Links for 2007-12-16: Actual Chat, Johnny Vulkan, Knol, Google Zeitgeist, Ann Summers
December 16, 2007
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Chat puts gaming social awkwardness into physical space
Featuring a keyboard that hangs in front of the “chatter” and a giant illuminated speech bubble overhead, the wearer can type any message and have it show up in lights.
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Vulkan On 2007: Advertising Suffers While Innovation Blooms
Business Week has invited Johnny Vulkan to discuss his view on the year in advertising (2007). The mate o’ mine and partner at Anomaly painted a none-too rosy picture of the sector.
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Knol – Wikipedia, Google-Style
Yesterday, Google introduced their latest social media heavy-hitter: Knol, a free, user-generated information database that puts an emphasis on the user (and a bit of social networking).
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Google’s 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a narrow but telling window into what topics, stories, and searches topped their charts this past year, from Anna Nicole Smith to Club Penguin.
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Rather than retain an expensive ad agency, media agency Good Stuff have persuaded Ann Summers that they don’t need a traditional creative agency. Instead they have asked the creative classes to join their freelance creative roster.
