Ben Cooper

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

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Ricky Gervais tops podcast chart

Published December 15, 2005

Ricky Gervais tops podcast chart for Guardian Unlimited, according to latest figures from Apple. Read article on Digital Bulletin. Get the podcast from the Guardian. Public transport benefits from outbursts of laughter after all –

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CodeTree: Social Network

Published December 15, 2005

CodeTree, is a social networking community created to bring new media artists, programmers, and students using Macromedia Flash and Proce55ing

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Social software – Tokyo style

Published December 13, 2005

Yugo Nakamura latest project has been created for Tokyo FM, its called Honda Sweet Mission – Global Research Show. The site enables blogging, podcasting, tagging and other social software tools – to connect Tokyo

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No I’m not X-Type?

Published December 12, 2005

Are you X-Type? is the new campaign website for the The Jaguar X-Type 2.2 Diesel. Look maybe its me, but I find this pseudo online advertising really lame. I pop my name in, watch some

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Flickr installations…

Published December 8, 2005

This piece developed by Mediamatic in Amsterdam, in May of this year has been a catalyst for many of my ideas. Flickr has made this type of installation truly possible – with its

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Podcasting hears the music

Published December 8, 2005

Podcasting is turning into a phenomenon of explosive growth. Everyone’s talking about it, everyone’s interested in it, everyone wants to get involved—but there’s no structure or framework to use any recorded music. Until now. The Association

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Do you see music?

Published December 8, 2005

Vigin Digital, the music download service, have put together a rather nifty campaign that requires your full attention. Do your best to find 72 bands in this picture (larger version here). There’s also a

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Odeo: Podcasting for regular people

Published December 4, 2005

Browser and phone based recording of audio for podcasting. Odeo provide all the tools you need to create, manage and distribute your podcasts… Haven’t played yet, but that’s what I’m going to do right

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Kissing a smoker is gross

Published November 28, 2005

Do you smoke? well AshtrayMouth.com explains what its like to kiss you… urgh – ! Check out the adverts, get wallpapers for your phone, desktop or icons for AIM and Messenger – plus there’s

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Viceland.com – ZOMBIEGRINDER 60000

Published November 17, 2005

Waste time at Viceland.com playing the ZOMBIEGRINDER 60000 game… zombies, guns, rock metal soundtrack… what more does one want

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Coca-Cola Zero Worldchill

Published November 15, 2005

Coca-Cola are on fire at the moment (especially in the online space).. This is the second major project I’ve seen in the last 2 months (check theM5 in a previous post), this is a global

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Fanning Madonna’ Ego.. the photo project page…

Published November 11, 2005

Madonna has started a photo tag project, both on flickr (from the last post) and here Fans are encouraged to scan and post all types of media; tickets, posters, sketches etc. Its quite exciting that

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Madonna’ flickr page…

Published November 11, 2005

madonna_gh2 Originally uploaded by havocride. Not just a pretty face, talented singer, superstar… but and advocate of flickr – what a babe

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120 features & almost as many movies

Published November 11, 2005

So the new Passat has a 120 new features, f*@k that’s a lot. So they began to make a 120 micro movies and animations, to celebrate this fact, check the Passat 2006 site, sit

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Coca-Cola M5

Published November 11, 2005

Great brand extension by Coca-Cola, 5 great design houses, from 5 continents make up the M5 project to create ‘visions of optimism’ (oky dokey). The outcome is fun and engaging, all flash execution,

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