links for 2009-12-02

• The Last Campaign: How Experiences Are Becoming the New Advertising [Advertising Age]
  At last… now can we stop calling ‘them’ the user…
  (tags: marketing experience digital trends advertising planning)
  
• Square
  I’m loving this payment solution…
  (tags: payment digital money mobile)
  
• What are the best TV ads of the noughties? [guardian.co.uk]
  What’s your favourite?
  (tags: advertising tv creative)
  
• BBC iPlayer use, in beautiful graphics [guardian.co.uk]
  Fantastic interpretation of data…
  (tags: data digital BBC infographics iplayer visualization)

links for 2009-12-01

• Information Is Beautiful
  Amazing infographics from visual and data journalist David McCandless
  (tags: data infographics visualisation statistics)

links for 2009-11-30

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• Sony Ericsson Hoppers (in a warehouse)
  #pumpt
  (tags: digital physical experience environment)
  
• Instant creative solutions for advertising [Adverblog]
  Stuck for the killer idea – here’s some help…
  (tags: creative ideas inspiration instant)
  
• Facebook Marketing: IKEA’s Genius Use of Photo Tagging [Mashable]
  Another great campaign from IKEA…
  (tags: socialmedia advertising facebook ikea campaign)
  
• Love Letters to the Future
  Your opportunity to participate in the climate chnge debate and particpate in Copenhagen’s climate change conference…
  (tags: environment digital personal message future)
  
• Being Connected [Conversation Agent]
  Valid point that reach doesn’t mean connection from Valeria Maltoni
  (tags: digital experience engagement conversation)
  
• Art of the Trench [Burberry]
  Burberry embraces social media with a great photography lead experience…
  (tags: burberry socialmedia fashion photography retail)
  
• It’s clicked: luxury works on the web [Telegraph]
  Tim Malbon shares insight into the luxury/online debate…
  (tags: luxury burberry gucci digital socialmedia)

links for 2009-11-12

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• The Boom of Social Sites [Focus.com]
  A great infographic that illustrates the rise and rise of social networking sites…
  (tags: socialmedia infographics internet data)
  
• Realtime Downloads from the App Store [Flickr]
  Still loving this – brilliant data visualisation of the 3,000 apps a minute that are downloaded from Apple’s App Store…
  (tags: installation data visualization apple apps)
  
• Caramel Nibbles Boutique
  Loving the latest from A Glass and a Half Full Productions…
  (tags: innovation cadbury experience)
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  Bayer LED – YouTube
  Good example of content being integrated into the fabric of a building…
  (tags: bayer led digital innovation)
  
• Matt Brown’s RFID Radio [PSFK]
  Physical interface…
  (tags: technology RFID innovation)
  
• Top Brands by Social Media Presence for 2009 [Sysomos]
  Measuring brands by mention/sentiment…
  (tags: socialmedia marketing brands analytics)
  
• Vodafone 360 – get all your mates in one place
  A great way of demonstrating a product/service through experience…
  (tags: mobile socialmedia digital vodafone)
  
• The GOOD 100
  Speaks for itself…
  (tags: creativity technology trends innovation ideas)

links for 2009-8-13

• Levelhead AR
  Lovely example of the possibilities of AR – right up there with the BMW Z4 work from Dare.
• The Difference Between Staged And Real Customer Experiences [The Customer Experience Labs]
• Leftfield, but underlining why experience and authenticity should be joined at the hip…
  (tags: experience design)
• You Want Me to WHAT? [The Social Media Marketing Blog]
  So. Is SM better than sex. What would you give up?
  (tags: social media marketing)
  
• Bus stop ad changes depending on if someone is looking at it [DVICE]
  An appropriate use of technology to underpin an anti-domestic abuse message
  (tags: technology advertising interactive digital outdoor)
• Nike Chalkbot: Blurring digital with physical [@bmorrissey]
  It’s a hot topic at the moment and talk of the town at Cannes, shifting the focus from brand experience to experiencing the brand…
  (tags: digital physical experience)
  
• 12 Gorgeous Vimeo Videos for Design Inspiration [Mashable]
  Not a big fan of ‘best of’ lists but this is a good collection of inspirational moving image pieces…
  (tags: video animation motion web)
  
• BBC Memoryshare
  Love the BBC Memoryshare – fantastic opportunity to blend with a variety of content and data
  (tags: BBC crowdsourcing visualisation memories)

links for 2009-6-8

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• Where is Everyone? [Baekdal.com]
  A fantastic journey through the history of information…
  (tags: social data advertising information trends marketing history infographics digital)
• The site you never want to see : contingency planning [Conchango]
  A sensitive yet timely insite into contingency planning…
  (tags: ux design contingency)

  

• American Airlines Web Site: The Product of a Self-Defeating Design Process [Fast Company]
  Design. Debate…
  (tags: design business ux travel process aa digital)

• Microsoft Whacks the Wii: A First Look [TIME]
  Word on the street that Microsoft will leapfrog Nintendo with Project Natal…
  (tags: innovation xbox gaming technology microsoft wii motion)
• Google Squared unveiled [IAB]
  Loving it – results in rows and columns…
  (tags: google search data squared)

