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I work as a Digital advertising planner for an agency in London, UK. Due to my work I have interests in media consumption, design, social media, search and mobile advertising and am always on the look out for emergent ideas and technologies.

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Google TV - Google is watching you (again...)

via googleblog.blogspot.com

Google TV brings the web to your TV. Tvs will come built in with it or you can buy a set top box to access Google TV on your existing TV.

I am a strong believer that altruism is rare and this further adds evidence to my believe. What Google do not openly say is that this will allow them to start monitoring YouTube usage and get granular info on what people are using so they can build a better business model for their YouTube advertising proposal. Essentially this is an attempt to create a BARB-like panel to gain further insight in to user behaviour on YouTube.

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Posted 2 months ago

YouTube celebrates 5 years

YouTube is today celebrating it's 5 year anniversary by getting some of the bigger YouTube stars to talk about their raise to stardom. One guy who is definitely worth checking out is Greg Pattilo:  

. On the topic of Beatboxing whilst playing the Flute check out pretty cool show at Google's London offices with Beardy Man & Nathan Lee: 

 

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Posted 2 months ago

What makes an internet meme?

The founder of the infamous website icanhascheezburger.com discusses what makes content and ideas go viral on the internet:

 

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Posted 2 months ago

Spotify becomes much more

Spotify's new release sees a huge shift to Music Management as opposed to just a streaming music player. New changes include the ability to manage music on your computer and transfer to you mobile, big integration with Facebook and the ability to see recommended albums and songs from your Facebook friends.

This all seem like pretty sensible moves from Spotify and the user interface appears to have been well thought out and easy to use.

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Posted 2 months ago

Augmented Reality Billboard

Ok so Augmented reality has been used for various applications with some being more succesful than others. A majority of applications so far have required a user to hold up an AR card to a webcam and the AR activity appears on this marker card. In Amsterdam they have installed an Augmented Reality billboard which places the public in the scene of street fight. The aim of this is to get people to think how they would react if the situation was real and would they step in and help.

The video is here:

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Posted 2 months ago

M.I.A's Banned Video

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M.I.A's new video - Born Free was directed by Romain Gavras who is not scared of standing out and making a point. This video is no exception and was pulled from YouTube soon after it was posted by MIA herself.

It is pretty powerful and it's interesting to see how a lot of narrow minded people genuinely thought this was calling for genocide of Fanta Pants when the truth is the more orange in hair colour people are a stand in for any race and / or minority. Aside from the controversy this video has kicked up it has amazing creative direction!

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Filed under  //  Born Free   creative   MIA   music   Music Video  
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Posted 3 months ago

Nokia N8 Captures Amazing Videos

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The new Nokia N8's Carl Zeiss 12 MP camera sounds pretty impressive for just a still picture camera but also the ability to record in HD makes this phone pretty impressive. The above film was produced on an N8 with no editing and the phone software was not even the final version that the new N8 now comes with!

The N8 launched yesterday and is Nokia's attempt at the smartphone.

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Filed under  //  Mobile   N8   Nokia   phone   Technology  
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Posted 3 months ago

How is mobile changing Social Media?

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An interesting post from www.flowtown.com showing the change that mobile is causing on the us of social media platforms

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Filed under  //  Facebook   Mobile   Social Media   Stats  
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Posted 3 months ago

32 songs in 8 minutes and others...

32 songs in 8 minutes(!):

 

 

Wacko Jacko Medley:

 

 

And a calssical take on Lady GaGa - Telephone:

 

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Filed under  //  Amusing   Covers   Lady GaGa   Michael Jackson   music  
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Posted 3 months ago

Flight of the Conchords - Kissy Sell Out remix

Well I never saw it coming but Kissy Sell Out did. Flight of the Conchords' Most Beautiful remixed to D n' B! Enjoy.

(download)

 

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Filed under  //  flight of the conchords   kissy sell out   music   remixes  
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Posted 3 months ago