Monthly Archives: June 2008

upl8.tv from Poke NY

The chaps at Poke NY have just spawned a new thing of total awesomeness.
Basically it’s a YouTube viewer that allows you to browse YouTube clips using just the space bar. You visit the site and start watching. If you don’t like the clip. Hit space and you’ll move on to the next one. They’ve loaded [...]

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Balloonacy is Go! Hooray!

After lots of late nights and hard work by lots of valiant people at Poke the Orange Balloon Race is finally live and running. And it seems to be working like a dream (fingers crossed). You probably saw it obscuring the front of the site when you first arrived…
The servers are getting hammered with about [...]

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One Of The Greatest Quotes Ever…

It’s nice to be back…
TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble [...]

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Holiday Snaps (Well More Photos of Insects Really)

I saw lots of great bugs on holiday. Here’s some photos…

I had a really nice relaxing time too. But bugs are more interesting than me and Sophie reading books by the pool. So I thought I’d share these photos instead.

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See You In A Wee While

Bye for now chaps.
I know I’ve not posted for a while anyway so you’re not going to notice much of a difference. But I’ll be back soon. Just in time for the launch of the Balloon Race (god I’m a shameless link-whore aren’t I?).
Off for a big relax.
Aaaaah.

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Webbys 2008

Just got back from the Webbys in New York. We were over there to pick up a People’s Voice for the Orange Never Ending Web Page. There’s evidently no photo of me picking up our Webby, so here’s a picture of Richard from Moo picking up their Webby instead, well done Moo chaps.
It was [...]

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Radiohead – Obsolete Hardware Remix

This is absolutely incredible. So nicely done.
As I’ve said before I like the idea of Radiohead more than I actually like Radiohead. This is another part of that puzzle. Basically it’s a response to the ‘Nude’ remix contest that they set up earlier in the year.
This chap has done something incredible with it…
Big Ideas [...]

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Sony – When Good CRM Goes Bad

I understand the colour bit. And glad to see they still spell it properly (with a u) in Polish. But other than that I can’t see why Sony would send me this unless it’s some kind of strange ARG…

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More Balloonacy

There’s been some really good comments about the Orange Balloon Race. Including a couple of people mentioning some issues with explanations and UI on the site. We’ve made a bunch of improvements and hopefully iit’s getting better all the time…
It’s great to see the balloon widget working so nicely (see below). Thanks to the Gigya [...]

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The Orange Balloon Race – Playballoonacy.com

Here’s the start of another major thing that we’ve been working on for Orange for a while now…
Registration is now open for the first Balloon Race Across the Internet.
Visit: playballoonacy.com
Basically we’re going to set off loads of balloons across the Internet. The one that goes the furthest in 7 days wins – and the prize [...]

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