LINKS FROM April 2007
Feeley Meeley Game by Milton Bradley
"The game that gives you a funny feeling." So odd.
"It struck me that this control very much reminded me of another company: Wal-Mart. Here's a summary of the critical points that define the similarities between the two"
Tags: google walmart advertising business economics
"A Rich Idea might have instant appeal but it also has hidden depths, emotional resonance, inherent drama. If a Big Idea is like a high concept movie then a Rich Idea is like the premise for a soap opera or a series."
Tags: ideas planning marketing
Following the frogs in the pot
"Fragmentation, disintermediation, the ability to unbundle content from form, and the personal media revolution have all created an abundant, customer-in-charge world for media, one in which pure reach-frequency ad models won’t work."
Tags: media2.0 newspapers advertising trend
Postcard from the Welcome Mat: Levi Strauss's Wall of Letters
"As I finished walking around all four corners of the exhibit, I just keep thinking to my self: this is where marketing truly begins."
Tags: conversation passion marketing
It's the Conversation Economy, Stupid
As consumer markets fragment, marketers and designers must understand how platforms evolve and influence human behavior
Tags: conversation communication marketing design
Where You Carry, Why It Matters
Jan Chipchase, researcher for Nokia breaks down the different ways phones are carried around the world.
Two Parts Vodka, a Twist of Science
New York Times on 'molecular mixology'
Tags: alcohol bars science mixology cocktailculture
"We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people... if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain Engl
Experience As Story Telling - Ira Glass
"What is a story in it’s purest form? The power of the anecdote. Raising questions at the beginning, constantly raising questions and answering them."
Tags: video storytelling tips
Blogger Outreach Done Right - The Nikon Blog Ambassador Program
"With this program i think Nikon provide a very good example of how to get extremely valuable devices in the hands of bloggers without a hint of the cronyism or accusations of undue influence that have often come along with $1000+ giveaways to bloggers."
Tags: blogs marketing camera photography
Trench Warfare: Blogs, Podcasts and Vidcasts
"When you first start a blog, like The Simpsons, it’s a very badly drawn character. But as you continue, it starts to look more like you, you find your niche and you build your brand."
Tags: blogs conference branding
World's Slowest Instant Messenger
"Connected things in the era of IP networks always do their thing as fast as possible, approaching speeds that are imperceptible to normal humans. Almost without question, this is seen as a good thing. But I wondered what it would take to disrupt that ass
Tags: culture technology internet speed im
In a Station of the Metro... a case study in marketing?
"It speaks to the notion that although content is king (even more so now in this user-generated world) we cannot ignore the importance of the context in which that content is delivered, and the appropriateness of the channel used to deliver it."
"So as our cities grow more dense, our social relationships are moving into Twitter time. Bettencourt and his coauthors would claim that this is neither good nor bad -- it's simply the inevitable outcome of urban growth."
Tags: culture blogs twitter mobile time trend
"Unexpected films find success with DVD rentals, sales while box office, award winners fall flat"
10ton's Top 10: The Guide to Great Online Video
"The web is not TV. It’s a different medium with different rules. What used to work, won’t. Read on, and you’ll find our philosophy and our ideas about what does."
One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X.
Tags: software html css ftp development mac
Helpful distortion at NYC & London subway maps
"Subway map readers want to know how to get from A to B a lot more than they want to know the exact curve of the tracks along the way. Sometimes truth is less important than knowledge."
Tags: design usability subway maps
"ParkAtMyHouse is a new service that provides affordable and penalty-free parking around public venues by enabling property-owners to rent out their empty driveways, garages, car parks and other spare pieces of land to drivers needing somewhere to park."
Send a drink to a friend via text message that they can redeem at participating bars. Only available in NYC at the moment.
Tags: nyc alcohol bars beer mobile
Ways in which working on kottke.org is like gardening
"Pruning the list of RSS feeds I follow."
Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place?
"Instead of developing different brands offering basically the same thing (which will be inundated by the laptopers), maybe they should offer a modern version of the Second Place to keep the Bedouin Workers and the cafe dwellers happy and apart."
Tags: culture coffee likemind starbucks
10 of the Strangest (non-porn) Sex Scenes
Including woman on duck action from Howard the Duck. (Somewhat NSFW)
"The nice thing about this one (compared to the many other new marketing schema's out there) is that there is no arrow on the right hand side of the diagram - it can go in any direction, showing the true equality of all the players."
Tags: marketing conversation visualization
Notes on a transparent apology
"I’m still snickering over the recent comments of Fake Steve Jobs at about famous PR guy Steve Rubel."
Tags: transparency pr marketing blogs
Who really said it?
Tags: quotes music architecture history
"ALL the beer cannon destroys in a sweet montage. Complete with slo-mo action!"
"The latest supercomputer is way faster than the human brain. But guess which is smarter?" by Robert Metcalf
Redesigned nyc subway maps.
"The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting, but by a private investor and a good idea"
Moscow's suburb for billionaires
"Most people in Britain are now familiar with the scruffy, boyish and invariably unshaven features of Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club, and Russia's most famous billionaire."
Tags: russia business economics politics money
Inside the interactive mind - or something resembling a mind
Strawberry Frog's process for making websites.
Tags: marketing advertising design internet funny
How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
"A fascinating study demonstrates how simply displaying aggregate data like Top 10 lists heavily influences the way people make decisions on social web sites."
Tags: aggregation design socialsoftware web2.0 interface
Rain Storms in New York City Trigger Visible Feedback Loops
"Our culture so values factory-freshness that the moment of box-opening is the only stage of a product’s life that’s usually designed. The rest is left to fate."
