Rather Clever

very nice website created to promote Orange’s unlim­ited texts on on one of its tariffs. It goes on forever and is full of fun stuff … geddit?

Created by digital agency Poke, who’ve doc­u­mented the site here. Apparently, there’s a Christmas version on the way soon.

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Why You Can’t Buy a Heineken in Second Life

I’ve always been a bit of a sceptic about Second Life (posts passim, and I mean in its utility as a mar­keting vehicle for brands), and I won’t pretend oth­er­wise despite a day of inspir­a­tion and intel­li­gence at the Virtual Worlds Forum. Yes, I now under­stand a bit more about why brands have been investing in the network and

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That Didn’t Take Long

You’re probably already very familiar with the Ad-​​​​Block exten­sion for Firefox.

Now there’s a new kid on the block, Tubestop. Tubestop prevents YouTube’s brand new overlay ads from spoiling your videos. It works by sub­sti­tuting the player on Youtube’s pages (which inserts ads) with the one that appears embedded in web pages (which

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HOW-​​TO Create an RSS Feed

This is a short guide to creating an RSS feed for sites that don’t have one. I’ve posted it here because I keep for­get­ting how to do it. Hope it’s useful. NB: it won’t work for sites that require a log-​​​​on, such as Facebook groups.

Step One: Problem Pages

I try to remember to visit the site of

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Playing with iPlayer

Somehow, I’m on the beta pro­gramme for the BBC iPlayer. I can’t for the life of me remember applying for this, but that’s becoming fairly irrel­evant to the truth nowadays. Sadly, there aren’t any invites and so-​​​​forth I can offer to readers — this is the BBC, remember. They do things dif­fer­ently there.

It’s reas­on­ably stable,

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Food for Thought

I spotted this on netim­per­ative this morning:

Waitrose to embrace social net­working with ‘Facebook’ for food

According to reports, super­market chain Waitrose is planning to add social net­working func­tions to its web site to allow shoppers to swap recipes and chat on message boards.

The retailer wants to encourage the one million people that visit its

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