Here’s a collection of cool links for the week.
News in Video
British PM Question Time on You Tube | Source: Sky News UK
Submit your questions to PM Gordon Brown on You Tube, you know Climate Change, Global Mobilisation. Go on, Go on.
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video?videoSourceID=1316436&flashURL=feeds/skynews/latest/flash/brown_190508_0800.fl
Robot Life Imitates Art | Source: Sky News UK
He’s 4ft 3″ – but he’s already a maestro!
http://video.news.sky.com/skynews/video?videoSourceID=1316436&flashURL=feeds/skynews/latest/flash/brown_190508_0800.flv
Online Viral Performance art
Uniqlock | Uniglo |Project Inc / Plastic Fantastic aka Tomoyuki Tanaka) | Cothing | Source: Brand Republic
What’s a Uniqlock? Music, dance, a clock, and a viral marketing vehicle for Japanese retailer Uniqlo. It won a Black D&DAD Pencil, had 14,000 ‘customised’ widget clocks set, 3.5 million site views times from 200 countries. Check out the map.
http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/
Digital Story Telling
Photosynth | Blaise Aguera | Source: Jordan Sky
Imagine photos of Notre Dame, pulled from the web, that seamless builds a 3-D model, then lets you navigate it.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129
It Room | Online TV Show | Dell | Source: World Wide Wonderland TV3
A fun online TV show, a cross between the Office and an IT room. Users can even submit their own script and if they like they’ll pull it into their episodes. (Winners win a Dell Notebook)
http://www.theitroom.com/
Dog Space | Beneful | Source: NZ Herald Banner
Give your dog cute profile, and get a free sample.
http://beneful.co.nz/dogspace/default.html
We Tell Stories | Penguin | Source: World Wide Wonderland TV3
Six authors. Six Stories. Six Weeks. One story unfolds across a map of the world like thriller.
http://www.wetellstories.co.uk
One of these stories unfolded online on a blog and twitter, with users trying to solve the story:
Slice Queen | Source: World Wide Wonderland TV3
Slice moves to a mysterious house in London. You can follow her story on a weblog and her parents. If you wanted to get even more immersed, you could also email the characters and follow them through text messages on Twitter.
http://slicequeen.livejournal.com
https://twitter.com/Slicequeen
Thingsididlastnight.com | Source: Urs Ross
Have you been “Urs rolled” yet?
http://www.thingsididlastnight.com
Music
Radiohead Remix | Source: Brand Republic
Radiohead are leading with allowing users to contribute to work. They let people remix a track called “Nude”. Uploading is closed, but you can vote.
http://www.radioheadremix.com/
REM Remix | Source: Brand Republic
Rem let users down clips to their latest song. “Supernatural Serious” then, mashup, remix and upload the videos
http://www.youtube.com/remsuperserious
Mobile
Air NZ Go Mobile | Source: NZ Herald Banner Ad
Air New Zealand have just launched a travel info service for mobiles.
https://www.airnzgomobile.co.nz/
3-D
Tag Galaxy | Paper Vision | Sent by Mac Macaskill
Do a search on flick r tags, and the result is pulled into a cool 3-D World.
http://taggalaxy.de/