Globe Genie

Take a mystery tour around the world with Globe Genie, which is based on Google Maps. Choose a continent, press shuffle and wait to see where you end up….

Murder Map: London

Make sure you’re too scared to ever leave your house by exploring the data on the MurderMap of London. It aims to log details of every homicide in the city from Jack the Ripper to today and is based on crime reports from the Old Bailey.  The site is easily navigable and data can be […]

Google Tracks Your Health

Google gets even deeper under your skin… its developed an online health tracker  – cleverly called Google Health – that allows you to gather, store, track and share your health records and fitness goals, from blood pressure and medication to how many cups of coffee you drink a day. All the information can be accessed […]

iPad Reaches the Generations Other Computers Cannot

A 100-year-old woman misses her birthday party because she is engrossed in her new iPad (and her first computer):

Pencil Vs. Camera

Ben Heine is an Ivory Coast-born, Brussels-based photographer, illustrator, caricaturist and painter who is exercising several of his skills via his Pencil vs. Camera series, where he substitutes part of a photograph with a sketch, which may or may not faithfully replicate the original image.  Take a look at some of the images on Flickr.

Adventures in Sex City

Adventures in Sex City is an online game from The Middlesex-London Health Unit. It features the dastardly Sperminator who is trying to infect everyone with sexually transmitted infections (and fires quiz questions from his penis-shaped hands. I kid you not), and The Sex Squad: Willy the Kid (small but has “massive rock hard strength); Power […]

Educational Posters for Doctors

B3ta challenged people to design posters for doctors to display in their waiting rooms. Very amusing they are too. See the best here.

Creator’s Program

Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web’s most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 400 million times.  Its  Next New Creator’s Program is designed to discover and foster talent […]

Are You a Facebook Cliché?

You might like to think you have an individual style, but allfacebook.com has identified 30 standard styles of profile photo – from the ‘just married’ to ‘me in the mirror’ to ‘I’ve got a girlfriend/boyfriend’ shot. Which cliché are you?

Greenlit: Discovery Education iPad App

Discovery Education is launching an iPad app that gives teachers access to 33,000 items of content from the Discovery Health, Science and Education Streaming archives, including videos, PDFs, audio, images and articles. Channel: iPad Producer: Discovery Education Source: Cynopsis

Someone Once Told Me

Someone Once Told Me is part photography project (one new black/white photo uploaded to the site everyday) and part cautionary tale about how you should be careful what you say to people. Each subject is asked to write on a piece of paper something that someone once told them, that has since shaped their life. […]

Xtranormal Text to Video Magic

Xtranormal allows you to make an animated movie, using a choice of sets and characters within minutes. You just type in your script, choose your protagonists, music and camera angles (or let it decide for you) and bingo, you have a mini-movie. Click on the hash/pound sign for a couple of examples:

London Datastore and NYC Data Mine

London’s Datastore is releasing all of Greater London Authority’s data for people to see and use free of charge. Information includes information on demographics, arts & culture, crime, education and health. There’s a similar initiative in New York – the NYC Data Mine.

Animation Dance Association

Animation Dance Association is a shouty online league that pits teams of animators against each other to see who can come up with the best dancing animation. Online users vote for their favourite dancing animations in daily competitions. Read all about it at ADA

Mr Brainwash

Mr Brainwash is a French artist (with a very engaging interactive push button website). His real name is Thierry Guetta, and  he specializes in a pop art meets street style. He recently staged his first solo NYC show, and his fans include Banksy, Shepard Fairey and Berlusconi. Read more in Flavorwire.

100 Scientists on Twitter

If you want to make friends with some scientists on Twitter, here’s  a handy list of 100 user names of scientists that tweet. They include biologists, physicists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists and astronomers and even a science comedian.

Wonderwall

Japanese interior design firm Wonderwall has a colourful and playful website that shape-shifts  (and clicks and squeaks like an ocean-going bat) as you move your mouse over their portfolio.  It makes you want to reach out and touch it… Run your fingers over it and go oooohhh here. Hat tip to PSFK [via The FWA]

Google Maps Africa

Google Maps has launched maps in more than African countries, including Kenya and South Africa. Information on roads, towns and local businesses is crowd-sourced from local people, along with photos of various sites and attractions. Businesses can add their listings for free, making it easy to find that essential something you need in a hurry. […]

Virtual Farming

Le Vedure Del Mio Orto (The Vegetables From My Garden) is an Italian website where, like the massively popular Facebook game Farmville, you can grow your own crops. The difference is that you can actually eat the crops you grow, as the website will actually plant them on its farm near Turin, harvest and then […]

