It’s all about me
March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The Attention Trust are offering web users the chance to claim back the value of their personal data by developing an Attention Recorder to see what companies really think about them. Users can build a profile constructed from their clickstream and browsing history and subsequently lock that information in an online vault. Companies wishing to contact the user, must then pay according to whether they wish to be put in contact or
they simply want the information for general demographic analysis. I am going to see how long I can hold out before seeing what I’m worth.
Universe squared
March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
San Francisco based agency Attik have designed this rather fun little site as a pre-launch campaign for Toyota’s new 2008 Scion xB. The site comprises of a cube shaped universe made up of individual landscapes that was apparently inspired by the vehicles boxiness design. The characters you will encounter within the site are utterly bizarre, but there are some great little games to keep you amused.
The innovations landscape
March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Nowandnext.com have developed an Innovation Timeline from 1900 to 2050, highlighting all the best innovations that we have witnessed to date, and cover the next 47 years that are yet to come. The timeline is open source so users are able to adapt it or move the timeline how they see fit. Some of the ideas are really quite good, but to the user who added “Virtual Holidays”, are you kidding me? Real ones needed and always savoured.
Mixed tape revival
March 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment
For those of you who are too young to remember the mix tape era (and damn you by the way), this piece may not be of interest, but Dutch musician Harold Schellinx is displaying an exhibition at Gallery Takt in Berlin of a collection of random assortment of tapes that he has found, and has made a collection for online listening. Some of the sounds are quite random however I did make out Lionel Ritchie’s All Night Long amongst some very dubious noises.
