What is your most secret wish? To save the world, become a famous writer or to have another wish? It’s time to make wishes come true. Here is an award winning flash experience site with games and special features created by 2Fresh.

Beautifully crafted fullscreen goodness. Lots of added extras and surprises to keep the user engaged.  A nice use of After Effects for button rollovers makes the experience just that extra bit touchy feely!  Even though this site is rich in content it seems to function relatively smoothly.  However my machine is half decent, so I wouldn’t mind finding out how it performs on something with less grunt… or even a Mac.

Visit the site here: http://www.o2vanoce.cz/eng

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Dataportability open standards group has been marketing the concept for a few years now, which supports the OpenID login standard and has been adopted by Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, and MySpace. Google’s Friend Connect and Facebook’s Facebook Connect are both offering open API’s to developers who can integrate their own login details with one of these major players.  Mashable has a good coverage of both of these tools here

Whilst this is interesting, it’s often not easy to visualise the possibilities of what Data Portability actually means for the end user.

This presentation from Razorfish looks at what might happen if Amazon and Itunes implemented Facebook Connect and cleverly paints a picture of how the experience of their sites would be enhanced.

Portable Social Graphs – Imagining their Potential

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I have no doubt that sharing of information between social networks will continue to be embraced, and as long as consumers feel safe that they are in control of their own information and relationships, then the privacy issues can be managed.

facebook connect

For business, allowing ease of signups, as well as potential access to the large amounts of personal information presents a great opportunitiy. So if you have a site that has a large database of users, it’s probably a good time to be considering integrating Facebook’s Facebook Connect and / or Google’s Friend Connect

If you were at the Sydney Motor Show last month, and your eyes weren’t glued to the expensive-looking supercars and not-so-expensive-looking promo girls, you may have noticed a little something we did for Mazda. 

It was an interactive kiosk that allowed people to view car specs simply by touching the screen. For a designer like me (who’s used to 72dpi), it was a nice change to be working with high res videos and a fancy-schmancy Plasma screen. And when we actually saw the beast being used by real people at the Motor Show, it gave us a nice little tingle under the bonnet. Shout out goes to Dan, our Action script guru, who helped out a lot with research and testing.

Brian, Senior Designer

It’s quite amazing how a story can be created like this.  Because it’s different it rises above the clutter of content.

Can your brand message do with a new canvas?

via Chris Brogan

Speaking about the technology, Ian Farmer Senior Brand Strategist for Bullseye said

“The iBar™ has received many innovation awards in Europe and we are excited about the digital possibilities this technology can provide to Australia. Designing a creative set of interactive experiences is an integral part of producing a rewarding and engaging brand interaction”.

Intelligent surface system

iBar™ takes consumer interaction to a new level. Integrated video projectors beam content onto the bar surface and the intuitive tracking system creates a new connection between real life products and dynamic digital content. This turns the bar into a giant touch sensitive screen allowing multiple people to interact with the content at the same time.
Coloured lights, animations or any rich media content can illuminate, link and follow every movement of a hand, bottle or glass.

The iBar™ software consists of two parts – tracking and displaying. All objects are tracked and their position is transmitted to the displaying-software. The displaying software can be adapted to your needs. The use of pictures, text, movies, animations or any visual content is possible. iBar™ is a modular, stand alone system that can be configured to suit your needs. The modules are 2m long and can be linked together to form a seamless interactive surface of virtually any length.

The iBar™’s can also be networked wirelessly to allow interaction between two or more separate units. Content can also be streamed via the net and bars can be fitted with Bluetooth technology to allow consumers to download content. Each portable module consists of its own cameras, projectors and computers. Any number of iBar™ modules are available for hire on short and long-term arrangements.

Absolut loves visions. They love them so much that they turn visions into realities.

In an ABSOLUT World everybody can submit their visions and explore what others have envisioned and realized. And the website reflects this idea with an interactive navigation using 3D graphics to create an engaging experience.

Realised visions are represented in by boxes that you can drag, spin and open. Each one is different, and because they are generated by consumers, you’ll find all kinds of content inside.

There is even a blog which captures the submissions to “In an Absolut world ….”

I’d like the ability to save a vision as a widget and then post the result to a social network, as this would ensure greater syndication of the content.

But the site is well designed and the visions are very powerful.