Childish

27 July 2007

As promised I have work work stuff to show you, and this time it’s rather fun:

It’s a site to promote the new single by Dizzee Rascal and it’s the most fun site we’ve put together for ages. It’s also possibly the most childish as well – the premise is simple: take a website (any site you like) and stick “pussyole” stickers on it, then send it to your friends. It works very nicely with MySpace pages, and Flickr would be a good target too – it’s basically a rude version of the annotations feature they have.

And yes – it does use the marquee tag. Sorry.

However, this is only one half of the site as we’ve also put together our first Facebook app. The premise of it is similar to the main site: call your friends pussyoles on Facebook. Your latest “diss” then shows up on your profile page, and they appear in your news feed as well. It’s been a very interesting experience putting it together – obviously it’s a fairly simple app, but working within Facebook’s confines can be slightly difficult at times. While they’re streets ahead of the competition in some ways, the platform itself can be slightly confusing with all sorts of different – but similar – actions needing to be taken into account (like the differences between invitations and notifications, for example).

All good fun, though.

Just to round it off, here’s the video for the new Dizzee single, which is probably the best song off the album. Sadly, the video is for the “clean” version which takes out all the “pussyoles”, and I think it looses a lot of the edge in the process. Still a good song, though:

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27 July 2007