Archive for March 5th, 2009

What kind of Willy Wonka magic will web 4.0 include?

This video from the Oglivy 360 PR team has been making the rounds via Twitter today. It wasn’t until the third or fourth retweet that I started to pay attention. Something that got that many nerds that excited has to be good, right? Watch the video you will be amazed (unless you are Jess, then you won’t find digital 3D holograms all that cool).

Personally, I’m more impressed with the fireworks one (found from Spark Project (which includes some insight on how this magic was created):

Desktop Fireworks from Saqoosha on Vimeo.

Pretty rad, huh? We tried a few of these out at The Nerdery and they totally work. I’m thinking some of our AS3 nerds should get on this, because I know the web really wants to play with a 3D digital hologram of the Nerdery.

Profiles in Nerdery: Sarah Hokuf, calls Buffy a nerd, not slain (yet)

• Astrological Sign: Libra – Should I tell you that or shouldn’t I? Hmmm. . .
• Time at the Nerdery: 5 months.
• Area of expertise: Eating. Oh, you mean my skills? Eating. Well in my past life I lived and breathed design, html, zen cart, and Joomla. Now I just talk about those things and you will usually see me in LinkedIn daily.
• When people ask you what you do, how do you respond: Look at my profile in LinkedIn, it says “Director of Nerds.”
• Favorite kinds of projects to work on: By myself, ecommerce. On the Sales side, websites with fun agencies.
• What one thing about The Nerdery surprises people the most when you tell them about it: That we have dogs and beer.
• Seven dream Jeopardy Categories: 1. Name that font 2. Foods around the world 3. Movie Titles 4. Volleyball rules 5. Your cat 6. How many buttons in a jar. 7. Catch Phrase.
• Favorite Fictional Nerd: Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Really, she is a nerd.
• According to the Wikipedia entry on Nerd, some nerds show a pronounced interest in subjects which others tend to find dull or complex and difficult to comprehend, or overly mature for their age, especially topics related to science, disambiguation, mathematics and technology. Do you know what disambiguation is: That sentence is too long for my attention span.