Sneaker Mirror from Jesse Chorng on Vimeo.
I found this linky link on PSFK.com. Sneaker Mirror is an interactive installation created using the Processing programming language which uses mini sneaker images as pixels to create a mirror reflection of those standing in front of the installed camera. Since the camera picks up on any movement, the installation dynamically changes as folks move around in front of it.
Francesco Mugnai from the Italian Institute of Art and Design has a great posting on this blog right now that features 50 great examples of infographics. It’s a great resource that screams to be blogged, tweeted, and added to your delicious bookmarks. Definitely a must view for interaction designers, graphic designers, and data-viz junkies out there. Bravo.
I love this video. Thanks to @danlatorre for pointing it out to me. “History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The history is told using the PICOL icons on picol.org , which are available for download soon. On blog.picol.org you can get news about this project.
The buzz around Twitter has been heating up the last few months and what better place for the buzz to pick up more steam than in Twitter itself. Here are some interesting articles that I tracked on TweetDeck today and thought would be interesting to share with the community.
1. AdWeek’s Tweet Freak’s Tweet Roll
Check out the comprehensive listing of official ad-agency Twitter accounts. Amongst the ad-agency Twitters listed are: @BBHLabs, @bigspaceship, @organicinc, and @razorfish
http://adweek.blogs.com/tweetfreak/tweet-roll.html
2. A Visual Guide to Twitter
Excellent visualization of how Twitter is being utilized by Marketers, Customer Service Reps, Researchers, Business Networkers, etc.
http://applicant.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/tweetcurrency1.jpg
3. The 7 Ways to Approach Twitter
On Mashable, Lon S. Cohen from @ALSofGNY writes about strategizing for Twitter. Brands are experimenting and there are lots of strategies being tried out, but it’s getting more complex each day, so Lon breaks it down for us in 7 simple steps to help ensure positive results in Twitter.
http://mashable.com/2009/04/20/twitter-strategy/
4. Pizza Hut Hiring Summer Twitter Intern (YUM)
Every brand is trying to figure out Twitter and Pizza Hut is no exception. According to the article, “The company is planning to hire a summer intern to play social-media defense, monitoring Twitter for any mentions of the brand and alerting superiors whenever anything negative about the Hut is being said. The successful applicant will speak fluent OMG and LOL and correctly use the terms DM (direct message), RT (retweet) and # (hashtag).”
http://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-hiring-summer-twitter-intern-2009-4
5. Twitter Takes On Facebook Connect, Releasing “Sign In With Twitter”
Twitter released “Sign in with Twitter” yesterday. Like Facebook’s authentication service, Facebook Connect, it will allow Web users to sign into participating third-party sites with their Twitter IDs.
http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-takes-on-facebook-connect-2009-4
6. 58 Twitter Innovations
In acknowledgment of the dominance of Twitter right now, Trendhunter presents the 58 hottest Twitter innovations. The photo above show the guys that run the Koji Korean BBQ taco truck which has an active Twitter account (@KogiBBQ), where they post their exact location du jour.
http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/twitter-innovations
7. Ignore Twitter? Major brands learn they’d better respond — and quick
Recent incidents involving CNN, Amazon and Domino’s Pizza reveal that fluency in the evolving language of digital public relations comes easier to some companies than others.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-twitter20-2009apr20,0,2701874.story
Thanks to @atmasphere for sending over this link. Nine Inch Nails continues to innovate in the digital media landscape by releasing this slick and robust iPhone App. Check the video that I scraped from the Wired site as Trent Reznor, Rob Sheridan and Digg’s Kevin Rose explain how it works.
App stores are all the range these days with the Apple App store leading the way. However, just recently the Blackberry App World launched with a nice sized library of apps and today Nokia released an Ovi Store instructional video for developers. It’s an instructional video about everything you’ll need to know about selling and publishing apps on the upcoming Nokia Ovi storefront. The video walk aspiring developers through the logistics of becoming a publisher on Ovi, submitting content, and accessing to Forum Nokia’s developer support tools and resources. The store is due to go live in May, but registered developers can start uploading content now.
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