Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer World Premiere
8th November 2011. That’s the release date for what looks like an awesome follow-up to the game that kept us warm all through last winter. The trailer shows some of the London multiplayer map, peeks at new weaponry (what’s that rotary blade sticky bomb?) and is that blood I see splattering gloriously out of downed tangos? The pressure was undoubtedly on Infinity Ward to come up with the goods and do more than add a couple of new weapons, and it looks from this trailer that they’ve added a hitherto unseen polish to the series. Well, now you know what my winter looks like :) Will you be buying?
First Live HD Video of Earth To Become ‘Live Google Earth’?
According to this dramatic trailer by Canadian company UrtheCast, two HD cameras will be installed on ISS (International Space Station) and be streaming back to Earth in real-time by 2012, giving the rest of us non-astronaut folk the ‘life-changing experience’ of seeing our planet as one object before us.
It’s apparently going to be ‘Google Earth on steroids’, giving us the chance to watch major earth events from space to ‘one meter resolution’ which means that each pixel will represent one meter on the ground (making it difficult to see anything smaller than buildings).
Sounds awesome though. Does this bring us one step closer to a truly live, detailed and complete map of Earth? Oh, and have you ever shown an older relative Google Earth and had to explain it’s not live?
(Source: digitaljournal.com)
Twitter Unveil Native Photo-Sharing Feature
Twitter will soon be adding the ability to add a photo to a tweet without having to use third-party services such as popular options TwitPic and yfrog. They’ve partnered with former Myspace favourite Photobucket to offer the service which will launch in the next few weeks according to Twitter COO Dick Costolo.
I think I’ll still use Flickr and Instagram so I can keep my photos in a nice, hi-res, organised place (Flickr) and take random atmospheric polaroid-style shots which feed into one of my favourite niche social networks (Instagram). What about you?
Change: A World In Flux - My #CogsTalks @ The Hospital
Here’s the presentation I gave this week at The Hospital in London, showing my take on how the digital world is changing and why this constant change shouldn’t scare us but rather is an endless source of opportunity.
Here’s the presentation I gave and below is the full video of my talk:
Video courtesy of VideoJug
Any questions, feel free to comment, tweet or email me :)
Master Yoda Reads SatNav Instructions
I can’t believe I only just saw this year-old viral ad for Tom Tom SatNav. It’s a brilliant and rare example of someone using a LucasFilm licence in a way that doesn’t make me want to rewrite my childhood. Indeed, it’s a great example of brands colliding in a witty way.
P.S. The Darth Vader one isn’t as good.
AV Referendum Results Map
From light green for ‘no’ through orange for ‘no, but only just’ to purple for ‘yes’
That’ll be a no then…
How To Create a ‘Welcome’ Landing Tab for New Facebook Pages
On 10th March 2011 Facebook will upgrade all pages for brands, companies and organisations to a new version of Pages, bringing the design in line with personal profiles which were upgraded in December 2010. For details about the changes read my last blog post here.
‘Static FBML’ tabs, with which you could quickly add extra tabs containing basic HTML to show text, images and videos are being phased out so that you won’t be able to create them after Thursday. This means adding a simple Welcome tab like the ones above which introduce new visitors to your Facebook page (and encourage them to click ‘Like’) is about to get a little complicated. Here’s my step-by-step guide to the easiest and quickest way to create a ‘Welcome’ tab:
