The global audience

There is one irrefutable fact about the Internet, it’s everywhere.

Estimates suggest two billion people now have regular access to it via their computers, their phones, their games consoles, their TVs and various other appliances around the house.  This is obviously great for business, there is an audience out there that’s waiting to find out about you and your products and services.

What I’ve loved about the Internet, since I started using it full time in 1997, is the way it’s given creative people an outlet for people to see their work.  Far, far more people than ever would have been able to in the past.

OK, there’s a lot of crud out there that you would never want to see but finding one exceptional idea, video, image or website can make up for that.  I thought I’d take the opportunity to point out some of my favourites.

monkeehub.com

I can’t remember the first time I saw this animation but it’s a very long time ago.  I dread to think of the time it must have taken to put together but it is absolutely superb.

The same guys were also responsible for the superb video to the JCB Song.

The sandpit

I’m not going to explain how this works, just watch and enjoy.

You can find out more information here.

Words

Just clever

Microsoft concepts

There’s also a chance for big companies to show off what they are thinking.  Microsoft Research has an “envisioning” lab where they try and guess where technology is going to take us and it’s a pretty good place.

http://www.officelabs.com/projects/productivityfuturevision/Pages/default.aspx

The only thing on the video they don’t think we’ll see?  That much legroom on a plane (about 50 seconds in).

Spread your ideas

Even if you’re not technically minded, you can spread your ideas via a blog and get people noticing you.  There’s a big audience out there waiting to hear about it.

I’m going to post more of these at a later date but if you find any particularly good video clips, animations or anything else, let me know.