Toyota recalls? Garage door company laughs

Dansk Port Teknik (DPT), garage door company recently worked with agency JWT Copenhagen this creative advertisement that really takes the most out of Toyota’s recall. This ad promotes 20% off on all garage doors, for Toyota owners only along with the broken garage door.
Marketing/ advertising industry is often cruel. It’s been only a week, Toyota [...]


First Time Ever: Live Fashion Shows on Smartphones

Dolce&Gabbana has always been the leader in technology among other fashion brands. In 2005, D&G broadcasted their fashion shows live on it’s official website. In 2008, they started to get into the mobile market, established dolcegabbana.mobi to create a more interactive way to communicate with fans, then a free iphone app was developed after.
They just [...]


New Toy: Codeorgan – Generate music with your website

This a a creative online app I discovered that generates music from any URL. All you have to do is to type in a URL, the program will then analyze the html script in the <body> content and generate a unique piece of music for this URL. User can share this piece of music through [...]


Data Visualization Tool: Mondrian

I just found this amazing free tool that can do some smart data visualization with the simplest sets of data comparing to other visualization tools. You can just import basic excel files or even txt files with huge chunk of data and it will categorize and visualize them.
Graphics and interface might not be as sexy as [...]


Be an Official Virgin: Non-profit, or Scam?

A new site was just launched with this funny campaign called “Certified Virgins” where people can get a “certificate of virginity” with US$1.00 each, they claimed that “part of” it will be donated to the Aids cure research.
This site has a very clean and official-looking design, but until it is linked to or by an [...]


If Steve Jobs is coming for lunch, what would you make?

This is a viral piece was posted on the same day as the iPad released. Jakob Hammarback and Jon Wingard created the iSandwhitch 4G as an experiment to see if it can go viral. It is a video showing how they use different ingredients all put together on a piece of bread to create the same shape [...]


Viral Campaign: A movie about YOU

There have been many viral websites lately that requires users to upload images of themselves, most of these websites have face detection script on it which allows them to add funny and special effect to the faces.
This one is a little bit different, instead of adding effects to images, this creates a movie about you. [...]


Rambler: The Sneakers that Tweet

Rambler is the only pair of shoes in the world that owns a Twitter account, designed and created by artist and technology savvy Ricardo Nascimento. These’s a sensor inside the sneakers that tracks movements, then updates it’s Twitter. However, it can only tweet two words, “tap” and “.”, depending on the pressure you exert.
It’s quite [...]


Data Visualization: China Censored Websites

David McCandles from InformationIsBeautiful has always been one of my favourite people to watch in data visualization. Below is a beautiful piece he put together recently showing the censored websites (grey) and keywords (red) with the shape of China. All the data is based on the information from Wikipedia.


Top 10 Apps I can’t live without (and how I use them)

These are some of the great apps that have “changed my life”, hope you find it useful. Apologize to PC users, you should perhaps consider getting a mac to make your life easier.
Evernote
I use Evernote mainly for Blogging, collecting ideas, and work connections.
Blogger: Since my work is very relevant to my passion, it often gives [...]

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A Little Something About Tim:

Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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