The Rise of the Mobile

8 billion people with mobile phones. An ambitious prediction or a realistic one? Prepare to be convinced. An interesting point of view.

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My wee bro made his first music video over christmas. The amazing thing is he's only 12 years old! A real inspiration and one to watch in the future. Check out Louis Blumh's video here.

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WONDERWALL INC
Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama. Interesting website that has a fluid-like main index that reacts to your mouse action. Feels like your screen is melting and really takes your interaction with the navigation to the next level. Very mesmerising. See it here.

BEHIND BOONEOAKLEY'S WEBSITE
We've all seen the website created by booneoakley. Over at thefwa.com they interviewed Bill Allen, Head of Interactive Development at BooneOakley who explains more about it. Interesting read.

3D ONLINE
Came across this fun website that brings 3D fun to the web. Not in english, but if you manage to get into the website, and you just so happen to have a pair of 3D glasses laying around, then you might be able to have some fun.

Jim Carrey’s Ambitious Website

I’m not so keen on Jim Carrey but holy moly, his website is amazing. As much as we love our little blog, stop reading this right now and skip over to www.jimcarrey.com. He’s gone beyond simple bio and movie trailer affair, this website is like a trip inside his head, into his dreams.

It’s a re-toucher’s masterpiece mixed with full video, amazing sound effects and some very Monty Pythonesque scenarios. You’ve kind of just got to go there to experience it. I spent about 15 minutes discovering the site, trying to find all the little easter eggs and quirky effects. The site lets your explore his history, films, latest news, behind the scenes footage and all sorts of other things. Warning – it can be a tad slow depending on your computer, a mix of the load times and intense flash work.

A Standout Campaign for 2009

I liked this campaign as it’s an example of a tangible benefits delivered by a social responsibility campaign.

22.5 million tomato seeds were given away in a recent campaign by Campbell’s soup in America.

With every can purchase, the free seeds were given away to remind customers of the source and quality of the ingredients in Campbell’s soup.

Campbell’s partnered with Future Farmers of America and built the campaign on environment and education.

An improvement could have been a more social site with credibility delivered by stories from restored Barn owners in the Community Projects or farmers being helped by the $250M donation from Campbell’s as part of the Help Grow Your Soup campaign.

Corporate Social Responsibility is an interesting one for 2010 and beyond.

For large companies, in an increasingly transparent world, and given the power these companies can exert on Government, CSR policies will be essential to get right.

This article discusses the trends and includes recent reports on the topic.