brendan mitchell » animation http://blog.brendanmitchell.com Warning: Reading this blog could seriously damage your opinion of me Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:53:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 brendan mitchell http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/3b356f053ddf37cac96d8a4330b8b6fa.png?s=48 http://blog.brendanmitchell.com Joliena Jol-enX (WTF!) http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2011/03/10/joliena-jol-enx-wtf/ http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2011/03/10/joliena-jol-enx-wtf/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:42:32 +0000 brendanmitchell http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/?p=2074 WTF is this all about… I thought Usavich was strange, but this is beyond words!

Joliena Jol-enX

Usavich

Kanaban Studios

you should follow me on twitter here

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There isn’t a designer in the world that won’t relate to this!

created using www.xtranormal.com

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By Jonathan Jarvis

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]]> http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2009/02/05/getting-my-stuff-done/feed/ 0 How many SMS messages will be sent on New Years Eve 2008/9 http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2008/12/31/how-many-sms-messages-will-be-sent-on-new-years-eve-20089/ http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2008/12/31/how-many-sms-messages-will-be-sent-on-new-years-eve-20089/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:11:10 +0000 brendanmitchell http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/?p=397 Continue reading →]]> 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 daily norms, but the Phllippines outshone everyone, with 1.4 billion SMS’s from a subscriber base of only 50 million!

When it comes to SMS messaging the USA ranks very low, when mobile users were asked whether they have or would send a “Happy New Year” text message, all countries except the USA showed an increase:
U.S.A. 35%; France 85%; Germany 88%; Spain 90%; Italy 92%

For an example of how amazing all this electronic communication can look, have a look at this gorgeous visualisation of the SMS messages sent on New Years Eve in Amsterdam

By Aaron Koblin (check out his site there’s some cool stuff on there!)
and his vimeo page

As our time has become very precious and much more of a commodity to be valued, more & more of us are moving away from paper based communication during the festive season, brevity is king, but even voice calls only showed a moderate increase (guess they take too long and you can only speak to one person at  a time), electronic communication via email, SMS & the likes of Twitter have increased dramatically, so it will be interesting to see how the mobile networks & Twitter cope in the next few hours… I hope Twitter have their fail whale primed and ready to go : )

So just in case I thought I’d get in early and wish you all a fantastic 2009!

]]> http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2008/12/31/how-many-sms-messages-will-be-sent-on-new-years-eve-20089/feed/ 1 In the future You Tube will simply add their adverts seamlessly to your videos! http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2008/12/31/in-the-future-you-tube-will-simply-add-their-adverts-seamlessly-to-your-videos/ http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/2008/12/31/in-the-future-you-tube-will-simply-add-their-adverts-seamlessly-to-your-videos/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:06:32 +0000 brendanmitchell http://blog.brendanmitchell.com/?p=395 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?

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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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