Archive for the ‘Gone Surfing’ Category

Daft. Stupid. Pointless. Want one.

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Like me, when you hold your shiny iPhone in your hand, you’re probably thinking the same thing. “Yes, it’s lovely, shiny and a testament to the best marriage of industrial design and technology I could ever imagine… but I wish I had an old-fashioned telephone handset to dock the iPhone into.”

Well, have I got the product for you.

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LOVE this advert

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

One of the great things about keeping in touch with American culture via my favourite podcasts is that I get to hear about things like this – which I doubt will ever reach the UK.

The advert’s caused a minor sensation and has been supported by a fantastic and well-thought out social media campaign. More than on that later.

In the meantime… enjoy :-)

Twitter recruitment video

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Now this is how to make a recruitment video.

Those crazy guys and gals at Twitter have taken some inspiration from geek classic Rushmore to create the video you see below. Nice.

(for a refresher of the relevant bit from Rushmore, click here)

PC vs Mac: the debate goes on

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

So, those folk at Microsoft have noticed that Apple has started to get popular on the computer front and decided to come out with their guns blazing.

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Scary stat

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Speaking at a the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told the assembled audience that “we” (the human race) create as much information in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003.

Now that is scary.

(found at Techncrunch)

Brand new, you’re retro…

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Devised by Brazilian advertising agency Moma Propaganda for a campaign dubbed “Everything ages fast” for  client Maximidia Seminars, these posters depict retro adverts for your favourite “digital properties” – Faceboook, Skype, Twitter and YouTube.
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Stop sign designed by committee…

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

It’s a couple of years old apparently but I’ve not seen it before.

And it’s still scarily-accurate.

Gratuitous list of links to make up for lack of recent updates…

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Morning all… it’s been a busy few weeks, with some exciting projects either finalised or proposed. Hope to have *very* exciting news in a week or so.

In the meantime, I thought I’d share three of the sites that take up space in my RSS reader. Please note, all of these at times can be rude, crude, unsuitable for kids and not always safe for work either. You have been warned!
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In a 50s galaxy far, far away…

Monday, June 7th, 2010

Some people have fantastic ideas and far, far too much time on their hands.

Well, have you ever wondered what the Star Wars saga would have been like had it been a 1950s B movie or Saturday morning serial (in the style of Flash Gordon and the like) ? No, me neither if I’m honest – but the results are fantastic.

If you click through to the YouTube page yourself, there’s a whole world of these so-called “pre-makes”: some are better than others!

Many thanks to Ian Green for the heads-up.

Turn to the dark side… 3rd exit.

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Pure genius – both as a saleable item and a viral marketing campaign.

Well, I’m proving the power of the latter with the YouTube video below… and if I had a Tom Tom I would definitely be buying this: turn by turn directions from the Dark Lord of the Sith himself, Darth Vader.

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