Webify Me: Your Internet Visualized
Webify Me
What does your web surfing habits look like? With this Mozilla project, simply answer 20 questions and instantly see yourself in an interactive collage.
Can you live without the Internet? Do you need to change your social status every two minutes? What hobbies do you surf online when you have downtime? Do you actually have downtime? The site says, “Everyone’s Web is a little bit different. Now you can see what your Web actually looks like.”
Make a fun visualization of your personal web and share with friends.
http://webifyme.org
Now You Can Like Things In Real Life
The idea was to create a self-referential artwork that shows how many people like it. Apart from that I find it interesting to have an object in a gallery or show that is not only allowed to be touched but actually supposed to be.
Gimme Bar Save Pieces of Web to Personal Library
New Gimme Bar Demo from Gimme Bar on Vimeo.
Gimme Bar by Fictive Kin is a web app that allows the user to save virtually any piece of the web to a personal library, including images, text, and videos. These snippets of the web (not to be confused with mere links) can be shared or kept private, and can even be backed up to DropBox.
Your Ad Here
Internet puppets Mario and Fafa from Glove and Boots discuss the finer points of YouTube advertisements in the video, Your Ad Here.
The Wacom Inkling
The Wacom Inkling may become my new favorite design gadget. The Wacom Inkling is a drawing tablet that allows you to put ink on paper, and translate it digitally via USB. I have the most recent Wacom tablet, the Intuos4, and it works wonders! The difference with the Inkling is that it allows you to draw with real ink on any notepad or sketchbook. However, it seems that you cannot sketch with ink and see it drawn digitally simultaneously.
This is how it works:
• Take the stylus and receiver out of the neat portable box.
• Clip the receiver on top of any paper notebook and start drawing. Don’t worry about space: the receiver can store thousands of pages, according to Wacom.
• When you are done after a day, connect the receiver to the computer via USB and browse all your drawings, exporting the ones you like to Photoshop or Illustrator or any typical graphic format, from TIFF to JPG.
Using the Inkling Sketch Manager you can rasterize your drawings at print resolution and export them to Photoshop. Or even better: you can export as a vector illustration to Adobe Illustrator, which will allow you to re-work your lines in any way you want.
The Wacom Inkling comes with a pen, receiver, rechargeable batteries, four spare pen ink cartridges, charging case and the Inkling Sketch Manager Application, which is neatly store in the Inkling receiver. The Inkling comes out later this month at around $200. A great deal! Or a great Christmas present!
How to Keep Your Brand Off of .XXX
Last month, the governing body that oversees the management of addresses for the web, such as .com and .org, agreed to allow an almost infinite array of new addresses, such as .phone, .coke, or .advertising, presenting a new challenge for brands on the web. Advertisers bristled at the fees required to set up these new addresses: $185,000 with a $25,000 annual maintenance fee for these “top-level domains.” One domain, .xxx, has brought on a lot of attention by brand managers. Brand managers are concerned about their brand name being harnessed on a domain name featuring .xxx. For a low, one-time fee — and for a limited time only — you can prevent this from happening. (ICM Registry, the folks behind .XXX, anticipate the market price for opting out will be $200 to $300.)
Here’s a video explaining what you, the worried brand manager, should do to keep clean.
A Great Idea is Born
Durex Condoms has released a great iPhone app that replicates what it’s like to care for a new born child. By downloading the app a user can impregnate another iphone thus causing the user to have to take care of his baby. The app wil alert and annoy you constantly, just like a new born does. The only way to block this, or prevent it is by getting a link to the condom app through the QR Code on the condom box.To avoid hearing the baby crying and having to feed it all the time we will buy the the condoms for the QR code. But most importantly, we will now use them to avoid having to do this in real life.
Not only is this a novel app to sell condoms, but also helps guys relate to the duties involved in caring for a baby. This can also be a great tool to practice taking care of a baby without the expense of a simulated doll or the embarrassment of going door to door asking neighbors to lend you their child.
