Archive for the ‘Business’ category

The Crisis Of Credit – Visualized

February 20th, 2009

Jonathan Jarvis made this fantastic video (available also on crisisofcredit.com).


The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. For more on my broader thesis work exploring the use of new media to make sense of a increasingly complex world, visit my website here. or email me at: jonathan.jarvis@gmail.com

Nice stuff. Simple, effective. Congratulations to Jonathan!

Touching Photo Diaries

August 13th, 2008

Thanks to Keoshi for posting this. Here you are with 3 online photo diaries that will give you strong emotions. They are so touching that you hardly can hold tears.

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PhotoOfTheDay
The first one is about Jamie Livingston. He was a New York-based photographer, film-maker and circus performer who from March 31, 1979 through to the day of his death on October 25, 1997 took a Polaroid photograph every day. Livingston’s Polaroid a Day charted his experiences with cancer, and his subsequent engagement and marriage. His photographs in and out of hospital continued up until the day of his death.

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Days with my father
An always beautiful, sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting site documenting the daily life of Philip’s 98 year-old father who copes with his lack of short-memory. 20 minutes after Philip’s mother funeral, his dad started to ask him where his mother was. After some time Philip figured out that he couldn’t keep telling him that she was gone. “It was killing both of us to re-live her death constantly”.

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Love Diary
This is touching in so many ways. Just like the other links here. To tell it with the words of Madi Ju “I met Patrick online in July 2006, then we met in Macau for the first time. he moved from Taipei to Guangzhou, we travelled to Tibet and Nepal, then we moved to Xiamen, a small city by the sea. Our relationship ended after 2 years in Beijing. This is our photo story about our love and passion. Now it’s all the memories.”

NIN and the Web 2.0

June 25th, 2008

The electro-rock-industrial band Nine Inch Nails are one of the best example out there of how technology is changing the way we communicate, and communication is changing the way we do things (such as business or entertainment).

the NIN tour as it appear on Google Earth

Along with Radiohead, they released their recent albums over the internet and they are using a massive amount of web2.0 tools to promote themselves and reach the audience. Some of the tools they use are Flickr, Facebook, Last.fm, MySpace, YouTube, iCal, iLike, and more recently, Google Earth and Google Calendar.

This web 2.0 tools usage, along with their creative music and viral marketing / alternate reality games (the Year Zero game) techniques, is making them one of the most “3.0″ band ever.

I guess every band (and business) out there should hire this new, emerging figure: the 2.0 marketing expert. Someone with deep knowledge of the available tools and their capabilities. Someone who is able to create mashups and keep contact with fans (customers).

The band (corporate) blog is not enough nowadays. We need to create real connections and involvement.

Jerry Speaks. Still no Microsoft – Yahoo!

February 6th, 2008

from the Silicon Alley Insider.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wisely emerged from his bunker today, updating Yahoo’s worldwide workforce about the Microsoft offer via an email message and patting them all on the head.

…as we’ve said, no decisions have been made about microsoft’s proposal. our board is thoughtfully evaluating a wide range of potential strategic alternatives in what is a complex and evolving landscape. and we’ve hired top advisors to assist through the process.

Meanwhile, the value of Microsoft’s buyout offer is dropping, which will actually make it more easy to rebuff.

Follow this on the Silicon Alley Insider.