iPhone Comic
April 30th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Top Animators
April 28th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
BoingBoing bring us their highlights from the worlds top animators:
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Bum Global Warming…
April 28th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
… not a sentence you’re likely to hear, except from a little green coloured potato type guy:
The comments that accompany the video warrant a look, in particular AutoZombiePilot’s, well reasoned ‘I LIKE P.E.N.I.S’ and Bradford1966’s, carbon packed: ‘My trees bloomed, what a beautiful Spring we are having. The animals seem so happy and the flowers look better than ever. I love this planet.I see no problems.’
Ah sweet irony.
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Sex Chat Gone Wrong
April 28th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Sometimes text and video just don’t mix.
Digg goes where no man dares to go and comes back with his mother.
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Seemsic Plugin Vidiot
April 25th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
It’s Friday and I usually post some pictures of scantily clad cats dancing whilst high on coke and mentos, but not today.
Today is about Techcrunch integrating video comments via Seesmic. El Arrington’s carefully worded post, is keen to introduce this new tool, but not too keen lest he as an investor be seen to be promoting Seesmic over and above other video comment plugins, Viddler for one. I’m an Arrington fan, if I could buy a cake mould of his face, I’d make a sponge cake and decorate it with little sprinkles representing metaphorical pixels…
(note to self: Arrington Moulds - start-up opportunity, target early adopter iPhone wielding non-diabetic market, huge growth potential, mass disruption of conventional cake mould business models, aim to be the Google of Bakery, what a tag line!)
… But please just say ‘yeah this is cool’ rather than pussyfoot around covering all bases, we love Techcrunch because it has bite. Read the rest of this entry »
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Bacon for Start-Up
April 24th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
How do you choose a name for your start-up? Where do you begin?
Most often the name reflects the offering; Digg, one assumes dig.com was long gone and way too expensive to buy so Kevin & Co just added an extra ‘g’ for good measure and thus was born a hip social news aggregator, ‘yeah man, I Digg it’.
It seems to help if your name can also be used as verb, ‘I Googled it’ and ‘I’ll Twitter you’, ‘I’m spending the next 3 minutes Yahooing’… hmm perhaps Yahoo’s lack of verbage explains it’s current predictament?
Web 2.0 is splattered with dropped vowels; Flickr being the champion of them all. YouTube sticks to the basics, with a name that sort of reflects the product but is grammatically wrong. Read the rest of this entry »
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Beat them with a crutch
April 24th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
Metaphors, parables, analogies… anthropomorphism… Star Wars. I stumbled across this story via the inanity of Digg:
‘A UK man has confessed to dressing up like Darth Vader and attacking two men who founded a church based on Jedi teachings. He beat them with a crutch, but to be fair, they were asking for it: The victims had been playing with light sabers and filming themselves while doing so.
Hughes admitted two charges of common assault.
The court heard he has a “chronic alcohol problem” and had drunk the best part of a 10 litre box of wine.
Mrs Lloyd said: “He was wearing a black bin bag and a cape and had a metal crutch in his hand.” Mrs Lloyd said he was shouting “Darth Vader”
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V is for Vandalism
April 20th 2008 | Posted by: Adam Martin
