links for 2010-01-17

USP ESP & XSP
I couldn’t agree more with what Paul Worthington from Wolff Olins has to say about brands having to be aware of and respond to the environment we share with them. Brands now have access to and have to access people in a completely different way, by providing additional, deliberate and appreciated value.

Coca Cola’s inspired Happiness Machine

Beautifully executed explaination of Google’s Chrome

Nokia N900 ‘Hackerbox’. Love it.

links for 2010-01-14

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• Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology [TED]
  Pranav Mistry blurring the lines between physical and digital
  (tags: innovation technology gesture physical digital inspiration)
  
• Digital Magazines: Bonnier Mag+ Prototype [Bonnier AB]
  Great concept that importantly focusses on the needs of the user and their experience…
  (tags: design innovation digital interface inspiration interaction publishing concept bonnier)
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• AOL : Translating vision into an innovative new brand [Wolff Olins]
  Some great thinking to reposition AOL…
  (tags: design branding aol identity ideas creative)
  
• Gesture Design At Nokia: Developing A New Dialect Of Interaction [PSFK]
  Nokia exploring gestural interaction with mobile devices…
  (tags: gesture innovation nokia creative)
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• Boris Johnson to launch London ‘Datastore’ with hundreds of sets of data [Guardian]
  An amazing opportunity for some data blending…
  (tags: data digital government london opensource information)