Windows font survey

Indispensable information about which fonts are installed on what percentage of windows systems: Windows Font Survey

Timeline of acquisitions: Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft

http://www.shmula.com/blog/timelines/google-microsoft-yahoo/g-y-m.htm

Metrics for Heuristics: Quantifying User Experience (Part 1 of 2) - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design

Metrics for Heuristics: Quantifying User Experience (Part 1 of 2) - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design Timely article about quantifying User Experience suggesting a method called "Rubinoff’s user experience audit"

State of the Blogosphere

David Sifry gives an annual report on the Technorati statistics.

Dominoes at home

It was always a bit of a Guiness Book of Records favourite of mine when they did the dominoes. Apparently now a bit of a think in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJlAQyE6ppk

The Ultimate Blog Post

Lore Sjöberg has written this humorous article (no, really) describing what would be the ultimate post for several well-known blogs. He also recently did an awesome two-parter on how to set up your first Myspace page - "Myspace avoidance fails miserably". Worth reading.

SyncBack

Another good sync software. Very useful.

Remote Calendars

Google Calendar sync with Outlook howto

HTML Email guides

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/archives/2006/03/a_guide_to_css_1.html
http://www.templatekit.com/lotusnotes1.php
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/html-emails
http://email.lib.utk.edu/emily/howto5.html

Freesound

Pretty useful library of sounds. No songs. Freesound

Ghost and vampires aren't real!

Not particularly digital, although it is displayed on a web page: "Efthimiou takes out the calculator to prove that if a vampire sucked one person's blood each month -- turning each victim into an equally hungry vampire -- after a couple of years there would be no people left, just vampires. He started his calculations with just one vampire and 537 million humans on Jan. 1, 1600 and shows that the human population would be down to zero by July 1602."

MTV Sticky

MTV Sticky
Originally uploaded by hobart65.

MTV go beyond listening, and start hoovering for youth trends. Worth registering to look at the intersting free form interface and nice blog design.

Unyte

Signalling two things....

1. The Skype plugin
2. The end of the dreaded livemeeting? Maybe? Please something lighter?

Unyte

Skype offer

This Skype offer is pretty decent. I'm a big Skype user. Bro in NY, parents and sis in Eire with various others dotted about the globe. Its simply the easiest and cheapest way to call them.

Taking thumbnails of Websites

Interesting little website / tool to snap a website and give the output in a couple of sizes... http://webthumb.bluga.net/

Strange landscapes in China...

Someone browsing Google Earth recently found what appeared to be a huge scale model of a strange landscape in the Hunagyangtan province of China. It turns out it was a military installation, and the landscape is a model of a disputed area on the Chinese/Indian border. Check this Google Earth Community post to download the placemark, as well as the full story (and other intersting finds). there's also a Google Earth Blog post.

Great video of Wii gameplay / interaction

This demo really helped me understand just how revolutionary the Wii controller is going to be.

Font hit parade - September

1. Neue Helvetica™
2. Helvetica
3. Satisfaction
4. Univers
5. Linotype Zapfino™
6. P22 Cezanne™
7. Frutiger™
8. Trade Gothic™
9. Witchfinder
10.Boycott™

Witchfinder? It's obviously due to the Da Vinci Code

5 Reasons Why RSS Feeds are Not Popular

http://www.hiveminds.co.uk/node/3139

How Rich Are You?

A neat and effective interactive tool for raising awareness about poverty.

(Created by Poke)

Martin Sorrell on Google, China and the internet

Interview with Martin by E-consultancy.com

"It’s important we have the ability and the facilities to [to figure out what works]. It’s no different to Murdoch investing in Myspace or Jamba, or ITV doing Friends Reunited. We have to position ourselves and understand what’s going on."

stunningnikon.com

stunningnikon.com
Originally uploaded by hobart65.

At last, someone does a great flickr based campaign idea. Like all great ideas, it seems horribly obvious when you see it. Perfectly executed, nice to see they can get the url right on the posters.

“We gave them the new Nikon D80, what they gave back was stunning.

