you should get this for your office
Wow. Here's what you can do with eight monitors, eight machines, google earth and the internet. (If you had a couple of world-class Google engineers at your disposal.)
From @getshust
Labels: google, gps, mashup, technology
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:25 AM
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
your tire's all flat and junk dance remix talking tool
The Sutter Group has just taken one of the most annoying spots on earth and made it a whole lot of fun. You've probably seen the talking pothole spots for Geiko.
John Sutter took the audio from that spot and created a short little remix of the song (which is pretty fun.) If that wasn't enough, John's coworker Aaron Waldon took the remix and mapped the vocal track to the movement of the pothole. The end effect is here.
That's pretty awesomely impressive, but they've made it even better. They've created a pothole talking tool that lets you speak to your computer, and the pothole's "mouth" moves accordingly. Now you can be the pothole that you've always wanted to be. From @garretohm.
Labels: adindustry, ads, creativeinspiration, mashup
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:01 AM
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
what a zombie outbreak looks like on google maps
It's completely natural to wonder what your neighborhood will look like when the zombie apocalypse arrives.
Now a SIM game from Binary Space Games gives you a peek of how it might go down. Control the zombie infection and watch how they take over this Washington DC neighborhood, on Google maps.
What we need next: map controls, so we can the zombies in our own hood.
Labels: creativeinspiration, gaming, google, mashup, zombies
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:32 AM
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Monday, November 02, 2009
your tweets graphed like an impressive science experiment
This is so magnificently brilliant that we can only begin to understand its value.
The Social Collider tracks Twitter conversations through time and visualizes them much like a particle collider draws pictures of subatomic matter. (Not that we've ever seen a particle collider draw subatomic matter.)
Read all of the details on the development blog. From the ever brilliant Andy Jukes
Labels: analytics, mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:40 AM
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
spend your day creating buildings and wondering about the google future
There's a couple of amazing Googleicious developments that you're going to want to wrap your head around.
First, Google Building Maker. Google is crowd sourcing the 3D building creation for Google Earth. And they've made a tool that makes it easy and fun. What an incredible project for classrooms, architectural learning, or anyone bored with their everyday stuff.
Next, check out what the Georgia Institute of Technology created: a fusion of Google Maps and live security cams. Imagine a world that you can explore in real time. As Thought Gadgets points out, this is the future, and the possibilities are mind-blowing.
In Google we trust.
Labels: architecture, google, gps, mashup, technology
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:01 AM
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
people are coming, people are going.
Check out this killer interactive map of the world that showcases CO2 emissions, birth rates and death rates in real time. People are dying as you're just staring at a website! (They're also being born, so it's probably all going to be ok.)
Thanks, Devon!
Labels: creativeinspiration, green, mashup
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:25 AM
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
what the people are buying
JustBought.it is a location-based social shopping app that lets you share photos and tweets on the things that you buy. (Because the tweets about what you had for lunch weren't exciting enough.)
Actually, Zappos implemented something like this a while back and it works great with their product, and it's a fantastic illustration of how the You Bought It service could be integrated with a brand. Possibilities = endless.
From Sharon Johns-Taylor.
Labels: gps, mashup, retail, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:02 AM
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
the internet is doing ok this morning
Is Twitter down? Is Blogger publishing? Never ever wonder again, thanks to Down Right Now, a one-stop place that lets you in on the current status of Twitter, Facebook, GMail and more.
This may save you from re-starting your router at the home office a couple of times this week. Cool. (From our good friends at Unitz.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:26 AM
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Monday, July 13, 2009
tweets, animated like peaceful waves of tweet bliss
This is how I would like to fall asleep. Watching tweets come in and blow away, like grains of sand. Visible, moving tweets.
Visible Tweets lets you search any keyword and watch an animated stream of tweets devoted to the search. Here's what a search on "plaidnation" looks like.
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME. You should project this in your lobby, or at your trade show booth. From Make the Logo Bigger.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Monday, June 29, 2009
a tribute told with twitter
Maybe you're tired of all of the Michael Jackson tributes and pretend news...but this one is completely different: A tribute to MJ carried forth with tweets. You'll want to watch it twice. Amazing.
From Robert Scoble
Labels: mashup, music, pop culture, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:12 AM
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
plot your twitter followers globally
Ever wonder how widespread your Twitter friend group is? Are you global? Foller.Me gives you all sorts of senseless information about your activity on Twitter, including a handy map of your followers charted on a Google map.
