Tow article’s that called my interest, one about the Web Backbone & one about the usage of the web.

A map of the physical internet. Very close to a 17th century pirate coastal incursion map. Quote by Kwame Ferreira
http://www.cablemap.info/

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet. By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

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With 231’235 daily printed editions and over 30’000 daily online readers Blick is the second biggest newspaper in Switzerland. In 2010 they decided to develop several IPhone and IPad applications, which are available at the ITunes store. Some of these applications went straight to number one with over 60’000 downloads in 2 weeks, in Switzerland alone. To support these new additions, there is a webpage where you can read about the features, find release dates for updates and new applications, or subscribe a newsletters to be informed about every interesting development.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP | Mysql | Javascript
Url: http://www.blick-apps.ch
Client: Ringier AG
Agency: Station

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Twitter is a gigantic repository for our collective state of mind. Every second, thousands of tweets reveal what everybody and their mother had for lunch, what Justin Bieber is up to, or what magnificent link you should be checking out right now. Individually, each tweet is mostly interesting to friends/fans of the tweeter, but taken together they add up to something more.

In analogy to individual neurons firing together to add up to the human consciousness, the billions of tweets have meaningful macro-states that contain information about the whole system rather than the individual tweeters. But we need to do a little data mining to extract meaningful information about these states, to expose our collective states of mind.

As a proof-of-concept we’ve1 been studying the mood2 of all of the public tweets. While there are many services that will allow you to study the mood of your own tweets (and also an neat little DIY project to show you the global average of twitter), much less effort has gone into studying how the mood breaks down according to geography. Below, I show a brand new video displaying the pulsating 24-hour twitter mood cycle of the United States (I’ll explain just what you’re looking at, in the following).

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/

Trendsmap.com is a real-time mapping of Twitter trends across the world. See what the global, collective mass of humanity are discussing right now.

http://trendsmap.com/

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Most people hate it when someones cellphone starts ringing during a movie. But if you plan on watching Last Call, you might find yourself in the middle of all the action. Last call is an interactive horror film where the audience becomes part of the cast, through phone calls.

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The famous swiss branch Migros is the official sponsor of 6 different Summer music festivals.
We’ve developed a website which offers information about all the events and concerts, and added engaging games and personalized e-cards. It was organized in 3 groups:
a) Calendar listing – containing festival information, concerts’ timetables, etc.
b) Online games – the 15 top scores would receive a prize.
c) Social network game – select your favorite festival and build a virtual tent, then invite 3 friends to join in. By uploading a photo of yourself and then gather votes for your tent, (by posting it onto your Facebook wall and/or sending the e-card via e-mail). The most rated tent would get free passes for the festival of choice, as well as a real tent to take, big enough to fit 4 people, with food, drinks and special kits.

Project Information:
Technology: PHP | Mysql | Flash AS3 | Xml | Javascript
Url: http://www.m-festivals.ch/
Client: Migros
Agency: Station

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When people think about navigation, they don’t think about Nokia. So Nokia called for an idea that would not only drive interest in their mobile navigation solution (OVI maps), but also inspire people to use their services both on their mobile phones and on the web. We wanted to demonstrate that mobile navigation meant more than just getting from A to B. Bringing the campaign line of “Get to the Good Things” alive, we turned navigation into something social – a channel where users can share their favourite places or ‘good things’.

The solution… the world’s biggest signpost! A 50-meter tall interactive installation pointing out peoples favourite locations all around the world. People could send their ‘good thing’ either via SMS or through the good things map on nokia.com where the installation was also streamed live. Bringing the digital and real world together in a spectacular, yet simple execution.

Location: UK
Awards: Festival of Media Awards 2010: The Creative Use of Media Award; Webby Awards 2010: Interactive Advertising – Mobile & Experience Marketing; Andy Awards 2010: Out of Home

http://www.isobar.com/work/nokia_signpost.html

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Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV.

http://www.google.com/tv/developer/

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The redesign for the heineken.ch website was particularly interesting, since we had a set of challenging tasks. The goal was to transform the existing Heineken webpage into a ‘music & sports’ online platform.
Heineken sponsors major sports and music events, throughout the world, offering helpful details, insights and general information, such as venues, prices, dates, etc. For this purpose, and high-demanding information, we focused ourselves on developing a ‘power-tool’ where our client could get their communication out to the public, and show the range of their different activities.

Flexible and modular are the keywords for the framework we’ve developed with Flash and PHP, turning the platform into a unlimited and resourceful tool, ever growing and evolving. In my opinion, the content will be immense in a short period of time and in different levels of interest.

One of the coolest features is the Heineken online radio stream, we’ve built into the website, very ‘in-tune’ with the cool green brand.

Project Information:
Technology: html | actionscript 3 | javascript | php | mysql
Url: http://www.heineken.ch
Client: Heineken Switzerland
Agency: Station

Shop:
Another new available development is the Heineken Shop, built with Magento e-commerce. This online shop offers a range of cool Heineken products, such as beach items, bar and pub fashion, and cool T-shirts.

Project Information:
Technology: html |  javascript | php | mysql
Url: http://shop.heineken.ch
Client: Heineken Switzerland
Agency: Station

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