http://thisiskeith.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:01:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   The IAB have endorsed some new mega-ad formats, to sit alongside the more common suite of skyscrapers, banners, etc. Masthead example below was lifted from the Myspace homepage yesterday.   It’ll be interesting to see how these new formats fair – it certainly gives more scope to visual creativity. Which, is kind ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/if-they-aren%e2%80%99t-listening-make-a-bigger-noise/ Quick search for 'big brother' in Google reveals a quite strange sponsored link in the no.1 slot - wonder what the theory behind this one is??   [interest in Big Brother was for research purposes only!] http://thisiskeith.co.uk/experimental-sponsored-search/   I was interested to hear, and slightly excited - a normal amount, not throwing a big tizzy in the office or anything - that the Guardian launched their API recently, giving access to their archirve of features and data. It's an innovative move by what some might see as a ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/were-somewhere-else-right-now/ Classic coverage of 100's of well-heeled multi-taskers going a bit mental at '...next top model' auditions in NYC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbtNyTfTlhQ[/youtube]   Thanks to Herd for pointing out the work of Philidelphia institute, I like the way the good citizens here are more concerned in navigating themselves over and/or round a fallen body.   [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXwtVJZMCI4[/youtube]   Anyway, here's how ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/cat-fight/ Will be keeping a close eye on the progress of the Best Buy Remix Challenge, announced at SXSW. Should be interesting to see what developers come up with in terms of new ways to interrogate the BB API to provide innovative new ways to present product data.    One app built on ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/best-buy-remix-challenge/   I really like the way the new US administration is using the web to channel openness and transparency. Their latest site takes things a bit further by asking the population to set the agenda, allowing key issues to float to the surface and using Facebook connect to help users communicate what ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/vive/   I was pointed in the general direction of something last week that reminded me of a project I once worked on, to develop a social analysis tool that defined the sentiment, in positive and negative terms, of what people were saying in the social space(s).   Things moved on pretty quickly back ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/where-is-the-love/ Lots of links flying round on clever-augmented-reality-things. Still think the technology is at the 'ooh look what we can do' stage, but I'm quite confident someone somewhere will come up with a great execution for this - sure the trick is to use how the technology works to create something ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/augmented-reality-round-up/ I am determined to not write stuff about twitter for a while - think people are starting to suffer from twitter-overload just now, however, something I was pointed today looks really nice in that all the main Peep show characters now have twitter accounts.   I'm following Jez, Mark and Superhans now and ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/peep-show-on-twitter/ Two communication incidents this week, my iPhone died on me (after struggling by since Christmas), and a postcard I received from an old friend living out in Australia, as well as seeing Asi's post, got me thinking about how many channels people use to get in touch with me - ... http://thisiskeith.co.uk/communication-breakdown/