Ben Cooper

Group Innovation Director M&C Saatchi Sydney. Co-Creator O Six Hundred Kayak. Proud father. Loving husband. British.

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Blip.fm the annotated music network

Published August 31, 2008

Annoying that the embeddable button (above) doesn’t really work with my widget width (you know what I mean, right?). Enjoy this whilst its on my homepage (click play), which will probably be a while,

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MTV Exit: Radiohead – All I Need

Published May 2, 2008

The In Rainbows ongoing release/re-use continues to amaze me… The singles from the album become a vehicle for all types of communication benefiting everyone involved from remixing to this re-work of ‘All I Need’

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The truth about FaceBook

Published May 1, 2008

Hilarious real-world sketch on the realities of connecting to people you weren’t really friends with in the first place. I totally relate to this. Hardly using FaceBook anymore, in fact, it outright annoys me

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Inspired by WeFeelFine; Twistori

Published April 29, 2008

Big fan of data exploration and what better social network to explore that the stream of conciousness that twitter empowers and delivers. Twistori is a project that explores twitter comments by instances of the

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Sunlight on (Google) Earth

Published April 17, 2008

Quick post: Google Earth 4.3 (beta) is now available, not only with more advanced 3d photo-realistic renderings of notable cities and builiding but with the ablility to simulate sunrise to sunset, with the aptly

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Good overcomes bad! & new media is the weapon.

Published March 26, 2008

Chris Brogan just highlighted this video post from Gary Vaynerchuk. The post in my mind captures what the Cluetrain predicted back in 1999, ‘the end of business as usual’. Today, our lives are transparent

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Embed maps – it’s fun!

Published March 19, 2008

Where I live in Sydney View Larger Map Where my flat is in London View Larger Map My folks are somewhere around here View Larger

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iTunes Movie Rentals a point of view

Published March 19, 2008

This is a blog version of the article I wrote for INSIDEFILM #107 (download pdf) March 2008 edition. Following the announcement of iTunes Movie Rentals. iDistribute Australian consumers are not just at the end of the

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Facebook Friendwheel App

Published July 20, 2007

This is a picture of my friend wheel, all the people I’m connected to through Facebook. Great application developed by Thomas Fletcher. There are a number of custom settings you can mess around with

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