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Google web experiments, Gaga fans get more space to go gaga, and History Pins

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:23:00 +0000

Off The Wall Post delves into some cool web apps - Google's Chrome browser web experiments that teleport you to bakeries and miniature parks across the globe, lets you bang drums in London's Science Museum and, coolest of all, sends your portrait to robots endlessly drawing and erasing faces in the sand.

We also look at lovely mapping archive project History Pin and we deconstruct fandom via Lady Gaga's Little Monsters - her own social network.

All this plus wanky words aplenty.

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Samuel Pepys, Sweden tweets and the craziest photo app yet (ft. Phil Gyford, curator of Pepysdiary.com)

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:36:19 +0000

After nine years and five months, Phil Gyford finally uploaded the last entry of Samuel Pepys Diary to his epic blogging project Peypsdiary.com. A side project for this brilliant web developer, we talk to Phil about his labour of love: the process, the audience it built, its move to Twitter and how it feels when something this long-term comes to an end.

Other items include the discovery of InstaCRT - crazy iOS photo filter app; Lenddo - social banking; a bump in the road for Sweden's citizen-led @sweden Twitter account.

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A picture can post a thousand tweets ft. Chris Floyd, Photographer, 140 Characters

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:31:42 +0000

Photographer Chris Floyd decided to turn his relationships on Twitter into a photography exhibition (and then a book) called 140 Characters. Dan went to meet Chris at a book signing event in The Big Green Bookshop and talked to Chris about the book, the project and his exploration of Twitter and its users.

The podcast is interspersed with soundbites from Chris' 140 Characters slideshow and we thank not only Chris, but his subjects for their contribution to this episode of Off The Wall Post.

Chris on Twitter - @chrisfloyduk; Big Green Bookshop on Twitter - @biggreenbooks

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Sex, Privacy and Serendipity with Aleks Krotoski

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:16:40 +0000

Dan and Kat are joined by journalist, academic, podcaster and presenter, Aleks Krotoski to discuss the topics of her forthcoming book: Untangling The Web. Attitudes and behaviours around Sex and Privacy are the big changes that the web has wrought upon humanity, but there's a real sense that serendipity is the real goal - and Aleks has built a machine to show it!

Kat also highlights PointerPointer.com, a brilliant use of images from the web; Dan advises you to watch Between 2 Ferns (from Funny or Die) and investigate the amazing PolitWoops.co.uk, which publishes the deleted tweets of polititians.

All this and the latest attrocious wanky words from New Media and the crisis in the Eurozone...

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NB: Barry's gutted he missed this episode and so are we. Barry sends his love and will be back next week!

Cookiegeddon, Microsoft gets socialish and Polaroid struggles on

Mon, 28 May 2012 19:44:41 +0000

Kat, Dan and Barry chew over the meaty digital and social issues of the day: what ARE cookies? Are they evil, naughty or necessary? Is Microsoft's new social network So.cl actually a social network or some weird search meets pinterest meets delicious thing? Is Polaroid's iphone app too little, too late?

All this plus some of the wankiest words you'll hear this side of South by...

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Building brilliant online offers for Big Entertainment TV audiences (ft. Tom Dolan, Head of Entertainment ITV.com)

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:43:00 +0000

Head of Entertainment for ITV.com, Tom Dolan joins Off The Wall Post to share his insights and talk telly and online - the partnership of big entertainment shows, audiences and online. What are the opportunities for TV to add value to the 2screening / online audience? And how to keep a light touch integrating the opportunities so as not to ruin the experience for the mass audience who just turned on to watch TV.

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Defending The Novel in the Digital Age (ft. Lloyd Shepherd, author of The English Monster)

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:48:00 +0000

Novelist and author of The English Monster, Lloyd Shepherd, joins Off The Wall Post to discuss his close-up experience with pirates, publishing and the changes and challenges facing the novel in the digital age.

