Sherry

I recently stumbled across Fount, a fantastic little tool to help identify web font’s really easily! Here’s how it works: After adding the Fount bookmark, go to any site and click the bookmarklet. Then simply click on any type to find out its name, size, weight and style.

Lexadecimal is a fun little site that lists all the hexadecimal colour codes whose letters form an English word.

“The words are drawn from the British section of Google’s Ngram database, meaning they are words which have appeared in books published in Great Britain. They therefore include proper nouns (Bessel, a German astronomer), foreign words (‘ecoles’), and some words whose meaning is not immediately clear (‘sallal’).”

“When widening our search for hex codes with meaning, we made three substitutions: ’1′ for ‘l’, ’5′ for ‘s’ and ’0′ for ‘o’, meaning that all the colours on Lexadecimal are those whose codes can be formed 6-letter words comprising the letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’, ‘f’, ‘l’, and ‘s’.”

Lexadecimal.com

It’s quite hard to remember the last truly creative music video. Many moons ago when MTV actually played music they where common place; ‘Windowlicker‘ or ‘Come to Daddy‘ by ‘Aphex Twin’, ‘Star Guitar‘ By ‘Chemical Brothers’, ‘Da Funk‘ by ‘Daft Punk’ to name but a few.

However there is hope and it comes in the shape of Google Chrome and HTML5. Recently there has been a trend in interactive music video’s that pull in all kinds of data to create a unique personal experience.

First on the scene was ‘Arcade Fire’ with ‘The Wilderness Downtown‘ and now I’ve just stumbled upon Japanese band ‘Sour‘ which pulls in data from your Facebook or Twitter account. A great experience. Long may this trend continue!

Click image to launch site.

Two days after seeing The Social Network, I still can’t stop thinking about it, and I have been trying to figure out why. It had all the ingredients of any successful film – great writer – Aaron Sorkin, great director – David Fincher, a great cast and some brilliant performances.

Whether or not the real lives of the group of Harvard students who founded Facebook have been dramatised somewhat to make an exciting film, is irrelevant – the most gripping thing is the essence of the true story. Genius programmer kid has an idea (or stole an idea, potentially), writes some code and creates the invention of a generation. It’s a life-changing story, not just for those involved, but for the 500million of us that use it everyday.

The speed of the events in the film (creation through to billions of dollars in just a year or two) helped me understand the scale of the irreversible impact those four boys in that college dorm room have had on our lives, especially with respect to the industry we at Sherry work in. In just a few years, social media has grown, flourished and changed the way we work for good.

Go and see it. Then come and talk to me about it.

The webs 100 most powerful brands have been depicted in this interesting graphic found on COLOURlovers. Blue is by far the most dominant colour. Interesting to see how the top social networks Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook and LinkedIn all use blue. Outside the top 100 there are even more examples FourSquare, Flickr, Tumblr – all blue.