Links for 2006-07-09
Posted July 9, 2006 1:17 AM.
- London's about to host a fairly forward-thinking little summit called 'UGTV '06' focusing on User-Generated television... Interesting meme and nice coinage - the UGTV summit looks relatively interesting. Unfortunately I'm in another country when it's on - hopefully someone with a weblog will report what it was like...
- PhotoVu seem to have some decently sized and not-entirely-revolting LCD wifi-enabled photoframes I'm not sure I'm up for coughing up $700 for one, but there's a bunch of stuff I'd like to do with em. Really interesting.
- Cambrian House is the LazyWeb reborn with a face-lift and an eye firmly set on intergalatic stardom Like the LazyWeb I think it's a bit of a creepy and slightly self-serving idea, and I'm not convinced it'll work, but I love the design of the pages. Does that make me shallow?
- The Gawker shop has a bunch of not-entirely-sucky-looking t-shirts I particularly liked, "It's Like, Yeah, Motherfucker, I'm Fine"
- Random new Mastercard rebrand Getting on the gradient fills bandwagon just as it's changing to gradient patterns and aqua effects. Poor form, Mastercard!
- Mr Biddulph's been playing with GPS and Google Earth Assistant I just bought a little GPS thing. Lessons I've learned with GPS - it's a good rule of life to watch what Matt Webb's doing now and then make it comprehensible to real people three years later...
- A pretty stunningly glowing review of the Holux GPSlim (GR-236) GPS unit I need to get me one of these. I have no idea what to do with it, but it's pretty fascinatingly awesome...
- "Comedian Jim Davidson has been declared bankrupt after failing to keep up payments on a £1.4m tax bill" Good. Poisonous little right-wing ideologue.
- The new adverts for Film Four feature Lucy Lui, Ewan McGregor, Willem Dafoe, Dame Judi and many others Is anyone else as weirded out by this as I am? And while we're on the subject - advertisers, please put your ads and trailers online. That way if they're good we can point to them! This will help you do your jobs!
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The Film4 ad can be seen on visit4info.com (where it apparently contains an actress called 'Dame Judy Wench').
Thanks for pointing out the UGTV seminar -- it says it's full right now, but I'll inquire further on Monday. It'd be right up our street at TV Today.
→ Posted by: Scott M at July 9, 2006 9:58 AM
Weirded out, but... in a good way. Seeing Lucy Liu was the particularly weirdest one, for some reason. I'm really looking forward to the launch, even though I won't be back in the country until the Tuesday.
→ Posted by: Natali at July 9, 2006 12:53 PM
LCD wifi-enabled photoframes
Bugger - I had that idea last Friday... At least, I was thinking about the possibilities created by pervasive wifi plus cheap[er] LCD displays, which are extraordinary (albeit rather creepy - I'd prefer the physical world to stay physical, thanks all the same).
I can't see the appeal of personal GPS at all. I must be getting old.
→ Posted by: Phil at July 10, 2006 11:05 AM
Thanks for linking to UGTV '06 and for calling us 'fairly forward thinking'. We'll be writing notes so I'll send you a link after the event.
→ Posted by: Andy Bell at July 10, 2006 1:51 PM
Thankfully the Mastercard rebrand isn't quite as bad as it sounds, the Mastercard logo is still the same they just created a new logo for the parent company to use hence the added "worldwide" tagline.
Bit random but there you go, if it was the new logo it would have gone down with BT as the weirdest most pointless rebrand of all time.
On a final note I'm with Phil here I can't see the appeal of GPS but there you go. I guess what would be quite sweet would be a Yahoo Maps enabled GPS tracker combined with something like Yahoo 360 where you could see in realtime where your old friends and family were...hold on that's a pretty good idea, if you ever use it Tom I expect a percentage of the ad revenue;)
→ Posted by: Tony Goff at July 10, 2006 2:34 PM
Thankfully I have Sky+ so when Dame Judy "Wench" skipped past my view dressed as a lobster I had time, once my brain had realised what was going on, to rewind the advert.
How bizarre. I wonder how 'staged' it was though, it would've been great if all the passers-by were just that, passers-by..
"Er... was that Ewan McGregor??"
→ Posted by: Gordon at July 11, 2006 11:57 AM
Can I nominate another great ad? The More4 News one with the fast-talking man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRXWUvPS4B4
And yes - why hasn't some enterprising young spod at c4 bunged this online properly?
→ Posted by: Boz at July 14, 2006 3:17 PM
Hiya, I dragged myself over to heddon street for UGTV. A few interesting folk in the audience (mostly broadcasters but a mix of press, finance and other media people) but the talks were pretty disapointing.
I've uploaded a bit of video(1) and writen a few words(2) if anyone's interested...
(1) http://tinyurl.com/jjbe6
(2) http://tinyurl.com/ev5a9
→ Posted by: Bozo at July 20, 2006 2:07 PM
Here's a semi-official-ish report of the UGTV event: http://www.mintdigital.com/blog/2006/07/22/notes-from-ugtv-06/
→ Posted by: Andy Bell at July 22, 2006 9:41 AM