digital in London

Webclip icon update

mcadwallader — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:46:08 +0000

Thanks to Kai for the tip on making screengrabs on the iPhone, we can now reveal The Brand Union webclip icon for those wielding a normalPhone.

For those interested in how to make a screengrab - hold down the home button then quickly press the power button, the screen will flash and store the image in your photos.

Google attemp a 3d Second Life style Flex application

mcadwallader — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:08:42 +0000

…and fail, it would seem. At least, I can’t get it work in Firefox or IE on Windows XP.
The idea is that you create 3d chat rooms where you can share pictures, video and music. These rooms can then be embedded on your webpage.

www.lively.com

BBC ditch Real player / Windows Media Player for Flash video

mcadwallader — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:16:11 +0000

I’m not sure exactly when this happened but you can finally watch the news online without having to wade through outdated technology plugin hell.

For example, Bush getting heckled yesterday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7491278.stm

They also have a live streaming news channel:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459669.stm

Google can crawl flash

hobart65 — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:04:44 +0000

We still have many clients who refuse flash, and the most compelling reason was the lack of search visibility. The boffins at google have fixed that with some form a SWF decoder. Worth a read for developers and a reassessment of the reasons not to have flash…

Q: Which Flash files can Google better index now?
We’ve improved our ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash “gadgets” such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between.

One key limitation is that the robot does not execute javascript, so you might have to carefully select what flavour of flash detection you use to ensure the flash files are visible.

Link to the Google webmaster post

iPhone webclip icon for The Brand Union

mcadwallader — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:27:13 +0000

You can now add thebrandunion.com to your iPhone or iPod Touch homepage should you desire. You should get a nice shiny webclip icon and not just a screengrab of the home page.

Google favicon revamp

hobart65 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:07:52 +0000

Google favicon revamp

Originally uploaded by hobart65

If you are of the typographic nature, you might have noticed the google favicon went lower case sometime in June. Here’s the backstory from the Google blog about the revamp . Google badly need some form of graphic device or framework to unite its ballooning set of services. Interesting that they start with the favicon, something most branding companies would do last.

” You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t in 8.5 years(!)”

Link: one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish

Tattoos being awesome

mcadwallader — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:38:00 +0000

I know it’s not digital, or branding per se… but what it is, is Patrick Swayze as a centaur.

Internet being awesome

admin — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:43:05 +0000

As part of the daily ‘what’s going on out there’ scan, I checked the top two stories on Digg. I’m not going to describe each of them but just provide the links.

1. http://tinyurl.com/65fgzs

2. http://tinyurl.com/462qc6

The unbridled dissemination of information. Both are highly provocative. Both provide visceral and intellectual responses. But in totally different ways.