An interesting interview with Roger Dooley of the Neuromarketing Blog. The interview is called "This is Your Brain on Wine." Although the interview focuses on wine, it's applicable to marketing in general.

Here's an example of a Dooley answer from the interview:
"Effective Internet marketers let customers do some of their own categorization. Many customers will want to view wines by varietal, for example. Some may want to view products by price range, or country of origin, or winery. Giving visitors some simple options to drill down to what they want quickly improves the chance of a sale."

You can read the interview on israeliwineblog.com

(via blog.guykawasaki.com)

Meet Emily:

In case you didn't notice, the Emily in the above video isn't really real. Her face is entirely computer animated. The company behind these stunning graphics is Image Metrics, raising the bar for everyone who is in the computer animated movie or gaming industry.

Read more: 
Internetblog.be (Dutch)
Timesonline (English)

It’s matchday at LUON today. After months of hard work and smart thinking, it’s time to deliver. Tomorrow, LUON will distribute the first RSCA Official Matchday Program to 25 000 raving Anderlecht fans for the first home match against challengers AA Gent.

This Matchday Program is completely free. It’s a cool magazine (A5 format, 64 pages) focused on the match of the day and the ‘purple’ mind of the Anderlecht fan: previews and tactical analyses of the opponents, a column by Anderlecht icon Paul Van Himst, nostalgic images and legendary stories, supporters chants, authentic uncut pictures selected from the archives of Jeanke Photo, etc.

What’s unique about the concept is the intense interactivity: via the website www.rsca.be/matchday all fans can send fan mails, upload their own pictures, test their knowledge, play games, predict results, pick the man of the match en much more. This matchmagazine not only aims the male die hard football freak. No, there’s content for everybody: kids, corporate fans and even the ladies.

This medium offers new opportunities for brands who want to advertise. First of all, you reach a public of 25 000 to 30 000 football fans who are waiting for the match and thus have the time and attention to absorb in your message. And secondly, the combination of print and e-coupons enables you to launch interactive campaigns that are measurable. It’s a win-win-win for all people involved: the fans, the club and the advertiser. It’s time to kick off.

www.rsca.be

www.rsca.be/matchday

http://www.matchday.be/rsca/Matchday/01/Default.html: pdf-version of the Matchday Program.

More new stuff by Buscemi. "Jazz works" features the Michel Bisceglia Ensemble and will be out next month on Blue Note/EMI. Here's a sneak preview of the cover for you. Artwork by me.

Here you are, some creative juice.

For all you Mac lovers out there ... Try this new product. You may even like it. No extra plugins to install.

 

More info on http://www.ijam.es/

In Dutch they say: "Foutje bedankt".

If you want to make a quick word cloud image based on a piece of (web)text , you can use Wordle.

Consumers are using coupons to hang on to their favorite brands during the economic downturn, and the web seems to be the favored source among printable coupon fans.



































Source: eMarketer.com

You can find updated statistics on web browser usage on the W3Schools site. As they explain themselves, the percentages are based on the weblogs of the W3C website (used by people with an interest for web technologies). Meaning that in reality the market share of standard IE will probably be higher than published in the lists below.

But what is especially interesting to keep an eye on, are the long- and medium-term trends.


And of course you always have to keep in mind the profile of your own site visitors (check your own site analytics)

Let me know if you have other sources of aggregated up-to-date figures.

Spend a few minutes on the remarkable work and amazing pictures of performance artist Li Wei.




...

Read more >

This could be a good article to start with after a blog sabatical. It's from Steve Rubel on LifeHacker

Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences.

The good news is you can participate in social media in a way that adds value to your life. You just need to know how to manage it so so that it does not devour your attention—the most valuable commodity of the digital age.

