GothBook
Social networking for members of a subculture favoring black clothing, white and black makeup and a form of rock music loosely derived from punk, typically with apocalyptic or mystical lyrics.
Slightly ironic?
gMerry
Mail Goggles is a new g-mail feature designed to keep you from sending pissdy email messages. When you enable Mail Goggles (which, by default, is only active late night on the weekend), you’ll have to solve a series of sums before you can send your message.
Brilliant.
Shitter
“Other than the obvious play on words with Twitter it is a word we would like to associate with ranting, displeasure, disgust and if you’re just truly f**ked off. We wanted to provide a platform for you all to express yourself and remain as annonymous as you like. We like it and we hope you do too!”
Thanks Will.
Save Your Sensible
A well crafted campaign film/site for Austrailan soft drink Spring Valley, featuring a sort of Tamagotchi creature you have to feed with product.
It feels a little bit like two separate ideas, but I think that’s just the art direction. However, I like the film and I did check out Spring Valley (although maybe because I didn’t know the product) and I even (briefly) considered adding it to my Facebook.
Via Adverblog.
Dirty Rabbit
Dirty Rabbit is a Belgium based design collective. Unlike Belgium, their blog/tumblr has some interesting things to look at and I have been back.
election.twitter
Twitter is traditionally a place where people tell other people (that care) about what they are doing/thinking/seeing, etc. Basically a fairly flippant local/global “what’s happening now”. So it’s a little weird of Twitter to launch a relatively serious service monitoring the US Election, right?
election.twitter.com works by filtering hundreds of relevant Twitter updates ‘real-time’ to create a source that gathers public opinion about the presidential election. It’s a new(ish) way for you to share your thoughts on a topical item, and an excellent place to check out the zeitgeist of the election. If you’re are a twitter user, you can join the discussion by posting directly from the site, your Tweet not only goes to everyone who follows you, but to the automatically updating election time line (not unlike a chat room type set-up).
Politweets has been providing a similar service for a while already, but it has a limited filtering system. Twitter, on the other hand, uses a constantly changing set of keywords, which makes it more dynamic. Performing real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions. election.twitter determines a set of ‘Hot Topics’ and displays any tweet that fits into those categories - creating a live ticker of continuously fresh opinion. Twitter’s Summize-based search does a similar job, only not automatically and not to a ‘live’ stream.
People have already started to use services like Monitter to track Twitter conversations, when there is a breaking news story, because again it updates automatically. The obvious value of a service like this is not so much in what’s being said in each tweet, but in the aggregation of opinion and the real-time view of global conversation.
As more and more people use Twitter, the company sits on an ever increasing goldmine of information and opinion. Now that they have the infrastructure in place, Twitter could easily create similar services for any event, or even allow its users to create their own Twitter-based memetrackers. As they so proudly say: ‘Twitter is the pulse of what is happening with the people, organizations, and events you care about—delivered immediately, wherever you are.’ This has finally proved compelling, shared events ranging from earthquakes to film festivals have already been covered, and now Twitter has introduced an engaging way to participate in democracy.
No longer quite so flippant…..
Blue Jeans
Highly un-original porn for porns sake, or evil genius. You decide, just as long as you’re over 18 of course. Here.
Ring Tones
A sweet Japanese lingerie based site where each piece of underwear has a dedicated noise or tone (of course). By combining 3 pieces (like socks/pants/bra) you can create a unique track that you can then transfer to you mobile device as a ringtone.
Shake It Like A Poloroid Picture
This is a great piece of online advertising for Wario Land : Shake It on the Wii. It’s simple, to the point and hugely viral.
Nice.
3D Porn
Bringing a new dimension to erotica - seemingly from 1973.
Instant Audio Evil
Back in the 80’s several fundamentalist Christian gangs began to claim that evil backmasked messages, that could bypass the conscious mind and reach the subconscious, were being peddled by headbanging heavy mentalists on their records.
Some Christian radio programs claimed that songs like Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” contained hidden messages from Beelzebub the Prince of Darkness - or he who walks backwards (these messages were, of course, unknowingly accepted by the listener). This obviously drove every Led Zeppelin fan in the land to play their records backwards like total greasy haired divvies. Of course, it was all rubbish.
Anyway, thanks to the folks at the internet, you can now test the theory without trying to spin your discs in reverse at an impossibly difficult constant speed. You just upload an audio file to a server, wait a few seconds, and then you will hear it played backwards at the right speed - as if read by Lucifer himself.
Lovely.
.ecnirp krad eht evol t’nod I ,yaw eht yB
Life On PlayStation
Live news, cams, weather on another globe.
Agent Provocateur
This is a very stylish advermovie/full browser movie, centered around a hammer house of horror style dark castle, full of mistresses in underwear. Your ‘mission’ is to save a virgin by making some basic yes/no choices.
It’s kinda the same as the Twix thing I wrote about a while ago, which it will be, as the format is pretty predictable. However the art direction and presentation of this is awesome and I was drawn in, so I guess it’s doing it job.
Once again, I find myself liking an advermovie.
What’s going on..?
Ubiquity
Mozilla have launched a new (experimental) browser plug-in that could well change the way we interact with the web. Most people do not have an easy way to manage all the many resources of the their interwebs, nor do they have the skills to simplify multiple tasks. For the most part they are left tswitching between sites, performing repeated actions, resulting in some wasted time.
Traditionally, you tell the browser where you want to go, either by search or by typing an address into the bar. Ubiquity is an attempt to change that, an attempt to find a new interface that could make it possible for everyone to do all the common actions and multiple web tasks more quickly and easily.
Ubiquity will enable you to tell Firefox what you want it to do by simply typing a series commands (in plain language) into it’s input box.
So, for example, if you wanna tweet ‘I love rubbishcorp®’, you just write: twitter I love rubbishcorp®, in to box and you’re done, twitter updated. Or, if you wanna send an email, you just type: email hello to rubbishcorp®, assuming rubbishcorp® is in your GMail contacts (which of course it will be), you’ll be taken to your Gmail account and all you gotta do is click send.
Smashing.
Here’s a confusing and overly long (techy) demo:
Download here.
tajTunes
Send a friend a TajTune for just $5, perfect for their birthday/anniversary/funeral etc. Just specify the receiver’s name, phone number, and day you want them to receive a call and bingo, you’ll make their day.
They’ll even email a copy of the song to you, so you can hear the TajTune and the receiver’s reaction.
