(TrendHunter.com) Nonsense London have just created this fun game for ActionAid inviting users to digitally dress up and make their own animation. It is to support ActionAid’s Who Pays? campaign who are lobbying for tighter regulations of how UK supermarkets deal with producers in developing countries.
The game…
(TrendHunter.com) Against the trend of ‘throw away’ fashion, British clothes swapping site What’s Mine is Yours helps you recycle your trends and gives you access to dozens of new wardrobes. If your closet is anything like mine, you’ll have loads of things you’ve almost never worn but that you like too much to throw…
(TrendHunter.com) The UK’s pork industry has been hurting pretty badly, but pig farmers aren’t getting discouraged yet. At least not until they’ve tested the powers of online virals.
A group of about 20-30 farmers gathered in London to produce a song called “Stand by Your Ham,” a parody of the Tammy Wynette song, “…
(TrendHunter.com) It’s like an aquarium screensaver but better– A MacQuarium is an aquarium that you can customize to fit inside your old MacIntosh computer shell–making a well designed (if dark) home for your goldfish and allowing you to still display the decorative (if useless) Mac exterior (some mac owners reall…
(TrendHunter.com) Second Lifers start saving up your minutes, or negotiate a new cell plan because Second Life is coming to mobiles. In the most exciting development since Webkinz Vollee has the technology to use 3G handsets. With all the graphics this should be fun.
(TrendHunter.com) To promote his latest movie, Semi-Pro, Will Ferrell dressed up as his character, Jackie Moon to create this viral campaign which is disturbing, yet a tactic his fans will find hilarious. The movie doesn’t hit theaters until February 29, but already it’s created quite a buzz. The trailer is embedded …
(TrendHunter.com) YouTube has been the vehicle of exposure for many artists. Even more incredible than Tay Zonday, who won the world over with his surprising baritone voice when he sang Chocolate Rain, is this four year old drummer, Jonathan Nicklagard.
His talents on the drums are incredible, and he’s already won …
(TrendHunter.com) Following closely on the heels of the wildly popular “Yes We Can” video is another musical mash-up of Barack Obama’s speeches, this one titled, “Hope Changes Everything.”
It features a video montage of Obama speaking, shaking hands and engaging with the public. In the background run words from one…
(TrendHunter.com) JohnnyDarter.com is combining the exciting photos of a men’s magazine (like Maxim) with the convenience of an online store (like eBay). They don’t actually sell anything. Instead, the site ‘advertises’ the things that women are already selling somewhere else on the internet, e.g. eBay, Craiglist, et…
(TrendHunter.com) Ready for your next website addiction, info junkie? Alltop is a great new site that features all the top stories from websites, blogs and news sources for 15 different categories.
It’s a great source for story ideas, and makes it easy to track down exactly what you’re looking for by category. It’s…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen how viral Apple’s commercials get, so we thought we’d fill you in before everyone’s seen the latest. Plus, when this one gets spoofed, you’ll want to have the original to compare it to. The latest iPhone commercial is called “The Great Thing” and emphasizes how truly fantastic it is to be…
(TrendHunter.com) I can hear the men groaning already. ShoeTube is a niche video sharing site like YouTube dedicated to those beautiful designs that complete our soles. Sure it sounds a little silly, and you may be wondering what kind of content you’ll find on a channel dedicated to shoes.
Guys are probably thinkin…
(TrendHunter.com) Type Amy Winehouse or Paris Hilton into Google and in the top ten results you’re sure to find articles about them smoking crack or making sex tapes. Try again with Kate Moss and you won’t find any mention of her infamous behaviour until somewhere on the third page of results. In fact, clicking throu…
(TrendHunter.com) This search engine isn’t a Google killer, but it’s one that will be gaining in popularity because of its specialized search feature. It’s called Clusty because it clusters search results in meaningful groups. If you are doing a large search on a popular term, Clusty will try to put them in groups wi…
(TrendHunter.com) Created by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik, the Miss Landmine contest is both a protest of the use of landmines and a celebration of beauty. It’s no secret that landmines are violent objects of war that indiscriminately maim and kill – often innocent people. The Miss Landmine contest in Angola conti…
(TrendHunter.com) Dorks unite! There is finally a way your two great loves may meet – Star Wars Origami. The recent craze has been sweeping the globe with sites popping up all over the net. Happymagpie.com teaches you how to make your own Destroyer Droid or Naboo Fighter ship. Whilst Phillip West’ Flickr acco…
(TrendHunter.com) You may not think colour has a sound, but five bands and five directors were able to create five music videos inspired by five different colours. What results was the Sound of Color, and the compilation will part of an online ad campaign by Gap. The Raveonettes, Dntel, Swizz Beatz, the Blakes and Ma…
(TrendHunter.com) All over the U.S. teenage girls are txting and IMing about the prom and having giggling fits as well as real angst. Hearst Digital Media wants them online. MyPromStyle.com is a new site with fashion, quizzes, slideshows, to help them be confident about their style CosmoGIRL, Seventeen and TEEN are c…
(TrendHunter.com) Amazing cool 3-D picture viewer add-on for Firefox browser. It works with Google, Flickr, DeviantArt and many others including some social networking sites like Facebook. Ive started typing random words into Google image search just so I can browse the beautiful images this software generates. I don…
(TrendHunter.com) Between the animations and the well-selected music, this video was pretty mesmerizing! For those of you old enough to remember, this style of animation reminds me of an old syndicated program named “Night Flight” that was on the USA cable network back in the 1980’s.
Unfortunately, I don’t speak Ru…
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