(untitled) digital creative blog

How are you coping in the post-Old Spice man week? After going viral faster than Obama's Victory Speech, Bush and the flying shoe, and Susan Boyle, we're on a bit of a media come-down. With no Isaiah Mustafa to distract us, our attention's been drawn back towards UK news with the words "6 Music!... [More]

We've mentioned Foursquare in the past, curious as to how Facebook's going to react and what exactly their plans for location-based domination will entail. "Something like Twitter did?" we wondered. The Telegraph reports that Foursquare is in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! Our hearts l... [More]

Ah Facebook, today we see you following in the steps of awkward face recognition that iPhoto heralds. Sometimes working for those who put the effort into tagging their photos, we're ambivalent. On the other hand, when you raised album photo limits back in January 2009 we groaned, loudly. "200 p... [More]

Google, it seems, plan to launch a music download service. Luckily though, they're keeping it within the trend of cloud-based subscriptions. The twist? It's specifically for Android. This comes after lots of talk (faffing) about a Google music creation throughout the last couple of years. Com... [More]

How do you feel about Foursquare and Gowalla? It may be about to get a lot less annoying. Granted, I'm in the group of people that sits on the sidelines thinking that perhaps Foursquare and Gowalla could be a bit cool but also angrily grumbles about both appearing unhelpfully in Twitter streams,... [More]

In what Apple fans will no doubt be calling an epic fail, Microsoft' is to launch its own version of Google Docs.  Essentially this will see their products open up to the cloud (ah, the good old 'cloud), including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.  Online users will essentially be able to do ... [More]

Youtube's going local, but why is this any good? Currently YouTube is available throughout the globe to anywhere with an Internet connection but slow, very slow, the globe is going local (and there's been a disgusting amount of discussion over the topic). This started as a lazy trend a decade ag... [More]

Do you want to be a face of Dominoes, or part of the growing trend of 'Sellsumer' as they're now being dubbed? Dominoes, fabled and youtube-known pizza chain have created a Google Adwords style widget, and are on the hunt for consumers with websites to promote their pizzas for them. Their new ma... [More]

For a while, Foursquare's been promising rewards to frequent visitors and there's been a couple of rewards card apps flying about for the iPhone.  Today though, we can happily see Generation Y take over and the slow removal of wallets, bank cards and coins from society.  Starbucks, you s... [More]

There's a mass of new media changes today.  Yesterday Twitter - specifically @Ev - as most of the world know has launched @anywhere; the Twitter version of Facebook connect - which should be springing up everywhere shortly.  Essentially is allows users of sites such as Amazon and the New... [More]

Having just watched a short video about Google's taking over the world, the Internet, and the very cables that deliver said Internet, and spent a short aftermath considering the potential evils of the company, I've been quite easily won over by this new release: Google Public Data Explorer. Googl... [More]

Chat Roulette stats are in from a film-maker who's become strangely interested in the feature. "And like everyone else on the planet I quickly became obsessed," he says. The new site at chatroulette.com which launched in November and describes itself as a "brand new service for one-on-one text, ... [More]

Do you support saving 6 music? Ashely Norris has written a skeptical blog recently asking whether the 6 music cuts are a Wispa campaign - as such things shall all become known in the future. As the BBC "needs to be seen to be making cuts" threatening to remove public service 6 Music which costs &... [More]

Today there's been development in the tech monopolies. Microsoft, home of I'm a PC, Windows 7 was my idea, and recent makeovers has launched their first app for the Android phone. Notably Android is a Google product, and whilst the app's been available since February 1st on Symbian, iPhone OS, a... [More]

Yelp is getting a mass of bad press today. The site, which launched on 2004 and works essentially like Qype does; compiling users' reviews into a massive bank of helpful and handy local information has been lawsuited upon over advertising. Advertising, quite specifically, that comes in the form ... [More]

It's a bad week for the internet. Not only has the official RickRoll been killed but Google's having a messy week. Italian Google Execs including the senier vide president and chief legal officer, former chief financial officer, and global privacy counsel, have been found guilty following the vi... [More]

Strange new ventures from Microsoft today. Presumably in response to the fact Apple have got the image thing pinned down; turquoise in-store t-shirts and kings of the thick-glasses look, whilst Microsoft dither with the image of Peep Show's Mark playing the PC in fuddy-duddy 80s suit and other st... [More]

Back in Summer, I witnessed the planning of Confused.com's new PR strategy. Since then, they've bubbled-wrapped a street in a massive PR stunt as Cake are wont to do. Now, BMB have got on board and produced an array of adverts that hopes to portray a simple message in response to mighty Meerkat ... [More]

More interesting than Google Buzz, over which the general public can't seem to decide if it loves, hates it, or just wants to shout loudly about it without having a real opinion, Google Street View Snowmobile has appeared. Joyfully trumping the Street Car and Street Trike, Snow mobile will be tra... [More]

Yes, the hectic development of old competition: Google is to add social media features to the gmail email platform bringing it yet more directly as a threat to Facebook and Twitter. The announcement should come this week, and the important bit is based around ads. Stuff functionality to a point ... [More]