Category: web stuff

Whilst the Big Adcontinues to go global, from a seed of around 20 people to over half a million views in a week, Burger King tries to emulate the success of Subservient Chicken with a new campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky about Coq Roq, (www.coqroq.com) a band ‘inspired’ by the Chicken. I love the […]

Last year, Kryptonite were accused of not listening to their customers or responding in an appropriate way after a story broke about how easy it was to pick one of their locks with a biro. The company have now expanded on what happened from theri side over on Naked Conversations. It drives home again how […]

Hugh McLeod has gone and created a collaborative space for bloggers to put up, well, just about anything. As he says “This is either a totally great idea or a totally insane idea. Maybe a bit of both etc.”. A brilliant experiment – I’m going to be watching closely to see where it ends up. […]

Google released a new verison of their personalised home page. It was expected (they had feeds before, but not many) but now you can add your own, as well as choosing from their recommeded ones. Nice to see they provide Yahoo and Microsoft feeds as options. For me, still not as flexible page as it […]

Microsoft appear to be launching their new mapping application on Monday, but it looks like Virtual Earth is accessible, although performance is likely to be patchy until the official launch. There was initially speculation from Niall that it would be an RSS Search that was going to be launched – maybe that is coming as […]

At a Pre-OpenTech Dinner last night, I was listening in to a conversation between Jeremy and Peter about RSS/feed applications. And I realised what I’m missing in my aggregator – the ability to mark posts of interest so that I get updated on the comments. This needs to be accompnaied by a clean-up process, which […]

Probably the best ad in the world…and it’s not for Carlsberg. Take a look at this fantastic, tongue-in-cheek add for Carlton Draught Beer.

1. Call a clothing line TwattyGirl. At least if you you want anything but hassle in the UK. The Press Release just gives us gem after PR gem, the crowning glory being ‘twattyisms’. Only in the US would this be done srriously; here, we’d add a lot more irony. Via PSFK 2. Yell out the […]

From the Flickr Blog, one of the reasons they get such a following (apart from being a wonderful product). An apology for services not rendered and a call for feedback, to help drive the next stages. Being prepared to listen and answer to customers, to be aware of when things go wrong and then recognise […]

On a follow up to the Greasemonkey issues, Flickr offer some nice customer service – warning users if they are using the older version that carries the vulnerabilities.

And it’s not even April 1. Google Moon commemorates the anniversary of the moon landings, with the explanation here. Zoom right up close… Via The Register

I use Greasemonkey for a number of scripts, primarily geotaggging for the geobloogers site. Now a pretty serious security flaw has been discovered, so time to update to the neutered version until they fix it.

This story on the BBC caught my eye yesterday. A man was jailed and banned from keeping pets for life after he ripped the head off his parrot after a drunken night out. He did not appear for his case as he was too drink and the sentencing was delayed as he turned up again […]

Hugh has updated his ‘How to be Creative‘ article/book outline. Whether you want a surfeit of cartoons or insights into the creative processes, it needs to be read.

A couple of interesting blogging posts plus a BBC write up of TED Global. The first article is from Paul Mason of Newsnight. He set up a blog to supplement his reporting from the G8 summit and closes it today with a great article about why and how the blog changed the way he reported. […]

Via Adrants, Victoria’s Secret have a site to promote their new line of Underware. It’s basically strip poker..in a very tasteful way. You only play against the computer, but good fun. Not that safe for work, depending on whether your work allows models stripping down to their underwear online. Go play Pink Panty Poker

I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice the odd behaviour from Typepad feeds. Almost all of them so far are repeating the last month or so of feeds and it’s getting boring.

Lloyd has obviously been thinking..and come up with some some neat graphics…

New Line Cinema have added a twist to the promotion of one of their new films (Wedding Crasher), they provide you with a great tool to add yourself to the trailer of the movie. You upload a digital headshot of you (or your friend), do a little but of manipulation and then it takes the […]

Scoble says that comments are broken and he gets more work done. David Weinberger says he’s stopped reading blogs. Jeanne Sessum says she can’t keep up. There’s too much information. The ‘important’ or ‘interesting’ stuff will repeat itself, will stay buoyant in the sea of the blogospehre, but you’ll only see it if you are […]