Really simple FBML tab for The Wanted on their Facebook. I love FBML, simplicity is so effective and you can achieve enough without resorting to full blown app development on Facebook. This was a basic video environment where users could watch the new video, tweet about it, share it and suggest it to their friends using the FBML friend selector and request form.

Another bit of random fun, mostly fueled by boredom and a frustration to how awful Internet Explorer 6 is as a browser. This was mainly inspired by a particular day when i saw an unusual amount of tweets from developers on Twitter about IE6 failings. I decided to throw together a static page to tribute the awfulness!

I decided to put an @anywhere tweet box and hovercards on the page too, just so it didn’t feel like a complete waste of time. This was also a bit of a test to see how fast i could throw together a static page with @anywhere on it, taking the best part of 20 minuets.

Just a bit of WordPress fun making a web site for my Gecko. I did this mostly to see how fast i could throw a particular theme together from my base template, i think this came to around an hour 1/2 from design to finish. I also wanted to do a site with a right post layout spanning a whole vertical space.

I had a lot of fun doing this project, and it was great to work with an artist like Massive Attack who i have a lot of love for. This initiative was also nominated for ‘Best Digital Artist Tool’ in the Music Week Awards 2010. For this particular site i conceptualised the platform and experience, as well as designing the body and UI with the development been sourced.

The site was the focus for social distribution of new video content under the new album ‘Heligoland’, and averages around 20%-30% return traffic referral from automated and user generated tweets on Twitter, proving its virality and value.

This created a dynamic and engaging experience, where users log in to the ‘Tweatre’ with their Twitter accounts, navigate the content, and can directly ‘tweet’ about each video from within the platform.

This sentiment driven activity falls in line with the nature and intention of the films, directors and music itself – to spark emotion, passion and thought within viewer’s minds, and provoke a response, one which they can express through a tweet to a global audience. This creation of conversation through social channels is the key directive element of the campaign – Lucid Labs

With the launch of @anywhere a couple of months ago, development of platforms like this has become slightly easier, and although a private Auth is required to lock in the videos, the direct tweeting from them is best done with the Tweet Box @anywhere script now. Hopefully i’ll get to explore a bit more with this in another instance soon to further value the concept.

Hadouken Official website / web properties (www.hadouken.com).

Element:

Visual/Design/Development

Description:

Visual approach and WordPress development of Hadouken.com website, including custom ‘Live’ date category archiving.

Take That, Twitter/Facebook platform (www.polydor.com/takethatvote)

Element:

Visual approach & design

Description:

Worked in development partnership to deliver a Take That vote platform for their new live album ‘The Circus’; users could preview the track then login with either their Twitter or Facebook accounts and vote for their favourite. These results were then published to their associated account feeds.