Barry gets excited, along with the rest of the Kickstarter community, about a watch; while Kat finds Kickstarter has rekindled the creativity of an old favourite Ze Frank.

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Gaming in the UK, nostalgic emails and Bazza through the Google Glass (ft. Dr Jo Twist, CEO of UKIE)

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:09:00 +0000

We love a bit of interactive entertainment on Off The Wall Post, so we're delighted to talk to the awesome Dr Jo Twist - CEO of UKIE (United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment Association) about games, playfulness, demographics and the promise the UK Games Industry holds for young people hoping to make careers out of creativity and code.

Barry gets his critical groove on for Google Glass(es); Kat gets nostalgic and Dan finds an easy way to play with his data and APIs across the internet with If This Then That. Plus some of the wankiest words this side of SXSW.

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How to tweet and build personality for TV shows, brands and dolphins (ft Dave Levin - @the_dolphin_pub and @bbcthevoiceuk)

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:12:00 +0000

It's all the rage for brands and TV shows to have Twitter feeds, but how many of them actually have Twitter personalities you'd want to follow? The ones that Dave Levin writes do! With a host of majorly successful Twitter accounts to his name, including The Dolphin Pub, Channel Four's BattleFront and now BBC's The Voice UK, Dave talks to Off The Wall Post to share his Twitter technique, tone of voice and his top tips for building an engaged and loyal community on Twitter. AND whether your Facebook and Twitter voice should be the same.

Also this week: Kat talks about Cat Map and digs into hot new privacy-busting location-based app Highlight; Barry wonders why he should care about which internet browser he uses; while Dan wonders what's become of the industry that brought so much innovation to digital media, but has since gone quiet.

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Listen with Pinterest as we ride a Cowbird to jail for a joke

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:20:00 +0000

Image tagging service, Pinterest, has received a lot of tech press since it gained a staggering 12 Million users in 2011 and looks set to continue being huge in social media in 2012. Kat, Dan and Barry sign in and pin, then dig deeper into the practical and commercial uses of Pinterest, and whether anyone should really give a damn.

Meanwhile, Barry revives the Twitter Joke Trial as Stephen Fry blasts the judiciary for being out of touch with Twitter. Barry presents his hilarious top ten tweets to get yourself arrested.

Dan gets highbrow with Cowbird, a storytelling collective that seeks to pull together human stories and narratives in a sort of experiential wikipedia for the human soul.

Full links available on Off The Wall Post Blog

Wanky Words

Pinterestification - @heatherataylor

Twipping Point / phablet - @marcsettle

Surface - @fakebitpoly

Going Meta - @_martinfranklin

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Web comics and the difference between for free and for fun (ft. Timothy Winchester, creator of People I Know)

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Timothy Winchester's 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.

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...

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

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:26:00 +0000

Kat's away, leaving Off The Wall Post to dig 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.

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.

Kat will return next episode to return brains, class and credibilty to 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)

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Television is the second screen (ft. Mark Sorrell, Head of Games, Screenpop)

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:35:00 +0000

Television and digital media have been obsessing over two screen (#2screen) synergies for ages now - thinking about 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 opportunity of platforms like Zeebox and its API.

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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Ep20 Christmas Special - Drinking to the past, the present and the future of digital media

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:13:10 +0000

Fuelled largely by Pringles, Celebrations, jellybeans and beer, Kat, Barry and Dan slap a Dickensian motif onto the podcast. Looking to the past, present and future of digital and social media. Photovine, Flickr, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Facebook mobile phones, Gowalla, 3D TV, Siri, Twitter... What's promising to rock the year ahead and what's doomed to pick over leftovers with MySpace and Friendfeed? Listen in to find out.

