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on: google's art project

Have you every wanted to spend a year exploring art museums from around the world?  Google's Art Project will help you do just that in a few moments.

At their new site, http://www.googleartproject.com , you will discover and view hundreds of artworks using their street view technology. You will be able to view all the works of art with incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Check out the site at: http://www.googleartproject.com

 

on: 2011

Happy New Year!

Thanks for all of your views, comments, retweets and support in 2010. My blog is pretty useless without the your enthusiasm, ideas, tips and exceptional work. Thanks for your support in 2010.  Here's to a very social 2011!

on: facebook's map of the world

A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base.  This unique visualization of facebook's data is rather telling.  The map displays friendships as lights on a deep blue background. The eastern half of the United States and Europe shine the brightest, while China, Russia and central Africa, where Facebook has little presence, are mainly dark.

 

Download the image at http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1382.snc4/163413_479288597199_9445547199_5658562_14158417_n.jpg

 

on: boss bottled. night.

The sweet smell of boss can captures the night life perfectly. The site pulls in live tips and facts about how to have a great night life while wearing your Boss in a city where the nightlife is about to begin.

 

 

Check out this beautifully designed site at: http://www.boss-fragrances.co.uk/mens-fragrances/boss-bottled-night/always-night/?lc=gb
 

ON: The State of The Internet

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.

ON: A Hipster Sensibility Matrix

Via Gawker

ON: The Art of Storytelling

The film industry has finally caught on that there is more to promoting their content properties than launching a branded widget or throwing up a MySpace community.  If you want to create a real fan, involve them in storyline and blur the line between the story and their reality. 

This is exactly what Hollywood has begun doing.  Lets start with the site for the film 2012.  A faux group called the Institute for Human Continuity is focused on ensuring the existence of human life after Earth is decimated by a series of events foretold by the Mayans.  The Institute has several possible disaster scenarios outlined and links to survival guidebooks -- including one detailing how to survive a tsunami.

Visitors to the Institute can sign up for the IHC Lottery, which offers people across the globe an equal chance at living through the year 2012.  I love this approach because it is what Hollywood does best.  Ahhh!!!! (sign of relief) The message and the medium sharing an idea and space in a viewer's life.

Visit the site at http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org

ON: Every Moment In Context of History

I have to files this one under fool election findings.

EveryMoment Now provides "context and scope to the moments shaping our world."

If stories 'above the fold' are important and those 'below the fold' secondary, then EveryMoment Now is looking 'behind the fold'; ^{(fig 1)} that is laterally, through time. Moments connected with an event both above and below the fold are brought next to each other to gain insight into the now.

People, places and events in the context of media are like stocks — they peak and bottom out over time. They have a media history. There are two insights to be culled from this:

1. Being able to see these spikes (variance) in news coverage over time will illuminate potentially hidden patterns, stories or correlations.
2. Providing a simple, clean and intuitive interface to this data will allow quick access to and assessment of these patterns and stories.

EveryMoment Now aims to illuminate the news through this historical context. EveryMoment Now was built and designed by Craig Mod, a Tokyo based designer and developer.

The current version of EveryMoment Now is focused on the 2008 US General Election.  Check out EveryMoment Now at http://everymomentnow.com

ON: A Good DiggNation Episode

My Favorite DiggNation this year.

Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3, Radiohead to Prince, Canadian Border to check iPods, Gun T-Shirt a Security Risk, Metal Gear Solid 4, Can you see a Spider?, The Internet Will End in 2012.

ON: The Digital+Marketing Top 10's

This coming week I will focus on looking back and learning, but more importantly looking forward from those learnings.  All of it will manifest itself in Top 10 category lists.  Today I start with a spotlight on Bruce Tempkin of Forrester and the Customer Experience Matters blog.  What I love about this top ten list is that he gift-wrapped the top ten "Customer Experience Resolutions".

1. We shall focus more on our customers and less on ourselves
2. We shall get to know more about what our customers really need
3. We shall formalize a voice-of-the-customer program
4. We shall incorporate personas in our experience design processes
5. We shall clearly define our brand in terms of promises to customers
6. We shall judge every interaction on how well it fulfills our brand promises
7. We shall engage front-line employees in improving customer experiences
8. We shall get the executive team to collectively own the customer experience
9. We shall establish a multi-year journey towards customer-centric DNA
10. We shall give customer experience the attention that it deserve

To create great experiences for people (consumers, yes, they are people) you must first bake it in to your culture. If you are working for a company that doesn't have a culture of customer-centricity baked into it, then it will be difficult to achieve any of these goals.  If your company never had it—you will have to figure out how to build that culture or move to a company that exudes this culture.