LifeDeluxe

Literally Delicious

I might be a bit slow to this, but I love it for all sorts of reasons. Thank you BarCamp for introducing me to the delights of this and Pecha Kucha. I need to do a 10 minutet conference talk on making money (or not) from communities and 2.0 tools etc, so looking forward to doing it on this. It will be a total timing disaster as I am rubbish at that kind of thing, but at least the medium will be the message. Or something like that.

What are you doing?

If you are on Twitter, then you are, well, twittering. Now I know that there is something interesting going on here, but I haven't got it yet. Even watching what friends are twittering about just makes me more confused.

Having said that, what CNN is doing with it's sort of breaking news mash up is even stranger, but no less interesting for being so. No friends yet, but 38 followers, so good luck to them. You can't click on anything to see the full article / follow up the headlines, so not an obvious distribution thing, but I am probably missing the point.

As usual. Twitter on

'All the world's a widget'

A big web '2.0' article in the guardian at the weekend covered a lot of interesting stuff...mostly how badly defined the idea of web 2.0 is, even amongst those most responsible for making it so!

Anyway, Dick Costolo from feedburner, when asked what is the next big thing said this:

"Im going to make up a word: the next big thing online will be the 'widgetisation' of media. I think there will be a universal widget library that somebody will create that will allow both content creators and technology creators to say, 'Here are ways of marrying this content and this tool so that it can be distributed anywhere."

Which chimed with recent postings from Steve Rubel about 'Web 3.0 and the widgetized web' where he says  "Widgets and gadgets are going to be just as disruptive as RSS, blogs, Wikipedia, social networks and other recent developments - perhaps even more so. The reason is that as people begin to get familiar with these tools and the widgets get more sophisticated, we will spend less time going from property to property. This means that over time big web sites will generate fewer page views, which means that advertising CPMs could plummet."

And it heralds an even more elaborate courtship to talk to people on their turf (if they won't come to ours, only viewing it from a distance and with all 'distractions' stripped out)...although I would really like to be able invite certain brands to have a feed on my google/ig or netvibes or whatever. Updated Adidas news/ads/downloads would be a nice start....

Blowing bubbles

 

Interesting article from the Observer this Sunday about a 'disgruntled' creative who started putting speech bubbles on ad posters in New York, which have subsequently been filled in (sometimes very amusingly) by passers-by. The whole project is captured on www.thebubbleproject.com where you can even download a bubble template of your own. Doesn't always feel very 'street' though....when uploading your images for possible inclusion in the site (possible inclusion, no open source project here) you are instructed to use a camera with "3 megapixels or higher resolution. No phone camera". Which is all abit controlling...but some lovely captions all the same.

Blik your ride

Blik have recently announced their move into the world of car customization. Blik Autograhic  now have 12 body graphics and six window graphics to Blik your ride. Carry on customising.