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USA Singles Map & Craigs List Stats

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Here's a map showing where there's more single men compared to single women and where more single women are compared to single men throughout the States. It doesn't take into account sexuality, race or age but it's still interesting. If you're male you don't want to live on the West Coast as it's full of single guys! It's NYC, Washington DC and the eastern seaboard where all the single women are.

Then I found this post from Scott Karp's Publishing 2 blog about about craigs list killing newspaper classifieds, the free classified site and it's real purpose and it's main traffic. Exotic services are huge on it. More than double anything else. It also show how all the different hunting sexualities differ amongst all the major US cities. Men looking for Men is more popular in LA than casual encounters. How Miami, the main latino city has nearly no traffic through craigs list but in NYC, women seeking men is the next biggest amongst the others which ties with the singles map above and to the left. Here's the compete.com analysis of craigs list too.

Microsoft Careers film

I found this on the great Electro Plankton blog. Clearly well financed and well produced web video ad for a career in computer science at Microsoft that's appealing to the young trendy computer geeks.

Video: Career in Computer Science - MS Research

Jamie T & Bob Hoskins

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Adam Smith, the RSA director has just finished this wonderful musicvideo for the artist, Jamie T of his song  'Sheila', starring a rapping Bob Hoskins. Have to see it to believe it. It's inspired. Once you have clicked through, click on the triangle below the thumbnail picture and then when the video loads, click on the 'double size' to the right of the video as then you'll get to see it full screen. It's worth it.
I hope to upload it as an embedded video as soon as possible. If you like Jamie T and you've never seen North of Ping Pong, check that out too.  Adam has just finished four episodes of Skins for C4.

Mobilephones and Bees

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I had an idea for a film script once which involved a lonely travelling beekeeper who goes around the country ironically fertilizing the world with his travelling beehives on the back of his lorry. These two next blogs reminded me of my lonely beekeeper, one from boingboing and another from Slashdot. Mobilephone radiation is causing the bees to vanish so preventing them from pollinating the world. Where have all the bees gone? They're clearly lost and can't find their way home. Einstein once said if bees stop pollinating the world, the world will have only four years to live...

Will Farrell Short

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Found this lovely short from Will Farrell. Simple, quick and funny. It's called the LANDLORD. Enjoy.

Creative Commons Film

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It's the era of sharing ideas, linking the likeminded, causing the conversation, (read David Armano's  great piece for businessweek) that's changing the way we communicate, market and engage with each other, whether it's me, the individual, or you, the huge faceless business. We're seeing the slow death of communication channel scarity and spreading networking tenticles of long tail fragmentation and new portals of aggregation. This democratization is causing business to engage with it's consumer, because the consumer can now communicate cheaply, instantanously and easily with the likeminded world. Business has to now communicate on the individual's terms. We're seeing humanization of corporations with the power is now our hands, we can control what we consume, when and how, so new fragmented, imaginative and meshed forms of marketing are sprouting primarily through this medium. John Moore's Brand autopsy calls it the venom of the crowds taking five points to avert PR disasters from this must read businessweek 'Web Attack' article.

Here's a web video explaining Creative Commons - The meshing of traditional forms of communication through the explosive growth of new offline hardware and online software technologies and ease sharing of our creativity has brought about the creative commons license. Linking and ultimately sharing our films, music, words so 'people can use it, learn from it and be inspired'.

Promo Queen - Web TV?

Promqueen - Myspace webisodic teen drama in the vein of lonelygirl15. Is this the future of web TV? Two minute episodic dramas, talking to the camera? Hope not. Financed by 'interrupted ads', a short pre-roll ad and longer post-roll ad both for Hairspray the movie. The whole 80 webisodic series cost $100K.

Here's the first episode - Judge for yourself. If you can't see the embed video below click here.

Online Videos by Veoh.com

The Metaverse Ahead

The 3pointD blog, written by Mark Wallace and friends just celebrated it's first birthday and Mark posts more focused, near future predictions with some interesting future 3D scenarios.

Here’s the four original broader predictions which I've quoted below from the beginning of the blog.

‘• virtual worlds (i.e., Second Life, World of Warcraft, etc.)
• mirror worlds (Google Earth and/or a multiuser version of a similar application)
• augmented reality (information streamed from physical places via RFID and similar technologies)
• lifelogging (the creation, broadcast and/or storage of personal content)'

You can read the whole piece here. Full of offline ideas that mash with online all which are full of potential when thinking about mashing those with advertising and marketing techniques.

Here's an example of 3D desktop application I found on youtube which is mouse controlled...

...not like Jeff Han's multitouch screen which dispenses with a mouse for your hands...

Broadband

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I found this on Simon Andrews Big Picture Advertinsing blog, broadband is now mainstream. 51% of the population now has broadband. This is a quote on the same subject from Rob Andrews on paidcontent.org

'In the figures, Ofcom says a majority (51 percent) have used that connectivity to download video (26 percent of them do it weekly), and 15 percent have uploaded some video at least once. The cost of a 2Mbit line has fallen by two thirds in the last three years. Bad news for the mobile internet, though - while a third of Britons own a web-enabled mobile phone, only half have ever used it to go online, citing lack of interest (43 percent) and high prices (31 percent). '

Condom testers wanted here in the UK. Here's the tester form to fill out.

From Belgium, via adverblog rent-a-wife. You have to see it to believe it.
 

An inspired idea for a mobilephone - A transparent screen cameraphone.

Free Content - Part 2

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I'm enjoying receiving text Twitter messages for all the hyperlinks from all the top bloggers but I don't need to know about their social lives, fascinating how mundane their lives are but anyway I was forwarded this tinyurl through a Twitter SMS from Steve Rubel with this great post from Chip Griffin's Pardon the Disruption blog which discusses whether content should be free or not.

ANTI ADVERTISING? - Consumer generated content seems to be producing some surprising anti advertising. I found this anti ad for PS3. I have no comment on the song or the singer but to say it's had over one million hits. But is it a consumer generated ad? Maybe another games console was involved? Who knows?