W+K interactive strategy director Renny Gleeson did a little show and tell session for us last night.
Renny's presentation was so provocative as to stimulate spontaneous facial hair growth in the audience.


Just for fun, here are links to some of the stuff we talked about:

http://www.summize.com (twitter search tool)

http://www.netvibes.com/rgleeson (Renny's netvibes page that shows what he reads to keep up)

http://www.compfight.com (a flickr search tool that WILL FIND YOU PICTURES YOU WANT)

http://www.twistori.com (the twitter/summize tool searching twitter for 'love', 'hate', etc.)

http://tinyurl.com/5lgtrk (MadV on YouTube – he did the "one word" video thing where folks wrote on their hands)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoOCiaxIZF4 ("Follow Your Instinct" Choose-your-own-adventure video)

http://www.thewhalehunt.org/ (jonathan Harris's whale hunt site)

http://www.wefeelfine.org/ (Jonathan Harris's blog 'feeling' scanner)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fwQTHYTJQA (Star Wars "Revelations", the first ten minutes of the Fan Film.)

http://thisissand.com/ (The falling sand toy.  Try it. You like it)

http://blip.fm/invite/rgleeson (Blip.fm – the endless playlist and song recommendation tool – this is an invite from Renny to join)

Http://www.ted.com (great website, clean interface, amazing films)

http://www.conversespellingbee.com/ (the converse spelling bee)

http://flickr.com/groups/whats_in_your_bag/ (the flickr group where people dump out their bags and photograph and tag the contents)

http://www.brandtags.net (clicking 'whatever it is they say it is' link lets you choose by brand to see responses to date)

http://digg.com/ (the user generated news source that feeds many blogs around the web)

http://labs.digg.com/ (different ways to look at the stories and experience of digg through some pretty freaking cool interfaces)

http://www.dipity.com/ (the timeline builder into which you can import flickr, blogs, twitter, etc, and see them on a timeline)

http://www.constantsetting.com/ (pulls sunset images from flickr in an endless slideshow)

http://www.noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/ (Miranda July's stovetop interface)

http://www.opensourceresistance.net/ (the video of the NIN secret concert and "raid" by SWAT team – the conclusion of the Alternate Reality Game)

and as a bonus,

the future of pornography (mapping avatars/real world persona over robots you can interact with)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-hg4qCaR74

the robot that will hunt down the last surviving humans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJJQ0zNNOM

Received a chocolate bunny all the way from Australia. Along with a very nice thankyou note from 'Nisa, Marwa, Nilly and Vick' who did a project about our Honda Cog ad. They achieved a "High Distinction', the highest mark possible.


Well done, team. And thanks for the bunny.