Clearly I need to follow more people in Kazakhstan. And all of Africa. From Greg Verdino.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:06 AM
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
five things you could explore instead of work today
Mashable points to to five cool fun awesome sweet ways to share the social media identity that you've worked so hard at building. We haven't tried all of these yet, but are really loving the idea of Retaggr.
Labels: mashup, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:59 AM
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because you needed this
How many times have you said to yourself that the world would be a better place if I only had a search engine that neatly organized both Google and Twitter results together?
Rejoice! Your day has come. Meet Twootles. Your two favorite things - Google and Twitter, nicely wrapped together in one sweet package. From @BenKunz.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:44 AM
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what happens when artists get together with scientists over beer
Artist Blprnt took his curiosity for visualizing information that isn't shared, but inferred, and explored how that might be put to good use.
The video clip above uses a database of of tweets featuring the words "just landed" and maps them across the globe visually. This would seem to be a good graphical representation of the people (on Twitter) who are currently landing in airports. Find more detail on Blprnt's blog.
The whole experiment came out of a discussion with a friend in bioinformatics chatting about new ways to chart the transmission of disease (relevant to that stupid pig virus.)
Proof that curiosity and design can accomplish awesome things. From Under Consideration.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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Monday, May 18, 2009
sharing links in tweets made even easier
Twitter makes it easy to share links, quotes and things that you find on the internet with your friends. Now TBUZZ makes it even easier.
Just add the TBUZZ button to your browser toolbar, and share instantly. The video shows you how easy it is. Cool. From HughBriss.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:24 AM
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
another addicting twitter app
Were you looking for something to suck that last ounce of productivity out of your day? We recommend Stweet.
Watch tweets arrive with a corresponding Google satellite or street view image, for any city in the world. Amazing. Addicting. Fun for the whole family.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:17 AM
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Monday, May 04, 2009
smart people listen to...counting crows?
The Wall Street Journal reports about a 25-year-old Caltech graduate student that has mashed together data from those silly Facebook "Favorite Artists/Books" lists with data from College Board's SAT scores database, to create Books and Music that Make you Dumb.
It seems that the smart people are enjoying Beethoven and Counting Crows. (Sigh.) From HeeHaw Marketing
Labels: facebook, mashup, music, pop culture
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:46 AM
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
facebook to open status updates to developers
Soon you'll be able to incorporate Facebook status updates into all sorts of fun promotional and engaging tools.
Mashable has an excellent synopsis of what's expected to roll out, outlining the key difference between this potential Facebook access versus the access that developers already have to Twitter. (In short, Twitter is wide open, Facebook allows users to approve every individual use.)
We're excited - this means more opportunities, more tools and more fun for Facebook users, for brands and for all citizens of the internet nation.
Labels: facebook, mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
let's go on a pub crawl. in your cubicle.
To promote Lovells Lager, you've been invited you to a pub crawl. Through the streets of Australia. Starting right now.
This is a fun promotional piece that couples Google's street view with some excellent writing and nice site design. Great work that promotes exploration while creating thirst for a nice cold Lovells.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
all of your tweets now in your browser
Brand Managers: here's a handy tool to monitor what's being said about you on Twitter. Convo Monitor lets you create multiple "stacks" each that monitor a keyword or search term within Twitter.
So you don't have to launch Tweetdeck, or any of the Adobe Air tools that allow multiple keyword monitoring. It's kind of like TweetGrid, but all new and shiny. From Steve Rubel.
Labels: mashup, search, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:00 AM
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Friday, April 10, 2009
what your tweets look like as photos
Portwiture takes your current Twitter status and pulls photos from Flickr that relate to what you're tweeting. Let's call it tweetart.
(For the record, I am almost positive that I have never tweeted about kittens, cats or kitties - yet there's a kitten photo in my Twitter collage. Clearly a bug.) From TSand.
Labels: art, mashup, photography, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:37 AM
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
shopping vicariously
Zappos has created a fun tool to watch shopping.
A real time animated map mashup that shows what people are buying at this very moment, and where they're from. Watch shoe trends break on the west coast or watch the east coast wake up in the morning and
This is a fantastic concept (inspired by Twittevision) and proof that it's possible to make your business as fun and exciting as your product. From MsHerr.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:00 AM
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
a future guide to tweeters
I can't stand popularity contests. Or "top whatever" lists. But Tweettop has some potential. Taking a cue from Alltop, they're trying hard to be a resource, for Twitter. A collection of tweeters, neatly organized by topics. Grand idea.