Wanky Words:

Kidfluencing - @ZoeEBreen

Curautomation -@Huey and @srhas quoting @benjilanyado

Brain Rain - Tom Kile Hartshorn (from OTWP Facebook page)

Engagerprising - Andy Piper (from OTWP Facebook page)

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Opening up Zeebox and finding kittens

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:20:00 +0000

Dual Screen iPad and web app Zeebox is fresh off the production line and causing a stir. Dan's got himself an iPad and has been playing along to the branded TV special E4's Desperate Scousewives. Is this the future of social television...?

Barry makes the case against Frictionless Sharing with products like Spotify and The Guardian on Facebook; Kat brings USP music-sharing network This Is My Jam to the table AND the ultimate cuddly online productivity writing tool Written? Kitten!

Wanky Words

Twadvent Calendar - @GemmaBrady18

Thinkpiece / Bathtub curve - @ZoeEBreen

Ideation - a return kicking by demand of @AndyPiper, @quirkybean and @valeriemeachum

Deck (a powerpoint presentation) - Dan

Washup - @R4isStatic

Cloudify - @Jordit

Legacy Proof - Kabir Jutla

Episode 18: Raptured Captured - the making of a web series (ft. Heather Taylor, writer-director Raptured TV)

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:51:00 +0000

Raptured is a six-part online drama that started airing on YouTube, Blip.TV, Vimeo and beyond on 21 October 2011. Writer and Director Heather Taylor joins Off The Wall Post to explain the series that upgrades the humans that got left behind when The Rapture happened. Heather describes the funding models; distribution deals through Koldcast; issues around product placement and misplacement; Vimeo frustrations and the second series already in the works.

Watch the whole series on the Raptured The Series website.

Other things brought to the podcast include Barry's Internet-enabled Television; Kat's ruminations on Google's release of Google+ brand pages and the death of the URL as we know it; Dan gives everyone nightmares with the Facebook privacy scarefest Take This Lollipop.

Wanky Words

Affluenza - Heather Taylor

Augmentainment - Paul Rissen

Futurescoping - Zoe Breen

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Concerning Commuting, The Art of War and the genius of Humblebrag (ft. Brendan Nelson, Digital Strategist and blogger)

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:09:00 +0000

How do you get a seat on a crowded commuter train? How do you get your blog posts to go viral? Turns out the two questions have the same answer...! Digital Strategist and blogger Brendan Nelson joins Off The Wall Post to discuss the modern warfare that is getting a seat on the train and the strange experience of a blog post about commuting propelling him into the news headlines, radio spots and ethical battles with The Daily Mail. Not to mention the curiously silent ruckus to be found in the Google Analytics of Fame.

Also on this week's podcast Kat offers a web tip to avoid those embarrassingly out of date link tweets - Is It Old?

Barry blows our ears and minds with a quiz - yes a quiz! - using a series of mnemonic ditties from tech history. And Dan brings Twitter gem HumbleBrag to the table to enrich your Twitterstream and point the finger at disingenuous celebrity humility.

All this and some of the wankiest words you'll (hopefully) hear all year:

Screenagers - @Thomhoffman

Succailure - @Rooreynolds

Coolmercial - @peopleIknow

halfalogue - @deeharvey

Braindump - @josephcoulson

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Mash-up breakdowns, mind-blowing stats and forgetting how to remember

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:16:00 +0000

What's better than an awesome music mash-up? How about an awesome music mash-up breakdown that you can watch unfold in front of you while it rocks your world! Kat, Dan and Barry break out the smoking hot tunes of Girl Talk and Daft Punk to marvel at the visualisations of mash-ups online.

How many photographs are on Facebook? A shitload according to the 1000memories blog that claims 4% of all photographs EVER TAKEN are hosted on Facebook! Dan brings these incredible stats and how digital photography and video means his children are living a paparazzi'd life of self-referenced action.

More stats arrive as Barry returns to Google+ which, after initial success, has reportedly shed 60% of its users. We consider Google's social platform's failure to capture our or many other people's attention. Even Kat's losing the love for Google+ - a negative feeling shared by Google employee Stephen Yegge (from a private comment made on Google+ subsequently shared publicly!).

