This week saw the start of the O’Neill Cold Water Classic competition and the launch of the all singing, all dancing Cold Water Classic website. The O’Neill Cold Water Classic Series represents an exciting and unique addition to the ASP World Tour Calendar and will see some of the world top surfers doing battle in the waves.The Cold Water Classic website will get you to the heart of all the action from the global competition, which has 5 stages in the ‘The Most Northern, The Most Southern, The Wildest and The Coldest’ of locations and is one of the most highly anticipated surf events of the year.The first event of ‘the most classic surf contest on the planet’ will take place in Tasmania and then move on to Scotland, South Africa, Canada and then finally to California.The website is beautifully designed by our friends at Ever Creative and built by Juretic using integrated flash technologies and sits within the new O’Neill site.Take a look for yourself and let us know what you think.
http://www.oneill.com/cwc
Google Mobile has made some new improvements to Google Image Search page for the iPhone and Android mobile devices. The improvements and features are currently available to users in the UK, US & Japan only.
Here are some of the features which have been incorporated to the new improved Google Image Search for iPhone & Android
- Easily scan up to 20 images on a single result page.
- Get details for the image that interest you.
- Detail Page allows you to view a large thumbnail, visit the webpage (containing the image) & view image in Full Size
- Image Search Result page now supports “search-by-style” filters – Faces, Clip Art, Line Drawings or Photo Content.
The improvements & features also work for Apple iPod Toch devices. ‘search-by-style’ feature was previously launched on Google Image Search in December 2008 which is now available for Google Mobile.
Screenshots Tour for Features:
I tested with search term “surfing” on my Apple iPhone
Displayed 20 Images on Single Result Page:
Filtered using ‘search-by-style‘ feature with “Photo Content” as my filter:
Clicking on an Image takes me to view more details:
Visit: Google Mobile – http://www.google.com/m (on Adroid, iPhone or iPod Touch)
Mart came up with a great write up on benefits, values & ethics of conversation on Twitter. I wanted add a creative touch to the subject by presenting 10 beautiful twitter birds that I found over the past few days which you can use on your blogs/websites. The twitter bird images presented here are linked to their source where you can download the High Quality version!
Noticing how Twitter can potentially help to increase followers & readerships, more bloggers are promoting their twitter profiles through blogs & websites. You can use these images on your websites/blogs to promote your profile or business.
So let’s get started and don’t forget to subscribe to our RSS-Feed and visit our twitter page if you want to keep track of our next compilation series post.
10 Most Beautiful Twitter Bird Images
1. Productive Dreams / @gopalraju
2. iPotion / @youmago
3. function / @liammckay
4. The Design Superhero / @aravindajith
5. iampaddy / @paddyonnelly
6. Darkmotion / @darkmotion
7. Sigler Design /@michaelsigler
8. Mau Russo Design / @maurizio
9. Luc Latulippe / @luclatulippe
10. Smashing Magazine / @smashingmag
Extras:
On a side note, if you are interested in designing your own Twitter Bird (Mascot), Rype Putnam has a wonderful tutorial called “Create a Twitter Bird Mascot” & HongKiat has a couple of Twitter Bird Wallpapers (using iPotion’s twitter bird) to use on your desktop.
Feel free to suggest any beautiful twitter bird images that you come across and don’t forget to follow me on twitter @iVinay 
Happy Tweeting!
Unless you have been hibernating for the last 4 months you will invariably be sick to death of the constant references to Twitter in the media. It is infuriating when there is a lot of media hype about a technology without anyone taking the time to explain how it might benefit you.
Firstly, Twitter is a microblogging tool that allows you to send 140 character messages to all those that are following your missives. This may seem rather restrictive when you can post much longer messages including images and multiple links to various references on the company blog. But the beauty of a short message is that it can focus you in to getting the succinct message out to the masses. This is a good thing as it helps us to think a little more creatively about what we are trying to say. But another great aspect to all of this is that it is the start of a two way conversation with your customers or clients, as you can follow them in return.
Do I need to start a conversation with my customers? I hear you ask. And I reply YES! The benefits are amazing as you can hear what is being said about you, your company, your products or your services. However, my favourite benefit is that it can help revolutionise the way companies evolve their products and services. Most of creativity in business is informed by the systems we use everyday to make our day to day work much easier. This can be restrictive as we often rely on these systems and find it hard to break outside of them to innovate. However, our customers and clients are not inside these systems and can easily point out ways to improve our service or product or even new services or products that may complement our existing ones. This is where Twitter is going to help those companies who use it well, by allowing us to converse with the end user in a more direct and instant way. The further benefit being that you can prove to the user that you listen and care about their needs.
I hope this provides some good reasoning to rolling Twitter into your PR and Communications channels for the future. I look forward to your thoughts and comments because I am all about the conversation.
Follow Juretic on Twitter at twitter.com/juretic and see what we have to say.
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