Monthly Archives: August 2009

Gestural control starts to enter homes

By Dhiren | Published: August 30, 2009
Do you remember the clips below? Gestural control in SF films. It will not be long before some of what has been prophesied in movies becomes a reality. I’ve been wanting to write about gestural control for quite some time. I think it’s going be the next thing that really shakes up interactive advertising, as [...]
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We need more help to listen

By Dhiren | Published: August 30, 2009
There have been several recent write-ups about social media monitoring tools. The majority of the reviews surround flaws and functionality. I share some of the opinions, yes we do need clearer geographically defined data and the ability to extract more granular information. My concerns, however, reside with the completeness of data and information. Note I [...]
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Interactive Banners

By Dhiren | Published: August 25, 2009
I’m heavy Lastfm user, in fact I’d say if you live outside of London it’s the only way to stay in check with new music. I’ve been spotting some really cool banners on Lastfm recently. Last week the Nissan Quashqai banner behaved like an in car CD player pretending to play the song you were [...]
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Raving 89′

By Dhiren | Published: August 23, 2009
Pic by Gavin Watson, a masterpiece of low-light exposure balancing. Great set of rave pictures taken by Gavin and Neville Watson. This guy seems to have been at the centre of every other significant cultural movement in recent decades. If you like the music, Where were you in 92? by Zomby is worth a listen. [...]
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2 Kool 4 Skool

By Dhiren | Published: August 17, 2009
I spotted this over @boingboing today, a kid lip syncing over hip-hop tracks in the 5th Avenue Apple Store in NY. Apparently he’s done this quite a few times, the clips are below: Of course this wasn’t intentional and I’m sure that Apple didn’t sit in their Bose-speaker-decked offices fabricating all of this (one hopes [...]
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