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Thanks to James Enck at Eurotelcoblog for this one.
I imagine one day we will be able to navigate content archives using an interface that looks like Oblong. They call it a “spatial operating environment”, very haptic and looks fascinating. It seems to take the touch screen approach of Jeff Han and adds something from Cooliris.
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This is an amazing video of a BBC augmented reality project called “Band in your hand“. It is apparently real and actually worked. There`s a blog post from the BBC Radio Labs with some links to other augmented reality demos and projects.

It`s easy to see a version with a football angle, but turn it around [...] Read more »

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So there I am watching Manchester United play Barca in the Champions League semi final. It’s half time and the ads roll. Ford have done a good job lately, changed the emphasis in their CL ads, they are more fun and focus on people rather than stars. Then the new Nike ad starts.
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NewTeeVee have a post on a great mashup idea from Dipity. Adding the element of time into navigation, not just sorting results by date but displaying them on an actual timeline that the user controls. The timeline has a cognitive model we all understand very easily.
I searched for the current Norwegian Champions SK Brann and [...] Read more »

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Finding out who is playing who, when they are doing it and the eventual results, often means a trawl through various pages of a site. It’s usually text based with the layout in tables that feel like they haven’t changed much since Mosaic. It’s not exactly gripping.
UEFA’s approach moves things up a notch and presents [...] Read more »

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I imagine there is an awful lot of business generated by fans traveling to see their team play. Event companies specialise in this and it´s a growing segment. The experience can be huge, there is the travel itself, usually meeting some other like minded fans, the whole matchday event and the travel home again in [...] Read more »

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“The way we experience and consume sport will change more radically over the next ten years than it has done in the previous fifty”.
Someone said that recently and it´s inspired me to start this blog. I tried to start it in 2006 and like many blogs it just died. Now my work is closely [...] Read more »

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