Amidst all the hype about social commerce, Facebook just launched its first test of Facebook Deals among several US cities. Deals is Facebook’s new group-buying platform, which competes with other sites like Groupon, LivingSocial, and Google Offers. All which allow users to receive daily deals on products and services relative to their location. Groupon, the…
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Making Future Magic: iPad Light Painting
“Making Future Magic” is an exploration of the future of media conducted by creative communications agency Dentsu London in collaboration with R&D experts Berg. This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. The video was a created by using long exposures which captured the iPads movement through space…
Continue readingWay to Freak Out the Luddite!
I’m about as far from an early adopter as you can get. I generally get a bit freaked out by even the notion of new technology and often find myself wondering just why we need most of this stuff. If it were up to me we would probably all be sitting around outdoors, drawing pictures…
Continue readingVote Earth For Earth Hour, 8:30 PM March 28, 2009
At 8:30 PM local time, wherever you live on planet earth, switch off your lights and vote against global warming! With the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote, Vote Earth is a global call to action for every individual, every business and every community. A call…
Continue readingThe Future of Applications
While catching up on some of my latest industry news today on Twitter I found a very cool web application that pretty much takes the term interactive website to a new level (thanks @bongobrian). SUMO Paint is a fully functioning image manipulation and painter program. What sets it apart from other such software is that…
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