Web comics, QRs holes and why Google knows what you want (ft. Timothy Winchester, creator of People I Know)
Posted on February 5, 2012 by Off The Wall Post
Off the Wall Post Poster by Timothy Winchester (People I Know)
Off The Wall Post are huge fans of creators and people who make the internet a better place. Timothy Winchester is one of those people. People I know is a wonderful, quirky web comic that’s been bringing joy to readers for years. Timothy joins Dan, Barry and Kat to talk about his hobby-turned-bedroom industry that moves between the internet and hard copy sales across the world. AND present us with his awesome depiction of the Off The Wall Post team!
A glorious and glossy print copy of the Timothy Winchester Off The Wall Poster you see above is this week’s OTWP prize. So keep your eyes peeled for updates of how to win on our Twitter and Facebook Page.
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Thankfully, Kat returns to the podcast this week, and so inevitably does talk of Google – this time Google’s browser history-inferred information it uses to feed you its targeted ads. We look into Google’s Ads Preferences Manager and reveal Kat’s true age!
Barry discovers a QR code application that DOESN’T suck – although that depends on whether you advocate innovative Turkish football fans abusing opposing teams at a match… While other QRs-holes are discovered in the shape of Bromley footballers (not Barnet – though that would have made more sense) shaving QR codes into their heads. And the curious / ridiculous tale of Justinsomnia.org’s QR code being misused across the world by advertisers – leading to huge traffic spikes to his site!
Dan gets Shazam happy about the increased use of the audio recognition and tagging app in TV advertising.
Wanky Words:
Permalancing – @huey (via @janefriedman)
Ultimedia – @thomhoffman
etailer – @jordit
To make a viral – Timothy Winchester
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Social Lives, Social Deaths and the Stats of Social Gaming
Posted on January 23, 2012 by Off The Wall Post
Cyberknight - ep22 doodle won by @biddlebong
There’s a phenomenal amount of time (and money) spent on Social Gaming (Farmville, Cityville, Words With Friends etc.) and Off The Wall Post digs into the stats provided by Who Are Social Gamers to discover that only two things in this life are certain: death and Barry’s insatiable desire to create a quiz out of an infographic.
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Talking of death – Dan discusses the interesting case of This Is How You Die - a tumblr collecting deaths as imagined by those destined to die them. Confused? Don’t be. It’s all in a good cause – a crowdsourcing of material for author Chuck Wendig‘s latest novel project Blackbirds.
Enough about death – what about life? Your social life, that is – as analysed and reported by Social Life Audit, via Facebook check-ins and picture tagging. Clever facial recognition software Face.com and your Facebook places check-ins combine to make up a fun (if depressing, in our cases!) collection of sentiment analysis and conjecture. Worth a try, if only to see if you’re more social than Dan and Barry – and you better hope you are!
But remember: after doing the Facebook Connect fun – go into Facebook and clean out your apps. Twitter too! As Dan’s rage illustrates the liberties OAuth apps can and may take from your accounts and your reputations if you leave them there without checking on them.
Kat will return next episode with the brains, class and credibilty of the show!
Wanky Words:
Appcessorise – @R4isstatic
Engagification / Intentcasting – @andypiper
Zeitgeist-defining / Eyeballing / Freemium – @MarkBeharrell
Earlyvangelist – Tom Kenyon (on the Off The Wall Post Facebook Page)
The ep22 doodle was won by @Biddlebong (Dan’s sister – honestly, this was without prompting or set up!) on Twitter for outstanding and swift response to our high five call out during the recording Thursday 19 January 2012.
*HIGH FIVE* Don’t leave us hangin’…
— Off The Wall Post (@OffTheWallPost) January 19, 2012
@OffTheWallPost *high five!*
— CATHERINE BIDDLE (@BIDDLEBONG) January 19, 2012
There’ll be another doodle and another chance to win next episode! Don’t forget to share your thoughts and wanky words with us on Twitter – @offthewallpost; Facebook.com/offthewallpost or the blog offthewallpost.com
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2-ScreenMan
The latest news that Sky has bought into Zeebox is further evidence that television and digital media have been obsessing over two screen (#2screen) synergies for ages now. The Sky Zeebox social TV app buy-in, is all part of TV’s developing strategies to meet audience attention and behaviour in a world where they have laptops, mobiles and tablets open on their laps offering alternative, social media treats to detract (or complement) the traditional content of the first screen Television. But Screenpop’s Head of Games and blogger, Mark Sorrell, has a different take on this – that the Television is the second screen in this relationship and that the primary focus of audiences is on those other screens – they just happen to have the Telly on at the same time. We discuss the hope and hype of social TV and the emerging ‘augmentainment‘ platforms like Zeebox and its API opportunities.
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Other things discussed this episode are Louis CK’s live recording download experiment (and success); the number of iPads and tablets activated over Christmas 2011; and the rights and wrongs of Google’s decision to remove MG Siegler’s ‘offensive’ profile picture from Google+.
PLUS – our first ever Dan Biddle Off The Wall Post doodle give-away
Wanky Words (both provided by Mark Sorrell):
Telefication
Clarion the hero message
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