blog archive - july 2011

How to get a head in advertising

posted on 29th July 2011 by Greg

You might have seen the Gareth Bale ?animation by trainee teacher Richard Swarbrick? showing the goal fest in the David and Goliath-esque match against Inter Milan last year. It was an overnight sensation and received 100,000 views in just three days. ?His latest piece is all about Rooney's magical … read more »

Nerdy Things That Are Mostly Pointless: 3D DOM Tree

posted on 26th July 2011 by Andy W

Perhaps this should be the start of a series of Nerdy Things That Are Mostly Pointless?.

Tilt is a Firefox plugin that allows you to view a webpages DOM tree (the hierarchy for how a page is laid out) in 3D!!! And we all know how much everyone loves 3D. OK, so it's not the brain confusing 3D that … read more »

Ghost planes on Google

posted on 25th July 2011 by Jon

Planning a route to a meeting in Central London, I recently came across a (not so) ghostly appiration hovering what looks like a few metres above Russell Square and heading towards the British Museum.

Taking into account the way Google snaps its Maps images via Satelite I've no doubt this is a … read more »

Jonnie Marbles splats Murdoch

posted on 19th July 2011 by Jon

With a great interest in Hackgate, the ScoreComms team were keeping a cheeky eye on proceedings at the House of Commons Select Committee this afternoon. Following the un-expected interruption by UK Comedian Jonnie Marbles, we checked out his Twitter feed where we spotted a rather telling Tweet on … read more »

Google tell businesses to wait before signing up to Google+

posted on 7th July 2011 by Jon

Google has revealed that it is working on a Google+ experience for businesses and is asking brands not to create Google+ profiles just yet.

In a post and accompanying YouTube video on Google+, Product Manager Christian Oestlien says that the Google+ team is working on creating a unique experience … read more »

Google+ +1

posted on 4th July 2011 by Andy W

If you're at all confused by that title, then you may have missed the latest offerings from Google which they've been quietly trickling out over the past few weeks and months.

If you haven't seen the google homepage for a while, go have a quick look, I'll wait - here's a link incase you need … read more »