Twine talking to the Pebble smartwatch. Twine’s web app, enables anyone to relay word of real-world events, like a basement flooding or a door opening, to the Pebble on your wrist.

Now, where did I put the keys to my Jetpak?

More here.

Make 12 Instagram images into fridge magnets.

Here.

Info here.

The army of luck, or the Pursuit of Happiness, is made by Boris Petrovsky and is basically a dot matrix sign. The paws functions as pixels and if you text or tweet your message up to 40 characters the cats will display it clearly by shaking their paws.

More here.

ViaMOA

Lights out dance routine.

Facebook is testing an option called “Highlight” that enables users to pay a few dollars to have a posts appear to more that the claimed 12% of friends that currently see it. Highlight lets the average user, not Pages or businesses, select “important post” and “make sure friends see this”. A tiny percentage of the user base is now seeing tests of a paid version of Highlight, but there’s also a free one designed to check if users are at all interested in the option.

More here.

Clever work from Bergs’ Eva, Rickard & Michal.

Facebook has announced the App Center, a new place for people to find social apps. The App Center gives developers an additional way to grow their apps and creates opportunities for more types of apps to be successful. In the coming weeks, people will be able to access the App Center on the web and in the iOS and Android Facebook apps.

For the over 900 million people that use Facebook, the App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, etc..

Read more here.

To ensure Queensday visitors visited the toilet, rather than using the canal, Auctung made a piss based social video game that rewarded people for using a urinal. And whoever pissed the most received their watertaxes back.

From the mighty N&P. By the way, what is it with you guys & piss?

‘A simpler, faster more social SoundCloud that helps music and audio creators like you share your sounds more easily than ever before.’

Here.

More here.

RA’s DJ Bio version of Mad Libs. Whether you’re just starting out or have been in the electronic music world for years. Print out the sheet that most closely applies to your career, fill in the words where requested and—voila!—you’ve got yourself a new DJ bio.

Funny.

More here.

Sweet game from the very talented London based designer and art director Yoni Alter.

Here.

Another game here.

Cargo here.

SoundWave ties changes in sound frequency to movement in order to detect gestures. To do that, a computer pumps out inaudible sound waves, and then the microphone listens out for how hand positions change the resulting echoes.

Clever.

More here.

Barley.

Sa. Weeeeeee. Ta.

Link.

Simple.

Here.

Lovely UI sketch, for dragging files between your phone & computer. I particularly enjoyed the Jazz Noodle that accompanies the action.

Nice.

More here.

Top Advergame action for Perfect Strangers.

Here.

The new header is actually a real old skool analogue Letter Press, which was printed for my by the lovely Amy, one of our awesome Anomalous designers.

Thank you Amy.

A tribute to perseverance in video games.

Music: Michael Nyman, A Wild And Distant Shore.

ViaT&H.

A site that Instagram and Pintrest.

Here.

Instant data about any word, phrase, URL, #hastag, or user name on the Twitter.

Handy.

Here.

‘Tech City Map is a constantly-evolving compendium of East London’s technology and creative ecosystem. In addition to showing where businesses are located Tech City Map uses advanced technology from Trampoline Systems to reveal the web of connections linking them together and calculate each company’s influence in the community.’

‘The platform works by pulling in streams of Twitter data from each business and tracking following relationships, mentions and retweets. It was launched by UK Prime Minister David Cameron in November 2011 at the Trampery in Shoreditch, East London.’

More here.

DISCLAIMER: This post does not in any way mean I am an advocate of QR codes.

From Cheil.

Bit late, but this is really worth a look.

Beautifully done.

More here.

ViaRD.

Hooray!

Or maybe not.

On the surface it’s a good idea, based on the ‘buzz’ created by the blog/advertising community, but I’m struggling with the behavioural insight. And whether or not it will actually sell any margarine/butter?

My question is this: When did anyone (in the UK) last look to a margarine brand to provide them with music? Not only with music, but music that they believe to be better than their own (usual) choice. Or, in other words, how many people really take their laptops into the kitchen and instinctively look up FMCG websites to provide them with world music radio?

Not many.

So, without any behavioural insight, I can only assume that the ad wizards will refer to the ‘buzz’ that this kind of tech savvy idea produces as the reason for spending the clients money. Sadly, I fear, that ‘buzz’ will make waves only on sites like this – sites that are read by a very small majority of the supermarket shopper community.

If I ran Lurpak I’d seriously be asking any agency that suggested a concept like this to base their fee on sales, not ‘buzz’. That would quickly determine the true value of an idea like Foodbeats.

Oh, and while I’m on the subject, why can’t I actually sample, buy or be directed to a place that I can get the product? I cook, surely I’m exactly the right audience?

Coming up with a ‘digital advertising’ idea is easy, coming up with a ‘digital advertising’ idea that actually affects the bottom line of a business is a little more difficult.

Fair?

Here.

Here.

Mon.ki is a Chrome web extension that integrates Twitter content with what’s open in your browser. Mon.ki sweeps webpages and gives users the lowdown about given topics in real time on Twitter. So users can quickly find out what people are saying about products or news and find new feeds.

Nice.

Here.

Via.

Play your way through a tiny cubic Google Maps world. Visit New York, Tokyo and many other cities while you learn all about Google Maps stuff.

Here.