Something for the Olympic banter - Sport is becoming more and more popular online. Not only are we wanting to buy the latest Yoga mat, we want to watch sport online. So why is this trend appearing? Is our hunger to cram as much information in to our heads as possible keeping us up late. […]
Google asked gmail fans to help us illustrate how an email message travels around the world. All it took was a video camera, the Gmail M-velope ( ), and some creativity.
You can check out all of the submissions we received on YouTube, and read more about it on the Official Gmail Blog.
Almost 5 million […]
A lot of Australian are not really surprised by some Americans who have very little knowledge of the outside world. Chaser’s War on Everything (sample video) have proven this numerous time especially when they convinced yanks on the street that most European landmarks were actually in Australia.
Then comes along poor Miss South Carolina to prove […]
The number of Do-It-Yourself videos are quickly expanding. Here is an opportunity for a retailer or a FMCG to jump on board and produce how-to clips using their products. From the Cherry Co-Op offer recipes to Black and Decker.
I was thinking about this morning before seeing an article on a Google blog. I thinking that […]
I have a love of mashup and some of favourites come from Flickr. Companies like Flickr and Google make some fantastic APIs to make life easy for us simple folk. Here is a list of a few things that others have created:
FlickrBooth by Tristan O’Tierney
Mappr by Stamen Design
Flickr Color Pickr by JBum
1001 by Adriaan Tijsseling
Flickr […]
Movie makers have been cashing in on the Penguins for a while now. Now the humble penguin is worth US$700M!!!
Disney has acquired the kid-focused virtual world of Club Penguin in a deal totaling $700 million.
12 million 6-14 year old users (including my eldest kids) fall right within Disney’s target demographic. The game launched in October 2005 […]
I have been in this industry long enough to remember the birth of Geocities. I watched it grow, become overly crowded and fail. In a way GeoCities was the first of the social networking sites (this missing link).
I finally opened my latest addition of AdNews to read on the train this morning. A few pages […]