$40,000, was the prize money for the proposed online challenge. The US government competition was won by a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - just hours after it was launched. 3000 teams entered teh competition. The Darpa ...Read More

This fantastic project by Droga5 is probably one of the most amazing, successful and influential projects on urban, social and educational regeneration I have seen to date. I should have posted this ages ago as it won some serious prizes, notably ...Read More

Ooohhhh... I'm liking Google's Wave... I think the more people use it the more it's true functionality and potential will open up. Nice . Read More

I've had my eye on this for some time. LINK Being that my design agency Picture, do a lot of e-commerce and being that "we" the general public, have been getting "free" content, online for far too long. I'm looking forward to seeing ...Read More

Spotify is an application that when downloaded to your machine,  will let you make a search for some music that you want to hear, but don't own; invariably it will find it and play it (internet connection needed). It's instant, ...Read More

I'm in the process of doing the brand development and execution for Chateau/Restaurant Englain. A fabulous place with masses of ideas and potential. I went to Toulouse last week to photograph the nearly finished restaurant. They have only just "soft" ...Read More

Should bankers be accoutable for what has happened, is corruption involved? Read for yourself in Global Witness' awesome report. Link Please send this round .. I know.. I know. I shouldn't be doing the shameless punting thing. But we were involved in the campaign, ...Read More

Being that I am working on a job for YouTube at the moment, it seems appropriate to post this. They have the most amazing statistics on usage.. for example if they were a country.. their population would put them 3rd ...Read More

Charming idea.. reminds me of the Guerilla Gardening crew. [gallery] Read More

Micheal Wesch is an anthropologist and his constant study of 'YouTube' has produced a 55.33 min presentation (presented at the Library of Congress 28th June 2008) and it's well worth watching. As an orthographical study of human behavior, we see how ...Read More