I’ve tried five words so far and there was a video waiting for each! Try using football and also Tipp-ex itself for some funny results. And yes, rude words seem to give you a funny vid to!

Great idea guys and awesome production work!

There are examples for most of the more interactive formats and a link through to the actual creative on the Eyeblaster creative showcase.  Note that these links haven’t been converted very well by Slideshare so you’ll probably unfortunately end up having to search for the particular creative from the showcase home page.

So I produced this process overview to help introduce a particular staged approach to designing and building online media. It’s nothing new of course and widely used by most creative and digital agencies, albeit with different stage names and sometimes a stage or two more. My process her was originally formulated by us at Object1 way back at the turn of the century (and that feels quite strange to write!) and has of course evolved somewhat, but essentially works to keep everyone within a structured approach. yes, there are other methodologies and processes that could suit you better. Agile for one. but I thought I’d share this to help those who’d like to know how things generally work, those in need of a process and clients who could do with some more knowledge about what’s going on.

I have included example outputs for each stage, responsibilities and some key things to be aware of. it doesn’t purport to cover everything but I hope you find it of some use and happy to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

The templates aren’t exactly pretty but you can customise the designs and utilise your own domain name. So users coming to your social network will think you’ve done a fine job of setting something up for them and won’t know it’s running from the ning platform.

It could be used for all sorts of things of course. For instance, we were thinking of using it as a social ‘intranet’ for the agency I’ve just been working with. Might get people off of Facebook for five minutes!

Or maybe I should set up ‘BruceSpace’ for all the Bruce’s out there. Might not make my millions on that one….

We had a few solutions along the way as to how we were going to enable users to upload their own videos and so forth. Attempting to use YouTube wasn’t as straightforward as expected and so another route needed to be found. The guys at Bionic Media were kind enough to tell us about Limelight Networks and their UGC framework which does all the upload, storage and delivery you could possibly need if delivering videos to your users.

It’s new and is only just being utilised for it’s first few projects just now but is based on their usual global structure that a lot of the big media firms hire Limelight Networks for. Worth checking out.

http://tinyurl.com/3bm34n (or go to google maps NY and select street view)

Click on a blue street or drag the little yellow dude onto one and get a nice panorama of the street itself. You can drag it around or follow the arrows to the next street. Pretty awesome…

Thanks to the excellent Googlemapsmania blog where I found this info this morning and am exploring many many other google maps functions and mash-ups. Go there yourself as it’s an amazing source of information.

http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com