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

The recipe for success in China: Brand down, not up

Report from a Tom Doctoroff presentation on what big brands can do in the face of china making the same stuff but cheaper These common sense strategies include: Clearly separate differentiating needs from generic needs Brand the benefit Expand the brand portfolio Maximize the perception of public consumption first Nigel Hollis » Blog Archive » The recipe for success in China: Brand down, not up

PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

Very funny, if nothing else read the the first two, AOL and Real Player PCWorld.com - The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time

Global, Online, On-demand Cinema Library

"This is a chance to take back control of what you see," added Hussey. On-line cinema library unveiled at Cannes - Yahoo! News

Demand for TV on the net

"Viewers have watched ABC television shows available online about 3 million times since the Walt Disney Co. network launched the free service just over two weeks ago, Disney's chief executive said on Thursday." Technology | Reuters.co.ca

Google swallows Pot Noodle in battle of UK's brands | The Register

Google swallows Pot Noodle in battle of UK's brands
Article based on research by WPP agency Joshua. Love this articles use of google trend to raise the question "Why is portsmouth a pot noodle hotspot?"

Three earns from user generated video

3G Mobile operator 3 earned over £1.2m in just four months from its See Me TV channel for user generated video content. It's seen 4 million downloads and 30,000 submissions. Submitters are paid each tome a clip is views (1p for standard and 10p for adult!) The most popular clips include; * Hot dog boy – the quickest frankfurter eater in town! * Pretzel girl – a real-life office contortionist * The World's first wedding proposal over video mobile – customer proposed to his girl friend on Valentine’s day (Dating Game) * Tornado chaos – footage of the aftermath of the tornado that hit Birmingham (24 Hours) They are planning to roll out the service to news, making their subscribers citizen journalists Welcome to 3

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Interesting collection of user interfaces tips for ajax like interfaces Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2006 - Lecture 1: In the Beginning was Sound

"Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm perfectly aware of the great honour to be asked to deliver the Reith Lectures. It is with some slight trepidation that I do that, because I firmly believe that it is really impossible to speak really deeply about music. All we can do then is speak about our own reaction to the music. So maybe the honour is dubious, or maybe the BBC thought it would be very short." BBC Radio 4 - Reith Lectures 2006 - Lecture 1: In the Beginning was Sound