21.01.2010 by Zoltan

Make your own Cameron poster

Very funny little Cameron mash-up from Andy Barefoot that allows you to make your own campaign poster for the upcoming UK general election. I especially like the fact that you have full control over the logo – some much needed respite for Cameron’s unashamed re-hashing of Obama’s ‘hope’ message which I simply can’t stand!

Whether you love or loathe the Tories, this provides endless fun.

via @mattyboomboom

21.01.2010 by Zoltan

the UK open the doors to public data (finally)

Following both the USA and London, the UK government has just released data.gov.uk – a whole tranche of public data free to all, and importantly including commercial applications. A great move in the right direction! Can’t wait to see the output generated from this…

Get your mash-up on now

19.01.2010 by Zoltan

Superbowl goes social via the Pepsi Refresh Project

Really interesting Pepsi initiative called the Pepsi Refresh Project. Not a new idea, but the sheer scale of it should turn more than a few heads. Not to mention the fact that they’ve redirected their entire Superbowl spend to this ’social media’ idea.

Is this the beginning of the end for adland’s biggest institution? Will be interesting to see how it shakes out and whether or not it lives up to the rhetoric of making the world a better place? Thoughts anyone?

via digital buzz blog

18.01.2010 by Zoltan

Creative Handbook goes free(mium)

In a somewhat unusual move, CR has just waived the annual fee for the Creative Handbook. Any and all flavours of creative can now use the site gratis as a proxy-folio, presumably with the hope that a fair portion renew their membership come the following year after.

I guess that gives you a year to see the value (or lack thereof). Either way, the barriers to entry have been removed, and you’d be nuts to let it slip.

via CR Blog

18.01.2010 by Zoltan

You can’t script this shit

or can you… i would love to know if this is pure unadulterated fan-art or if it’s got something to do with the reported USD$200 million marketing budget of what was a predictable rip-off of pocahontas, even if it was set in space (which automatically makes it awesome)? Any thoughts?

via @benshaw

16.01.2010 by Zoltan

Laptop Friendly Cafes goes all-iPhone on us

Back in June we blogged about a (then-new) service called Laptop Friendly Cafes, which basically wants to formalise what the global creative nomads amongst us already know – that offices are soooooooooooo 20th Century.

Well, they’ve just released an iPhone app which has saved me on more than one occasion during the past few weeks as i was waiting for broadband to be re-connected after moving. Using the inbuilt GPS, the app finds your location and within moment is pointing you towards the nearest free wifi via google maps.

With an ever-expanding database of cities such as New York, London, Melbourne and Sydney, its USD$0.99 well spent IMHO.

The only drawback is the lack of the ‘add new cafe’ functionality. It seems a no brainer that the fastest way to build this database is through on-the-spot UGC, sitting in a cafe and feeling inspired rather than having to go online and do it via the website. But i’m sure its coming soon…

Get your local free wifi on with Laptop Friendly Cafes.

16.01.2010 by Zoltan

Interactive baubles

AnalogFolk gets all interactive for Xmas. Nice idea, nicely executed. They could’ve thrown in a few smiles though, looks like the band master was a real task master!!!