Last Wednesday, I was invited by the team at Splendid to attend a Tequila Party on behalf of their client José Cuervo.
The soirée, aimed at raising visibility of the brand’s current Tequila Face campaign brought together some of London’s finest bloggers (and me) at über-trendy Hoxton’s Cargo bar. The context of the event was an open audition to help enlist bloggers to spread the word about the following José Cuervo competition:
Vince Frank, Cuervo’s very own casting Director, has been working closely with Señor José Cuervo to scour Facebook, Twitter and our fair nation’s …

TED.com – always inspiring, never fails to drop my jaw. But this time, it has surpassed itself with the following performance from the LXD (The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers). The group’s coordinator is Hollywood Director Jon M Chu. Chu explains his fascination with the relationship between the Internet and Dance:
“Online videos and social networking … dancers have created a whole global laboratory online for dance, where kids In Japan are taking moves from a YouTube video created in Detroit, building on it within days and releasing a new video, while …

I have a Love/Hate relationship going on with London. Whilst the Capital’s lifeblood flows through my veins there are times when I just need to break out of the claustrophobic confines of the city and find a bit of greenery in which I can pause momentarily and breathe.
Finding a little oasis of peace in London is one of life’s little pleasures and something which is to become easier to do thanks to the new Mapping Forgotten Spaces website which is a joint collaboration between the Space Makers Agency and RIBA (the …

Google Maps and Street View launched Google Best Streets Awards a while ago, showcasing virtual walks through the streets of Britain. Users helped decide the Best Foodie, Best Fashion and Most Picturesque street.
The votes have been counted, and  he winners have now been announced:
Britain’s Best Foodie Street
Winner: Stockbridge High Street, Hampshire
The winning street should offer a unique mix of mouth-watering options which could include fine dining, cafés, market stalls and delicatessens, all covering a diverse mix of food types and price points.
Britain’s Best Fashion Street
Winner: Milsom Street, Bath
The winning street …

As featured in this month’s Wired magazine, Papa Sangre is forging a whole new genre of gaming: the world’s first audio-only, 3D audio no less, video game for mobile.
The game (commissioned by 4iP) has been in development since mid-last year, and is set for release later this year.
Now I’m no gamer, but this project really excites me as creates a fully immersive environment which incorporates cutting edge audio technology with a very dark and sinister narrative.
Papa Sangre describes itself as a video game with no video. It’s a first-person thriller, …

Are you one of the squillions of people who rushed out to watch the visual masterpiece that is Avatar?
Well here’s some news: you were 15 years too late.
Check out this brilliant video mashup created by 20 year old film student Randy Szuch for an assignment in Cinematic Multimedia class in which he sets out to highlight the similarities between Disney’s Pocahontas and Cameron’s Avatar:

CFV 426 – Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup FINAL VERSION from Randy Szuch on Vimeo.
(Thanks to the eagle-eyed Geeks Are Sexy for the find!)

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OK, my second post on Chatroulette in a week but this piece of news (which floated my way via the all seeing, all knowing, all-round good bloke Ashley Norris at ShinyShiny.tv) merits a mention.

French Connection has launched a competition asking men to try to get a date on Chatroulette as part of its The Man, The Woman campaign. In its own words, the brand is “going boldly where no manly man has gone before”:
The internet poses men a challenge. Can you wade through the virtual minefield of girlie inanity to …

Last week I posted the BBC’s latest iPlayer monthly viewing data which got me thinking about how much I use the service to ‘catch up’ on missed programmes.
I must admit that I am a huge fan of iPlayer and my support continues to grow daily as new bells and whistles are added. However I mainly uses iPlayer to catch up on BBC’s archived radio shows and tend to only watch TV shows online on a handful of occasions.*
The user experience is brilliant and I love the fact that I can …

The Pingdom folks have been at it again – but this time focusing on the behemoth that is El Goog…
They’ve been digging through Google’s SEC filings, news articles and the trusty old Wikipedia to get plenty of interesting data to include.

I love the fact that 50% of Google products come from the 20% of time that staff are encouraged to work on their own projects.

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Jesse Thomas (a.k.a. JESS3) designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010. I’m a sucker for infographic animations and this one’s got some great little factoids:

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.
About Jess3
Jesse Thomas is the CEO and founder of JESS3, an award winning creative interactive agency specializing in web design, social media, branding, and data visualization. Based in Washington, DC, JESS3 has worked with Pfizer, Nestle, Marriott, Pepsi, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal, All Facebook, IndieWire, SnagFilms, C-SPAN, …