How an engineer folds a shirt…
This is very very geeky, but a cool accurate way to fold a shirt…I can think of someone in my life who would appreciate these perfectly rectangular shirts.
What a rush…
Like Steve Clayton, I picked up a copy of this months Wired (before I jumped on the plane from Seattle) and was really impressed with the double page spread advertising for the lifewithoutwalls campaign from Microsoft.
Here’s another one from the series:
At last – some decent advertising – stuff we can be proud to show off. Some of the new advertising is getting some interesting reviews as well.
The Power of Twitter – update #7million!
I asked a question about Skype conference phones on Twitter (I’m looking to get a Skype device that is hands-free AND portable for phone conferences), and I get a response direct from someone at Skype. That shows both the power of Twitter, and the fact that companies (and evangelists) are listening. Good work!
Forget Palin’s email – take a look in Obama’s
Sarah Palin got her Yahoo mail account hacked and sprayed all over the intarwebs – I guess that isn’t too cool, but late breaking news today (via) is that Baracks gmail is wide open…check the mail from Cheney!
(That’ll teach him for those moveon.org mails!)
Search Engine Rap Battles…awesomeness!
This one is MSN vs Google (but your results say ‘search wikipedia’) – but there is also Google vs Yahoo and MSN vs Yahoo!
Via here – where you can also vote for the winner! (I don’t think T-pain has anything to worry about though)
Sky thinks I’m in France…
I was watching the Sky Sports ScoreCenter, from the hotel in Bellevue, WA this morning… and it was serving me up French banner ads… how strange!
Photosynth – Arch of Titus, Rome
Just before I left for Rome, Microsoft Live Labs officially launched the Photosynth tool which allows you to arrange and share your photographs in a completely unique way and explore those photos as if you were looking at the detail of the real world.
It is kind of hard to explain – so explore my first synth of the Arch of Titus in Rome either by clicking the embedded version above, or the full size version over at Photosynth. It is really easy to explore, just click away and watch how you can zoom into details of the arch.
Twitter ends SMS updates – not the smartest move?
With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.
I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a smarter decision to cut the free service, but at the same point enable a paid model that would allow SMS-junkies to continue getting their regular fix of 140 character goodness. It would have been EVEN SMARTER to at least ask peoples opinions before the big switch off.
On top of the fail-whale and system instabilities over recent months, this cannot be seen as a positive move.
I can be found on Twitter here.
Live Search goes to Beijing
Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:
Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for your self at the US Live Search site – or on the Chinese Live Search site (where they have their own imagery).
I can’t wait until they roll this out in the UK and beyond, this kind of work could make Live Search a destination URL.
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