In an effort to cache in on the latest and greatest Social Networking craze, sites are using weirder and weirder methods to get folks to use their tools. I stumbled onto this one from a Photojojo article today. The site MagMyPic has a number of photo magazines they’ve cropped out that you can insert your photos into. I figured I’d check it out and found they had a link to post it directly to Facebook - only to find out they wanted me to add the application (probably followed by some invites and so on) so I decided to grab the photo and let everyone just see the result here instead. The idea is cute even if their viral marketing is draconian. It reminds me of the Photo Cutout Tool developed by Cate Sia at NWF many moons ago (2004). Apparently NWF was ahead of their time - they should bring it back. Oskar was in the training video - although he probably didn’t realized it at the time.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007I’ve been noticing more and more of the Paper Prototyping style videos making it big for explanations. Paper Prototyping is an excellent way to show technology without spending lots of time building a usable prototype. Designers and developers often use them to do user analysis before building out a full sit e that is harder to change. Google’s been doing it as have others. I found this place (the folks who are helping Google) and really like their style. The above video talks about why blogs (like alynfamily.com) are such a big deal. They’ve done some other good videos too about compact fluorescent bulbs, RSS and zombies. If you have time to kill, check them out Common Craft.
