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Think about it as Adobe Photoshop Content-Aware fill but in real time, using a video camera connected to your computer or smartphone. Here is the result:

Google has added a new easter egg to Docs. Go to your Google Docs, create a new document, and hit: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, and then enter, and behold. This is why Google forever will be fucking awesome. The Pac-Man doodle, this Konami code easter egg… they truly are [...]

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.

Not sure what rock I’ve been living under, but I’ve just discovered Thematic and it’s totally brilliant! It’s super extensible, giving you access to loads of free ‘child themes’. Plus it makes building your own theme super smooth, by providing loads of ‘hooks‘ into the WordPress functions so you can essentially contain your modifications to [...]

Robot Sumo from Heimo Aga on Vimeo.

This one has been in the works for a while. I’d heard ages ago for translating signs/menus/etc in foreign countries. But this is even cooler. Can’t wait for the iPhone version! And like the narrator says: “Dey ar ownlay swartching dar sirfarce”

Chatting with a mate about fuel sources, he pointed out a couple of interesting things in light of Copenhagen. Apparently Canada is the new evil to watch. Thankfully the algae will save us. I wonder what the carbon footprint of growing algae like this is?

I really think these kind of augmented experience applications have a lot of potential. It embraces the tactile nature of kids books, and layers on a dynamism and extensibility never before available. (Especially given that a certain little 5 year old friend of mine can get around my iPhone better than I can!)

I can pretty much operate my whole working life inside a browser window now, so this whole OS concept makes a lot of sense to me. Be nice to imagine an OS that worked the same on Macs & PCs too.