Wanted: Copy Cat Serial Killer

This video could be disturbing to TV Mole readers, so look away now if you are easily upset. Watch the video to find out why. In the words of Crimewatch, “don’t have nightmares. Sleep well”. See more on Ice Truck TV:

Global CV Campaign

When Brit Toby Hemming wanted to get a new job on the other side of the world, he decided to ditch the boring CV and launch an ““integrated communications campaign, comprising a press release, a website and a bespoke Twitter account (@ajobdownunder) and an interactive  map based on Google maps. Read more on Mumbrella

Makemende

Makmende is Africa’s first viral video star – described by Monocle as “an African version of Shaft, mixed with a bit of Chuck Norris, he is the karate-chopping, damsel-rescuing star”. Makemende first appeared in the music video for Kenya’s  but soon had a Facebook fanpage with 26,000+ fans and topped the Kenyan Twitter chart for […]

The Stir

US-based social networking site CafeMom, has launched a new section – The Stir – where moms can kick back and gossip about celebrities, swap stories about their kids and discuss current events, it also features blogs posts from a team of well-known bloggers on subjects ranging from whether Kate Gosselin looks mad to whether potato […]

Parallel Lines

“Five very different films. One piece of dialogue.” Parallel Lines is an online movie project that allows you to watch five films that are all based on the same script (as you might expect from the tagline). Watch them here. via @jph

Urban Pathfinding

The Pavement is a free magazine aimed at homeless people in London and Scotland. Designer Emily Read has helped the magazine come up with a series of symbols that can be chalked on the pavements and sides of buildings, which will alert fellow homeless people to dangers – security guards, high police presence, previous attacks […]

Jinni

Jinni claims to be a ‘taste engine’ that allows you to find movies that match your mood and stylistic preferences using a ‘movie genome‘.  Once you’ve entered your tastes it will recommend movies and TV shows you might  like. You can also link Jinni to your Netflix account.

Shop at a Street Market Anywhere in the World

24 Hour Market allows you to browse the stalls in street markets around the world – Hong Kong, Shanghai, Stockholm and London – and immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of the local market experience. For example, in Hong Kong, you can visit Mr Wong’s Comb stall and buy an aluminum comb for $6 […]

Newsarse

If you like your news to come with a chuckle take a look at Newsarse , which puts a different spin on all the current news (which might be mistaken for the BBC News website by the unwary/distracted/dumb reader). You can also follow them on twitter at @newsarse Hat tip to @ideas4TV

British Library Takes News Digital

The British Library has joined forces with online publisher brightsolid, owner of online brands including findmypast.co.uk and Friends Reunited, to deliver the most significant mass digitisation of newspapers the UK has ever seen. Up to 40 million historic pages from the national newspaper collection will be digitised, making large parts of this unparalleled resource available […]

What Do You Want to Do Before You Die?

Before I Die I Want to… is a sociological art project that documents the answer to that question in tandem with a Polaroid photograph of the person. They have asked the same question to people in the USA and India and found some fundamental differences in the ways in which people regard the question. For […]

Greenlit: Skin and Bare It, Channel4.com

Skin and Bare It (5 x 5′) – Web series featuring two people who swap their beauty regimes for 21 days before getting feedback from beauty expert Rosie Lewis. Channel: channel4.com  and jergens.co.uk (funded by skincare brand Jergens Naturals) Producer: Holler Source: Broadcast

Story of Science in Tweets

Nice use of Twitter by @DrMichaelMosley, presenter of BBC2’s new sereis The Story of Science, that premiered on 27th April 2010. As the programme aired, he was answering questions from viewers; today he’s defending criticism of his choice (or lack thereof) of shirts.

Flyvertising

I didn’t spot this when I was at the London Book Fair earlier this week (blame it on the ash cloud), but it seems that publisher Eichborn attached tiny flags to the backs of 200 specially bred flies at last year’s Frankfurt Book Fair and let them fly free to attract delegates to their stand. […]

3D NYC via Google Earth

If your trip to NYC has been grounded due to volcano ash, you can still fly through NYC courtesy of Google Earth. 3D imagery lets you fly through the streets at store front level to experience the different neighborhoods before you decide where to base yourself. The city’s dept of tourism hopes it will help […]

5 Second Films

A little bit of nonsense to get you over the middle of the week: 5 Second Films, are exactly what they sound like. Some funny, some not so funny, but all tell a little story, which is pretty impressive. Overall,  it’s not a bad way to waste a couple of minutes with a nice cup […]

