David Emery OnlineWorldview is here, and it's awesome
Every time you send a campaign, we'll show you who is opening it, clicking links, forwarding it to their friends, liking it on Facebook or mentioning it on Twitter. Here's the cool part—we'll show you this on a map, in real-time, all wrapped in a gorgeous UI.
This is totally awesome – I love a bit of real time data visualisation. Makes me want to switch to Campaign Monitor (although with the amount of mailing lists we operate I think that would be a bit prohibitive).
Visit ➔The Universal Sigh
The Radiohead album ‘The King of Limbs’ will be available for purchase in all good record stores everywhere on Monday 28th March, except in the United States of America and in Canada, where for reasons beyond the purview of this writer it will be available from Tuesday 29th March. On VINYL! On COMPACT DISC! As a DOWNLOAD!
To commemorate this momentous occasion, Radiohead have produced a newspaper which will be given away, free, gratis, without cost to the consumer by accredited vendors from a multitude of locations WORLDWIDE!
This is what I’ve been working on for the last few weeks.
Should be a lot of fun on Monday – I’m particularly excited to see how the photos element turns out. I’ll blog about it in more detail in due course…
Visit ➔Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
It’s a news ticker limited to one-word items, lacking any context, broadcasting mostly topics that I don’t understand, recognize, or care about. It’s nonsensical. At worst, it can offend. At best, it will confuse.
Personally I don’t mind the Quick Bar as a way of surfacing trends, but that’s only because it’s my job to be aware of these things; you should be able to turn it off.
The reason why you can’t turn it off though is the key problem here – it doubles up as Twitter’s stab at monetisation. As Marco mentions, advertising is not the problem here, it’s the implementation in the iPhone client but I think that misses the bigger issue: ‘Promoted Trends’ has got to be one of the worst forms of advertising you could come up with.
From an advertisers point of view you get a tiny amount of characters to get your message across, which is never going to be effective (have you ever clicked on a promoted trend? I haven’t.), with no targeting (when they could be doing very targeted ads as they know what you’re interested in by what you follow and tweet).
Come on Twitter; just have done with it and do in-stream ads and let me pay to be able to switch them off. Simple, effective and not dickish.
Visit ➔Rebecca Black Means The (Internet) Fame Game Has Changed
Earlier today I had lunch with a musician friend who was lamenting the trouble her band was having booking shows in San Francisco. When I asked her how she planned on getting the word out she said, “Get a publicist, or have a video go viral.”
I love the way it’s just ‘have a video that goes viral’ as if that’s something you can just ‘do’. The only thing you can control is whether the video – or your music, for that matter – is any good, so how about focusing on that?
Visit ➔Piracy doesn't fund the mob or terrorists
A scholarly report funded by the Canadian government and the Ford Foundation investigates the alleged link between copyright infringement and terrorism and finds none. Basically, counterfeiters can't compete with free, and so there's no money in it.
I imagine that the counterfeit market is far more price sensitive then the legitimate market.
Visit ➔Apple working on magazine app template for developers?
According to Anthony Morganti Apple has been so inspired and excited by the latest stream of iPad-optimized magazine applications that they are now working on a magazine-app template for use by developers in Xcode.
Seems like a no brainer to me – they can’t be too happy with Adobe being the mina player in this market. I wouldn’t be too surprised if they come up with a consumer aimed offering for this as well, to sit alongside iMovie, Pages et al.
Visit ➔Saturn fly-by video
There is no 3-D CGI involved in this amazing Saturn fly-by video...it's made from thousands of hi-res photographs taken by the Cassini orbiter.
I scarcely believe this is real:
Visit ➔Introducing Solo
Introducing Solo, the project management tool for the modern freelancer. We're designers and we've loved making Solo. We think that if you try it you'll love it too.
This looks beautiful – I wish that 1) I had a use for it and 2) all web apps looked like this.
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