Month: February 2007
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Something for nothing
Free heads up for all Only Dead Fish readers…NME.COM is hosting the worldwide debut of Arcade Fire’s highly anticipated second album Neon Bible. The album is available for streaming in its entirety exclusively here for one week before it’s scheduled release in […]
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Scary thought
Larry Page , co-founder of Google, has apparently announced that the web behemoth is in the development stages of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The realization, it is claimed, may not be as far off as we think. Yesterday I left a comment on […]
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Consumers are pigs
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” This is a quote from Winston Churchill. How should brands treat social media? With caution, according to Richard at AdLiterate. His slideshow on the […]
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Magazines for the creative
Couple of things for the more creative amongst you…First up Wallpaper*. Always daring to be different, the March issue features a limited edition moving lenticular cover previewing Hussein Chalayan’s mechanical dress. Also just in, courtesy of magculture, the latest print edition of […]
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A mini video adventure
Given BMW’s previous venture into branded web-based film content, I guess it’s no surprise that the Mini is now following suit. The US division is developing a series of six films featuring a seventies action hero called Hammer and his car ‘Coop’ […]
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Is advertising becoming less important?
It seems like the elephant in the room but perhaps the painful truth is that this is indeed the case. According to the Bellwether marketing survey, Media budgets have declined as a proportion of total marketing spend from 37% in 2005 to […]
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Mash-ups for the masses
Mashing up feeds just got a whole lot easier with the recent launch of Yahoo Pipes. In it’s simplest terms it allows you to easily combine multiple feeds into one, stringing together many simple operations, piping the output of one to the […]
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Thought for the day
"Don’t worry about what anybody else is going to do… The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Really smart people with reasonable funding can do just about anything" So speaketh Alan Kay in 1971. Alan, the inventor of […]
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Pimp my blidget
Widgetbox now allows you to create your own Widget for your blog (nattily called a ‘Blidget’). You can get mine here. You can get your own here.
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Digg Spy
Following on from my earlier post about mapping the internet, Digg labs have been at it again with Big Spy…this time stories appear realtime, the size of the font indicating how popular they are, and then move down as new stories appear. […]