Dec 3rd, 2009
My Brandz
It’s accepted that a Brand is not what you say it is, but what your customer says it is. Brands are not cool logos and appealing colours but rather a collection of thoughts, emotions, experiences and stories. The web is a mine of information for brands who want to get honest thoughts and opinions as [...]
Sep 1st, 2009
Go GoogleZA
Google will launch an SA version of its popular Street View service. In the coming weeks Google, using Toyota Prius models, will begin driving around the country, taking photographs of locations, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban.
Aug 4th, 2009
1000 drawings comes to SA
Attention! If you can draw, 1000 drawings is an initiative that gives you the opportunity to use your sketches and doodles to do good.
Jun 9th, 2009
Bug Me Not!
To explain in the web equivalent of a can of Doom’s own words: “You’re browsing the web and you click a link to an article on a site (let’s say nytimes.com) but instead of getting the article you get a screen asking you to login or register. Infuriated at the idea of pointlessly registering for yet another site you turn to your good buddy bugmenot.com…”
Jun 1st, 2009
Battle of the verbs
Say hello to Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine officially launching to the public this week. A search engine that some people in the know actually think it has what it takes to Bing Google out the park.
May 26th, 2009
The Alpha Wolf(ram)
Wolfram Alpha has been hailed as a “computational knowledge engine” by British founder Stephen Wolfram (possibly a geek himself?), which in normal person speak means it’s an answer-engine that uses an actual “curated knowledge base of data” (okay, that’s kinda nerdy speak but you know what we mean) – more than 10 trillion pieces of data and over 50 000 algorithms – rather than rounding up websites based on keywords, to give you answers.
May 19th, 2009
Procrastination is an art
So, on a recent procrastination-inspired Google, we came across a very average, but fun, new way to procrastinate called ‘My Life is Average’ As the good people at TechCrunch.com call it “the service Twitter was meant to be.”
May 7th, 2009
The Sagmeister Solution
All quite nice and soothing for the stressed out designer… but most of us are just ordinary human beings who need to, like, eat. Which means we need to earn money. Which means we need to work most days, let alone take an entire year off ‘refreshing’ our design ideas. Which means we need to find our inspiration, design or otherwise, someplace other than an infinity pool in Bali.
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