Google Friend Connect Demo

Today Google will announce has announced the launch of Google Friend Connect, which is now open to preview release sign-ups. Read the rest of Google Friend Connect Demo

Masthead Redesign

Inevitably those red bricks started bugging me.. so I’ve changed things up top, got myself a whole bunch of new fonts and applied a new darker texture. Any comments are welcome as always. I’ve got to stop fiddling with this blog though and do some work .. aaaarrrgghh! Still so much to do on it though.

The broken type in the primary nav was a happy accident involving my… Read the rest of Masthead Redesign

Monthly hot new albums post

This is long overdue, I’m going to try and write one of these once a month. Right now there are some definitely some new albums out there that deserve a mention:

The Santogold album

Santogold
Talented singer and alchemist, Santi White

Santogold is some hot and bothered fashionista shit that is blowing up all over the interwebs right now – believe me, my… Read the rest of Monthly hot new albums post

Coolspotters – Fashionista crowd sourcing

Awesome concept here for all you Heat magazine devotees, or anybody interested in being first to get their mitts on the hottest new stuff.

Coolspotters

Cool spotters is a Tech Crunch endorsed startup that not only shows you the pics of who’s wearing what or driving this that and the other thing, they get their users to tag the stuff in the… Read the rest of Coolspotters - Fashionista crowd sourcing

Toyota’s Tree Planter Facebook App
versus Volkswagen’s Carbon Neutral Project

Once concept, two strategies

Toyota seem to be on to a good thing with their new Facebook app. Anyone who adds it to their profile gets to indulge in a little kiss-kick with the environment – offset your flatulent exhaust pipe by planting trees in needy fire-damaged forests.

Toyota describes it thusly on their blog:

“Using Tree Planter, users gift trees to their friends. For… Read the rest of Toyota's Tree Planter Facebook App
versus Volkswagen's Carbon Neutral Project

Bishop Tutu launches the new Napster

Yes, you read that right, our own nobel prize winning soldier in the army of the lord is behind a new music site where everything is for frrrrr.

SOS Records

The strapline on SOS records logo reads “Speed of sound music at the speed of light” – somewhat ironic when the flash interface takes around a minute to load. But hey, someone’s gone to… Read the rest of Bishop Tutu launches the new Napster

Vodacom to bring iPhone to South Africa

Branding apocalypse

Update 17 May 2008Ad Agency guy Mario Baptista just Twittered that Steve Jobs has been spotted at Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton. Not sure if this is a reliable spot or not, but it could certainly, as Mario suggests, be a sign of further Vodacom negotiations… Maybe Big Steve heard about the meerkat and has come in person to administer… Read the rest of Vodacom to bring iPhone to South Africa

Retro-futurist eye-candy

OSX Password Manager

jQuery laid bare

Amatomu