There are some things around online that I think are good and I'd like to share them with you and store them here for future reference.
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1. Belle Du Jour's Facebook Profile (not sure if these Facebook links will work)
Belle Du Jour is the pseudonym for the author of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, the TV series, of the book, that started as a blog, so Facebook makes a natural addition. Belle has a profile on Facebook (obviously I can't be sure it's actually one person and not ITV's marketing department) but it's updated regularly and it's feels authentic and unsanitised.
The little status updates are fun and there's some attention to detail in the Info bits. It's not just a profile, there's a funny little application called FantasyMatch too.
They also previewed the TV series a week early online (although they don't support Mac).
All very simple, all on brand, all effortless and all OK. All good things.
(I've asked Belle to comment but no word yet.)
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2. National Theatre Facebook Profiles
The National Theatre have a whole series of profiles on Facebook; NT London, NT Watch This Space and New Connections. I love these. Social Networking feels like the perfect place for Arts organisations to be and this is simple, cost effective (you know, almost free) useful and unobtrusive.
Add NT London as a friend and every now and then you see a little status update like, "NT is unbelievably excited about War Horse opening on Tuesday. And even more unbelievably, we're offering £5 tickets for the show next week!"
That's a nice, friendly thing, isn't it?
And it's updated frequently, which is key, and they also post videos and reviews and do special Facebook offers. Very simple, very unintrusive and very good.
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3. Lucky Voice Facebook Apps
Lucky Voice is the brilliant karaoke place in Soho. They've created a really clever little application that allows you to add song lyrics to your status updates.
The clever thing about this is that people do it already (step forward Will Humphrey) and now they can do it more comprehensively, more easily and whilst being gently reminded about Lucky Voice.
Nice, simple, clever, building on existing behaviour. Good.
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4. Simpsons Character Generator
There isn't a blogger in the land who hasn't heard about this, but I wanted to add it because it's a really good example of when the blindingly obvious is often the right thing to do.
It also helps that it's very well executed. Painstaking attention to detail.
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5. Energyville
It would be very easy to slag this off.
It's a game created by Chevron and The Economist. It's a bit like Sims, you decide which fuel sources to use to power your little city and the game projects what might happen over the next few years. You then modify your decisions as the game goes on.
Again it's very simple, the illustrations are very nice, I learned something and I didn't have to register with my birth weight to play. Simple, well executed, good. City Of Sound talks about Energyville here.
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6. Elle Macpherson’s Intimates MySpace pages
Again, I love this.
Using spoof sexy girl profiles on MySpace to advertise lingerie is just a good idea. I'm not sure it's right for the audience, but it's a knowledgeable use of the genre.
Elle Macpherson Lingerie have various different girls on MySpace complete with videos and suitably blurred sexy pictures. It just seems like a really good use of the medium. CR Blog have written about this in more detail here.
That's it.
interesting post
Posted by: yoni | Oct 12, 2007 at 18:58
If my status was truthful, it'd constantly say I was drinking tea. Cheers for the link to that app.
Posted by: Will | Oct 13, 2007 at 10:25
If you are looking for better simpson characterization you should check this url: http://www.simpsonizeme.com/
There are even more details.
It took all my afternoon creating my workmates simpson figure.
Posted by: Giacomo Cesana | Oct 19, 2007 at 17:14