Think & Play
Thoughtplay is the creative team behind various popular websites and other projects. At this blog we give away bright ideas regularly, and comment on interesting trends both online and off. The thought channel is for more business-related trends, play looks at entertainment and leisure, and thoughtplay introduces our own creative ideas, as well as news about our projects.
Wikipedia goes offline | 270407
Wikipedia has become available on CD, with a selection of around 2000 articles. The URL and common sense would suggest DVD would be a better format, presumably on its way - though given the increasing availability of WiFi (and the fact that you can already put Wikipedia on your iPod (we've got it running nicely on an old iPod Mini), this does in some ways seem a pointlessly retrograde step. Maybe a book version next? (There were rumours of one years ago.)
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Viral marketing | 200407
Here's an interesting idea: Who is Sick? invotes people to (anonymously) post details of illness to get an idea of epidemiological spread - it's mainly US-focused, but does also cover Europe. John Snow's famous 19th century cholera map meets Web 2.0 mashups. (link via BoingBoing)
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