Technology :: BRAD – Berkeley Ridiculously Automated Dorm
Derek Low's Berkeley dowm and how he automated it
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Advertising :: Couple Up – QR Codes and CP+B
QR Codes generate ROI for Scandinavian Airlines CP+B campaign
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Scandinavian Airlines agency CP+B use QR Codes in this highly creative campaign.
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Advertising :: Banned Hyundai ad TV commercial
I can see why
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Hyundai have had their TV commercial for the Veloster banned in the Netherlands. I can see why.
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Technology :: Samsung Transparent Screen Concept Tablet of the Future
Where will this leave the iPad?
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Samsung demonstrate their thinking for the table of the future.
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Anthropology :: Everyone has a different perspective
An experiential photography experiment
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A social experiment by Austin Dodge where disposable cameras were left on pavements for passers by to use. There is the basis of an experiential campaign here.
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Technology :: 1966 prediction of the home computer
The future, in 1966.
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This is a view of what was to happen to home computers – in 1966.
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Social Media :: Twylah and Twitter
How Twylah aggregates your tweets and conversations
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The new kid on the block in terms of apps for Twitter is Twylah.
The platform aggregates a users Tweets by hashtag, using what are called ‘showcase pages’ populated with trending topics and rich media content. What this can begin to do is to provide some control in terms of assembling a cohesive and interpretable view of what user talks about and with whom.
Arguably, this is the Twitter equivalent of Facebook Timeline.
However, in achieving a semblance of cohesion to what a user talks about, Twylah removes the randomness and organises subjects (or hides them, as required) – so this is not curation but providing order. Eric Kim, Founder talks about the new platform saying:
” I … kept asking myself why people cared about the kind of coffee I was having at Starbucks or which badge I just unlocked. Some tweets I thought were great and others I could care less about. I knew if I had these questions and problems with it, most other people probably did, as well.
As the platform is essentially a blog (with the option for custom domains), the next development phase for Twylah should be customisation of the page – over abd above the Twitter profile data.
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