In its current state, it's FAR from awesome, and smacks of "popularity contest." But I believe they're going to continue to populate the categories, and actually build a useful tool.
Let's bookmark, and check back later for goodness.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:04 AM
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Monday, March 30, 2009
what google street view looks like in motion
Check out this super cool animation made from individual Google Maps Street View images. Amazing.
Soooo many possibilities. Tourist councils, college campuses and city centers. Give real world tours of your neighborhoods. And we're cooking up even more ideas as week speak. Sweet mapalicious.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:01 AM
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
people in suits are tweeting
Exectweets is your ultimate guide to all of the executives that are tweeting. And when executives tweet, people listen. Found on Thought Gadgets.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:09 AM
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Friday, March 13, 2009
even if you're not at sxsw, check this out
Pepsi scores big with their sponsorship of SXSW - and with this super delicious mashup of the SXSW Twitter stream. Even if you're not at the interactive/music/film conference , you can enjoy watching what's happening while it's streaming and graphing and making your browser look a coloriffic twitterlicious soft drink.
This is a fantastic idea that could live with other events where Twitter is prevalent too. Think of any major televised event, or other conferences. Impressive. I'm going to get me some man-Pepsi, right now.
Labels: beverage, mashup, social media, sxsw, twitter, viral, yummyfood
posted by darryl ohrt @ 9:23 AM
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Thursday, March 05, 2009
air traffic as art
Here's what your plane's headlights must look like from the sky. Check out the entire collection of visualizations of air traffic viewed with a neato Google maps applet.
There's a bunch of them, showing air traffic sorted in every visual way that you can imagine. From Diane Hessan, via Twitter.
Labels: art, google, mashup, photography, travel
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:36 AM
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
how to turn your twitter stream into a waterfall
Remember the days before the internet, or Twitter, where you would go outdoors? And maybe you would even take a hike, and view a beautiful waterfall?
Well, worry no more. Now you can turn your twitter stream into a waterfall, and never leave your computer. A waterfall of tweets.
Thanks to Twitterfall, you can now picnic in front of a constantly flowing fall of data. I imagine people getting married in front of it, and people putting their tweets in barrels. Awesome.
Labels: mashup, social media, technology, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Monday, February 09, 2009
got a couch? will tweet for food.
Paul Smith is a freeloading Twitter-using wanderer on an adventure that is appropriately described as Twitchiking. He's traveling the globe at the mercy of his Twitter followers. And there's a charity involved, too. He's got a blog to detail his travels beyond 140 characters, and he's scheduled to kick off his trip on March 1.
Got a place for Paul to stay? Want to buy airfare? You know where to find him. From Truemors.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:56 AM
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find your valentine on twitter
Have a crush on one of your Twitter friends? Compare your Twitter love interests, and see if you're compatible! Be my Valentwine lets you check your compatibility with other Tweeters. Use it to find twue love or use it to match up your friends.
From Atherton Artelby, via Twitter. Duh.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:10 AM
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
songs reworked with the help of microsoft songsmith
If you're bored today, and haven't already seen the Microsoft Songsmith videos, here's a treat. There's a new Microsoft application that lets you sing vocals, and then it automatically creates a music soundtrack for you.
Some people have taken existing vocal tracks to see what kind of music Microsoft Songsmith might come up with. As you might expect, hilarity ensues. (Thanks, Eliza!)
Labels: creativeinspiration, mashup, microsoft, viral
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:51 AM
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Friday, January 23, 2009
news, presented in a link cloud of beauty
Newsmap is a webalicious new way of looking at the news. They've taken the Google news feed and produced a colorful tag cloud that presents the news based on the popularity of the stories.
Who would of thought that a page full of text could be so wonderful? From ANGUS WHINES, a blog overflowing with awesomeness.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:39 AM
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
you may be killed after watching this ad
You're probably thinking that you die just a little inside, every time you're forced to watch the Toyota "Saved by Zero" ad. You're not alone. There's online protests, Facebook groups and plenty of fuel fired to take the annoying ad off the air.
Now, there's proof that the spot will kill you. If you see it again, just turn it off. Immediately.
Labels: adindustry, ads, automotive, mashup, parody
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:32 AM
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
major tom to tag control...
Here's a fun new tool to spend your valuable time with.
Tag Galaxy helps you locate all of the photographs tagged with any keyword of your choice, conveniently organized like a system of planets. Hey - why not? From Brideyrae, at Cow.
