My good friends from the awesome band Cutting Jade (remember them, 10 Seconds) have just released their latest video for the song “Crazy”
The song comes off their latest album, “From Nothing” and feautrs a rather, well, Crazy Video. Check it out !
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Keep an eye out for the new Cutting Jade website launching soon
I been chatting to the guys over at Formsly, a Cape Town based startup, over the last couple of weeks about their fantastic contact form product.
Basically for $0.99 a month, you can create a professional looking contact form to your site. No coding experience or HTML knowledge is needs, and you use the formsly interface to setup your contact form. Once that is done, they give you some code, which you simply paste into your website. Really is simple !
Some of the features that formsly offers include:
I used formsly to setup a contact form for our iPhone Repair site, FiXi. So far, the response has been incredible, with the amount of contacts we have recieved. Because the form is so easy to use, and I was able to chose what I wanted on the form, it makes it simple for the reader of the site to use. The cool thing about formsly is that you are able to customise the appearance of the form & elements as well. So if you need the form to be a specific colour, or font etc, you can do that.
If you looking for a contact form for your site or company, I highly recommend Formsly, and at only $0.99 a month it’s a bargain !!
As you may know I have always been a huge fan of QR codes and the potential they offer. Slowly but surely South African companies are climbing on the QR code bandwagon, and using it to promote their brands.
But I was very pleasantly surprised on Saturday to see Woolworths have also started using QR codes to promote their latest sale, by displaying a huge QR Code poster on the store window.
The code resolves back to a .mobi site, which gives you more info about the sale. You can also watch a video of the TV ad promoting the sale. They did suggest Beetagg reader on the poster as well as the direct URL (woolworthssa.mobi). That said, the mobi site doesn’t have too much information about the actual sale. From the poster one would have thought you would have seen what is exactly on sale. Another thing they could have done, although not a biggie, is to have a specific url per store to see how many sucessfull each stores campaign was.
All in all though, well done to Woolworths, and I’m looking forward to see what they come up with next in the QR code arena !
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About 2 weeks ago, I came across a site called the Moral Experiment, run by John Bushell, who is based here in Durbs. The Moral Experiment is exactly what it says. It’s an experiment to see how moral we as humans really are. The Moral Experiment is a totally new & revolutionary concept on the internet & is designed to harness the power of your online social network. The site was also featured on Mashable this morning !
The objective of the Moral Experiment could best be described in the following scenario: If you came into some money that was not meant for you, what would you do with it? Would you keep it all, or would you give it to a worthy cause? Or possibly both? The Moral Experiment is designed to try and understand our choice. Do demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) influence our decisions? To get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works ->
Jane’s choice is totally anonymous, only she knows what she has chosen to do with her ‘Moral Earnings’. Her general demographics (religion, race, age, sex, education, etc) are fed into the Moral Experiments results, and this data is presented as group data that can be viewed on the web site. Are younger people more charitable than older people? Are women more giving then men? The Moral Experiment is designed to be insightful, fun, and possibly even controversial.
You can also watch this video to get a better idea of how the Moral Experiment works. I signed up the other day, and I am really impressed with the interface and how the experiment is layed out. I’m def gonna be keeping my eye on this one to see how it all pans out, as well as to see how moral people really are.
It only costs £1 and there is no obligation to continue. If you keen to give it a bash, you can sign up here
[twitter style=”vertical” source=”MarcForrest” float=”left”] As I mentioned in my other post about the Johannesburg U2 concert, I got to meet Tinus and the guys from FanCam. I have been a huge fan of Fancam who produce the most awesome 360 Pano’s of various events. They have recently captured the US by storm by capturing Fancams at a Colts NFL game, Duke Univeristy basketball game, a Celtics NBA game !! as well as the Vodacom Tri-Nations game at the FNB stadium last year. This weekend, they will be at the Daytona 500 in the US capturing what could well be the biggest FanCam ever captured.
They were asked by U2 to capture the crowd at the concert on Sunday and as you can see below it went off brilliantly. You can check out the full pano here -> http://www.u2.com/gigapixelfancam/. Once you have found yourself you can double click on your image, and tag yourself. You can then share the image on Facebook, Twitter or Email.