Think Outside In
Think Outside In is an excellent blog by a fella called Paul Adams who works in the product team at Facebook, helping the platform support marketers and advertisers. Prior to Facebook, Paul led social research at Google, and his work was the foundation for Circles in Google+. He is also the author of Grouped which talks about how small groups of friends are the key to influence the social web.
The things Paul talks about on this site make a lot of sense.
Nicely.
Link.
24Symbols | Spotify For Audio Books
A collaboration between Cappelen Damm publishers and Aspiro, initially focusing on Norwegian books, but English titles are planned to follow. Some 150 audiobooks are currently available for free, amounting to more than 1,000 hours of listening time; more are available for purchase and download.
Beta here.
Lex | James Mylet
James Mylet is 34 years old, lives in Twickenham and works at Anomaly, when he’s not doing either of those things he writes, and he’s good. So good in fact that his first novel, LEX, has been published and goes on sale today.
LEX is the story of a boy almost finished growing up in Clifden, Connemara, where he runs a radio station from his bedroom and makes plans to go to university in London. As he shares his views on life, music and Michelle, the best girl in town, Lex is absurdly acute and brilliantly entertaining. Michelle is not only older than Lex, but she’s dating the town thug, someone Lex would do well to avoid, but where’s the fun in that? Surrounded by his adoring family and constantly taking the flak for his crazy best friend, Davey, he’s caught between modesty and an edge of cool. But he finds himself in trouble when a friend uses Lex’s own radio station to announce to the entire town that Lex is still a virgin and asks some nice young girl to help him out before he heads to London in the same sorry condition…
Being seventeen is the stuff of rollercoasters – from one period of angst to boundless joy and on to another crisis – and Lex’s summer is set to be typical. He’s determined to go out with a bang. And he will, but it might not be quite what he had in mind.
Buy a copy here.
Think Quarterly | Google Magazine
Google has launched a new magazine aimed at its partners and advertisers, Think Quarterly. The first edition of the new title, which has been sent out to 1,500 UK companies, is devoted entirely to data and includes contributions from both Google staff and freelancers. The magazine is also freely available online and on mobile platforms, with the website offering traditional web browser layout and a print replica e-edition, but search engine company has played down the idea of it becoming a fully fledged publisher, insisting that the magazine “remains firmly aimed at Google’s partners and advertisers” and there are “no plans to start selling copies”.
‘At Google, we often think that speed is the forgotten ‘killer application‘ – the ingredient that can differentiate winners from the rest. We know that the faster we deliver results, the more useful people find our service. But in a world of accelerating change, we all need time to reflect. Think Quarterly is a breathing space in a busy world. It’s a place to take time out and consider what’s happening and why it matters. Our first issue is dedicated to Data – amongst a morass of information, how can you find the magic metrics that will help transform your business? We hope that you find inspiration, insights, and more, in Think Quarterly.’
Download Here.
Site here.
Instapaper
Instapaper enables Read Later bookmarking. When you find something you want to read, but you don’t have time, click Read Later. Come back when you have time, or read your articles on the go – on or offline.
Here.
Creative Social Book | Digital Advertising: Past, Present, and Future
Last night saw the ‘official’ launch of the Creative Social book Digital Advertising: Past, Present, and Future at LBi. The evening was ‘hosted’ by Ray Reardon‘s illegitimate love child Daniele Fiandaca (as seen above) and was rumoured to have been a partial success. Below is a video of the main attraction of the evening featuring progressive death metal devotee Mr Flo Hiess and Waffle aficionado Mr Graham Fink chainsawing a plie of said book in the name of ‘art’.
Digital Advertising: Past, Present, and Future:
What did we learn from the 12K banner? Is the big idea dead? What would Bill Bernbach think about digital advertising? Why are the Swedes so bloody good at it? How can you shape the future of digital advertising? Is peep culture the new pop culture? What does the agency of the future look like? All these questions and far more are covered inside Digital Advertising: Past, Present, and Future, a collection of essays from 24 Digital Creative Directors and business leaders. Rory Sutherland, President of the IPA and Vice-Chairman, Ogilvy Group UK describes it as ‘An A-list group of authors writing brilliantly and affectionately about the subjects they know best.”
The book features articles by the likes of Daniele Fiandaca, Simon Waterfall, Andy Sandoz, Sam Ball, Dave Bedwood, Rafa Soto, Fernanda Romano, Flo Heiss, Mark Earls and Mr Johnny Vulkan and is geting some pretty good reviews.
You can buy it here.
Go get one.
Jekyll & Hyde | Augmented Reality Book
Some sweet ideas in here.
ViaDiddyking.
The Future Of The Book
I cant help wondering just how much of this stuff gets in the way of reading. Maybe I’m old but a book has a very intuitive and simple interface already – and to be fair that’s not actually why I read. Stuff that adds to the experience is good (and already largely available) stuff that gets in the way of my desire to read is bad. Replicating the simplicity of a book while being useful is so key. Until that marriage these versions will surely remain novelties.
10 Years Of Threadless
Sweet Threadless tenth anniversary book here.
FromHarris&Wilson.
iPhoneと絵本を組み合わせた「PhoneBook」
Site [mobile] here.
ViaCA
Electronic Popables
“Electronic Popables is an interactive pop-up book that sparkles, sings, and moves. The book integrates traditional pop-up mechanisms with thin, flexible, paper-based electronics and the result is a book that looks and functions much like an ordinary pop-up with the added element of dynamic interactivity.”
ViaJawBone
Project Site.
They Shoot Porn Stars Don’t They?
Some reading materials.
JetPacMagazine
JetPac magazine is a free pdf culture magazine, featuring photography, illustration, design, comedy, poetry, interviews, reviews…
And it’s pretty dam good.
Visualizing Gender Stereotypes
“Visualizing gender stereotypes is a personal research into gender stereotypes focusing on how children become aware of these and how they receive stereotyped messages through visual communication. I chose this topic because we all are daily influenced – positively or negatively – by stereotypes.”
Info design books here.
Monsters In England
Last night I went to the pub with Monster Munch and Made In England (Nicky and Cookie). Both blogs are a regular read and, if you haven’t already, both are well worth adding to your feed reader/going to the pub with. Links and descriptions (in thier own words) below.
“Monster-Munch will be bringing to you the delights of the world of SockMonster making, nice Typography, Web things, Doodles, Toys, and generally any bits and bobs that take my fancy. Hopefully you’ll see some nice ideas, and good looking pixels.”
“Made in England is written by Cookie – a designer, illustrator and occasional adventurer. I spend a lot of time looking for things visually interesting creative, this is where I share the best of what I find.”
N.B. There was some other bloke there but I can’t remember his name, I think it was Colin.