Wanky Words

Dogfooding - @ZoeEBreen

Astroturfing - Barry's own gift from working in a wanky industry

Salami slicing - @duncanbloor

Appify - @zoeEbreen

Skillify - @jordit

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Ep15 - QR, missus! or QR Codes, Digital Advertising and Frictionless Sharing (ft. Roo Reynolds, Wieden + Kennedy LDN)

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:36:00 +0000

Off The Wall Post is joined by the brilliant Roo Reynolds - Head of Emerging Platforms at Wieden + Kennedy London (and formerly podcaster of Shift Run Stop). Roo discusses the new opportunites for advertisers and brands in the digital space and brings his own digital bugbear to light: QR codes - the good, the bad and the ridiculous.

QR Code Rubik's Cube

Clean Bandits 'Telephone Banking'

Kat presents an incredible facial meshing webcam homebrewed technology video well worth watching here. Barry introduces How Many Really, a social media / history mash up contextualiser that tells you how many of your friends would have survived the World War II. Dan highlights the recent Facebook developments and what Frictionless Sharing means to the users. And Roo delights u with the Don Draper MAd Men Timeline video.

Wanky Words this week:

Internaut - Roo Reynolds

Fragvergence

Thinkiatry

Verbification - Hugh Garry

Maximum Traction - Barry (for SHAME!)

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Ep14 - Facebook ads: the medium is the people is the message

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:41:00 +0000

What happened when Off The Wall Post took out a Facebook ad? Kat, Barry and Dan muse upon Facebook's page advertising: the targeting. the cost and the effectiveness. And in the process of wondering about the engagement possibly insult everybody who's liked us recently!

We love you all really! If you Like the podcast on Facebook come and say hello. Tell us about the best thing on the internet or your latest, favouritest mobile app, or best of all a wanky word we wish we could erase from new media jargon forever.

Other web wonders from the team are Barry's respect for Google+ hangouts being enhanced for the benefit of sign-language users. Kat introduces Housebites - takeaway food re-invented, which leaves us hungry, but sceptical about the sustainability of the business. Kat also highlights BERG's neat Transport for London bus countdown data scrape that puts live bus times on your phone or tablet.

Wanky Words

Tweetching - @hemmysphere

Twibbon - Dan Biddle (for SHAME!)

3x ("3 ecks") - @vtri / @andrewjskatz

Webinar - Roo Reynolds (from our Facebook Page)

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There goes the Wikihood (plus Matt Locke on TV genres and social media)

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:08:22 +0000

Barry Pilling returns to find not only did we treat last week's guest, Storythings' Matt Locke, to Pringles and biscuits, we also saved up extra material to add to this week's podcast. This second part of Matt Locke's conversation with Dan and Kat works through the issues facing TV productions across a selection of genres: drama, comedy, factual entertainment, in the light of the increasingly interactive, communicative and highly visible audience. All about attention, claptraps and narrative design; practical examples include Misfits, Million Pound Drop and Seven Days.

Kat introduces Wikihood - a fantastic iphone app mashing wikipedia with google maps and location data, to contextualise a users' surroundings with knowledge beyond that of a FourSquare tip about Starbucks lattes.

Barry discusses Blink 182's awesome user-generated and ripped video created by the band from clips taken from YouTube videos that used their songs illegally. A whole lotta fun and respect for all concerned.

Dan highlights Google's new photosharing app for the iPhone - Photovine. A little bit Instagram, a little bit Flickr, all good. Though why Google launched it without an Android version is anyone's guess...

