In 1988, when the people first rose against the Burmese military junta, it took weeks for news and pictures to filter out of the country and even now journalists are having to report on the recent protests from neighboring Thailand.
UPDATE: Great piece at Mobile Active on this subject.
But now we are witnessing a different sort of protest, one where mobile technology is central to galvanizing public outcry and enabling the UK and US Governments, amongst others, to condemn the violent actions of the corrupt regime.
At great personal risk to themselves people are using their mobile phones to record the violent oppression of the monks and distributing the footage to video sharing sites and blogs.
I’m going to be at the Future of Web Applications conference next week trying to describe ‘appvertising’ to unsuspecting technologists, contemplating a week without a mobile phone owing to the arcane working methods of a certain mobile operator and generally breakdance to the thrum of start-up ideas in my head, really it’s got a very catchy tempo..
I’m proposing a drink one evening for anyone who fancies digesting the day over beer n’nuts and a general get-to-know-you. If you’re attending and want to get together, get in touch, skype: adampfd.
Techcrunch has the scoop on Google’s much rumoured move into the virtual world environment.
Google Earth as virtual world, the ability to build a virtual world on top of the real world, I better call Jeff Bridges and start humming the theme to Tron…
It’s Friday that means more Rementer and the knowledge that the iPhone will be only 2.5G, cost more than a new iMac for the phone and contract and will be stolen from myself, by myself, such is my need.
It seems that Chris ‘trapped in a bedsheet’ Crocker of superviral fame is to get his own TV show, ‘The Chris Crocker Experience’. Since we last looked in on Chris last week, his teary plea to leave serial caner and mother-when-she-remembers Mrs. Federline alone has ramped up a staggering 8, 310, 993 views.
So let’s take a trip in the Acme Hindsight Marketing Machine, way back to September 10th, when a fictitious studious intern at an enlightened digital agency first stumbles upon the Crocker.
Intern shows video to Creative Director, it’s views are climbing, Creative Director is about to spend $500,000 on a viral for No Smear Tears Mascara (tested on reality show contestants), featuring a cat, some coke and some mint sweets dancing to a xylophone. The cat’s a no-show. Creative Director gets hold of the Crocker, strikes a deal, we add ‘just let it out - No Smear Tears Mascara’ at the end - if the video gets a 1,000,000 views we’ll give you $10,000, 3,000,000 views we’ll give you $20,000 or numbers to that effect.
11 days later and No Smear have signed up Crocker to a 3 x 5 minute viral deal, the only proviso is that he include at least one cat in it.
That’s not how digital agencies do business. It’s for the bold and not for the risk averse. It’s for those people who understand that the Digital Natives don’t respond to a super rich super model giving them make-up tips and mouthing an irritating jingle.
We were given the challenge to re-brand a product called “iam-solutions” into something fun, original & accessible. Digimoo delivers fresh audio/video media to commercial spaces, all done with clever software and an Internet connection. Our task was to come up with a new name, a new brand and hopefully soon.. a new site.
Barnier Geerling who founded digimoo can’t stop saying mooooo….
The modern definition of ‘brand’ is a curious thing - take Banksy, self-appointed brandalist and fat-cap(italist) - he’s kinda Brand 2.0, fetching logo, folk heroic status, he’s making millions and he’s being faked. He has the authenticity that brands like Levi’s, Diesel and Stussy try and recreate in an East London studio in order to sell apparel to wayward post-teens.
Fat Man
is an interactive design and development collective with a reputation for creating beautiful & innovative projects.
We believe that big ideas are worth pursuing.read more...
In 1988, when the people first rose against the Burmese military junta, it took weeks for news and pictures to filter out of the country and even now journalists are having to report on the recent protests from neighboring Thailand.
No Comments » 
