chestii // trestii

Jun 10
Milo
icon1 dude | icon2 Games, Interactive Media | icon4 06 10th, 2009| icon32 Comments »

In aceeasi nota cu ce a postat prietenul nostru Sebi, lookie here:

Nu imi dau seama daca e misto sau creepy :) Tind spre creepy. Si comentariu de pe youtube: I’ve wonder if he responds to people touching him in inappropriate places

Apr 22
G-speak
icon1 dan | icon2 Interactive Media, Tech | icon4 04 22nd, 2009| icon35 Comments »

Pentru ca tot studiatii voi chestii de genul, check this out:


g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Sistemul e creat de niste baietii de la MIT Labs si cica se afla deja in folosinta la niste companii. Exista si Developer’s Kit pentru el.

Luat de articolul asta: MIT projects that are set to revolutionise your life!

Chiar e tare articolul, baietii dezvolta niste lucruri foarte destepte!

It’s the future, baby!

Apr 17

Missed me? Now you got to kiss me:P

Okay, now that we are back in the game. (Sorry guys for my lack of presence (ahem… web presence) but my only excuse is that I was researching. What was I researching on?, you might wonder. Why twitter, random SEO businesses and mainly how to get your message across through social media. I know you love that too so I am just going to go right on :P (Will talk about Twitter soon if you’ll like this one, if not I am probably just going to crawl back into my SEO cave.)

Why is she writing in English? Because this is yet another social experiment she is  working on and also because she has been spending these last weeks reading stuff about this  monsters that it just comes handy this way. 

Ok, so you’re a freelancer, you own a small business or you work in PR and want to twitter your way to fame? Or you rather dislike the whole social media marketing thing but you still think you could use a little buzz? Or you’re just curious about what I’m gonna say ’cause you know me? No matter what your reason is, see me now cutting the bullshit and going straight to the point(s) (sic!). 

1. People say that the best way to get your blog/site in the short/span attention of a search engine is to create good content. Also, even the bad and outrageously expensive public relations agencies (did you know that there are Twitter specialised agencies out there? And that they’re charging a lot of money for that?) will tell you that you have to use your keywords. If you’re talking about SEO and about copywriting, then do.  Put them in your titles, in your subtitles, in bold and in your url. Start seeing like a crawler for a chance. 

2. Never forget you are copywriting for humans first, for robots (also known as search engines :P ) second. (For now this is just how it is:)

3. Read your blogs. Find some good blogs about it and read it. Then read some more. I like http://www.copyblogger.com/ and http://koifishcommunications.com/blog/. 

4. Think. There is nothing uglier that stupid, mindless PR. Best test in the world: would you try that on your friends? Also read Cosmin’s post about bad PR (Romanian only, sorry :D )

5. Decide. If you want to make history with that web hosting business, don’t talk about olives in your blog. That’s just not coherent. 

Ta-da! Will not wait for your 2 cents to see if we can go even deeper into the issue or just drop it :D

Feb 25

Via Mox am aflat de Kinetic typography si am vazut o gramada de astfel de exemple de exprimare grafica pe youtube foarte misto ! Acesta este unul dintre cele mai tari care surprinde cel mai bine atmosfera monologului. Veti recunoaste cu totii probabil din ce film e daca nu v-ati dat seama deja din titlu …

…. si asta mi-a placut mie foarte mult din “Full Metal Jacket

Feb 5
CamSpace
icon1 dude | icon2 Interactive Media, Tech | icon4 02 5th, 2009| icon31 Comment »

Inca o interfata bazata pe webcam si full 3D motion sensing. E freeware asa ca puteti incerca si voi – pare misto dar n-am incercat pentru ca nu am webcam :) . De la ei de pe site:

About:
Forget your joystick, keyboard and mouse — with CamSpace you can use your WebCam to control your game play!

CamSpace is a no-brainer to install and completely free to use. We support most WebCams so you should have no problem starting to play one of our 13 pre-packaged games within minutes of installation.

Don’t take our word for it, try it yourself.


Feb 4
Reactable
icon1 cosmin | icon2 Interactive Media | icon4 02 4th, 2009| icon37 Comments »

Maine avem curs cu Sergi Jorda, unul dintre oamenii din spatele Reactable, bijuteria celor de la UPF (facultatea noastra):

Trebuia sa citesc niste texte dar nu stiu daca apuc pana maine, dar am gasit si un video cu unul dintre autori (tatal lor):


Buenas noche!

Jan 29

What is tangible user interaction? Is closely linked to direct manipulation, but not the same. This concept used in Human Computer Interaction believes in using metaphors for processes in order to make things easier to understand. A way to describe it in a little bit more abstract way is physical representation of digital information (one is able to manipulate the digital info directly without the use of mice, keyboards, sensor gloves etc.)

Check out this example:

One of the believers in TI is Hiroshi Ishii 

This is a parody of Microsoft’s Surface (that is the real image, just the sound was changed. Gates announced the production, but it’s not sold for the masses yet. Probably will never be :) , people are already getting bored with the iPhone.

Note that touch tables do not represent TI and notice the real example: the multitouch interactive table: