Urban Takeover
June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I just love this. Urban Takeover mixes graffiti with geo-tagging to bring an game that can be played either alone or as part of a team. Users go to the site, download stickers and then place them in areas around the globe that they would like to lay claim to. You then send a text message to Urban Takeover and formally register your claim. The website shows the areas your team have claimed and where the hotspots are to get your more points. The competitive element comes where another team can take your claim as their own, sending you a text message informing you of this attack so you can fight back. A Team Awesome project is needed I think.
PMOG fun
May 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Last week I was directed to PMOG (passively multiplayer online game) by Charlie, an application that lets you play against others simply through browsing the web. “With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.” I have only recently started playing but have successfully blown up a couple of people and can see myself becoming addicted very easily.
Rickroll flash mob
April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
So I am a little late writing this post but on Friday evening I headed over to Liverpool Street Station to take part in the Rick Astely flashmob. If you don’t know what a flashmob is then you can look here. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about with Rick Astley then you can find out here.
As flashmobs go, it wasn’t one of the greatest but it was still really fun nevertheless. 5:59pm people were loitering around the departure boards and as the final ten seconds took us to 6pm the excitement began. It is unfortunate that more people watched rather than participate as it’s not really in the spirit of flashmobs however, you can see what you think courtesy of my Qik video
8 things you might not know about me
March 12, 2008 | 3 Comments
Following a trail that’s going around the blogosphere, I have been tagged by the highly delightful Eaon Pritchard. The idea is to get to know each other better by revealing 8 random things about yourself so here you go:
1. I love being surrounded by animals. I have a cat called Bear (because he’s big and hairy) and on my desk you will find two goldfish and a Leopard Gecko (yes a real one).
2. My Dad is a great musician and was in a rock band which was fun as one of my babysitters was Mitch Mitchell.
3. I’m a fan of Marshall Arts and got my Red Belt in Kickboxing.
4. I have been playing the guitar since I was 12 and my Fender Stratocaster takes pride of place in my living room.
5. I love food, both eating and cooking equally. I particularly love anything that once lived in the sea.
6. My Mum is a hippy. She is a Reiki Master and I love going to see her as it’s like visiting a little retreat.
7. Four years ago I accidentally fell in love with my now Managing Director. Fortunately it was reciprocated.
8. I studied Business Information Systems at University and wanted to be a developer. I took a job in advertising until I figured out what to do with my life.
Now I pass this onto another 8 bloggers, so over to you……look forward to reading them!
Adidas originals build your own festival
January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments
Adidas have teamed up with Vice magazine in Australia to launch a great new site allowing users to create their dream music festival. The Originals Festival site allows users to select from a range of artists within their $100k budget, pick their running order, pick their location for the event and then design a poster to advertise the festival on their MySpace pages and blogs to friends. The users with the highest attendance (most number of visitors) will win tickets to the Berlin Festival 2008. I spent most of my money on Underworld and LCD Soundsystem so mine was more of an evening affair rather than the full festival!
Moshi Monsters
December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment
London-based gaming agency Mind Candy have developed a new social-networking sites for kids called Moshi Monsters. Instead of creating their own user profiles, kids can adopt their own monster. Users can choose the colour and name of their monster before taking it home. Every monster has a personality that changes and develops as you play with it. Treat it badly and it will misbehave, treat it well and you will have a very happy little monster. Kids can play puzzles and feed their monster and they can also customise the house that it lives in. Users can also make other monster friends and communicate with them by leaving messages on a regulated pin board. Source: Cool Hunting.
Second Life calling
December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Second Life developer Linden Labs have created a way for avatars to receive phone calls whilst they are actually in Second Life. Users phone numbers will be connected with their avatars and using the existing voice technology, they will be able to receive calls.
Second Life for the blind
December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Students at IBM in
Social networking for bumps
December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Someone had to do it. Yes, Foops is a new social network due for launch in April 2008 for bumps. Now you don’t even have to be born to have your own profile page. Until the site is launched, the information available is currently limited but I will provide a full write up after launch.
Musical roads
November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Developers from the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute in
