Visually searching the web

Worth having a look at this one, a flash based web app that will return seach results in a visual interface, many views, plugging into flickr, google, last.fm etc...

viewzi

and a somewhat slicker coverflow type variant at:

searchme

Cross media marketing - Old School vs New School

I just finished a series of (childrens) books called Maximum Ride, pretty decent actually. Anyway they make direct reference to the website in the books and have had a blog going for years which is really active. In fact, the blog becomes an integral part of the story.

I think it is a really effective piece of cross marketing.

http://www.maximumride.co.uk/links.php

Some interesting data tools from Google

These tools and a few others have just been released.  Interesting and worth a look I think:

The google trends tool is here:

Google AdPlanner is here which is targeted at agencies.

Interesting article on both is on The Register.

Accessibility Checklist

Here's a very good article on Accesibilty, quite a nice design to this site as well

http://northtemple.com/1608

festival for the summer?

Quick note to let you know about a small music festival (1500 capacity) called 'Festinho'.



Festinho is a boutique outdoor music festival, held in the heart of the beautiful Suffolk countryside – showcasing an eclectic mix of new and established music and creative talent from the UK and Brazil.

The festival is one of the few (if not only) in the uk that is run entirely for charity, with all the profits going to the abc trust (www.abctrust.org.uk) , who are dedicated to helping the most vulnerable children and young people of Brazil.

The line up is still be sorted at the mo, but amongst others, The bays, Hexstatic, James Yuill and The blockheads are confirmed to play.

Lots more info, tickets, location etc available on their rather lovely website : http://www.festinho.com ... wot i did build :)

....more useful / interesting sites

Here a few I rather like also. Some geeky, some pretty, all pretentious...


Kitsune Noir, hoovers up lovely design , photography, music etc. Also posts some mixes.

We make money not art has a range of interests. Some interesting takes on uses for new technology. Likes RFID stuff and robots if I recall correctly.

Spinning tunes

hello. I've gt a guest DJ spot at 'fluidnation' at the Big Chill House (Kings Cross) this Wednesday it's a fairly mellow affair but as I've got the late slot I might bung in a sprinkling of drum nbass.

free entry, pretty good food and cocktails 7pm-midnight.