N, a combinatory interactive music experience

This is a great interactive idea besides the beauty simplicity of its visual design. An exercise of combinatory storytelling with music. The project have launched  3 songs, each of them offer a different experience. You will see the videos explaining it just below but basically:

N1 - simple combinatory interaction

N2 - includes geolocation to unlock new instruments

N3 - you can choose and combine voices from 10 singers and 10 verses (depending on time of the day)

Check the videos and download it here

Great work made in Spain!!. Good luck in SXSW

Boredom makes you smart #disconnection

Boredom_makes_people_smart

I stole this quote from this presentation  by @congbo. It's not new that our brain needs time to process input and build the physical connections that are necessary for storage and processing of new information in the neural network. It's well known by creatives that after thinking too much about a brief, brainstorming sessions and other idea generation methods, you have to STOP and forget about it.  Manage that uncertainity, trust yourself and let your subconscious work...that's what makes ideas pop up.

Some years ago before the boom of social media I attended a John Steel conference and he was talking about "Destroying the blackberry" as a metaphor to avoid so much interrumption and connectivity. Today more than ever, thanks to the amount of content, the speed of culture, the big data, the frictionless interactions etc.. we are all too connected and feeling F.O.M O (fear of missing out).  For idea generation, we need to find ways to stop getting inundated 24/7. At the end, our cognitive surplus needs room to grow and we are starting to see the opposite movement: J.O.M.O (joy of missing out).

Hopefully this year we all will be successful in balancing our time killing side to be more time chillers. As Mark Pollard blog's name "Life. Then strategy"

 

my Most Viewed VS Most Shared of 2012

I know, at this time of the year doing this it's not original, but I think it's always an interesting exercise. As I had to look at my 2012 analytics let me put first some context:

  • 48% of my audience is English speaker vs 40% Spanish speaker, 3% Ducth speaker and the rest a mix of French, Portuguese and Finnish. 
  • Only 14% of total visits comes from a mobile device where iphone is the king with 56% followed by Ipad 30%.
  • Chrome dominates as browser with 38%.

Most Viewed:

  1. Generator Tool for Hitler videos, nothing else to say people like remix and create memes 
  2. An Amazing conductive nano silver-ink pen
  3. From Social to Self, a conference from my friend @iancrocombe
  4. "Emerging behavior", a smart presentation from @bigspaceship
  5. Some lines I wrote after 1 month living in the US  
  6. "Gift of Live", a love story between a robot and a doll 
  7. Visionlab Gratuito, a very catchy promotion from some spanish friends 
  8. A great definition for "Drama"
  9. The video case of Amex Sync Twitter 
  10. Being digital vs just being electronic

Most Shared:

  1. My take on Frog's Tech Trends 2013 presentation
  2. Follow the frog
  3. Your kilometers are your currency
  4. An Amazing conductive nano silver-ink pen
  5. Reactable made of Jelly
  6. Disney updating the meaning of "princess"
  7. Let consumers speak for you
  8. From Social to Self, a conference from my friend @iancrocombe
  9. Paperapps
  10. The video case of Amex Sync Twitter 

As a bonus I added a couple of things that make me laugh in case you missed it:

  1. A perfect product placement 
  2. Mobile behavior education

Happy 2013!!

 

"Tech Trends for 2013" #inspiring presentation by @frogdesign

A presentation with great pieces of thinking, I would like to point out a couple of things:

- Hopefully one of my everyday dreams is going to come true in some years, "having a morning nap during your daily car trip" is something that currently only can fullfill when I do car pool but Google says that by 2017 Democratization of Self-Driving cars will be a fact so #goodnews :) The slide said "We lose control of our cars" but I will add "We take control of our car-time".

- Computers are dissolving, into the cloud, the environment and into our bodies...and will keep getting invisible kind of a reality camouflage to reduce frictions and get integrated into a Humanized context.

- I really liked the thinking about making the most of  Sandy's effect to move forward tech innovation energy & storage, definetely technology & data will help to provide better solutions to fight coming Nature disasters.

- Not new but privacy concerns will increase, Jan Chipchase talks about "the loss of physical Anonymity" due to the next impact of facial recognition everywhere (regarding this have a look to UID, the biometric identification project that India's goverment is implementing) that obviously brings positive and negative effects, but I'm sure that will bring a more relevant Economy of Privacy. Currently people have started to be aware of the value of their data in the social sharing economy but make it visible by using so much facial recognition tech will make more people feel an invasive perception. Probably will be trigger the rise of this new value exchange market. Regarding this was my wish for 2012 

Finally, positive surprise to know that Intel had put Will.I.am as director of creative innovation :) well done Intel.

#AzeliaBanks for @Asos #Youtubeshopwindowfeature

Until video recognition platforms like TVTalk  get mainstream and focus on shopping, brands will continue working different approaches to integrate shopping capabilities in videos (a.k.a shoppable videos). Nothing new (I remember one interactive video from Nike some years ago where you could buy a pair football shoes just pointing the video), this one from ASOS replicates a shopwindow kind of a second screen. BTW Great vibes from Azelia ;)

What if you could play Battlefield or Call of Duty outdoors with Google Glasses? #Gotcha! #augmentedreality

After seeing the great work of Google in redefining gaming and roleplaying with Ingress, I found this concept video of how AR could be use into real life roleplaying games: Google Glasses+Battlefiled 3

I still remember my childhood when I played D&D and we watched a movie called Gotcha! it was the first time I was aware of paintball, showed in the movie like a roleplaying game.