distraction

Posted on June 29, 2011

Google’s “What Do You Love?”

“What Do You Love” was quietly released from Google over these last few days along with a nice and subtle refresh of their search engine design, the Google+ network and Google Takeout. The concept is simple: the site presents a text input box and asks the user: “What do you love?” Type in a subject, Read More

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Posted on May 16, 2011

Sunday Times boosts ego to harvest social data

The Sunday Times have done a very clever thing indeed. Faced with the challenge of promoting their 2011 Rich List the Times have created the ultimate social ego boost – The Social List. Simply connect your social networks to the site (currently it’s allowing Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and FourSquare) and then see where you sit in Read More

Posted on May 5, 2011

A distracting driving experience?

AIDA involves an understanding of the city beyond what can be seen through the windshield, incorporating information such as business and shopping districts, tourist and residential areas, as well as real-time event information and environmental conditions AIDA is a joint research project between Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to produce an Read More