Wanky Words

Datatainment - @Richardayers (via the excellent blog post 'Data? Entertainment? You need Datatainment on scaryredhair.com)

Storyworlds - @ZoeEBreen

Reboot (a brand or series) - @nevali

Padcasting - @dogwinters

Eventuate - @shrinkwrapped

Episode 12 - Telling stories and listening to 2-screen audiences (ft. Matt Locke - Storythings)

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:14:00 +0000

This week Off The Wall Post are joined by multiplatform storytelling master, Matt Locke - head of Storythings and driving force behind one of digital media’s favourite conferences: The Story.

Taking full advantage of Matt’s decade of online experience with BBC Online, Channel Four Education and Channel Four Multiplatform, as well as his unique insights into developing relationships between storytellers, narratives and audiences, Dan and Kat found out what itches his Story Conference scratches, how Comedy writer Graham Linehan (Father Ted, The IT Crowd) engages with online communities such as Twitter, and how Richard Curtis walked the streets of London looking for Blackadder ratings.

We discuss the emerging audience insights that Twitter brings, how content strategy is developing around realtime feedback and trends, and analyse attention shapes from C19th to today.

Barry’s away (at least that’s the story we stick to for most of the podcast!), so Kat and Dan do their best to entertain. Dan offers http://photoshoplooter.tumblr.com/ to show that image manipulation and a sense of humour can bring light to even the darkest hours, while Kat eschews traditional search engines to find human-sourced results to bookshop brainfreezes with What Was That Book?

Wanky Words this week are:

Storification - Matt Locke’s pick
Learnification - @ZoeEBreen
Digital oxytocin - @vtri
Catflap edge-case - @fohoboo
Twinterview - @article_dan who should be ashamed of himself for saying it last podcast!

All this and it’s only part one! Episode 13 will continue the Matt Locke interview to reveal more of Matt’s online experiences with television content, attention patterns and the future for various television genres with a 2-screen audiences. As well as the return / release of Barry.

For more information about Matt Locke’s visit storythings.com or follow @storythings on Twitter. You can find out more about previous Story events via The Story website.

Upsetiquette and social media angst - a problem shared is a problem podcast

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:19:00 +0000

Episode 11 is a special edition covering a multitude of social media etiquette issues brought to us by followers of the podcast. Off The Wall Post invited the listeners to share their worries and woes around social media and Kat, Dan and Barry set to analysing and exorcising those digital demons - or, as is more likely the case, just added their own insecurities to the ever-growing pile!

Huge thanks to all those who contributed their social media angst:

@shrinkwrapped - the original comment that sparked this podcast - should you check into a stranger's bed on Foursquare?

@erinflorence - emoticon fatigue

@_llamaface - facebook over-sharing

@caspar01 - Facebook relationship status update awkwardness and Twitter introductions in real life

@duncanbloor - unfollowing politely

@fizzex - follow / follow-back

@arivindabraham - unmentionable acts while skyping

And special thanks to Electric Pig for their post: 27 signs you're a dick on Twitter.

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Hell is other circles

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:24:00 +0000

Off The Wall Post hits double figures and kicks off remedying some of the skewiff guesses we made about Google+ in the last episode. We've been in it (to win it) for a couple of weeks now; Kat, Barry and Dan give their more informed opinion on the biggest thing to hit social media in years.

We also share our thoughts on Facebook's chat upgrade with Skype video; the Guardian's fantastic Twitter timeline visualisation of the unfolding News of the World #notw scandal (and other great realtime media visualisations like The Archers, Backchannel for The Hills and HBO Pulse). Kat also opens our eyes to Berg's rather wonderful Shuu.sh Twitter noise-filter.

Wanky words this week:

Sunsetting / Sunsat used by Dan himself in the podcast - for shame!

'Web Therapist' from Andrew Barron

Platformize from @shrinkwrapped

Dual-screening from Kat

Don't forget to share your wanky words with us on Twitter (@offthewallpost), on our Facebook page or on our website. AND for next week's special episode, tell us your tales of modern digital etiquette angst - the agony aunts will put it all straight in episode 11, coming soon.

