Being drunk and lost takes on a whole new level of interactivity with this demo of Google Earth on the iPhone. When the iPhone is tilted the earth rotates and you can move to another part of the Globe (thanks Techcrunch).

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I think this may be research disguised as entertainment or vice versea.

A series of links of people being hit in the face recorded in slo-mo for your (not my) sweaty pleasure.

No embeds, so click on link above for more of smoking-dude-refuses-to-put-it-out-and-friends…

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Eat my Vampire, Facebook get’s live on yo ass:

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It’s been practically a whole dotcom cycle since I last talked about the term I made-up ‘appvertising‘ and remarked upon it’s gentle passage around the web.

Now at a staggering 67 entries on Google. A new entrant caught my Fat eye, Binge Eating.

I clicked on the link which took me to some generic weight loss website.

What can this mean though? That people are now actually eating advertising to such an extent as to term their sedentary munching, a binge! Zut alors!

People please eat all the banner ads and pop-ups you can see, in fact eat most of any Conde Nasty website which seems to have a plague of pop-ups.

‘ooh look I accidentally clicked on that pop-up for Louis Vuitton prosthetic travel arm… no I don’t want one, I’d seek it out and click on it if I did!’

Such ads just patronise the audience, trying to trick people into clicking on your add only serves the people selling the space on CPM’s, it’s a false economy.

But appvertising, ah sweet notion that you are. Branded applications provide the user with relevance, ie this app entertains/informs me with warm, comfy brand association, ‘thank you dear Heineken for sponsoring my iPhone bar guide to Europe, thank you from the bottom of my cold barrel of yummy Heineken and for the lady sitting opposite me who when I had not drunk any of your sparkling hops I did not find attractive, but now, post-hops intend to woo with my unique dance routine.’

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… in a picture.

Picture credit: Lise Harlev

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Dreaded cross browser testing has started on Qajack, and thanks once again to Microsoft for making our lives hell! … well more to the point Fat Yann’s life hell.

So I am starting on behalf of Yann a new campaign called:
INTERNET EXPLORER RUINED MY LIFE.

Download logo here.

Next step: Find the right pic, paste logo, upload to your blog/site and tag it ‘IE ruined my life’

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Qajack is still a hormonal surge in Google, Seesmic, Facebook and dastardly Poker’s collective bosoms, but already I have been whoring myself to it’s cause, such is my belief in it’s game changingness (if I can whore, I can make up words).

I committed myself to video late last night, with a lemon tea induced witty quip to try and win free entry to the Being Digital tech conference.

I’m here to say it all got out of hand and I have just now covered myself in post-it notes and my daughter’s sellotape (stolen), added another 2 videos and a text comment all in the vein attempt to get people to take notice of the world’s first, really useful ‘video’ game.

As the only entrant, Techcrunch Mike, who is in Barcelona, which is where I should be because that’s where the office is, but I’m not because I live in London and commute, said:

‘Fat Man - Nice one! Let’s see someone beat that…’

So some albino dog breeder takes a video of his pooch barking, no doubt whilst being taunted with the neighbours thigh bone and I’m looking like a good second place! Damn you hound man I’ll find you!

I’ll get Qajack into Being Digital with a Qajackhammer if I Qajacking have to!

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I read a lot about stealth start-ups, which kinda sounds like a start-up crossed with a ninja Vincent Price, which is plain weird.

Shouldn’t you want to tell everyone you can about your start-up? Excluding the long game of the semantic web which would seem to be Artificial Intelligence, then I think I’m pretty safe in saying let’s focus on using existing technologies and build on the rise of the social web to create new businesses.

To my mind we’re at a heady confluence on the web, video/entertainment merges with social networking and search still dominates, even as the results become increasingly spamish and irrelevant. Micro-blogging and You Tube compels us all to crave the attention of our communities. Read the rest of this entry »

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Seesmic provides the booze whilst Google gets drunk and ends up in bed with Poker and Facebook, nobody is quite sure who inseminated who but one thing they are sure of, one of them is pregnant.

8 weeks later (Gestation 2.0) and beautiful, brawling, kinda edgy bad ass Qajack is born, heralding the worlds first really useful ‘video’ game.

After digesting too many bad start-ups we’ve decided to regurgitate our own, a social ‘video’ gaming community that let’s you play with what you know and meet like-minded people along the way making it the sorta bastard offspring of some sites you may have heard of and a game you’re old man is addicted to.

Please sign-up to ‘better’ test the social ‘video’ game experience in 8 weeks and become healthily addicted to another web phenomena.

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