• Inside IDEO [Konigi]
  Old but good – insight into IDEO’s Deep Dive approach…
  (tags: design innovation prototyping ux ideo)

  

• Consumers get creative control on digital posters through new iPhone platform [Campaign]
  Campaign reveals a new advertsing platform…
  (tags: iphone interactive campaign digital CBS)
• Six Ways that Google Wave is Going to Change Your Business, Career and Life [Think Vitamin]
  Insight into the impact Google Wave will have on us…
  (tags: google wave collaboration communication marketing)

links for 2009-3-31

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• Twitter and Apple on Wikirank
  What’s popular on wikipedia…
  (tags: wikipedia popularity measurement)

  

• Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense [TED]
  A great insight into the potential application of information in a converged world…
  (tags: design innovation technology interface inspiration mit ted)

  

• LEGO experiments with interactive packaging [Johnny Holland]
  A useful use of augmented reality…
  (tags: lego augmented reality interaction)

  

• Freaky Speeder Rides the Wind to World Record [Wired]
  Amazing speeds achieved using ‘rigid wing’ thrust…
  (tags: automotive environment wind)
• Brands offered chance to get in on Paramount web drama [Brand Republic]
  I still believe there are far more interesting opportunities where the brand acts as the commissioner… this looks too close to the Kate Modern format.
  (tags: section8 online drama)
• Honda ‘Let it Shine’ TVC
  
  Loving the ultra low res/tech video wall…

links for 2009-3-6

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• The Crisis of Credit Visualized
  Great piece of motion graphics…
  (tags: video animation visualization money)

  

• Alltop
  Still working for me…
  (tags: aggregator news alltop)

  

• UNIQLO March
  More lovely weberry from UNIQLO…
  (tags: design advertising uniqlo interactive)

  

• Le Corbusier [Barbican]
  Definitely one for the diary…
  (tags: architecture exhibition barbican corbusier)

  

• Future Vision Montage
  Emerging technology…
  (tags: innovation technology interface interaction microsoft future)

  

• TwitterThoughts [YvoSchaap.com]
  A lovely blend of data from Yvo Schaap…
  (tags: twitter data visualisation statistics mashup)

  

• BMW Art Cars At Grand Central Terminal [asdlabs]
  A combination of two of my passions. Art and Cars. On tour…
  (tags: automotive art)

links for 2009-2-25

• Branding in the age of social media
  Required reading this week at FreshNetworks has been this great presentation from Mike Trap on what he calls ’scalable intimacy’, the intersection between branding and social media.
  (tags: socialmedia trends brands marketing communities)

  

• A Communications Primer: a Film by Eames (1953) [information aesthetics]
  (tags: design communication data film information eames ia)

  

• Bond-style wristwatch phone joins gizmo assault on Apple [The Guardian]
  (tags: technology mobile LG)

  

• Prototype till you’re silly [Design Council]
  All too often forgotten, the black art of prototyping.
  (tags: design innovation ux prototyping apple)
• Reverse Engineering. Taking Apart a Behavior, Building an Insight [Experience Matters]
  Because we can. Or can we? Understanding how, why and when to use existing digital services.
  (tags: marketing ux design)

links for 2009-2-11

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• Glocal: Immense, Collaborative Image Explorer [information aesthetics]
  Thousands of individuals, including artists, non-artists and youth, are invited to participate to collaborate in the making of what promises to be Canada’s largest “contributive” digital artwork.
  (tags: design visualisation ux ui photography art)

  

• I LEGO N.Y. – Abstract City Blog [NYTimes]
  I love Lego. I love NYC…
  (tags: lego NYC design visualisation)

  

• MIT Students: Wearable Computer [Wired]
  Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen.
  (tags: video technology interface interaction)

  

• Coming Soon… [DWBlog]
  but not soon enough – I want one…
  (tags: iphone app search)

  

• Google Sets Its Sights On Your Sight [TechCrunch]
  The video on this post highlighting the ‘golden triangle’ is worth a watch…
  (tags: eyetracking design ui google ux)

  

• 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media [Mashable]
  Some insight into good social media practice…
  (tags: socialmedia marketing brands)

  

• Aggregating Social Media: Best Buy Connect [Online Marketing Blog]
  Uncontrolled aggregation…
  (tags: socialmedia aggregator bestbuy reputation marketing)
• Learning to speak human [we are social]
  Interesting post, fantastic debate – a must read…
  (tags: socialmedia advertising marketing digital strategy engagement)
• Twitter to begin charging brands for commercial use [Brand Republic]
  Easily said – much more difficult to implement…
  (tags: twitter socialmedia brands marketing monetisation)

  

• Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens [NYTimes]
  Even though almost 100 million viewers in the United States watched 5.9 billion YouTube videos, TV is not losing out…
  (tags: tv digital online)

  

• Get Satisfaction – People-Powered Customer Service
  Fantastic. I haven’t tried this out yet, waiting for a good reason to…
  (tags: crowdsourcing community socialmedia collaboration)
• Agencies used social media to manage salmonella outbreak [Nextgov]
  Another great example of the underestimated power of social media…
  (tags: socialmedia government)