Facebook Connect in many languages

Facebook connect is now available in 64 languages. This means your facebook connect applications will now be easily accessible to people all over the world!

http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/facebook-connect-adds-foreign-language-support/

Ads you can share

This is an interesting article about shareable banner ads. We've been experimenting with this here at Jollywise, by trafficking our widget as an ad.

http://digital-examples.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html

Would you pay for it?

Company bosses disagree about whether people will pay for content online. Disney boss Bob Iger reckons they will, I think they won't. It seems there is an even split across the two camps. Only time will tell to see who's right!

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-sunvalley8-2009jul08,0,6252478.story

The Medusa Project site launched

The Medusa Project is an exciting new series from Sophie McKenzie and we've just launched the new site. Featuring character profiles, with Spotify playlists for each character and details on their special powers, about the books, and a competition where you can win iTunes vouchers.

http://www.themedusaproject.co.uk/


Following this up, here is an interesting article discussing why young adults like reading book about character with supernatural powers:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/06/28/young_adults_feel_affinity_with_supernatural_characters_in_books/

Pixar's lamp comes to life

Check out this cute video of Pixar's logo lamp "Luxo Jr" as he comes to the real world.

http://gizmodo.com/5303312/pixars-animatronic-luxo-jr-melts-our-hearts-in-live-action

Useful implementation of augmented reality

The US Postal Service are doing the first useful implementation of augmented reality that I've seen. You can find out which size bracket your parcel falls into. You can see a video of how it works here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpS3LeCiCtc

I've seen fun uses of it, the best being the music video for Ride My Star:
http://www.julianperretta.com/ride_my_star/

More information here:
http://www.marketingvox.com/augmented-reality-technology-brings-useful-service-to-usps-044353/

Community site for kids on Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network's new site is being launched on June 16th, with a social networking site "My CN". I like the idea of letting kids communicate through pre-written messages. It means that they can still express themselves and their emotions to each other, yet there's no chance of any unsavoury messages appearing on the site. It's a bit like letting them communicate via emoticons.


Read all about the site's new features here:
http://www.netimperative.com/netimperative/news/2009/may/cartoon-network-gets-community-site