Newspaper Club

Newspaper Club is an online venture that uses the down time of newspaper presses to allow people to print small runs of 12-page tabloid-sized newspapers. There are simple design and layout tools on the website, or they provide a bespoke layout service. Prices range from £35 for five black and white copies (£7 each) to […]

Greenlit: Barry and Stuart, BBC Multiplatform

Barry and Stuart – Magicians Barry and Stuart have been given their own website on BBC3, which features short films and are they are planning to perform the first magic trick using Twitter. Channel: BBC3 online Producer: Objective Productions /  Illumina Digital TX: Website active / Twitter trick TBC Source: Broadcast

Greenlit: Such Tweet Sorrow, Channel 4/Twitter

Such Tweet Sorrow – The Royal Shakespeare Company and Channel 4 have teamed up to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet via Twitter. Channel: Channel 4 / Twitter TX: 12th April 2010 Source: BBC News

Good Screenings

Good Screenings is a new joint venture between the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and Franny Armstrong, which allows filmmakers to license their social justice documentaries to the public. So for example, if you wanted to host a screening in your church hall, you can download a screening license on payment of a fee (calculated on […]

Chatroulette Improv

Chatroulette just got creative. Merton (who looks like an escapee from Flight of the Conchords) plays the piano and freestyles in response to other users’ responses to him. Watch the video:

Tokyo Sky Drive

Tokyo Sky Drive is a beautiful and hypnotic ride through the Tokyo night scape, set to a sound track of A Furrow Plant by Sugar Dub. It’s shot in HD on Sony XR500V, and there are also daytime versions. Read more and see the reaction on Kitsune Noir. Watch the video:

Love Letters to the Future

Love Letters to the Future is an interactive website that encourages people to send a love letter to the future, asking the question “what would you say to your great grandchild?” Once you’ve read other people’s letters you can can vote for favourites or upload your own. Inevitably there are a lot of letters that […]

Plain English

Simply Understand is a plain-speaking website run by Corinne Pritchard that aims to simplify the things that shouldn’t be complicated in the first place, such as: “Government stuff, legal stuff, money stuff.” She’s helpfully translated 19 documents (to date), such as the swine flu leaflet and the Home Office Consultation on internet privacy into ‘plainer […]

The Boneyard Aircraft Cemetery

Beautiful photograph of an airplane cemetery can be seen courtesy of Google Earth in The Telegraph.  The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is in Tuscon, Arizona and its four square miles are populated with partially dismantled or decommissioned aircraft, which are sometimes recycled and sometimes restored and sold on. Read more. Via @richpayne88

CableFAX’s Best Websites 2010 – Part II: Blogs

CableFAX’s Best of the Web awards ceremony is being held in NYC on 28th April 2010. All commissioners now want to know what the multiplatform/360 degree content will be for any idea you pitch, but it can be hard to think beyond the standard programme website content of cast photos and biogs. In the second part of this mini-series we’re looking at the nominations for best programme blogs. Explore the links and see if you can find some inspiration to help you develop your own ideas.

Click through to read more. (Photo by Niffty.. CC BY-2.0)

Get a Great Boss

Get a Great Boss is a recruitment website that aims to match job seekers with bosses who have been assessed as having the kind of management skills that make going into work every day a joy. Key skills that are deemed essential in a Great Boss include: character and personality; strategic thinking; support and treatment […]

The Twitter Times

You might be au fait with Twitter but did you know you could generate your own newspaper via Twitter? The Guardian explains how – The Twitter Tim.es collates blog posts and news items from your Twitter connections into an online ‘newspaper’ that is updated every 30 minutes. Content is displayed according to recency of tweeting […]

ChatRoulette

So here’s the latest hot social networking trend that you probably shouldn’t try out at work: Chatroulette. It’s like extreme internet form of speed-dating, where clicking on the link suddenly links you up via video to one of the thousands of people from around the world who are online at any time. The idea is […]

Wrangler Blue Bell Interactive Ad

This Wrangler Blue Bell clothing ad has to be the funnest interactive ad in a long time – especially for the ladies (who can indulge in power and control and voyeuristic fantasies for hours on end)… Rip some clothes off here.

MTV’s The Buried Life Things You Want to Do Before You Die Marketing Campaign.

MTV’s This Buried Life is currently airing in the USA. It features four guys who are living their lives as if they don’t have long left by ticking of 100 things they want to do before they die – and are helping other people achieve their dreams along the way.  They’ve already ticked sleeping in […]