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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: June 2009
The Internet of Things is Moving Forward
The Internet of Things refers to a network of objects, such as household appliances. It is often a self-configuring wireless network. We all dreamed about the new creative opportunities it would create. Some companies like Violet have been trying to move things forward and exploring opportunities in that space. Though if we want to [...]
Online and Offline, Social Shopping Continues to Grow
I’ve been interested in social shopping for quite a while now and I am happy to see that it keeps growing. Whether it is about merging real and digital world or adding a social layer to a shopping experience, there are a lot of applications out there. Here are a few: The Webcam Social [...]
Be Nice or Leave
Following the theory that “talent imitates, genius steal”. I’m happy to “steal” this great presentation from Faris. It is a brilliant one about social media, full of interesting stories and examples.
Be Nice Or Leave
View more PDF documents from Faris Yakob.
Hacking Urban Spaces
A few weeks ago I came across this project from Julian Oliver. The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring on-site substitution of advertising content for the purposes of exhibiting art. The Artvertiser software is trained to recognise individual advertisements, each of which become a virtual ‘canvas’ on which an artist can exhibit [...]
Creating Analog Gestures
When looking at successful digital products they often try to redesign our interactions with them. Whether it is the iPhone and its touch screen interface, the Wii and its gesture based user interface. In most of these cases, the breakthrough product and service delivered a new experience to consumers that they had never had before. [...]
Send Real Postcards with your iPhone
When you care about people you often make the effort to send a postcard over an email. I guess it’s more touching because more “work” is put into it – you have to choose the card and it is your handwriting. The only problem is that the picture on the postcard is not yours and [...]
Pushing the Boundaries of Gaming
At the E3, Microsoft threw one of the biggest announcement: a new way to control games through your speech, gestures, and your full body. “Introducing Project Natal, a revolutionary new way to play: no controller required. See a ball? Kick it, hit it, trap it or catch it. If you know how [...]
Sustainable Communication
Because my brother is studying sustainable engineering, we had many conversations around the meaning of sustainability. When you think about “sustainable communication”, you often associate that with green related communication but I think that it is much broader than that. Sustainability, in general terms, is the ability to maintain balance of a [...]
What is keeping me up at night?
Semantic web and portable social graph. If you want an example, check this video of a talk that Alex Iskold gave at the Semantic Web Meetup in NYC. The video covers demo of Glue, AdaptiveBlue Semantic Technologies Stack and AB Meta.
Alex Iskold – AdaptiveBlue at the New York Semantic Web Meetup from Marco [...]
IDEO’s Open-Source Human-Centered Design Toolkit