Labels: Flash, mashup, photography, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:32 AM
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
what your neighbors are doing on youtube
Thanks to YouTube's new geolocation feature, you can now search videos by the location from where they were uploaded. Curious about what the next door neighbor is doing on video?
There's a rough demo of the technology (you'll need to install Google Gears), and it works pretty well.
This creates some really fun promotional opportunities. Contests, treasure hunts, the possibilities are endless. (And snooping on your neighbors is always cool, too.) Thanks Giuli!!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:14 AM
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Monday, November 17, 2008
welcome to now.
Sprint just launched a super festival of widget goodness for your enjoyment. If that wasn't enough fun, they added super-future girl voice soundtrack so that you might feel that you're actually on the dashboard of a spaceship.
Dashboards rock. Girls from the future rock. And this Sprint mega-future-dashboard-of-widgets-from-the-future definitely rocks.
Thanks, Eric!
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:05 AM
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
black is the new black on search
Here's a cool fun tool to check up on twitter, blog and news chatter about...anything you want. It's called Perspctv. Not the easiest word to say out loud, but I predict you'll like it, nonetheless.
Oh - and just like TweetDeck, it's got a nice black design scheme. Because black is the new hot on the internet. From Cassondra, via Twitter.
Labels: mashup, search, social media, trends
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:06 AM
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Monday, October 27, 2008
location based social networking just got better
BrightKite, the location based social network just launched two handy new features: a wall that allows you to monitor anything happening around a specific place or event (this opens up some really cool promotional opportunities), and an iPhone application!
Check it out. Unless your life is like mine, and your BrightKite stream would read:
Home, breakfast
Office
Office, lunch
Office
Office
Office
Home, dinner
Home
But your brand is more exciting than that. What events could you be sharing, or pulling people together for, or connecting in new ways? Where are you??
Labels: gps, mashup, social media, technology
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:05 AM
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Monday, October 13, 2008
album covers, remixed
An entire art show devoted to the reworking/mashup of existing album covers. Genius. Let's buy them all, and start a museum.
(This would be the most awesome series of ads, ever.)
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:24 AM
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Friday, October 03, 2008
greatest mapping tool ever.
Want to see what iconic album artwork was photographed in your neighborhood? Traveling somewhere, and want to recreate your favorite album shots?
Word Magazine has created a Google Maps mashup that shows where album cover photographs were shot. This is awesome. Highly recommend a peek before leaving on your next trip to wherever. Unless you're going to Oklahoma, because it looks like they don't have any famous album covers there. Or North Dakota. Someone should check in on North Dakota, and make sure it's still there.
Labels: art, mashup, music, pop culture, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:57 AM
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
is that a penis, or are you just happy to tweet me?
There's a new site tearing up the twitterverse. Twenis takes random Twitter posts and replaces certain words with "penis" and then republishes the tweet. Hilarity ensues. You can follow them on Twitter, of course.
(I couldn't think of a graphic to go with this post that would get through your firewall. Just imagine there's a photo of a Twenis, up above this post.) From BuzzFeed.
Labels: creativeinspiration, mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:28 AM
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Monday, September 08, 2008
tally: video with twitter is really cool.
We have a client Tally (I'd say that I've changed her name here, to protect the innocent, but I haven't). Tally loves reading our blog. Except for when we post videos. Because they're too disruptive to the work flow. Because you know - you can kind of work, participate in a conference call, and sort of half pay attention while reading blog posts. (You do the same thing. Admit it.) But video is different. Video requires most of your attention. And that's where Tally draws the line.
The social media developments in video this year have been nothing short of amazing. So many wonderful tools, and so many possibilities. The other day, I posted on 12 seconds, a tool that lets you record 12 second video clips.
Viddler just upped the ante. You can record 15 seconds of video with Viddler. But it's not the 3 seconds that makes the difference. It's how Viddler integrated their tool with Twitter. Viddler and Twitter. Together. So now you can post a quick video clip and tweet it at the same time. That's video-micro-blogging awesomeness.
Tally: stop working. Forget about productivity. Your company will run itself. You should just spend more time goofing off, and watching videos. I believe you may enjoy this one.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter, video
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:23 AM
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Friday, August 29, 2008
another tool for twitter users to obsess over
One of the downsides of Twitter, blogs and other social media tools is that they bring a gross personality trait to the surface that used to be reserved for "the populars" in high school. People obsessing over the number of followers that they've amassed, the traffic they pulled, and other measures of how "popular" they are, versus the real connections, friendships and bonds that they're making.
