We feel fine

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved, and now it’s being place into an interactive book.

Nike + Livestrong

A nice idea by Nike to make use of technology and messaging to encourage the participants of tour de france. Made the campaign more human and a whole lot meaningful.

Piano staircase

An interesting installation idea to make people use the stairs. Clever initiative.

They comment and we shall change

Online comment has become a medium in its own right, but when the general consensus is that most comments suck, why do we continue to add the functionality to websites? It could be due to human nature, when everyone would love to be acknowledge for their ingenious contribution. So what do you think? Dive in to it’s Nice That’s first weekly discussion and maybe you can “comment” your way thru.

The Story of Charity:Water

This September, charity: water turns 3 years old. In just three years, they’ve raised more than $10 million through over 60,000 donors and helped more than 700,000 people in 16 countries. A powerful movement indeed.

It’s not about web traffic anymore

It’s always puzzling for me when i explain online rational to traditional folks. The mental vision of them is focus on driving the traffic to the website and create a sense of urgency for users to sign up with a service or a product. But with the rise of web 2.0, and now coming to web 3.0, the behavior is changing and folks nowadays are looking for unique content on the web. So Barbara Scala, Founder of Bloom mention this;

“It’s not about getting people to come to my web site anymore. It’s about getting my content; my videos,my articles, my event promotion announcements, on YOUR web site. That’s what I’m paying attention to now.”

- Barbara Scala, Founder of Bloom

She is quite spot on when you think about what she said. Read this article and maybe it could change the way you look at digital mediums.

The right direction

An insightful lesson about strategy.

9/11 Stories

The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum has launched Make History, an initiative to understand the history and story behind this tragic event. Using the website, visitors can search, group and sequence any number of histories, photos or experiences, creating custom sequences by time, geography or theme. Each photo is overlaid on a current street-view image of the present day, creating a ‘double exposure’ of past and present.” Meaningful and powerful thought to educate the next generation.

Edit your fashion sense

Looklet is a virtual studio which users can mix and match real designer clothes. It offers the opportunity for fashion brands to engage with their target audiences in a much more compelling way than traditional advertising. Hope that a shopping cart will be in the pipeline soon for those who would love to have what they created. Sweet.

10 Levels of Intimacy in Communication

I am getting more and more impress with Ji Lee, the brain behind Google Creative Lab. This 10 level of intimacy in communication point out how users are shifting their mode of communication. Interesting and absurd visualization of how we communicate with our most cherish connections.