Digg Labs and a company called Stamen design have busy coming up with new ways to monitor the constant stream of Digg data that come into their servers every second. The two that I found the most “useful” were:
“BIGSPY”
Digg stories slowly descend down the screen, the larger the print, the more diggs it has.
“STACK”
As stories are “dugg” dots descend from above and stack up, making more popular stories tower over the rest. This is my favorite, as you can easily and quickly see which stories are ahead of the pack, and the titles are displayed as they get dug in a slowly fading trail that descends to the bottom of the screen.
The other visualizers are considerably more esoteric and “design-ey” and can be viewed here
As an added bonus, most can be downloaded as screen savers so you can watch the world “digg” itself and avoid screen burn in at the same time. Convenient, no?
Australian cable provider FOXTEL sponsored this nifty project that invites people to create an online multimedia collage/portrait of themselves using pictures, video, music… pretty much anything you can upload.
Once you’ve established it, your friends and family can add to it with their photos, videos, etc.. It’s kind of like a facebook “wall” that floats weightlessly in space, reacting to your mouse movements.
The connection between the concept of “being unique” to FOXTEL is that it’s TiVo-like DVR box will record shows that you may be interested in. The connection is somewhat tenuous, but there’s a picture of the set top box constantly on the screen… so there’s that.
Excellent portfolio site from art director/web developer Miguel Endara. Gets to the point (his work) with just enough pizazz to keep things interesting without getting annoying.
I can only describe it as “flippy” but you can see it in action here.
The solution to the puzzling puzzling Samsung video we posted a week or two ago here:
The startling revelation, in my opinion, lacks the “smack on the head” simplicity of the best “tricks.” Imagine if this viral taught you a trick you could reasonably duplicate yourself, the campaign could be evergreen. It did, however, get people to watch it… 900k views so far.
The fact that they built an entire false set and used two sets of actors answered the “how did they do that?” question with a different “simple” answer: they had lots of money.
Did you know that when you re-post someone’s tweet it’s called a “retweet”?
Logical, right? Well one thing leads to another and we’ve got a website/service that assumes that if you’re retweeting something, it may very well be something interesting.
Tweetmeme tracks these retweets, (a-la Digg, or Stumbleupon) and provides search capabilities that can get you right up inside the stream of consciousness of the twitterati.They also are rolling out new tools and toolbars for the end users to further ease and simplify retweeting.
How about writing code with severe length limitations?
Flash developers compete to make the grooviest mini app in Action Script 3, using no more than 140 characters in the code… Easy, right? The results are an amazing display of what can be achieved even when severely limited… think of it as “code haiku”
tweetcode winner "tunnel"
It’s an ongoing contest, you can check out winners and honorable mentions HERE.
This viral video has garnered almost 700K views. Essentially, vid is a low-production value, intelligently snarky tourist advert for Cleveland. It is funny and predictable, and succeeds in putting Cleveland in the mind of the viewer—if only for a moment or two.
Did you know that when you re-post someone’s tweet it’s called a “retweet”?