My photo site has been down for a day or two, because of an ‘upgrade’ to the server that I put on last week. Anyway it’s back today and has some new features like better urls, and the ability to sign up for an account. You can see it at this link. Hope you like it.
When we went to the Making Space exhibition last weekend, we were really impressed by the work on display there. One piece that I could see had taken an age to create wasn’t in the catalogue, and I’ve just found out what it was called and who made it.
It’s called “The Tower of London (after Breugel)” by Emily Allchurch, and it looks like this:
As you can probably see, it’s dozens (hundreds?) of photographs assembled into a new piece. It was mounted on a lightbox, giving it a luminous quality.
From http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/10/19/google-quantifies-its-momentum/
Headlines:
- Google almost doubled its net income July to Sept 2006 compared with July to Sept 2005, compared with Yahoo’s drop of 38% for the same period.
- Their costs in respect of third party sites on their network dropped by 31% compared to the previous quarter: they’re paying less AdSense publishers, probably also paying less per click. This is probably at least partly down to the impact of click fraud, but they didn’t say that.
- Nielsen say Google’s market share for paid search has grown by 24% to reach 50% of the market.
- New product launches go on and on, and the YouTube acquisition will feed into that significantly.
- Sergey Brin says they’re working as hard to get their products integrated with each other as they are to develop new products.
By the way, if you look at http://investor.google.com/releases/2006Q3.html Google looks like it has $3 BILLION in the bank. That must be generating some interest.
I received a very surprising email from Apple this morning, which you can read in full at http://email.euro.apple.com/apple/servicemail/version1/uk/index_uk.html
Initially I was surprised to receive this: it’s practically an invite to unsubscribe from their list, but on reflection I think it’s probably a good idea.
Why did they send the email?
Harry from Agency.com has done a movie about the slides at Tate Modern. Much more polished and professional than mine.
It’s here:
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We visited the Making Space exhibition in Spitalfields today. The winning entries for the Shoot City competition on September 30th were shown alongside some very good work by people who’ve been exhibiting for years, including members of the in-public.com group.
Times Online has reviewed the slides at Tate Modern here: http://timesonline.typepad.com/critics/2006/10/tate_moderns_sl.html
All the articles I’ve read have debated whether it’s art or not. First of all, everyone I saw taking the ride regressed instantaneously to become a 5 year old: this is an amazing experience and I believe the experience itself is really worthwhile.
Secondly, we have this huge industrial hall, which used to house generators for a power station, and dangling out of the walls we have these 4 steel tendrils. It’s definitely art, on a huge scale.
Since uploading my video of the slide at Tate the other day to Google Video, I’ve discovered that I’m number 5 in Google Video for the search term “Tate Modern”. (See http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=tate+modern for the current position.
So we’re going to have a competition at the office to see who can get the number 1 spot, and who can get the highest star rating, for their video efforts. Closing date will be 2 week’s today, on October 27th.
It’ll be interesting to see how many people participate, and what cunning SEO tricks will yield the best results.
In the meantime, rate me and get me up the list by going to http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7132947457429004196&q=tate+modern
Our website for Channel Five went live today at http://download.five.tv/
It’s been an interesting project, more complex than we first thought, and I think the site looks great. Go and buy some videos, and make our clients some money!
Also, the blog’s properly working again now. I took a while to move it to blog.markhopwood.com, and it’s finally OK. Don’t get me started on Apache, suexec privileges and stuff: let’s just say I know a lot about Apache that I didn’t think I needed a few days ago. If you’re getting a 500 error on Plesk, drop me a line. I’m practically an expert.
