Combine Adobe AIR with Bluetooth with BlueCove (a lightweight server capable of relaying said Bluetooth data) and you get the, (maybe) cleverly-named “Hello There”. When running, it constantly scaned for Bluetooth devices in-range & made note of their device ID.
Initially thought up as a project where I could use a ColdFusion beta (I’d never even touched CFML), once the ColdFusion beta expired, it then became a project for me to learn PHP and mySQL… I then later went on to make a (throwaway) port of the site in order to learn .NET.
For those not aware, in order to create dynamic display ads that don’t look like donkey poo, the developer needs to embed the font-outlines for any and all characters which […]
This bug may very well have been around for a while, but it seems that the Google Voice plugin for browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome) is very possessive of its webcam. […]
It looks a little chintzy, but YOU try fitting a physics engine, sound AND good graphics into a non-rich media ad. Final ad size fit nicely under the 40k limit… coming in at a svelte 37k
Nike’s rich media ad for the 2009 holiday season.
An immersive environment to introduce the user to the characters and experiences of the new Sony Playstation game Primal. Utilized cut-scene video for level transitions.
In the early 2000’s, Nissan was set to relaunch its fabled “Z” model. Chiat was tasked with creating the microsite to build buzz and provide enthusiasts with a few tasty […]
A dynamic display ad that took data from the eBay Motors API and displayed said data using the Yahoo Maps API. Geotargeting was used in ad trafficking, allowing the map […]
Discovered a bug today. One which, best I can gather, occurs only in Safari, with users running OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard). After finally tracking down what the problem was, I was amazed that the bug wasn’t better documented…