Episode 9 - Kat minus Google Plus equals... Animals being dicks

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:28:30 +0000

Kat returns from holiday, jetlagged and furious at the lack of Google+ in her life. Making do with hearsay and Mashable JPegs we take a look at Google's new social network and what it may or may not bring to our lives. With a small detour into the glorious Tumblr that is Animals Being Dicks.

Other topics include the end of the mobile love affair as Barry's HTC tortures him with 'safe mode' and zero useful user support; Kat's lovely book of life maps made by James Bridle from iPhone's infamous location data - Where the F**k was I?; Dan's incredibly poignant Dear Photograph.

PLUS we manage to squeeze in mentions of the Newsweek Princess Diana at 50 tasteless Facebook debacle and an insight into a very modern madness as a Utah bank robber updates his Facebook profile during an armed hostage situation.

Wanky Words this week:

Cro-pro - from @davidlloyd123

Ideapreneur - from @andyhawkes

Preditor - @thomhoffman

Reach - Dan himself

Remember, you can come meet us at the BAFTA Transmedia London event on 5 July 2011. We'll be playing #wankywords live through @offthewallpost. Come say hello if you're there!

Episode 8 - Transmedia F**k Yeah! (ft Dave Green of Bafta)

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:10:00 +0000

While the Kat's away the transmedia mice have a play, as Barry and Dan are joined in the pod by Dave Green of Bafta. Dave organises games and transmedia events for Bafta and came in to atalk about the forthcoming Transmedia London meet-up, as well as the state of cross-platform narratives today.

Our Digital Things this week were:

Ambient police radio You Are Listening To - New York

Kaiser Chiefs' new self-compile album format for The Future is Medieval

Charitable URL shortener Virou.grama

Dave's Dead Social Media Society entry - Doh The Humanity

Wanky Words this week:

Disintermediate from @marcsettle

Upsum from Timothywinchester.com

Platform Agnostic from Karen Jones

(Yes. We miss Kat too. We promise she'll be back next week!)

Episode 7 - Strictly Come Timedancing (ft. Arivind Abraham and Ali Maggs of Chaos Created)

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:03:00 +0000

A bumper edition of Off The Wall Post was joined by Arivind Abraham and Ali Maggs of Chaos Created - an innovative UK start-up creating transmedia stories and interactive narratives. Their latest project - TimeDancer - weaves a time travelling mystery across app-isodes on Windows Mobile Phones and we delve into the challenges and charms of building an interactive video for mobile. Arivind and Ali share the history of TimeDancer, the present of Working with Windows Mobile and spill the beans on just how difficult it is to develop apps for iPads and how easy it is to get on the wrong side of Steve Jobs.

Also on the podcast: Kat brings location based services back into the light with Place Whispers, and we discuss benches that tweet, QR codes on graves, FearSquare and Feckr.

Barry breaks his Kindle on holiday, but eulogises its passing by disclosing its best kept secret - you can browse the web anywhere for free with a Kindle!

And Dan contrasts novel new crowd-funding site Unbound with Kickstarter - and finds Unbound still comes with a few too many strings attached.

Wanky Words this week are 'Gamefication' and 'In the Wild'.

Episode 6 - Binaural curious...? (ft. Trevor Klein, Digital Producer: Papa Sangre and The NightJar)

Sun, 22 May 2011 20:53:00 +0000

This week Trevor Klein joined the Off The Wall Post team to discuss Something Else's remarkable audio-only games Papa Sangre and The Night Jar (available on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). Trevor explains binaural sound and the the team consider the benefits of constraints on creativity.

Other things on the table include Kat's dynamic travel app Bus Mapper; the change in TwitPic's licensing rights; Dan's theories on Twitter's hitting 'peak creativity', and Barry offers us the best of memes and the worst of memes: the shitness of Planking vs the awesomeness of Sam Klemke's 35 years of videologs.