These people will rejoice with a new tool that rates their Twitter performance. Twitter Grader lets you "measure your Twitter mojo." Yech. Another measurement to obsess over. To compare against others. Watch for the many tweets about the obsessor's scores, and theories on how to increase their scores.
My advice: Ignore it all. Share. Connect. Help others. Be a part of a community - paying no attention to scores, rankings or who's dating the cheerleading captain this weekend.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:42 AM
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everything you ever wanted to know about any website
QuarkBase is a sweet new tool that compiles all of the available information about any website. From the whois registration info, Alexa traffic, popularity on linking sites, and even the latest tweets about the site, from across the twitterverse. Really, really handy.
From Startupmeme, via Twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:23 AM
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Monday, August 25, 2008
mashups: now at big chain retail
Mashups. Not just for internet music and video geeks anymore. Big deal retail is getting into the game too.
The Gap is opening a Collete x Gap pop up store in NYC next week, for one month only. Colette is some fancy pants french designer. The Gap is some aging out of style clothing retailer. Together, they'll be a fancy pants stylish clothing retailer in NYC. (Odd that they didn't plan to extend this into the holiday selling season.)
Who could you collaborate with, to produce something super unique and stylish? What's your next great mashup going to be?
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
tweet your bank account
Here's an innovative use of Twitter - by the financial industry.
Wesabe, a financial planning/organizational tool now allows you to tweet your Wesabe account, and record notes about transactions. Just bought lunch with a client? Tweet "add to business expense" and you'll be able to sort it all out later. From best Twitter friend Ben Kunz.
Labels: mashup, social media, technology, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:21 AM
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
start tracking everything
Ryan Kuder has turned us onto zeaLog, a new social measuring tool. Use it to keep track of, measure, graph and track whatever you're doing. And then share and compare with friends from across the world.
It's a simple, fun tool to use, and I wonder what kind of mashups might be possible. Like would it be possible to make a social version of a running tool, similar to NikePlus?? Could graphs be embedded into other media? Lot of possibilities and ideas are churning...
It's in beta now, but sign up (or beg someone more popular than me) for an invite.
Labels: mashup, productivity, social media, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:59 AM
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
steve woodruff is waiting for your genius
Steve Woodruff is a really smart dude. Like many of us, he's recognized the need for a new super tool to confaburate all of the many, many social media tools and devices that we need into one snazzy dashboard. One dashboard, where you can control everything. Only one problem: Steve isn't really a developer. But he knows that as a community, we're filled with designers, developers and girl geniuses. So he's doing something.
Steve Woodruff is crowd designing the ultimate dashboard, deemed MetaMee. Check out his posts (part 1), (part 2), (part 3) and the latest on his blog. Be enlightened or inspired by watching the thought and development process. Or pitch in with ideas and direction to make it better. This is the ultimate tool waiting for your input.
I want this product now. Right now. Can you hurry up and help Steve finish the design process and start coding? Or can some VC company just give him a kabillion dollars to develop this tool today? Productivity is waiting.
Labels: creativeinspiration, mashup, productdesign, productivity, social media, web2.0, webdev
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
drive anywhere and everywhere with google maps
Coworker Rob found Geoquake. A mashup game where you can drive a car over Google Maps. Almost like Grand Theft Auto, only on a real map. And without all of the killing, hookers, 3D graphics, cool cars, etc.
This is an awesome mashup with loads of promotional opportunities. What about a version that encourages users to explore your campus? Or a scavenger hunt, where you photo your car over certain objects? Or as an automobile promo showing that your vehicle can drive over anything. (Even buildings.) So many cool ideas. Ready to ride.
But for now, I'm driving over pedestrians in New York. Cuz that's how I roll.
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:22 AM
2 comments
Thursday, May 29, 2008
tweet from your phone
If you live in the suburbs, you probably spend a fair amount of time in your car. Because we know that you're a safe driver, we know that you don't text and drive. Which means that your Twitter updates are reduced to traffic jams and stop lights.
What's a driver to do when you need to tell your Twitter friends about the sweet Jack-in-the-Box that you just passed? TwitterFone. You call in your tweet, and some magic elves convert it to text and publish to your Twitter stream. Wow.
From Kevin Dugan. Via Twitter, through Twitterfone.
Labels: mashup, mobile, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:07 AM
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
google launches google health
The Google gods have just launched Google Health. Here's a place that users can complete, upload and import their entire medical history. All of their health records in one place.
