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21 Steps: literature meets Google Maps

No comments Interface + Web 2.0 + Why didn't I think of that?

An excellent mashup, or a geo-localized short story written on Google maps bubbles by writer Charles Cummings. I'm halfway through it and about to fly to Edimburgh. Don't tell me the end! Visit the 21 Steps website

Oops they did it again: big corporations turning to YouTube for their TV ads.

No comments Advertising + Web 2.0

I wrote a while ago about a couple of tv ads "inspired" either by online projects or videoclips available on YouTube. Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk's ...

Web 2.0, del ego al Lego presentation (in Spanish)

16 comments Teaching + The real world + Web 2.0

Here's the presentation to the students of the "Design and Web Programming" course of the " Confederación de Empresarios de Andalucía. You can download the pdf in Spanish here. You can see last year's presentation here.

Google Maps: create a life size marker and get noticed

No comments Art + The real world + Web 2.0

Looking for some info on Google Maps API, I stumbled on this project where German artist Aram Bartholl plays with the Google satellite by placing physical Google Maps markers on the ground. Here's a picture: Check Bartholl's other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world. www.datenform.de - ...

Web 2.0 Company Name Generator

One comment Advertising + Web 2.0

Looking for some naming tips I stumbled upon this funny name generator. It even checks the availability of the domain. Kewl. Web 2.0 Company Name Generator

Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web (video)

No comments Internet + Web 2.0 + Web 3.0

The data web, like the document web involves standards as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and so on, all this things were enabled by royalty free standards. The same on the data web. What if you wanted to meet a friend for coffee at the best café next to her house? ...

Create your MTV: Last.fm + YouTube Mashup

2 comments Music + TV + Videoclips + Web 2.0

An online music television based on your taste from Last.fm coded by Tim Bormans. Just enter your Last.fm user name, and the website will play YouTube videos from your popular Last.fm artists. You get your own personalized MTV, playable in full screen with a unique URL for you to share with ...

For web designers only

2 comments Design + Programming + Typography + Web 2.0 + Wordpress

An excellent pick of resources for web designers. Blogs, tutorials, fonts, themes, stock photos, CSS templates and many more for you to choose from. Not the usual free-for-all crappy stuff you find around. Head to forwebdesigners.com (the name says it all, doesn't it?) and start browsing and downloading. A word of ...

Presentació al X Fòrum d’estudis sobre la Joventut

7 comments .in-catalan + Blogosphere + Web 2.0

"Nosaltres som els mitjans". Presentació sobre l'evolució dels mitjans des de la tele en blanc i negre fins a la web actual i el nostre rol central en ella. El canvi de paradigma de consumidors d'informació a productors/consumidors. Us podeu baixar el PDF aquí (23 Mb). Conferència i taula rodona enel marc ...

IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It (didn’t we know this?)

No comments Advertising + Marketing + Web 2.0

Imagine an advertising world where… spending on interactive, one-to-one advertising formats surpasses traditional, one-to-many advertising vehicles, and a significant share of ad space is sold through auctions and exchanges. Advertisers know who viewed and acted on an ad, and pay based on real impact rather than estimated “impressions.” Consumers self-select ...

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