They shoot for photo sites like Flickr. They shoot for family photo albums. They shoot because they're passionate about taking pictures. What did they capture with the new Nikon D80? See more of the jaw-dropping highlights at stunningnikon.com/dsir" www.stunningnikon.com

Flash website flowchart

"The process of making the decision about flash web sites for SEO (search engine optimization) purposes is actually quite difficult, so I took the time to create a flow chart on whether or not you should create an all flash web site." http://www.thegooglecache.com/?p=46

Cedega - Narrowing the gaming gap

Mac and Linux gamers might want to check this out - Cedega

HDR - Building Site

Here is my first attempt at HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography. HDR works by taking several exposures of the same scene, from over-exposed to under-exposed, and then using software to combine the exposures to bring out as much detail as possible in every part of the image.

High Dynamic Range refers to the range of light in the image. You can see in this Low Dynamic Range image (one of the three exposures used to create the HDR image above) that to get good definition in the foreground, the exposure has quite a lot of light, meaning the sky is way too bright. However, the trees are still too dark, as the camera is incapable of capturing a wide range of lighting in one image, as the dynamic range is too low. With the HDR image, (although far from perfect) you get good definition in all parts of the image, from the dark trees, to the lighter sky.

You can see lots more HDR in the Flickr HDR and True Tone HDR groups.

Line Rider Helicopter Escape

This is google video of someone playing 'Line Rider' This is destined to be one of those simple but brilliant flash games that everyone will know in a few days - interesting that viral effect is now driven by 'replay' videos on Google and Youtube.

How do consumers find web sites in 2006?

According to a new report from Forrester, it's via search and powerful yesteryear media sources. This intuitively rings true, most people seem to start with Google, but also treated the BBC and newspaper sites as key touch points. e.g. FT / Guardian etc. The way of looking at it helps to explain the radical differences in 18-26 year olds, who haven't experienced a media landscape dominated by a few dinosaurs, so they are much more driven by word of mouth (WOM).

Executive summary
"The majority of today's Web users have been online seven years or more, and their site-seeking behavior has become familiar to marketers: search dominates, word of mouth follows closely, and traditional advertising comes in a healthy third. But is Web users' behavior really so routine? Forrester's North American Consumer Technology Adoption Study data shows that, while all users rely on search, generations show strong affinities for media that were in their heyday when they came of age. To plan effective integrated campaigns, marketers must start with search and layer on site messaging in the media that resonate with target consumers: buzz, blogs, and banners for Gen Yers, deep search and word of mouth for Gen Xers, print and product packaging for Boomers, and the written word for Seniors."

Robot answers age old question

For some reason, last Friday, the topic of discussion was briefly 'What do people taste like?'

Apparently a 'tasting robot' has the answer: Bacon.

Read more

Friday fun

The English-to-12-Year-Old-AOLer Translator

This translator will take what you write in it and turn it into the manner a 12-year-old AOLer would write it. Type in what you want translated and then click the button.

Flickr set: Lego Star Wars II

Looks tasty!

Sense mapping

Another variation on the theme...
New York City Smell Map
People assign different smell labels according to the various unsavoury scents found on the New York City underground subway.

Flickr map

in a similar vein to wikimapia: http://www.flickr.com/map/ looks like if your camera has gps settings, your photo gets added there. gps test – look at the additional information bit on this page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckapublishing/242574831/

High-Definition Video -- Bad For Consumers, Bad For Hollywood

Cory Doctorow has written this article about DRM and the future (or not) of of HD television. There are details about technologies that Hollywood wants to put (or is already putting) in that expensive TV you just bought, as well as the numerous drawbacks (ie. "Sony's first generation of Blu-Ray DVD drives *won't play Blu-Ray movies*") of the DRM future...

Wikimapia

You might think that google maps is pretty hot but Wikimapia have put a little bit of a spin on things. Check it out over here. Looks pretty normal right? Well there are two things in the menu that make it that bit better.