This could be a massive opportunity for those in the health care industry. Google's available API means that we can now build fanstastical new tools to allow patients things that weren't available before. Think that mashups using Google Maps are exciting? Imagine the things that might be done in health care.
And there's some very interesting discussion going on over at Fred Wilson's blog, A VC. Fred wants to make his health record public, and was surprised that there was no "share" button. That might be a little extreme - but it points to how the world is changing.
This should be exciting for the health care industry. Here's a wonderful tool, backed by Google, that most health care marketers wouldn't be able to develop or manage on their own. Google just eliminated the development budget for them. Now they can integrate into their own tools, and create good things for users all around.
Hooray, Google.
Labels: google, healthcare, mashup, social media
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:29 AM
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
twitter from second life
Communicate with your friends who are on Twitter, while you're in Second Life!
Now you can use an old-school typewriter, from within Second Life, to type a message that gets published on Twitter. Once you hit enter, it publishes your 140 character or less masterpiece to the SLtypewriter Twitter stream.
I know! Who needs friends anymore? Or the outdoors? Starting next week, I'm officially becoming a pixel.
Labels: mashup, secondlife, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:57 AM
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Monday, April 21, 2008
a new way to waste away productivity with twitter
If Twitter isn't already stealing enough otherwise productive time from your day, you may want to play with TwittEarth. See tweets from around the world, but on a wonderous 3D globe. Like Twittervision, but cuter. I guess. Originally saw it on Mashable.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:48 AM
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
it's raining twitter tools
The Twitter lords have laid yet another glorious Twitter tool upon us. Tweetburner monitors the most popular shared urls on Twitter. There are two charts - the top 10 of all time, and the top 10 of the last 60 minutes. A great picture of the twitterverse. Twitter be with you.
Labels: mashup, social media, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:34 AM
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
more data than you can shake a monkey at
Data lovin' monkeys, rejoice. Here's loads, and loads, and loads of free data. I guess you could even say monkey loads of free data.
Infochimps.org is a new community built to assemble and interconnect data. They want to built the most gimonkeyous free almanac, with tables of data on every imaginable subject.
If you're the type of person who loves to play around with Microsoft Access or Excel, instead of drawing pictures, well this is your lucky day.
Alternately, do you have data just pouring out of your desk drawers, and you don't know where to put it? Upload your own datasets, and set them free to live on their own data island, with monkeys.
Labels: mashup, nonprofit, social media, strategy, web2.0
posted by darryl ohrt @ 8:08 AM
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Monday, March 10, 2008
twitter lovefest at sxsw. Mat says FU.
I've gone on and on and on about the wonderous tool, Twitter.
It popped big time at SXSW last year. At this year's conference, it's the communication medium of choice, too - as attendees use it to share what parties are hot, what panels are interesting, what celebrities are at the taco joint on Sixth Street. Which is awesome, if you're at SXSW, but might be annoying, if you're not.
Well Mat was fed up, and is now getting everyone back. He's at home in San Francisco, but tweeting as if he's here at SXSW. Pretty funny stuff, if you've been annoyed at all of the SXSW tweets of the last few days.
Related, (and sure to annoy the crap out of Mat), twemes.com is a cool mashup of Twitter, that allows the tagging of tweets with the same theme. So you can track whatever meme of the moment might be important to you. The SXSW version is pretty much on fire, as you might expect.
(I just realized that if my mom were to read this post, she'd have absolutely no idea what that last sentence means. Buzzwords out of control.)
Tweet on.
Labels: mashup, social media, sxsw, twitter
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:33 AM
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
rest well. the major sites have been plotted to a train map.
Last night, as I fell asleep full of worries, one of my concerns is that I haven't yet been able to visualize the world's most popular websites as a Tokyo train map. Until now. Finally, someone has pinned down the most popular sites the one of the most popular train maps. Tonight, I will sleep well.
Labels: design, illustration, mashup, trends
posted by darryl ohrt @ 7:27 AM
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Monday, February 11, 2008
microsoft discovers people are using the internet
The New York Times reports that the latest Microsoft development teams are actually incorporating mashups into their new software development. Web 2.0 style. Like they're actually paying attention to the way the rest of the world uses the interweb. Wow. If they could just make it so that Word doesn't take 34 minutes to open up on my machine, we'd be all set.
Illustration by James Yang, via the New York Times.
Labels: mashup, productdesign, trends
posted by darryl ohrt @ 6:15 AM
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