Similar to other media players but an AIR application. It’s pretty quick to pull in the data and the interface seems okay at first glance. Can the market place support another player or is this just another ‘AIR is super’ demo (albeit a pretty meaty one)?
Download and install if you fancy a play.
After the triumph of B2B Magazine, I’ve got a short piece in the Technology Weekly section of mad.co.uk - a UK news site specialising in marketing, media, advertising and design.
It’s a short article entitled Open source, RSS and APIs - ignore at your peril. Essentially it’s questioning whether you actually need to build anything from scratch any more given the plethora of services already in existence and available for data-sharing.
I’m actually quite pleased with it. I think it’s a legitimate point of view and, as I concede, whilst not appropriate for all brand encourages another way of considering the approach to online communications. But they haven’t included all links to the various sites. Bit of a shame given that it’s all about connectivity. And links are what make the internet the internet.
I’ll stop moaning. Good to get out there at all. All feedback is welcome btw.
I received an email this morning from a service called Spokeo.
“As a courtesy, we are notifying you that Spokeo users have found the following accounts for you:
Flickr schlemmsy on Flickr
Digg schlemmsy on Digg
Slide daniel.lewington on Slide
If you would like to make these accounts private, please change the privacy settings on the original network and Spokeo will update its search results to reflect your changes.”
I can’t help thinking this is the same kind of courtesy extended to characters in Francis Ford Coppolla’s The Godfather Trilogy before they’re summarily executed.
Basically it’s a sort of user-profile aggregator that trawls lots of sites looking for user information and will then update you when any content on any of those sites is updated by that individual.
Perhaps a quick visit? Unscrupulous employers may well.
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Use it to measure and ensure brand consistency and coverage. At a glance you can see the user icon and activity across the various sites e.g. number of posts. Check that you’re 1. visually consistent and 2. spreading yourself evenly across the sites that matter.
Der Spiegel reports that Klaus Kjöller of the University of Copenhagen has accused IKEA of “Swedish imperialism”. Apparently he and a friend, after an exhaustive study of the latest catalogue (along with the rest of North London) , have discovered that super items like beds get Swedish names whereas less-super items like floor mats get Danish names.
I wish everyone could just get along. But if you’re going to have a tiff then surely using something as non-confrontational as the names of functional items for the home should be applauded. No broken bones or black eyes. For now anyway.
Source: Thanks goes out to a colleague on the Hamburg office. We’re a network you see.
Superb video passed on by Nick in the NY office. Thanks Nick. Thought it was going to be a Golden Cage type affair from the first frame but how wrong could I be.
SOME HAS REQUESTED THAT EMBEDDING BE DISABLED SO YOU’LL HAVE TO VISIT THE PAGE ON YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE
Top of the Pops editors from 1985 were weeping whilst watching that.
Here’s the Golden Cage video as well. Just because I think it’s good:
Looks like we finally get to have our own ‘universe’ page on netvibes. For about 6 months they were only available for bands, news channels etc. It’s like a normal netvibes page (where you can aggregate all your favourite blogs and news feeds in one place) but public, so you can aggregate your flickr, bebo, myspace, twitter etc. in one place, and then share that page… in another social network… my head is spinning. Will this simplify your social networking, or complicate it further? Perhaps there’ll be netvibes universe application in facebook and social networking will eat itself?
Could I make this sound any more exciting? It’s a little tricky to explain without giving the game away. Essentially it’s some video that interacts with the browser window.
I watched it all the way through. Marketeers will do the same. First person to spot a copy for a well-known brand say cabbage.
Found by Richard Holt
Pet irritation.
There’s a site to be made from things like this.