If you got an iPadW you must, I repeat MUST, download Flipboard. This is a social (and I mean social) magazine which aggregates content your friends share via TwitterW and FacebookW, but also from sites like BoingBoingW and The OnionW in an extremely nice design. I think the concept and execution it is quite brilliant. A very high “Why didn’t I think of this?”
Updates from July, 2010
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Flipboard, the next step in consuming social content
Nautic3l
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TEDxTalks "Bard 5.0: The Evolution of Storytelling"
Niekname
Influential pioneer who defined the alternate reality entertainment genre worldwide. Sean Stewart is an award-winning science fiction novelist, a groundbreaking figure in transmedia storytelling, and the most experienced and influential writer of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the world. A graduate of the University of Alberta in Edmonton and currently based in California, Sean has founded four genre defining companies including 42 Entertainment and Fourth Wall Studios, behind ARG campaigns including The Beast, I Love Bees, Year Zero, and Vanishing Point (Microsoft). In publishing, he has continued to push the envelope of the traditional novel with the transmedia Cathys Book, a New York Times and international bestseller currently published in twenty countries and a dozen languages around the world. For more information about this TEDxTalk or TEDxEdmonton, visit http://www.tedxedmonton.com.
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Power to the pixel!
Nautic3l
“Pixel - A pixel art documentary” is a documentary by Simon Cottee, about the power of the pixel in modern day culture, music and art.
Via BoingBoing
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Interactive Amnesty Ad
kirsten
Interactive advertisement for Amnesty International by Jung von Matt. Amnesty International’s one-off domestic violence awareness poster includes an eye-tracking camera that changes the poster’s display when a viewer looks at the image.
Whenever a person in front of the poster looks in its general direction they see a normal looking couple pretending to look happy.
It’s only when the person looks away that the poster changes to a much more alarming scene.
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Bright Falls: The Prequel to Alan Wake
Niekname
A promotional live-action short movie entitled Bright Falls was officially released on 27 April 2010 and serves as a prequel to the game Alan Wake. It is divided into six episodes and can be watched online at brightfalls.com.
I really like the idea to begin a game with several short movies to promotional use or just to start with the immersion, before you can actually play the game.
Transmedia Rules!
Watch it on
brightfalls.com (they really did a nice Philips ambilight out of the box thing! Yeah… just watch!)
or watch it on
Youtube (new stupid interface)
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YouTube - Show & Tell: Viral 101
Nautic3l
YouTubeW (a.k.a. Google) is on a roll. They launched a website called “Show & Tell“, in which they show the possibilities of YouTube for (interactive) viral campaigns. You can find examples of interactive video’s, viral hits and branded channels. Really interesting stuff for inspiration and as research material!
They also made an example video called “The Story of YouTube Car” in which they show these possibilities.
BTW: Funny note, the video was uploaded on December the 15th 2009 and has at the moment 305 views. Viral anyone?
Via Social Times
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Alice In Wonderland iPad App
kirsten
Walt Disney Pictures have been quick to create applications that for the ever-popular iPad. The Alice in Wonderland application is a virtual storeybook where users can manipulate the characters by moving the iPad.
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First interactive horror movie
Nautic3l
Watch and scream!
Via Falibur
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Interactive eBooks meet iPad
Nautic3l
Penguin BooksW gives, in the video below, an insight in their upcoming interactive eBooksW they are developing for the iPadW. Inspiring stuff.
Via 9to5mac
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Swordquest, a transmedial experience, 1982 style
Nautic3l
The Angry Video Game NerdW discusses this time the game SwordquestW from AtariW, a transmedial experience with a lot of mystery…
