- Confusion in Cannes: If one piece was the talk of Cannes, it was HBO’s “Voyeur“. BBDO weaved together 11 different elements, including a compelling video-rich Web site, an outdoor projection, TV and print, to show that HBO remains the king of storytelling. But the strength of the campaign raised questions as to what exactly “Voyeur” is — a Web effort? Outdoor? Film?
- Prince, Radiohead et Internet: Visions opposés. Lorsque Prince a interprété la chanson «Creep» de Radiohead au festival Coachella, des images se sont retrouvées sur YouTube. Le chanteur les a toutefois fait bloquer du site très rapidement pour protéger ses droits d’auteur. Le hic? Le morceau fut composé par Radiohead! Lire la suite.
- France to tackle online piracy: Any web user who downloads illegally will risk up to a year of subscription suspensions. Discuss here…
- DIY Yahoo! Resignation Letter.
- Moodstream™ is a powerful brainstorming tool designed by Getty Images to help take you in inspiring, unexpected directions.
- Delta: The new Dutch master (via James & Joe).
Displaying posts for the “Link-o-Rama” category.
- Write like a blogger: You can improve your writing (your business writing, your ad writing, your thank you notes and your essays) if you start thinking like a blogger.
- The success of the BBC’s iPlayer is putting the internet under severe strain and threatening to bring the network to a halt, internet service providers claimed.
- The Plug: Stranger photos have happened.
- This is probably the biggest hoax in the history of Facebook.
- Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love.
- Le Tour du Monde des Papous: L’incroyable aventure de deux explorateurs Papous à la découverte du patrimoine et des peuples de l’Humanité.
- The concept “SOL comments” is banner ad space used as outlet for commentary on news and articles related to content on SOL.no. Just brilliant if you ask me.
- Next year it will be no road, it will be water again.
- Dear Rockers! Many of us own music that we didn’t pay for. We don’t feel guilty about shafting the record company, but what about the musicians themselves?
- As-Found: JPG till we die.
- The Quick
RedBrown checks Fox News regularely and notes any changes in the headlines (via MetaFilter). - The blogs of war: Engadget vs. Gizmodo.
- Yes some blogs are profitable, very profitable.
- Cookbook, my all-time favourite Twitter.
- Caught in the act: First picture of guerilla graffiti artist Banksy.
Now the question is, do you believe this news story? - Turn off e-mail and do some work! No-e-mail-Friday.
- Terrorist Buster Logo. It’s a joke right?
- Passymal vous connaissez? Ou comment se faire griller en essayant de donner une impulsion virale. PERDU!
- Droit d’auteur: La jeune fille et la pub. Cette histoire remonte à il y a quelques mois et illustre toujours à merveille les problèmes liés à l’émergence des User Generated Content (UGC).
- Explore the world with Flickr: The pages are not yet available — they are putting some finishing touches on them — but it already sounds really impressive!
- House Tunnel Art: A psychedelic experience (via Design Inspiration).
- No Comment TV: Great use of YouTube by EuroNews AKA the big mammoth.
- OMG, my mom joined facebook!
- Untwirling photo of a suspected pedophile.
- The social networking boom made Rupert Murdoch nervous enough to spend half a billion bucks on a startup. Here’s the 411 on the most noteworthy narcissism enablers.
- De la musique gratuite payante pour tuer Apple.
- A Giant crack by Doris Salcedo in the floor of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern (More pictures here and here). Mind the gap!
- Turning Riverstreet into a river is the largest 3d-street-painting ever done. About 280 m² are covered with paint. Edgar Müller was again invited to Moose Jaw Prairie Arts Festival (2007) to paint together with local artists.
- Guy uploads pix of self from stolen iMac.
- Adobe Extends Web Video Leadership With H.264 Support (the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players).
- Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils (via Michael Surtees).
- Les consommateurs veulent du vrai. Surpris?
- Les avis d’internautes publiés sur les sites marchands servent à des campagnes de dénigrement. Un roman en a fait les frais (via Somebaudy)
- Usability testing the next version of del.icio.us.
- À propos du Logo GDF SUEZ: Si-je-l’avais-fait-moi-même…
- Kaze to Desktop is a screensaver which moves according to the current wind (= Kaze) conditions of your city (YouTube).
- Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
- Internet Commenter Business Meeting: This is what happens when corporations change pwn3rship.
- Ten Important Takeaways From Steve Jobs’ iPhone Pricing Apology.
- Avis d’expert: Les acteurs du Web 2.0 vont-ils sortir vainqueurs de la bataille judiciaire?
- Wall installation by Undoboy.
- Teach me your party tricks.
- Office 2007 Box: A box that many people can’t figure out how to open without a Google search is an unusually pathetic failure of design.
- Jeans-lifting Levi’s spot swings both ways: This ad plays out completely differently on the gay- and lesbian-themed Logo cable channel.
- Engagement Metric: The current media measurements model is broken. We must converge on a better model suited to this new age of consumer control.
- The homepage dilemma: Is the Homepage Dead?
- “I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span,” he said.
- Andrew Keen, baptisé «l’Antéchrist de la Silicon Valley», a publié début juin un brûlot, The Cult of the Amateur. Le sous-titre s’avère on ne peut plus clair: Comment Internet tue notre culture. Andrew Keen n’a pourtant rien d’un allergique à la technologie…
- Ad campaign compares bloggers with monkeys.
- Brussels Graffiti: 4500m² / 6000 bombes.
- PIKAPIKA: lightning doodle project.
- The Directors Bureau Special Report: Idea Generator
- Minilogue / Hitchhikers Choice (YouTube)
- Big is over, portals are past: If you buy 10,000 impressions, you can buy them on a big site or a bunch of small sites, it doesn’t matter.