• You can search via TAG
• You can link it to your GPS

Im sure as I get used to it there will be more. But looking good so far.

If you like Simpsons...

You'll also like:

Futurama - allfutus.com

Family Guy - all-fg.com

South Park - allsp.com

...

Any bets on how long until this, and Daily Motion (the host of most of these), gets shut down with a nice fat lawsuit?

All Simpsons episodes ever

www.allsimps.com

What's playing on US radio - mapped in realtime

Cool visualisation. Be nice if you could click the titles though.

 

 

 

Olympus Makes World's Smallest DSLR

(not actual size...) "With the release of the E-400 Olympus has announced the smallest and lightest DSLR ever made. At just 130 x 91 x 53mm and a bulimic 380g it is around two thirds the width and half the weight of a regular DSLR" No price yet, but interesting: click click

Ipod PRO 2005 XP - Human Ear Professional Edition (With Subscription)

Excellent video made by a Microsoft employee. It imagines the design process that would take place if Microsoft were to design the iPod box. Although it pokes gentle fun, the video is pretty well made, and genuinely interesting from a packaging and branding point of view.

Warchalk

Where to find some free Wifi in London... http://www.warchalking.org.uk/ For example it seems like youre sorted if you are near to Upper street in Islington. Its now one long Hotspot provided by the council.

7 ways people search the web

7 ways people search the web
Originally uploaded by hobart65.

OK, it's a digital team challenge. Please email me 1 or more pictures of what you think these people look like...best pic wins a £2 item of choice from the local newsagent

The Pornhound - for porn
The Manhunter - for people
The Shopper - for deals
The Obsessive - for specific things, repeatedly
The Omnivore - for a little bit of everything
The Newbie - by accident
The Basket Case - for therapy

www.slate.com/id/2147590

Dogs + Cars = Barking

www.dogsbarkingincars.com See also: www.dogsincars.co.uk

Light emitting textiles!

Phillips have come up with these light emtting textiles by sticking LEDs into fabric or something - see internet for more info.

Microsoft Max

Still in beta, but worth noting that Microsoft is trying to compete with Picasa... http://www.microsoft.com/max/download.html you can read a bit more about it here... http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/09/microsoft-launches-desktop-feed-reader/

amazonunbox launches

Download TV and film from Amazon in the US.
Proprietary software and DRM alerts all over the shop - check Digg for more.

Swimming Pool

The 21st Century Museum of Art of Kanasawa Permanent installation Leandro Erlich

Google Earth in the ads

New BA campaign

Inspirational business posters

I've actually seen the originals of these in the offices of a well-known online travel company (air, hotel, car etc.).



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Make your official seal here

Motorhome with built-in garage

Blimey.

The record store is dead

Tower records have filed for bankruptcy blaming the downloader’s. I think it's more an appalling retail experience stuck in 90s - I've found it's just not worth the bother going into that type of store. There’s simply a total lack of any attempt to help you navigate to what's good. Tower Records Files For Bankruptcy - CBS News

Wikipedia considering restrictions

BBC News
Wikipedia is considering introducing a form of prior restraint on edits.
"Since Mr Siegenthaler Sr was neither controversial enough to merit consistent attention, or interested enough in what happened online to bother to Google himself regularly, his biography simply sat there unremarked, although we have no way of knowing how many school essays mention his entirely fabricated involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy."

Found by Chris Park

SyncToy

Many of you might know this one already but some of you might not, there is an excellent little bit of Sync software out there and guess what it's free! Guess what else... Microsoft make it :) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/prophoto/synctoy.mspx No doubt there are others out there, I for one have used another that needs no install (and so is useful for bringing about on a keydrive), but this one is the current favourite.

Test sites on OS X browsers

1. Enter URL 2. Choose browser window width 3. Select quality of output 4. Click View It returns an image of the page requested within the browser chosen. Free test in Safari. Pay for others on a per-day subscription model. Found by Rob

The 50 Coolest Websites - According to Time

Hmmm.
I'm not sure.



time.com

Don't wait for the render - outsource online

Post your file.
They do the render - fast.
And return the files to you.

