OverRoll.com

Was introduced to FeedM8 through Mobile Marketing Magazine - I’m intrigued. Through FeedM8, you can “mobilize and monetize” your feed or blog. FeedM8 will make the conversion for you so that your content comes out looking pretty good on a mobile browser and screen. In addition, they will share revenue with you from the ads that they place on your mobile site. Here’s an example of what this site looks like after being distributed through FeedM8 (colors and presentation are also customizable - this is the default version):

Once you’ve set up your feed and created your login/account, you can add more feeds and check analytics. Naturally, before you begin “earning money” you’ll have to verify that it is actually your feed that you’re laying claim to. You do that by inserting a code into your next blog post. Once it’s verified by FeedM8 you can remove it….then just select how you want to get paid and voila! (On our mobile version of Overroll the ad at the top of the page is for a mobile version of Wikipedia on your phone….not a bad partner, I’d say. At least it’s not for local dating or concert tickets.)

From Mobile Marketing Magazine we see that many people have signed up including Mashable, ESPN, Engadget, GigaOM and on… I’d have to say that it’s a pretty nifty little way to quickly get up and mobile without worrying about too much, and quick comparison on your mobile browser of www.overroll.com versus www.FeedM8.com/overroll reveals that the latter is much easier on the eye (at least on my LG CU5000 - no iPhone here just yet).

We’ll keep you posted on revenue earnings. After all, it will take at least a few business days for them to mail me my check…

Last year in Tokyo during the Holidays, a group called Semitransparent Design completed their ninth installation of unique, interactive architecture using lighting. Of course, standing out is no easy task in the electrical circus we know as Tokyo. In this new installation, users were able to interact with light columns using their voice either through mobile or over the Web.

Semitransparent’s Ryoji Tanaka explains: “Akarium as an illumination project has been going on for eight years. When we joined the project, the light design had already been fixed and the lights were going on and off just through time-based programming. We enhanced the project with interaction, and by placing an interactive devices in a public space, we wanted to observe the changes in people’s communication.

Take a look:

Clearly, this is artistic excellence but it also raises some important questions. Should we be looking to expand the interactivity of our social media tools beyond the tools themselves? How can brands utilize mobile and Web based tools to create consumer participation beyond uploading videos on YouTube or passing around a new application on Facebook? And, can consumer participation in the digital space shift the thoughts, moods and brand perceptions of ‘passer-bys’ on the streets of our cities? If so, can we be sure to make these experiences meaningful?

Via: Ping Mag

Adobe has now entered the list of companies providing web-based applications, joining the growing list of such companies as Google and Microsoft who are offering online solutions to applications that in the past have only been accessible on your local hard drive.

I see this as a major indication as to where the Internet is going…

To date, the Internet has evolved faster than anyone could have ever imagined. In the relatively short amount of time that the Internet has been accessible to the general public, it has grown by monumental leaps and bounds; it’s a juggernaut with seemingly indefinite potential. And I see “fully Internet based PCs” as the next step in its evolution.

When I say, “fully Internet based PCs,” I mean the creation of PCs that are just, in essence, portals to your “Internet PCs” or virtual machines. We no longer will have a need for fully featured operating systems or applications to exist on your local hard drive, because one day Internet speeds, along with its accessibility and availability, will be so high-speed it will be able to handle any type of hardware emulation.

Although this idea is nothing new and is happening all around us (Gmail, Meebo, Zoho). I feel that only now is technology becoming available to actually implement these ideas. And though we are not quit there yet, we are moving ever so closer to its full-scale adaptation.