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Marketing vs Intelligence: The road to victory, or just some light reading

Interested in some futurey webernet things and how they’ll impact marketing, read this: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_publishing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_advertising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Web http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis http://www.chiefmartec.com/2010/01/7-business-models-for-linked-data.html http://www.webmetricsguru.com/archives/2010/07/surfing-the-forrester-wave-listening-platforms-q3-2010/ If not, I am not bovverd. But I do wonder how far away an Australian Marketing Director is from actually being interested. My guess is a loooooooooooonnnnng way.

Bret Easton Ellis @ Melbourne Writers Festival

Some digital set-top boxes are more equal than others

A few months back, I bought a cheap digital set-top box (dgtec hd usb dg-hd6760) to go with my hundred year old CRT TV. I had low expectations to start with, but somehow, they weren’t low enough. Everything was fine, except recording to USB never worked and the aspect ratio was always wrong. So I [...]

I take it back… There is a use for stock footage.

Ratatat – Drugs from More Soon on Vimeo.

Probably the best hotdog stand in the world

How excitement! A film about chess-playing brothers.

Parisian piano prince Chilly Gonzales has written, produced, and starred in a full-length feature film called Ivory Tower. Oh, and it also stars Tiga and Peaches. Um, Random! Tiga and Gonzales characters apparently have a lot in common: they’re brothers, chess champions (like Rocky & Apollo), and are both in love with Peaches’ character Marsha. [...]

Even toddlers love drum & bass \m/

Wait for the drop about 48 seconds in…

Advanced iPhone music composer

NanoStudio iPhone app offers the complete music-making package, you can tap out drum loops, tweak synths, record and edit your own samples, and sequence and master it all, right on your iPhone.

I want a real life race game

Racer is a real life reality race game. Instead of controlling the car running through simulated rendering track, Racer lets you to control the car through a real track using wireless video camera connection. Yes, It controls a real race car! So, if you crashed the car, you must get up from your chair, take [...]

Better social networks

The Real Life Social Network v2 And for a bit of background on the research that went into this, check this out: http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2010/07/data-behind-real-life-social-network/