Here are three simple steps to take:
* Step 1 - Set a North Star
* Step 2 - Apply the Pareto Principle
* Step 3 - Schedule Time to Be Social

Read the full article on LifeHacker

It sounds like a contradiction in terms at first, considering all the energy that gets lost to the massive sound and light systems nightclubs are packed with. Not to mention the huge amount of human consumption that takes place during a typical club night and the tons of waste that go along with it.

Yet, Rotterdam based organization Enviu introduces the concept Sustainable Dance Club to the world. Under the baseline Think global, dance local SDC is enabling festivals and clubs to become more sustainable. They do so by combining a creative approach with innovative technologies:

Sustainable Dance Floor
Flagship of SDC is the Energy Generating Dance Floor which turns the crowd into an energy source, contributing to power the club.

Zero Waste Bar
This bar runs all drinks on tap from large containers, saving energy, water, waste and time.

Fancy a night of sustainable clubbing? You can find world's first ecological nightclubs in Rotterdam (Club WATT) and London (Club4Climate).

Via
Contagious
Trendhunter

It's an amazing idea, it looks extremely slick and it's for free. All you have to do is register. What's that? Adobe's new Acrobat online service. Still in beta mode but looks very promising.
 ...

Read more >

No, they're not my favorite cars. But boy did they create a nifty looking website for their A-to-S classes!



A brilliant example of interaction design.

Als ik een vriendin had, dan wist ik het wel. Dat kocht ik een boek voor der. Het nieuwste boek van kunstenaar Michaël Borremans, "Whistling a happy tune". Het bevat enkel tekenwerk. Prachtig werk, zoals we van hem gewoon zijn.
...

Read more >

I'm proud. Proud to have never ever bought nor listened to a single music track online. Why shoud I, when there's labels around like Warp Records and their offshoot WarpMart?

...

Read more >

 Next to being one of the signature phrases of Borat Sagdiyev, it seems to be a question a lot of people are asking these days. Especially user interface experts.

About a year ago, Microsoft unveiled Surface. More recently Microsoft announced that their next OS, which is scheduled for release in 2010, will also come with multi-touch technology as an alternative to the mouse. Here's some more multi-touch magic:

Obscura Digital demos multi-touch wall

Bill gates demoing Microsoft's TouchWall

Perceptive Pixel multi-touch wall

Asus takes it even further with motion sensing

Via Webware

For ten days solid, a selection of Belgian fashion designers and artists present their work in shop windows and surprising locations all over the city of Antwerp. Taking the general idea of a shop window to the creative limit, the participants will work around the theme MUSIC/ SOUND together with curator Senjan Jansen.
All locations get radically redressed, stocked with surprising goods or transformed into imaginative playgrounds.

VITRINE 2008: MUSIC/ SOUND takes over the city of Antwerp on various locations from June 12th until 21st 2008.

Including installations by A.F. Vandevorst/ Alex Salinas/ Anita Evenepoel/ Christian Wijnants/ Distortom/ Elsa/ Haider Ackermann/ Hannelore Knuts/ Heaven Tanudiredja/ Il Galantuomo/ Nicolas Provost/ Pelican Avenue/ Walter Verdin/ You Wear It Well 2 - Diane Pernet/...

The real star of the event is – ofcourse – photographer  Alex Salinas.
...

Read more >

Vaktijdschriften lezen voor het slapen gaan is een slecht idee; daar slaap ik slecht van. Net voor het eten dan maar. Ook geen goed idee. Daar eet ik slecht van. Want wat zie ik? Een kort stukje over het gloednieuwe logo van Vlaamse Opera in de nieuwe Pub.

Potdomme, wat een draak! "Des gouts et des couleurs..." zeggen ze dan, maar zo simpel is het gelukkig niet. Een goed logo moet namelijk aan een paar basisvoorwaarden voldoen en dat doet dit logo duidelijk niet. Het is niet leesbaar, het is niet consistent en het is niet bruikbaar op klein formaat.

Raar toch, wat d'artagnan, de makers van deze grafische uitschuiver, maken anders meestal alleraardigst werk.

...

Read more >