I'll be doing a presentation this Thursday evening at the Victorian MUV. The presentation will be an overview of the Mashup landscape combined with emerging trends as evident in Google Gears and Yahoo Pipes. We were talking about this a bit at Thursday's talk at the Gordon TAFE. I was pretty surprised that many of the people there were unfamiliar with these developments. Which is good news for my talk as it means you may find it all very new and exciting.
Jody Fenn will also be talking about UI Prototyping with Acrobat. This is a technique we've been using more and more as the applications we develop grow in complexity. But it's a great way to develop, test and get feedback on relatively straightforward websites. I can strongly recommend Jody's talk to anyone involved in interface design or development.
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Google Street Views : Product Placements
I guess most of us would have had a look at Google Street View (read more ) by now. In case you haven't it's basically a series of 360 panoramas of a city. You can use Google maps to look around the city streets that have been mapped. Where they've mapped a city they've done large chunks of the city. The way they make these is to drive around the city in a van with a special camera mounted on the roof. One unexpected outcome is all the odd details that are hidden in the details. It hasn't taken long for Top Street Views to take a Digg approach to rating these hidden moments. For example is this really a house breaker.
Looking at this shot of the Street View team it seemed to me it wouldn't take long for Google to start selling product placements. Imagine two girls holding a giant logo waiting in a street at a certain time for the Google van to take their picture. Or an actor from a current TV series doing something in character that would provide a hint to an upcoming "special event". There could even be artistic interventions. Perhaps lonelygirl15 could make an appearance. The opportunities for viral promotion escapades seem endless.
Looking at this shot of the Street View team it seemed to me it wouldn't take long for Google to start selling product placements. Imagine two girls holding a giant logo waiting in a street at a certain time for the Google van to take their picture. Or an actor from a current TV series doing something in character that would provide a hint to an upcoming "special event". There could even be artistic interventions. Perhaps lonelygirl15 could make an appearance. The opportunities for viral promotion escapades seem endless.
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