Cookie-Based Counting Overstates Size of Web Site Audiences
"Frequent Cookie Deletion by 3 out of 10 U.S. Internet Users Leads to Overstatements in Audience Sizes by a Factor as High as 2.5"
Tags: research internet statistics
Colbert: Content for It-Getters
"Peak content offerings, web-like referencing, harnessed users enhancing the overall work--these are the concepts that everyone is trying to master whereever new media is intersecting with old."
Tags: cgm television web2.0 trend
"My point wasn't about whether someone gets Apple TV or not, rather that it's a product designed for a different market than folks who want to hook up traditional PCs to TV sets."
Tags: apple television video technology trend
"I'm doing a thing for w+k on Thursday, as part of their 25th anniversary do. It's a petcha-kucha-style thing. 25 slides. 25 seconds each. I was going to write it in powerpoint, but then I thought I'd try and write it in flickr instead. See how that worke
Tags: marketing flickr presentation design
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?
A new theory of the hit record.
Tags: business culture marketing psychology nytimes bestarticlesof2007
"One powerful tactic we used was pushing the product into the potential buyer’s space. The automatic reaction for most people is to pick it up. You’d then point out a few features and then mid-inspection, grab the product out of their hands"
Tags: culture marketing behavior
How to win at rock-paper-scisssors
"The top secrets to winning at RPS  courtesy of Graham Walker, Director of Management of the World RPS Society"
Tags: games lifehacks psychology tips
temporary retreat from randomness
Russell Davies on Twitter: "If you've been watching the blogosphere recently you'll have noticed that everyone's all aflutter about something called Twitter."
Tags: mobile marketing twitter
Good tips for presenting.
Tags: presentation tips powerpoint
"A violent demonstration of rage or frustration by a full-grown man in protest of or reaction to a difficult household chore or home-improvement project"
Forrester Sees Web Design Boom
"Forrester said the Internet's central role as an information resource has made Web projects key strategic priorities at many companies, leading to a revenue growth rate of at least 20 percent at most shops working in that space."
Tags: internet advertising design marketing
"The oldest, most widely-read fine arts magazine in the world."
A fairly straightforward look at ad serving.
Tags: advertising internet
"YouTube was the beginning of the end of old Google and the beginning of new Google."
Tags: youtube google innovation search
me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources"
Tags: google mobile innovation business
Face-to-Face Trumps Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, Video...
"The point is, face-to-face still matters. And in fact all our globally-connecting-social-networking tools are making face-to-face more, not less desirable."
Tags: community conversation likemind conferences
Anil Dash weighs in on the nasty side of the blogosphere.
Tags: blogs culture ethics community
A public service video from the Organic people. Love Obi-Wan Canole.
Tags: funny video marketing food health organic
"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
Tags: blogs culture youth identity education privacy video commercial
"Automatic delivery and extra savings for your most frequent purchases"
"Hecklers have moved toward the mainstream, making headlines, torpedoing careers, and exploiting a new stage of their own on video-sharing Web sites like YouTube."
"Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out."
Tags: music bestarticlesof2007 culture subway dc
Draft Blogger's Code of Conduct
This strikes me as a very analog solution to a digital problem.
Tags: blogs ethics culture conversation
"Muji's US target will be an active group of Americans who seek alternatives to showy brand consumerism; those who are looking to pursue higher goals in their consumption habits, but importantly, want to show and share those goals to others."
Tags: business shopping japan design nyc
Wieden Loses Nike over Digital?
"Perhaps if the agency teams worked together, we'd all get better at learning what consistently works online -- and then producing campaigns to match that expectation."
Tags: nike marketing advertising online business
"A survey of leading thinkers, gathered to judge the advertising world's Effie Awards, offers a valuable snapshot of an industry in flux"
Tags: marketing business research advertising
"View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries. Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis."
Tags: data visualization
No one belongs here more than you
A strangely brilliant idea for a website.
Tags: books inspiration fun design
"I believe that "large" is doomed to mediocrity not due to size, but because of the inherent inability of "large" to generate a strong sense of common purpose in the organisation beyond making money for its stakeholders."
Tags: business leadership small
"I have a philosophy: I post first!"
"Tonight Google launched MyMaps. It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google's site."
Tags: google maps mashup search
A study proves that the bigger his mansion, the worse the CEO
Tags: business realestate economics research
Separated by a common language
"Take the problem of left handed people being unable to use a pair of scissors, advertising people would approach this by telling left handed people how to use the existing scissors better whereas design people would create a new pair of scissors."
Tags: marketing design advertising creativity
Account planners and fearless noticing
"Almost nothing is actually nothing. The surface of social life is littered with tiny but telling details. The anthropologist's job is to notice and notice and notice. So I noticed snapping."
Tags: culture marketing bestarticlesof2007
"As someone who's on the Web too many hours, I have wondered what changing screens hundreds of times each day to access different gobs of "information" has done to the way our brains order the world, which is known as human consciousness."
Tags: politics technology internet culture brain bestarticlesof2007
YPulse conference on reaching youth using technology.
Tags: conference youth marketing
"Shops Want to Prove Communications Planning Is Vital to Marketers in an Increasingly Digital World"
Tags: marketing commsplanning strategy naked trend
"Fire the publicist. Go off message. Let all your employees blab and blog. In the new world of radical transparency, the path to business success is clear."
Tags: transparency business blogs trend marketing culture
"REVS discusses the metal sculptures that he's been placing in different locations around Brooklyn."
Tags: graffiti nyc streetart video documentary
How Ze Frank became a Web video star
David Lynch on Product Placement
Tell us how you really feel David.
Tags: advertising funny video interviews youtube movies