(untitled) digital creative blog

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]

An Adobe employee has spent this weekend making silly pictures of iPads.  With Apple's new iPod Touchesque tablet machine released last week crucially without the addition of Flash, Adobe's got a bit upset - but the bit that's caught attention are the actions of Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow ... [More]

The Apple iPad has been launched. We have made some feminine-hygeine jokes, chortled, and idly wondered if we'll be inclined to buy it. Unfortunately we then had to turn off our Twitter apps because the inundation was unbearable. There is other important news in the world today, aside from Appl... [More]

Apple is soaring today. Ahead of their new product announcements, the rate of iPhone sales and share prices has upped significantly. If you fancy using your iPod touch or iPhone to pretend to be a shareholder, iTrade is a great app that simulated trading - unfortunately you don't win any money b... [More]

Soon, in an almighty cull of unused usernames, Twitter will be removing all unused accounts. This will anyone who's had their 'name', be it brand or just that username you've decided will identify you for the rest of your life nabbed by someone who got there first. Currently there's a system inv... [More]

News media has been in the news a lot recently and massive corporations are moving to a pay-for-content model many suggested was a foolish notion.  Would people pay for their news?  News Corp is blocking linking to several of its sites - a move which some argue is a disruption of democ... [More]

Recall Spiderman swinging through the streets of New York or LA (Spiderman fans, help me out here) surrounded by McDonalds signs; an interesting story in which original advertisers saw their spots covered-over on screen by Spiderman sponsors - a notion I love. This made them rather angry. In the... [More]

Are social media account aggregators dead? Friendfeed's not hopping about but Threadsy, a winner of the TechCrunch50 "Crunchie Awards" this week, aggregates email too with a nice interface. Is this the next big thing we need or an irritating attempt to cover bases in which we lose small details ... [More]

Aol, who in recent news have had a flurry of re-design - including a big list in which they redesigned their logo, site design, become more of a news site incorporating an algorithm, and aimed to become more attractive to advertisers - are now changing more.  It's internally known as "Project... [More]

Ah Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, with its own style drink says Privacy is not a norm. Gone are the days of stealth and general private decency, and however much we like or dislike it the Youtube (embedding's disabled so you'll have to click the link I'm afraid). Zuckerberg, with his giant site an... [More]

Only (some) days into 2010 and already we've seen the launch of a slightly painful repeated marketing embracement of dear old web 2.0. It's similar to the cringe-worthy but mildly un-engaging antics of Vegemite's new "iSnack 2.0" product in September last year which saw Vege-bosses pick out their... [More]