OK, here we go again. Following last post, a mix of 2 of my favourite subjects: music and online video.
[youtube]a1×91d6Ak0E[/youtube]The track at the final is “Wolf Like Me” from TV On the Radio latest album, Return to Cookie Mountain.
Ah, and the mp3 player seems cool (I never understood why most of them didn’t had speakers).
The best of both worlds: a viral video and a showcase of music culture.
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The video was produced to promote Battle of the Ad Bands, a charity event with bands from the advertising business.
The Rise of the Hybrids is the new page at nikelab, with 3 short animations.
Online video is used as a promo to Nike’s Air Max 360 and it sure looks lovely. A lesson fon online marketeers is the copy/paste code for viral posting on blogs or social networks.
[swf width="470" height="358"]http://www.nike.com/nikelab/oto/hybrid/shell.swf[/swf]
The Flash video player has some nice features and we can see all the 3 shorts in a row, download wallpapers and, of course, access the Nike Stores.
(Via Adverblog)
Based on Jeremy Ruston’s TiddlyWiki, ccTiddly is a web personal notebook.
It’s a server-side adaptation, based on PHP and MySQL, with version 1 released last September.
I’ve tried to use the TiddlyWiki standalone version for notetaking in a USB drive, or the GTDTiddlyWiki version for the incursions in GTD, but these weren’t quite useful since i’m always exchanging notes between work and home. Also, as i’m most of the time online, it’s not that practical to plug the USB and save the HTML file, that could easily reach several MB.
From the several server-side adaptations, only one seemed promising, so i gave ccTiddly a go. The setup was quite smooth, mostly database parameters and admin rights, and after the upload, it was online.The only thing that failed were the importTiddlers plugin, so i had to start with a blank wiki and expected that future releases might fix this problem.
I spent some time customizing stylesheets, creating some default tiddlers, and learning how to adapt my writing/note-taking style to this app. An finally,here it is:
[Screenshot only. Web app on private URL]
It has all the 2.0 webiness, with ajax transitions and easy editing and the essential feature of being able to access your personal wiki anytime you’re connected.
My review: Great ! If you’re a writer, blogger or training consultant it’s an excellent tool for knowledge management and notetaking, with more freedom than a traditional wiki.
Download link: http://cctiddly.sourceforge.net/
Above: An ad poster for Lee Jeans, shot by Terry Richardson, that was quite controversial in Australia. Although the ad depicts that the girl is over 18, it is a thin line between photo-chic and soft-porn.
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duetg/tags/lolita/
On a more noble subject, Tiempo BBDO Spain created a viral video for the United Nations campaign against poverty. Following the same idea of the Air Force 1 graffiti hoax we see President’s Zapatero seat in the UN being “hacked”.
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After the video went viral, the agency explained it was all an hoax and the video was edited to make it look real.
It’s been 4 days now, since the anonymous megaphone StayQuiet is running.
This shoutbox from WeBreakStuff, the portuguese Web 2.0 “rockstars” (pun intended), invites us to scream to the web, so you won’t do it alone if you spill coke on your keyboard or the client meeting was a drag.
Some screenshots below of the slick interface, but you’d better check it out yourself.
[tag]Microsoft[/tag] sent me an email (see transcript at the end of this post) letting me know that Web sites, extensions, and applications shoud be compatible with Internet Explorer 7.
Well, that’s all beautiful, but instead of the climate of FUD, maybe MS should consider implementing real CSS2 support and compliance with W3C standards.
I wonder what clients think about paying support so their sites work with the new IE7 ?
For us, poor mortal web developers, a few headaches are coming:
But not all are bad news. In fact, some improvements are on the way:
Final Fantasy is the solo project of Owen Pallet, a tour member of Arcade Fire.
The 2nd time here in Portugal, now with 3 concerts, one of them at Clube Lua , 15 October.
He recently won the Polaris Prize for a canadian album, based only on it’s artistic merit.
I’ll be there !
Musical genre: indie pop.
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