No more all-nighters. Or fewer at least.

RenderCore

Steal a logo, sell it online

Logoworks.com rip offs
Credit: Post from Sean Rees, Enterprise IG London

SD with WiFi

Eye-Film: SD-Card with 802.11g Wifi Built-in

Small but powerful

Sony Memory Stick Mini

Video games recreated with cakes and stuff.

http://eatpes.com/game_over.html

Cockroach controlled robot

You heard. http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot/

How MS Word should look

Innovative packaging.

Music licencing - quick start

Have published notes from a recent presentation from Warner Chappell on music copyright.
Will help you get a quick idea of what you need to consider when using music for presentations, events etc.

Simple Flash Video Player

Script as used by YouTube, Nintendo and others. Source code also available.

Logos 2.0 style

Flickr set

Interactive Bar

More technology to confuse beer swillers iBar - intelligent surface system - interactive bar: Info

Surf'n'Work

If you would like to surf the web while pretending to work, try out the Work Friendly proxy. Type in a URL and the site turns the page into a word-like browser, adding an emergency 'boss' button to boot. workFRIENDLY - BETA

Brand 2.0

Ted Nelson on branding 2.0 - why don't customers care anymore? 50 minutes of talking head might make you skim the digest instead FutureMonitor™ Webcast

Super Serif Brothers

Who needs images, colour and sound for games? Super Serif Brothers

Video Game Stats

VideoGameCharts.com
Western-centric data on US hardware and software. Also info on Japan.
PS2 still rules the roost on hardware.
But it's an N64 game that comes in second on units sold 95-04!

Clutter Magazine - Issue 08

Now available with all the other magazines in the corner by the scanner on the 3rd floor.

Ooh, a fun Flash 3d interface

If you like that sort of thing http://cmd9.com/

Survey Monkey and Opera browser

I'm a big fan of Survey Monkey the tool we use for online surveys, but even I have to admit that it's a real pain editing a large survey. Shadi nearly went insane on the LDA survey. The answer is the opera browser. Opera is currently the fastest browser at executing JavaScript. (Geeks - look at this script speed test table) Survey Monkey is JavaScript intensive, so using Opera makes editing forms less like walking through treacle. I'd highly recommend you install Opera, if only to use with Survey Monkey

Users are funnier than you think...

Turn your laptop in a TV / PVR

I've been looking for cheap / easy way to turn my laptop into TV / PVR (Personal Video Recorder) and finally it's arrived. With an electronic program guide etc, plug this into into the USB and watch / record digital tele. Price $99! Elgato Systems

Amazon Mechanical Turk

I can't quite believe this isn't a hoax. But Amazon is now offering a virtual sweat shop for boring repetitive tasks that require a bit of human intelligence. It even has an API! I read about a guy who had used this to pay people to draw sheep, and then sold the sheep drawings as hand made 'one-offs'. Amazon Mechanical Turk - Welcome

Fly around london

'Flight sim' using google maps http://www.isoma.net/games/GogglesBeta09.swf

Stroke It - Go on, ya will ya will ya will

Nice little productivity tool. Sits in the system tray and does what it says on the box. http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ No tweaking is necessary to get a lot out of it as you can see from the default gestures here. http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/actions.shtml?app=./files/actions/Default.cfg

OK Go - Excellent video on YouTube

8 treadmills. 4 men. 1 take. This video is a masterpiece of coreography.

TED Talks podcast

TED Talks podcast
Originally uploaded by hobart65.

