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Archive for August, 2007

The Nokia…erm…iPhone

Announced today by the Finnish giant. Well they do say immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Posted August 29, 2007 4:07 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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G-mail envelope

Last month Google asked their users to help them imagine how an email message travels around the world by transporting a physical GMail envelope. Google received more than 1100 clips from 65 countries and they edited this video out of it.

Posted August 29, 2007 10:00 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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Embed Google Maps

Since August 21 Google Maps users can add a map to their website or blog just by copying & pasting a snippet of HTML. This new functionality enables Google Maps users to share and disseminate geographic information in the same way that YouTube users share videos.

Posted August 24, 2007 2:07 pm by Gregory Roekens 0 Comments

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Coca-Cola: Happiness Factory The Movie

Posted August 23, 2007 10:28 pm by David Brown 0 Comments

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Have you been watching Kate Modern?

The creators of internet sensation, LonelyGirl15 are hoping to replicate their success with a new show airing on the UK’s most popular social network, Bebo. Viewers follow Kate Modern, an art student, through her (fairly mundane it would seem) everyday life and have chances to impact the story, as creator Miles Beckett explains:

Posted August 22, 2007 10:59 am by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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A strange one from the NOW CORPORATION

Posted August 22, 2007 8:33 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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Google’s innovation plans

A couple of videos from the Googleplex. The first one is a presentation by Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation at Google. The second one is a lecture from Vint Cerf, Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist, about “Tracking the Internet into the 21st Century”.

Posted August 17, 2007 8:17 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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Chromastone colour changing concrete

Sick of lugging an armful of posters down the road only to find out your preferred boarded up shop window has been daubed with a ‘no fly posting’ sign? Chronos could have the answer you’ve been looking for. Their Chronos Chromos concrete can dynamically display patterns, numbers and text in concrete surfaces. Think of the advertising possibilities!

Posted August 13, 2007 4:08 pm by Alex Horner 0 Comments

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Sony Bravia – This time it’s rabbits

Another ground breaking piece from Fallon, this time with rabbits. I don’t know were the guy’s other hand is though. http://www.bravia-advert.com/ _

Posted August 13, 2007 7:29 am by David Brown 0 Comments

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Freaky mind control!

Posted August 9, 2007 3:55 pm by David Brown 0 Comments

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