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  • Live data visuals – fashion and cities

    I’ve seen two examples of impressive live data visuals today, from two very different systems for very different projects from The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and French fashion retailer Pimkie. Color Forecast By analysing live webcam footage from Paris, Milan and Antwerp, this site collects colour information and presents it as trends for days, weeks and…

  • XKCD reaches 1,000

    Today the cartoon blog XKCD posted it’s 1000 cartoon. Here’s six favourites of the previous 999: – – – – –

  • Positive and negative Google Plus hyperboyle, it’s all the same.

    These opinion pieces are everywhere. Why Google+ Pages Isn’t Good for Business 4 Reasons Google+ Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook’s Google Plus Finds Sweet Spot Between Facebook & Twitter Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’; 5 Reasons We Agree Why It is Wrong to Call Google Plus a Failure Google Plus may be…

  • 24 Hour experiments in Twitter

    Companies are always looking for new ways to raise their profile and market themselves on twitter, but sometimes its the charity and even public sector that lead on innovative ways to raise awareness, forced to try news ways on limited budgets and powered by enthusiasm to make a difference. One example of this is the…

  • Adam and Joe return to 6music

    And about bloody time. They resume service in April,  Adam writes on their official blog: “I can’t wait to get back to our show on Saturdays, I’ve really missed doing it. Not that I haven’t been every bit as busy as Joe. I’ve created several new filing systems for my CD’s and DVD’s, successfully reunited…

  • Did you mean “how kmy next bill chang?”

    Have you ever searched for something on the O2 website? I have. I tried searching for “how my next bill will change”. The website helpfully suggested I may have meant to search for something else:No, I did not mean “how kmy next bill chang?”. The rest of the results weren’t helpful either:

  • Got love for Lorem ipsum? Love this

    I am often reliant on the Lorem ipsum genertor site when creating some design concepts, and thanks to Swiss Miss and Chesley I’ve found a supercharged version – the Dummy text generator. This gives you all the features of the Lorem ipsum generator but adds some extra touches such as adjuusting the size of the…

  • Basics Of Social Media ROI

    Thanks to Carl Haggerty for posting up this presentation by Oliver Blanchard, something which cuts through the social media crap and shows obvious ways to tell if all your social marketing is actually doing anything. And of course what’s key to any good presentation, it has excellent graphics. Olivier Blanchard Basics Of Social Media Roi…

  • GTI scalectrix online racer

    After a few text heavy posts here’s something less brain demanding. Thanks to the London Advertising & Design Group blog I found this site for the new VW Golf GTi.  Take control of your own GTi and drive it round the track as fast as possible for your chance to win a golf for 3 months…

  • 3 sites which inspire you

    For a team away day we’re all given the following task: bring a screen shot of 3 sites that inspire you for a warm up discussion: 1 information giving site, 1 income generation site, 1 other Which is something I thought would be worth sharing here. So here are my three: Information giving For infomration…