Linkdump 10
- The future of advertising is… publishing
- Heaps of very interesting presentations from the recent Web 2.0 Expo
- Microsoft research on online banners vs. search
- 7 things pick-up artists and savvy marketers have in common (if you clicked that then you might as well enjoy this post: 10 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers)
- 2008 entries for Forrester’s Groundswell Award
- A post on The Future Buzz about the digital divide
- Sam Kekovich does Photon Group’s annual report (courtesy of Michael)
- Adweek: Anomaly’s Johnson on the Joys of Being a ‘Suit’
- Education 2.0
- Anti-social networking application launched on Facebook
- Viral marketing checklist
- Fake popup study sadly confirms most users are idiots
- Miss Fifi from Sweden educates women about personal grooming
- Overview of visualisation tools
- Chrome fades as users return to IE, Firefox
- Google Moderator launched and allows you to crowdsource (TC post here)
Have a baby for love not for german engineering
Longform video with Brooke Shields for the VW Routan. What a bad name for a car though. Unless it’s pronounced Root-On. Keep reproducing after having bought (the rather good looking) minivan.
The ultimate virtual pet
Imagine the possiblities, especially once users can connect with others through the tubes.
EyePet is a responsive virtual pet that reacts to your every move, providing entertainment and fun for the whole family, plus it’s pretty cute as well.
EyePet comes with an impressive array of abilities all made possible by PLAYSTATION Eye, the next-generation camera for PLAYSTATION 3. A loveable, simian-like pet, EyePet lives in an on-screen picture of your sitting room as captured by PLAYSTATION Eye.
Working in Augmented Reality, EyePet is fully aware of people in the room and will interact with you and your environment. Place an object in front of the camera that EyePet has seen before and it’ll know exactly what to do with it; give it something new and it’ll examine it thoroughly. Tickle it by waving your fingers in front of the camera and it laughs; poke it and it jumps; roll it a ball and EyePet chases around the screen after it.
The only thing I hope is that people will still appreciate the authenticity of a real animal.
