, as this will change everything. I’ve been harping on for ages about data aggregation & building open platforms without walls, with […]
Continue ReadingAll Vegans Look Away Now!
OK, I have to ask why do this? even if you knew how to do this, why would you? and just think of all that lovely Prosciutto… but I bet it smells amazing! [vodpod id=Groupvideo.2408155&w=280&h=230&fv=] more info http://www.graysci.com/ original post on Boing Boing
Continue ReadingI Lecture, Therefore iPod
The New Scientist posted an interesting article entitled “iTunes university’ better than the real thing” (below are snippets form the article) Dr Dani McKinney, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Fredonia, led a study, to find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone – 64 students were […]
Continue ReadingID Gator™ Calling all Beta Testers
ID Gator™ is calling for Beta Testers, if you’re interested then drop them a line with a subject title along the lines of “I want to be a guinea pig” to betatesters@idgator.com
Continue ReadingTwitter to charge commercial accounts, is this a good idea?
Where did I hear about this first, on twitter of course! thanks to Matt Ryan In this piece in Marketing Magazine, it would appear Twitter is working out ways to monetize it’s service. Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: ‘We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make […]
Continue ReadingMacworld 2009: Apple Introduces The MacBook Wheel
In a keynote presentation to end all keynote presentations, Phil Schiller replaced Steve Jobs to introduce the revolutionary MacBook Wheel. Watch the video for more information. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.1939851&w=425&h=350&fv=file%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fxml%2F92328%2Fvideo%26autostart%3Dfalse%26image%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FNO_KEYBOARD_article.jpg%26bufferlength%3D3%26embedded%3Dtrue%26title%3DApple%2520Introduces%2520Revolutionary%2520New%2520Laptop%2520With%2520No%2520Keyboard] more about “Apple Introduces Revolutionary New La…“, posted with vodpod
Continue ReadingTime for Facebook to Face the Facts
Nick Burcher added a post on his blog about Facebook Usage Statistics for 2008 which made me think about something I mentioned a few weeks ago, as I noticed within Facebook’s top 21 only India & Hong Kong appear for the whole of Asia! Where’s China, Japan, Indonesia etc? Nick’s stats are interesting, but they’re […]
Continue ReadingHow many SMS messages will be sent on New Years Eve 2008/9
On New Years Eve 2008, an estimated 43 billion SMS messages where sent globally! Which was up 30% on 2007, but the rise wasn’t evenly spread… Portugal tripled and The Netherlands doubled. Developing nations are by far the fastest expanding mobile markets, India’s 220 million mobile subscribers sent over a billion, a 300% rise on […]
Continue ReadingIn the future You Tube will simply add their adverts seamlessly to your videos!
OK maybe not, but by the looks of this, it might not be that far fetched an idea, or that long before they can! If you thought that was cool, have you met Emily yet?
Continue ReadingUh-oh – I made a stinky!
Indulge your fecal fantasies with a doll that craps! The opening paragraph of the post on The Register says it all “Technology has brought many transcendent benefits to our culture, but possibly none have been as consummate in its exquisite magnificence as this holiday season’s nonpareil of elegance, Baby Alive Learns to Potty, a child’s […]
Continue ReadingLivestation iPhone Beta Testing
I spent the later part of this afternoon and some of this evening beta testing the Livestation iPhone App. It’s still early days and there’s some bugs that need ironing out, but it’s looking promising. For more info read this.
Continue ReadingUnsocial Networks: Or why Facebook has got it wrong as Open Social is the Future
It’s 5am and the dawn chorus has started in my back garden, but I don’t mind, as it got me thinking (which is sometimes a bad thing), so I’m wide awake now! The future for social networks is portability, I want the same freedoms online that I have in the real world, I want to […]
Continue ReadingFakebook: Koobface Virus
If you use Facebook, then you should read this article from the BBC about the Koobface virus that has been playing havoc on Facebook. Below is a snippet of the article, but follow the link to read it all on the BBC site. ‘Koobface’ spreads by sending a message to people’s inboxes, pretending to be […]
Continue ReadingLivestation: Live Video Streaming to iPhone Demo
Livestation™ is a new development from Skinkers In essence it’s live video streaming to your desktop over the web, OK nothing exactly ground breaking there, but they’re also developing a version that will run on mobile devices, namely the iPhone & iPod Touch. Although technically, they can deliver the stream over a 3G network, the […]
Continue ReadingAh, So Tru
OK, everybody has heard of Skype, (if you haven’t, then what cave have you been hiding in?) but now there’s a new VoIP kid on the block Truphone. Unlike Skype, Truphone doesn’t offer instant messaging & online chat, an answering service or even a desktop based application… so why bother with it then? Well unlike […]
Continue ReadingTo reach 180 million people…
Radio took 40yrs TV took 14yrs Internet took 4yrs Facebook 4yrs (140million so far) (I wonder how long it will take me to get 180million people following me on twitter!?!) here’s some other useful figures I’ve found
Continue ReadingShift Happens, Are You Ready?
I recently found my notes from a presentation I gave 13 years ago, unfortunately I no longer have the presentation (not that I would have software that could open it now even if I could find it). You need to remember that at the time a 56k modem was considered warpdrive access to that little […]
Continue ReadingCan Stephen Fry kill a gadget?
For one answer click this link to the BBC dot.life article by Rory Cellan-Jones It’s a good question to ask and anyone in a marketing or branding department should take note, as it’s not just gadgets that can be made or broken in this way, but services, reputations or even your brand! There’s been a […]
Continue ReadingGet Mobile
There’s great advantage of brevity, we all use our mobiles for communicating, for texting and now surfing the web. Your kids and grand-children, will be using mobile devices we’ve never dreamed of, and they’ll probably never see let alone use a computer, because they won’t exist… Sounds unlikely, well ask yourself this, you don’t expect […]
Continue ReadingIncredible, Jaw-Dropping Photosynth Demo
OK I know it’s almost 18 months old, but this presentation still impresses the hell out of me everytime I watch it. If you’ve not seen Blaise Aguera y Arcas giving his Photosynth demo at TED, then prepare to be wowed! UPDATE: Microsoft has released Sea Dragon for the iPhone, not quite sure why, but […]
Continue ReadingI can’t get no…
Go on admit it, you know you jutted your lips out just then and said “mmm, mmm, mmm satis-fact-shun” Well maybe you can now… if you have a niggle about something, or want to ask the guys that actually make the products you’re using, check out Get Satisfaction What better way is there for a […]
Continue ReadingIt’s email Jim, but not as we know it
Eyejot’s video email service is a great idea, that works really well. Rather than emailing your friends boring old text and still images, you can now send them video based emails.
Continue ReadingMeet Emily – Image Metrics Tech Demo
incredible isn’t it… and to see just how far things have come, he’s another Emily, some of you may remember.
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