If you haven’t read yet I am famous on the Google blog >
Also I have added a menu to the site with some popular links. Enjoy it while it lasts as I don’t particularly like it and it may vanish soon.
Speaking of site features, I have a comments section after every post. After receiving several emails and facebook messages about a post the other day I thought maybe no one had noticed it. Well it is there and am happy for you to use it as a soapbox.
1.This should be on gmail as well, the option to have a message delivered to the recipient at a set time in the future. This would be useful for sending reminders to other people, digital time capsules and at least a million other things. Such a technology existed in the late 90s when e-cards were popular, the options were “send now” or “send at future date”.
Why is this not standard these days?
2. As seen in this video, it would make cooking so much easier and creative. Pamela Fox suggested it be a gadget not a bot (as I originally concepted). Currently rethinking it and more on that to come…
As far as I know there are tons of interior design applications and all of them are rubbish.
My idea is you upload photos of areas of your house to a Wave gadget and change the colours of the walls/ carpets etc straight onto the photos. You would be able to add furniture into the picture straight from an Ikea (for example) catalouge and if you gave dimensions of the walls, this could be used to position things as well as feng shui. Being on wave means you could work with family and housemates to find colours and furniture everyone likes.
4. Whenever you leave a job you get a big card signed by everyone in the office, which you lose at work drinks before getting a chance to read it. Wouldn’t it be better to have that card online so you could access it later?
My proposal is a wave gadget with ecard templates which coworkers can decide on and then decorate using photos or drawings of the person leaving. When everyone signs the card with their personal message there is an option to leave a link to your facebook or linkedin account so you can stay in touch. When everyone has signed it a designated person would publish the card and add the leaving person to the wavelet.
5. Imagine if Protools or a similar company made a Wave Gadget which allowed multiple musicians to upload and mix together their tracks in one place.
No more emailing different parts to each other just one place to mix the music, discuss the lyrics and potentially even publish straight to Myspace/ Purevolume/ Lastfm when finished. Instead of paying for expensive mixing software each song could just have a 5 second soundbite at the end promoting the brand who made the gadget. Would be perfect for start up bands and school music projects.
This is my idea to use Wave to make my life easier. A Wave bot which detects food names from your conversation and suggests recipes based on this. If a supermarket chain built this they could deliver the missing ingredients to your house!
I think a few more improvements could be made, such as the bot highlight the words which it thinks are food names. So you can unhighlight things if you don’t want that in your recipe.
If any developers or supermarket chains want to get involved in making this happen let me know. Feedback would also be greatly appreciated * simile face*
“It’s unlikely that ad blockers will get to the level where they imperil the advertising market, because if advertising is so annoying that a large segment of the population wants to block it, then advertising needs to get less annoying.
“There will always be some group of people who want to block ads for personal reasons. But if we do a good job on the advertising side, people won’t want to block ads. People will find them actually useful.
“I think there will be a nice equilibrium. If people get too aggressive with ads, then ad blockers will become more popular and companies will get less aggressive with ads. The market will sort itself.”
- Linus Upson via >
Digital Creative Director for the world power in their NYC offices. Now I just have to work on fufilling the requirements:
BA or MFA degree in Design or related discipline
- I have a BCS in a related disapline, but already know my acedemic scores are not high enough. Thinking of maybe doing a MFA or a MPhil in new media, which university?
At least 12 years of agency/in-house experience leading digital creative for iconic global brands.
- Well I have total about 3 weeks worth of this. Might need to work on that, if I start now that means I can have this job in 2022 when I am 33.
Ability to work in a rapid paced environment on multiple projects in a scrappy, start-up atmosphere.
- Done! Although I don’t think it will be very “scrappy start up” by the time I get there.
Proven expertise at highly creative, global, interactive, innovative online marketing techniques.
Ability to communicate and sell ideas in client like setting and apply strategic thinking to our most innovative challenges.
- I’ll work on these ones over my 12 years of experience.
Knowledge of Flash, ActionScript, HTML, CSS, 3D, motion graphics and computer programming.
Advanced skill in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop.
- I can do all that! Although not so hot on 3D…
I hate this ad so much that I blocked it from coming up near my content. They must have saved so much by getting a 4 year old to design it in paint that they can now afford to spam it across the internet… but on the New York Times? Since when were they using Google Image ads? Guess they aren’t doing so well with the new membership platform to resort to such cheap ads.
Speaking of Google ads though, my RSS subscriptions halved when I put ads in my feeds. It’s like people don’t understand that it costs money to publish content online and if you’re not willing to pay for membership then you pay by seeing ads. Similarly when people complain about TVCs, okay annoying that they are on SKY/ Foxtel where you already pay for content, but if you don’t want to pay to watch free to air channels the least you can do it sit through an ad break every once in awhile.
This old advert aptly describes my Halloween. Went to Google and ended up carving a pumpkin and a long with it my thumb (same thumb which got stitched back together in hospital last year when I cut into that instead of a pomegranate). Ended up finishing the job with a spoon (pictured left).
On Saturday James and I dressed up as a tiger and a circus master and went to dinner and a party. Got lots of stares at dinner, some place voted “Best Italian in Sydney” last year and it was terrible. Food took forever and came out burnt. Most pretentious blogs contain photos of meals at classy eateries, so I may have to start doing the same and writing actual reviews.
Going to have lunch with our account manager at Google today, and it’s Halloween tomorrow so I think there might be a few trekie outfits around the office. I am going as a tiger. Kind of a cop out as I already have a tiger hat and I seem to use it for all dressup parties. Tomorrow night though I will be accompanied with a trainer in sequined vest and whip! I love it.
Also here is a Halloween idea from Mac (makeup not computer):
Some of the black lines ruin it, and that yellow hair is disguising! It’s much lighter in the paintings.
photo by @gadgetfarmer
Last night we went to this thing at Google (that’s me in the red cardigan). There were lots of geeks, and pies.
I still have yet to establish how this product will be useful for non-nerds, can you think of anything?
I’ve always thought that designing the special event Google logos would be a dream job for me. Above is my favourite, from when the LHC was turned on.