TED is legendary ‘invite only’ conference attended by the digirati of the globe. It's always been one of my life's ambitions to go – it’s reputed to have immensely costly conference freebies. They are now releasing some of the talks as podcasts. The latest video cast released is by the guy who did the multi-touch user interface that was popular a couple of months ago on Youtube

Half Wasted

Thanks to the power of the internet, advertising is becoming less wasteful and its value more measurable. http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7138905

Javascript Showdown: Speeds of Opera 9, IE6, and Firefox 1.5

How fast is your favorite browser's Javascript engine? After creating a Javascript benchmark tool and testing Opera 9.0, MSIE 6.0, and Firefox 1.5, you might be surprised to see which one came out on top...way on top.
http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php

From Digg

Gamers vs Avatars

Great online gallery of gamers alongside the avatars that they use to represent themselves. Bilder-Galerie

Windows Video Conversions

Built on the shoulders of the OpenSource video manipulation giants its a (kinda quirky) GUI that makes life a little bit easier. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Flash painting thing

There's quite a few of these types of things around, this one's good because you can replay your painting. For example, here's a robot I painted earlier - don't be disheartened by my immense painting skills, not everyone can be this good: http://artpad.art.com/?j3blbu191h5c

Ewan - Voiceover Artist - Glittering Debut

Ewan Ferrier debuts in his new role as "the voice of Enterprise IG", adding gravitas and panache to a demonstration of technological wizardry.

Exploding paint: The new Sony Bravia ad

Jonathan Glazer (he of the Radiohead videos, and Sexy Beast) has been directing the latest Sony Bravia TV ad. There's some on-set footage here, and a Flickr picture set here.

South Park and the music industry

See the damage caused by illegal downloading of music.

Love To Hate This Game

Designed, I'm assuming, to promote the Peugeot 107, this stinker oozes bad-brand vibes.
I hate this car.
Hate this game now.

Watch Digg digging in real time

Digg Spy
Brings home how active the site is - and the variety of topics. Hasn't been that long since they expanded to include topics outside of Technology.

IDEO Method Cards - spruce up your brainstorms

"IDEO Method Cards are intended as inspiration for parcticing and aspiring designers, as well as those seeking a creative spark in their work. These cards show some of the ways IDEO keeps people at the center of the design process." We have some. Pop down, have a look and put them into practice. Their quite fun actually.

iEatBrainz - Stupid Title, Clever App.

I've been using iEatBrainz for a while now, and it does a really good job of tagging all those unnamed or badly named tracks in iTunes. It uses audio matching to check your songs against a CD databse called MusicBrainz, and then updates your iTunes library. Unfortunately, it's Mac only at the moment, but there seem to be some other interesting apps for Windows users over at the MusicBrainz products page.

CG Transformation - Bill Nighy ->Octopus-faced bad guy

USA Today
Actually it USA a few days ago.

Netvibes - Enterprise IG digital page

We've put together Netvibes page for most of sites that we use day to day.
Naturally I won't post the email and password details here.
If youd didn't get the email, just send me a message:
daniel.lewington@enterpriseig.com

StumbleUpon - SHOCK! - browser bar actually worth installing

StumbleUpon It works a bit like Google's "I feel lucky" but with a bit of focus: - you can choose the category of site you're interested in - the sites are ranked by other visitors so the quality should be high (and this seems to largely be the case) It's informed browsing without the hassle of actually having to think. Very quick and easy: 1. Download and install the bar. 2. Sign up (very few details) 3. Choose areas of interest e.g. media, health, outdoors, arts/history 4. Now when you click on the button, you'll be taken to a site that is within your areas of interest. 5. Once there you can rank the site just by clicking 'thumbs up' or 'thumbs down' buttons. 6. Move on There are lots of other things you can do with it (add comments, email links, wiki lookups etc) but I'll leave it there. It's a 2.0 take on Web Rings.

Invisible Sphere

Video of Johnathan Schipper make a sphere from 215 cameras and screens Cool Hunting Video: Jonathan Schipper

Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet

Cool online toy to make graphs of sites. Check out the flickr tag websitesasgraphs Websites as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet

Cloth UK - Bespoke printing for upholstery, furniture

"Cloth takes cutting edge print technology and allows the addition of any image, photograph, pattern or design to be added onto a range of contemporary products." Cloth UK - Bespoke printing for upholstery, furniture

rendr

Rendr is a live CSS and HTML rendering tool. It displays what the page would look like as you type, making it great for rapid testing of page designs. rendr