What can you do in 60 seconds? Water your plants? Reply to an email? Well, while you’re doing that, this is what’s going down on the web…

Written by David Moffatt, Managing Director, HelloComputer, April 2010:

A growing anomoly, almost as spectacular as the speed with which social media has gained traction, is the number of social media experts following in its wake. Have you ever wondered about the emergence of this surplus of experts? Well, as the genre suggests their experience, in [...]

Ivan loves little more than a fistful of markers, big white pages, blank whiteboards and a good web connection. He lives for ideas and meeting new people and introducing them to people he has already met. Ivan is interested in everything, and he wants to meet you.

How about we start off with Jack Dorsey and his new startup Square?

From today, Monday, 17 May 2010, YouTube users in South Africa are now able to log on www.youtube.co.za and do what they always do best: broadcast themselves in their own words, upload their videos, and share their stories with the international community.

– Design Exchange and Upliftment in the Third World –

A small sea of like minded, creative individuals gathered at Rondebosch Boys High School on the weekend to hear from some of the most forward thinking and highly respected illustrators in the global, creative industry.

The talks were informative and inspiring and judging by the vast amount [...]

There is a lot to learn from the international powerhouse that is Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B). They were the first agency to rise to fame during the digital age and have a list of clients that any agency in the world would be honoured to work with. The likes of Nike, Burger King, Guitar [...]

The seismic shift taking place in the communications industry is well documented. As is the number of traditional agencies attempting to bridle the interest in digital media characterized by a critical shift in how consumers consume media. The coup de tat is being staged by various digital channels, platforms, devices and phenomena.

With so much in [...]

This animation by Keiichi Matsuda seems like a pretty reasonable vision of what the next iterations of augmented reality will bring. In his vision of the future, media saturates the physical world, and ads pervade everything.

While getting my daily coffee fix yesterday I noticed this clever marketing tactic by Vida and Adidas. I think the concept is fantastic although it could definitely have been enhanced by tagging yourself and posting to Facebook and/or  posting to Twitter? I am sure we’ll see many more of these interactive, viral maketing ideas happening [...]