About Crackunit
Crackunit is Iain Tait's blog. It mainly bothers with the space between web and advertising, but it sometimes strays off into other self-indulgent nonsense too.
Twitterings- iaintait: I <3 Twitter, but would life have been awesomer 10/20/30 years ago? (this tweet via drinks with cool old guy) 03/09/2010
- iaintait: Faces iMake - http://facesimake.com/ - is a wonderful app http://post.ly/v6pT 03/09/2010
- iaintait: @thenausner oh man, children having children I know it must have happened before, but that's just totally freaked my tiny mind... 03/09/2010
- iaintait: @mikelaurie I haven't admitted to my self that I'm an adult yet, maybe that should be my first step... 03/09/2010
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My Talk at Under The Influence
Here’s the talk I did at Iris’ excellent Under the Influence day. It’s basically about digital experiences and magic and how the two are interconnected. Hope it’s OK – from my perspective I think it wanders a bit at the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Technology, Web Stuff
Tagged Advertising, brand, digital, experiences, internet, iris, magic, online, presentation, talk, under the influence, youtube
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Google Visualisation Gadgets – Cool
I discovered the world of visualisation gadgets through this excellent blog: http://digitalurban.blogspot.com/ They’re things that can basically turn a table full of boring data into interactive gadgets that you can publish and share as you like. I thought it looked … Continue reading
10 Reasons Digital Is Better Than Advertising – Remixed
This is all going to seem a little strange. Why on earth would anyone want to remix a presentation in such a fashion? Well it’s a funny story you see. I was mucking around with some basic VJing software. It’s … Continue reading
Boo hoo. I missed Rider Spoke.
I’m a little gutted. I just got the programme for the Brighton Festival and got all excited when I saw that Blast Theory’s location based cycling thingy Rider Spoke is coming to Brighton for a weekend! Woo hoo! Then I … Continue reading
Adobe Downloads Cost More Than Boxes – WTF?
I feel bad posting bad stuff about Adobe being as they’ve just launched 2 really cool things: Buzzword.com is an amazing online word processor (the export functions are dead tight and you could almost survive without MS Word), and Photoshop … Continue reading
URLs Out – Searches In
I was watching TV last night and an ad came on for continuing education. It’s one with fingers walking around the place. The ad was OK. I didn’t really pay much attention. But at the end of the ad the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Technology, Web Stuff
Tagged Advertising, Google, marketing, Yahoo!
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Is It Broken?
Brilliantly simple. We’ve all had those moments when a site’s not working. And you wonder, is it down for everyone or just me? http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ answers the question for you. You enter a URL and it tells you. Smashing. I did … Continue reading
My New Invention – Suspense Pregnancy Kits
Pregnancy tests are a staple of TV drama. You can’t have a soap opera without the cliffhanger moment when someone is waiting in a bathroom staring at a wet little stick to find out if they’re up the duff or … Continue reading
Absolut Machines
Dickon from work pointed me at: ABSOLUT MACHINES. It’s so killer it’s not even funny. They’ve got a load of top drawer interactive music machines that you can play with over the internet. And the way they’ve done the queueing … Continue reading
Posted in Technology, Web Stuff
Tagged absolut, Advertising, instalation, machines, online, robots, vodka
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Typographic Synthesizer – So Good It’s Magic!
You know sometimes when you see something so amazing that you almost forget to breathe while you’re looking at it. Well I’m just about finished hyperventilating after the end of this video. The guys at Meek.fm have created something that … Continue reading