links for 2008-01-28

Techno//Marketer: Knowing (and paying) the price for interruption
(tags: advertising research)

Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology: Scientist Debunks “The Influentials” Theory
new research on participators in viral and word-of-mouth phenomenon
(tags: thesis research)

Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: Social objects and magic feathers
social objects
(tags: thesis interview)

Mobile Advertising Set To Go Big This Year?
(tags: mobile advertising trends)

Social tagging and voting [...]

links for 2008-01-26

Computerloveâ„¢ | Connecting Creative Talents.
(tags: visualization photography maps)

Mobile YouTube Now Includes Most YouTube Videos
(tags: mobile video)

Servant of Chaos: Need to Plan Visually? Now You Can!
(tags: visualization ideas tools)

Why Your Social Media Plan should have Success Metrics
(tags: social media metrics thesis)

Books that make you dumb
(tags: books visualization research)

Put Your Face on LouisXIV’s Album Cover
(tags: thesis)

Louis XIV [...]

links for 2008-01-24

White paper – distributed influence: quantifying the impact of social media « Technobabble 2.0
(tags: social media marketing research paper)

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: the social marker- the “social object” on steroids
(tags: thesis)

Micro Persuasion: Open Collaboration and the Future of Public Relations
(tags: thesis paper research ideas communication)

The Long Tail: The fat tail [...]

“The Future is already here…

…it’s just not evenly distributed”, said William Gibson (a quote that has since been widely quoted by e.g. Tim O’Reilly). What better way to describe my sensation when today I saw this:

“Engineers at the University of Washington have for the first time used manufacturing techniques at microscopic scales to combine a flexible, biologically safe contact [...]

links for 2008-01-22

Why Non-Obvious Brand Icons Work
(tags: marketing ideas)

AdScam/The Horror! : Everything you ever needed to know about BDA’s!
(tags: funny marketing)

IRC-Galleria – Keksi ite
(tags: innovation collaboration)

The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future
(tags: design funny)

Pirate Sheep

Ok, so the original ‘piracy is a crime’ video is a prime example of advertising made by old people trying to tell young people what’s cool and what’s not – which is bound to fail. The spoof is a lot better, but it’s the individual recording artists that are the most creative of the lot:
“The [...]

links for 2008-01-21

can the crowd replace the expert? :: Influxinsights
(tags: music collaboration entertainment)

Unmanned aerial vehicles the size of a cigarette | Tech news blog – CNET News.com
(tags: technology military)

Vans ‘Finger Fracture’ Touch-Screen Gaming for the iPhone on PSFK
(tags: games mobile innovation)

5 Free Online Pie Chart Utilities
(tags: tools work visualization)

People-Powered Photoshopping on PSFK
(tags: crowdsourcing photography collaboration design)

participating in [...]

links for 2008-01-18

Design Police | Bring bad design to justice.
(tags: design fun tools)

links for 2008-01-16

Flickr founder: Creativity is human nature – CNN.com
(tags: thesis interview)

Flickr: Creative Commons
creative commons search engine for flickr
(tags: design photography search tools cc)

Collaboration Software | Clearspace by Jive Software
(tags: enterprise collaboration tools)

Reinforcing Brand Experience

I just watched the macrumors live keynote coverage from macworld full with pictures and stuff and also the video. Everything was gleaming, clean, user-friendly, well thought out – everything was working to a perfect (i)tune. The world’s most amazing (well, they say it is…) ultra portable laptop was introduced. All well and good, I thought.
Just [...]