Prime8: The weekly web roundup 19/12/14
I know what you’re thinking: ’brave… so brave’.
And you’d be right about that. It was totally courageous and no amount of 2-4-1 pizza can change that fact.
Next week we’ll be trumping the El Capitan climb by attempting to ascend the side of an iPhone 6S.
Here’s this weeks web roundup…
The Government STILL don’t understand the internet
Amidst the pantomime of ire-fueling headlines like ’Cameron wants to ban your Snapchat and Whatsapp!’, there lies a legitimate issue. The Government wants to ban peer-to-peer encryption to ‘improve security’. All this again proves is our country is run by people who are completely clueless about the internet.
Here’s looking at you… looking at yourself?
This is rather lovely. A family in Boston have turned their front room window into a ‘selfie mirror’ for an art project. It proves once and for all that people loose all sense of dignity when faced with the chance to do a selfie…
The machines know how we feel!
A brilliant piece on the development of software that ‘understands’ what we’re feeling. Not surprisingly, the sales industry is rubbing its hands in greedy anticipation and it’s all rather exciting really. Hard to fight the nagging thought that a Blade Runner-esq future is rapidly getting closer though.
Touch the future
We’ve ‘touched’ on this before (lol!) but ‘tactile software’ is progressing at such an awesome rate it needs revisiting. Check these bad boys out…
Get your stato on
Econsultancy have released their first digital stats roundup of 2015. Get your Buffer app ready marketing people – here’s your social content sorted for the next few weeks!
Digital Detox
It had to happen didn’t it? The tech world is the singularity point for pretentious, hipster trends and so it comes as no surprise that the new big thing in technology is… not to use it anymore! That’s right, we’re now being told to ween ourselves of our digital addiction.
GGA’s website of the week
Interactive Zombie survival movie/memory game? I’m in! All you need is 5 minutes and (preferably) a tablet device to play on. It’s brill.
…and finally
The superhero craze and App development worlds collide in this advert for the all new way for costumed heroes to find their ideal sidekick. Much lolz ensue.
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Until next week…
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