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Vincent Thome is a strategist, geek and captologist working at AKQA. This blog is about technology, marketing and innovation.
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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Google Maps new features
I can’t wait to see them live. The first one, Street View, is a new feature of Google Maps that allows you to quickly and easily view and navigate high-resolution, 360 degree street level images of various cities in the US. Check at the video and for more details on the O’Reilly Radar blog, who [...]
Train the mouse
I’ve always been interested in changing the way people interact with websites. A few days ago, I saw this website, try drugs, which plays with mouse effects. I think it was brilliant as it brings emotion and meaning to the experience. Try drugs is an anti-drugs campaign created for the department of health in Norway. [...]
Digg API Visualization Contest
To celebrate the release of the Digg API, they’ve challenged the Digg community to come up with the most creative and dynamic Flash visualizations and applications that use the Digg API. You’ll find the top 10 finalists, as chosen by judges. Check out the works, it might give you inspiration for interface design. You [...]
Facebook Platform
Yesterday, Facebook launched F8. There are about 70 companies developing apps for the Facebook Platform. From Facebook developers: New opportunity, build a business. With Facebook’s unique social context, you can make relevant applications that users will love. And you’ve got the freedom to monetize the way you want – build a business around your [...]
Crowd Control
On one hand you have interaction in the real world where people can play together on the other hand virtual interaction where people also play together but behind their computers. What about mixing the two? Created for MSNBC, here is the NewsBreaker live game. As you can see, people were having a great [...]
Holdings models, where do we go?
Update again: Microsoft is acquiring advertising network aQuantive, the parent company to Avenue A | Razorfish, Atlas and DRIVEpm, for roughly $6 billion (about the double of their actual market cap) in an all-cash transaction, the company said this morning. You can listen the investor call here. Microsoft is holding a media call at 5:45 [...]
Build your own knowledge centre
People often ask how to stay updated with what’s going on out there. Well, I think it’s simply impossible and that you have to make choices. For myself, here are few rules I tried to apply to myself. First, build your source network. By that I mean that if you learn how to use [...]
Hyperwords
I’ve been using Hyperwords for few weeks now and I really like it. With Hyperwords almost all the text on the web becomes interactive. For those who don’t want to install the plug-in without being sure it’s good, you can even try it before installing it. Below is a video demo which explains some of [...]
Digital T-shirts
I wish to find T-shirts like these to go out in the future… Maybe one day with e-paper researches. Changing designs by uploading new ones with a friend via Bluetooth or with a born via Wifi… Be able to communicate each other through our t-shirts by shaking, touching, moving… No, I didn’t take anything, [...]
Microsoft Surface