This week's Wanky words were:

'Around' from @brelons

'Convergence' from Trevor Klein

'Creatologist' from @csi_popmusic

'Ping' from Kat and Dan

Episode 5 - a trip down Memolane

Sun, 08 May 2011 19:55:00 +0000

This week we talk about not talking about Twitter; we discuss the National Trust' Farmville made real: MyFarm; Barry creates a new Radiohead album using a 16x16 square web app; and we discover the social media timeline MemoLane reaches the parts other social content aggregators fail to reach.

Wanky Words are brought to you this week by: @Nevali (Unsuck-it.com) and @R4isstatic (paradigm)

New entries into the Dead Social Media Society provided by @shrinkwrapped: @tweetingclock and It’s About Time This Happened

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Episode 4: a golden age of novelty without commitment

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:30:00 +0000

Kat, Dan and Barry discuss Google +1, the search giant's latest attempt to add a social edge to their game; will it work, or is it another ill-thought folly doomed to failure? Dan brings some hard numbers to bear on Twitter's user stats and uncovers a few social media accounts that the team have left dormant for waaay too long. Barry recounts a bizarre tale of mobile apps and free beer, then freaks out with Kat over That Can Be My Next Tweet's apparent mindreading powers.

All this and a glorious collection of inglorious wanky words to make your skin crawl and your conscience weep.

Insightgeist - from @DrJackLomax

Ideation - from @ravonski

'You should be looking to leverage your media offering' - from @wesayso

'I'll listen in if you're properly leveraging your operation synergies to deliver a multi-platform user-engagement ecosystem...' - from @andyhawkes

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Episode 3 - Living in Color

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:09:00 +0000

Topics of the week are Facebook status update anxiety in teens; Facebook Questions bringing us few answers to our social needs and the latest photo-sharing app - Color.

The smart phone app Color caused quite a stir in tech and social media circles - mainly because of its massive funding and seemingly underwhelming launch. Certainly some commentators, like Robert Scoble, have given it a royal beating for its flaws. So, armed with two HTC Android phones and an iPhone, Dan, Kat and Barry fired up the app and took it for a test drive.

All this and a trip to the 1930s archive to introduce Barry to a special animal song dear to Kat's heart.

Wanky Words this week are job titles it seems:

Guru (from @jemima_knight)

Ninja / Jedi (from @hemmysphere)

Evangelist (from Ian Ravenscroft via the Facebook page)

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Episode 2 - Geolocation: time to check out?

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Geolocation-based social networks like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places are all the rage, but how social or useful are they really? Dan's close checking into the corner to lose his Foursquare religion, while Kat says: who cares? Foursquare is NOT where it's at - services like Google Latitude or StickyBits are far more exciting and applicable to the real world.

We also discuss what's bugging Bon Jovi about Steve Jobs; funny one-joke Tumblrs and Warner streaming movies on Facebook. And we catch up on the Twitter antics (sponsored or otherwise) of Charlie Sheen and consider the holier-than-thou attitude faced by TwitRelief (Comic Relief's take on the TwitChange style celebrity follower auctions for charity).

This week's wanky words were:

Punching above your weight

Front-end evaluate

Participatory end-user validation

Scrobble

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Episode 1 - Charity begins at phone

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:04:20 +0000

Welcome to the first episode of Off The Wall Post, featuring Dan Biddle, Kat Sommers and Barry Pilling. Each episode we cast our irreverent eyes across the best of social media, new media, mobile and the web.

This week: Charity Begins At Phone - we look at the ways in which charities are emerging to raise awareness and/or money using social media tools and exploiting our evolving online behaviour. Examples discussed are Twitchange , Underheard in New York , Procrasdonate , Pledgehammer and more. Also we discuss Art Finder ; Google's Android updates that reject Facebook contacts; and Charlie Sheen's dramatic arrival on Twitter .

(Please note: we're making this up as we go along and this podcast or any surrounding Off The Wall Post content does not represent the views of our various employers.)