An absolutely adorable short titled, “When ‘Toy Story’ met Search Stories” by a Google partnership with Pixar’s Toy Story 3 by BBH. Buzz Lightyear googles “to infinity and beyond” and learns the true reality in the form of search engine results page. Toy Story 3 in theaters this Friday.
via Less, But Better
The State of The Internet by JESS3
An insightful film comparing social media and internet activity around the world. Social media activity has proliferated with 126 million blogs on the web. Facebook has 350 million users and logs in at 260 billion page views per month. Plus, there are 84% more women than men on social networks. The best part (at 2:51) shows the Launch Dates of Social Media Networks, showing an evolution of what we’ve adopted (and abandoned) from 1995 to 2010.
With the recent news that Facebook has overtaken Google as the entry point to the web, there is no doubt that Facebook is a valuable platform to reach billions of people and future customers. Product searches are great, but often leads to Google generated web ads.
Today people experience brands in multiple ways, including built networks that allow for a closer interaction with the brand. It’s how users are trusting peer to peer recommendations or an active brand profile as opposed to a one-click search that is important. The marketing needs to be brand led, and have the capacity to take on different forms in order for the brand to be best brought to life.
[via Paul Worthington]
Mesmerized by the frequency and pulse of readers on the web and on mobile, I found this to be an interesting concept. View the video and knock yourself out.
Have you ever wondered where the readers of The New York Times’s Web site come from, and what kind of devices they use to read our content? In a past life, not too long ago, when I worked in The Times’s research and development labs, we started a research visualization project to explore this very topic. Continue reading…
Twitter’s translation project has been making its way to Europe. Earlier this month it launched in Spain, and today it officially launched in France with a blog and a post penned in French. Continue reading…
This appeared in my junk box over the weekend, and the minimalist, yet romantic typeface intrigued me enough to take a second glance. It looks like Anthropologie has created a website, The Anthropologist, that celebrates their vision of the namesake. Here’s a brief description:
“The Anthropologist an online space for inspiring works and inspiring individuals. It is a testament to the idea that revealing the passions of one person can result in the progress of many.”
I’m very curious with what this special project could culminate into. Perhaps a social platform where creative types can upload work and socialize? There are a couple characters described on the page. Continue reading…
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