August 31, 2005
justcurio.us
justcurio.us is an anonymous question and answer system, open to anyone, with one simple rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else's question. Question yields answer yields question. Strangers helping strangers.
The questions can be about anything — the best Beatles album, your saddest moment, your worst fear, your biggest regret, your fondest childhood memory, the meaning of life, whether you should break up with your girlfriend, the best crepe place in Paris, the best cure for loneliness. Anything at all. This is our chance to lean on each other, to look to a stranger for help, to discover what other people think.
justcurio.us is entirely confidential, allowing anyone to ask and answer questions with complete anonymity.
Posted by richard ting at August 31, 2005, 04:51 PM
August 29, 2005
Mirage Motion Media
Mirage Motion Media offers an exciting new advertising medium - a patented technology that uniquely creates "moving pictures" from static rear lit signs, using no electronics or moving parts. Users can walk down the street or through an airport or a mall and the picture moves. Stop, and the picture stops with you.
Check out the site.
Read the Business Week article.
Posted by richard ting at August 29, 2005, 01:33 PM
August 28, 2005
Current TV
Current is about what's going on: a look at what's new in culture, style, technology, music and more, with much of the content produced by viewers themselves. The viewer produced, bite-sized documentary format gives us the scoop on what's cool. Watch clips of gang members getting their tattoos erased to modern pre-fab houses being built.
Posted by richard ting at August 28, 2005, 11:40 AM
August 27, 2005
Start.com/3 - AJAX RSS feed portal
This is the unofficial site from Microsoft(beta). It doesn't work on Mac IE or Safari, but I can already see the potential. The interaction design is very interesting and somewhat resembling of a Flash interface. Specifically, the overlays, drag-able modules, expanding/collapsible menu structures and lightning fast & smooth page loads. I'm looking forward to seeing some sick AJAX stuff in the marketplace soon!
Check out the site.
More about AJAX.
Posted by richard ting at August 27, 2005, 06:22 PM
August 26, 2005
Electroland - Urban Spectacle
Check these guys out. Electroland is a crew from LA that creates comprehensive and multi-disciplinary urban projects and scenarios. The picture above is of their EnterActive project in Los Angeles, CA.
The project consisted of a luminous field of LED lights embedded into the entry walkway that responded to the presence of visitors; a massive display of lights on the building face mirrored the patterns of the entry; and video displays in the lobby and entry areas.
Thanks to Jill Nussbaum for the link.
Posted by richard ting at August 26, 2005, 01:20 PM
August 24, 2005
Google Talk
Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free–anytime, anywhere in the world. Google Talk allows user to get in touch over email, IM or a call
Posted by richard ting at August 24, 2005, 05:56 PM
August 23, 2005
Flickr Postcard Browser
Here's a great Flickr search interface created by Felix Turner over at airtightinteractive. It's a simple search, then zoom in and zoom out interface. The experience is fairly smooth and clean. Give it a try. There are some really interesting search results that the tool spits back to the user. Hopefully in the future, Felix will add some type of 'user searching' similar to the Marumushi Flickrgraph service.
Check out Flickr Postcard Browser.
Check out Marumushi's Flickrgaph.
Posted by richard ting at August 23, 2005, 11:09 AM
August 22, 2005
Guerilla Art Storms the Shopping Aisles
"Shop dropping," a new movement inspired by street art, has brought art to the shopping aisles. Ryan Watkins-Hughes, a Brooklyn-based photographer, is among the pioneers of the new genre. He replaces labeling on canned goods with original photographs and then reinserts these modified products back into supermarkets. Building on momentum from early progenitors such as the Barbie Liberation Organization, the movement is gaining recognition, with San Francisco's Pond Gallery hosting a shop-dropping exhibition earlier this year. In related developments, media corporations such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Time magazine continue to appropriate guerilla art's renegade identity for marketing campaigns.
Posted by richard ting at August 22, 2005, 07:37 PM
August 21, 2005
Amazon A9 takes it to the streets
[from c|net]
Amazon.com is merging photographs and maps in a new search service that offers virtual tours of two dozen U.S. cities.
The company's A9 search subsidiary is expected on Tuesday to launch a beta of A9.com Maps, which lets people see street-level photos of addresses and get driving directions.
The service integrates interactive maps with A9's Block View technology, which offers photos of both sides of streets taken from trucks equipped with digital cameras and Global Positioning System receivers. The 35 million shots taken so far are also used in Amazon's Yellow Pages search, which features photos of businesses alongside addresses and phone numbers.
The new A9.com Maps service lets people get driving directions by clicking on starting and destination points on the map and shows photos of locations corresponding to points on the map clicked with the cursor. Instead of having to type in addresses, people can click on a point on the map and the corresponding address will pop up.
The service also allows for navigation through zooming in and out and shows which roads have had street-level photos taken. "We're making the map a little less abstract; a little more like reality," A9 Chief Executive Udi Manber said.
Read more.
Posted by richard ting at August 21, 2005, 10:53 AM
August 20, 2005
Marketers Debate a 'Top 500' List for Blogs
Feedster is floating a new top 500 list of blogs, ranked according to their accumulation of inbound links. Media buyers say they're watching the list, but they disagree on its value as a consideration tool for ad placements in blogs.
The "Feedster 500," which challenges the long-standing Technorati 100 list and claims to contain "the most interesting and important blogs," will no doubt stroke the egos of many bloggers who appear on it.
However, it packs dubious value as an evaluation tool for media buyers, according to several agency executives who spoke with ClickZ News. That's because it doesn't rank blogs according to niche or topical focus, wherein lies their main appeal to marketers.
"A list or a service that helps advertisers understand what is predictable and what is risky is valuable," said Jeff Lanctot, VP of media for Avenue A/Razorfish. "The downside of the Feedster 500 (or other lists) is what I'd call the 501 dilemma. Blogs are thriving because they can engage even the smallest audiences. Blog #501 might be the most important media resource for a small group of people."
Read more.
Check out the Feedster 500.
Check out the Technorati 100.
Posted by richard ting at August 20, 2005, 10:34 AM
August 10, 2005
iPod Subway Maps
Download subway maps onto you iPod Photos. It's not a particularly interactive piece, but a useful extension of the iPod platform. Maps are available for New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
Posted by richard ting at August 10, 2005, 05:24 PM
August 03, 2005
BBDO Site
Here's a cool site link that was sent to me by our friends over at Freshnessmag. It's a porfolio site that utilizes a world map with some zooming in and out functionality. Nothing too innovative, but the execution is clean and smooth.
