Social Hallucinations

20 things that happened on the Internet in 2010

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The Small (Commercial) Acts of Kindness

Doing good gets you attention and makes people smile. Nice idea from KLM. Also a nice example of how online and offline merge and create new brand experiences for people.

 

Utility = Laziness

In the world of information overflow and lack of time to process everything that hits us, this app may seem a great invention. TLDR is an online application that can turn long articles into short summaries. Just paste the URL of any article into TLDR.it and it will summarize the article for you.

Great utility tool. It may save you time...but it allows us to touch only the surface. Shallowness? Laziness? Can't we really find the time to read and explore in depth the issues that interest us? 

The utility tools seem so exciting as we believe they make life easier and faster...but aren't they make us lazier?

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Solve your problems before the weekend

Weekend is just round the corner and I thought you may find it useful - the problem solving flowsheet. Hopefully it will help you solve at least some of the problems just before the weekend starts :)

Seeing sound

Seeing sound is not the most common expression we would hear, but rather a super hero quality. Do you remember Emma from HeroesTV Series,  who was scared to discover she can see sounds. Wonderful ability. 

However, there is the whole discipline called cymatics, which studies of visible sound and vibration and turns the sounds into physical shapes.

Exciting. You can visualize your sound with physical objects. Give it shape, going beyond your dreams and thoughts. Here is an example of home-made cymatics. 

Going beyond and discovering the new layers of things and experiences. Sound seems to be limited to hearing. But it doesn't need to stop at it. We can broaden the experience into more senses, make it more embracing and appealing.

 

Experience Matters

via MisEntropy

The Art of Adaptation

How to catch people's attention and make them eat baby carrots? How do you make baby carrots cool? Well, the solution can be packaging them like junk food. You just need to adapt to people's needs and expectations. The question is whether the chips-like packaging will turn carrots into the new cool, people want to eat.

Packaging design by Crispin Porter + Bogusky

Via USA Today

Internet Memes - what, how and where?

What makes us laugh? What makes talk? What is worth sharing? The overview of internet memes.

Via: Online University

 

The Future is Anchored in the Present

Once we used to believe it will be Google and Amazon who share the power and newspapers will be dead. We had no idea about the role Facebook will play. Why? Because we are anchored in the present. We believe in linear development of media and technology. We believe that some of them will progress and evolve undisturbed, while other become extinct. Well, fortunately the universe and people are full of surprises. It is interesting though to watch this video from 2007 and see how things have already took a completely different route.

Hat tip to Helge Tennø

 

BBC Dimensions

Sometimes, it is hard imagine how powerful and big some events can be. We need to set things in perspective. This is what BBC Dimensions does. It takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.

 

 

 

 

Photoshopping reality

We so used to customiztion. We can adjust so many things around us, so they fit to our needs, from mail to shoes. Things are the way we like and want. So why not take it a step harder and change the reality by using the glasses that can photoshop reality. Funny and dangerous invention. Don't try it at home ;)

 

What's your favorite working space?

Can you imagine this is the real working space!? Someone is really sitting there and working. Amazing and so calming.

What I love about it, is the lack of ditractions around and the omnipresent calmness. This is you and your thoughts. Wonderful. I wish I could spend there a few working days. I imagine that it is impossible to get stressed out in there :) Idyllic.

Here is my working space. I like being surrounded by things I like and things where I can bring inspiration. Quiet and safe. It means a lot to me where I work, though the best ideas come to me while I am walking.

What's your favorite working space?

You've seen it before

The culture is the never ending remaking and reinventing. The past inspires and is the foundation of the new "creations". Culture is the sum of all achievements of humanity. They add up and become something new. The act of copying and remixing has become more visible and accessible than ever thanks to Internet.

In fact it also means that there are and can still occur cultural big bangs when the completely new ideas are born. 

Via Faris

Brainstorm - keep the right focus

"The real goal after all is not just creative ideas at the end of a Brainstorm, but more imaginative products and services that reach consumers and customers. It's idea development, not idea generation, that counts" (Tom Fishburne)

Make things happen is what defines the success.

How we've complicated things - truth on brands

It has all begun with just a toothpaste...45 years later...what's toothpaste? The hell of added value....

Via Gavin Potenza