Really interesting video on how algorithms shape our world...

http://liftconference.com/news/new-video-kevin-slavin-those-algorithms-govern...

For B&T's 60+Awards edition, I was asked to imagine what the digital agency will look like 10 years hence.  Get a copy of B&T and have a read if you're interested. Tell me what you think.

What do you think the future has in store for Digital Agencies?

Article below originally appears in B&T 60+Awards edition December 2010.

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http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/

What a great way to prototype against Google's APIs. 

One of the difficult things developers face when creating applications and services that work well in local context is all the work that needs to go into making them location aware. It's complex and expensive work to do it well.

A new service aimed at developers looks to make it a lot easier. It's US only at the moment as far as I can tell but it looks great.

Check it out...

http://simplegeo.com/

Great intro to Gamification...

"Gamification is the use of game thinking and mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems".

Hat tip: @3kwa

From the 'Big in Japan' department. 

The new Samsung Nexus S has quite a cool new feature and while it's early days, it does hint at the near future.

http://gizmodo.com/5707321/what-is-near+field-communication

Near field communication allows the phone to capture information from objects in close proximity. Think of it as QR Codes without the reader. Ofcourse it only really gets interesting if you can 'write' your own details back to the object and tag it some way.

Then it becomes social and that's when it gets interesting. Hey, if it works for dogs (butt sniffing and leg lifting), why not us?

How cool is this?! The world's easiest making system.

http://www.ponoko.com/make-and-sell/how-it-works

Now you have no reason not to realise all those crazy ideas... (I'm looking at you Kate, my beautiful inventor wife).

Just great.

Converse & Anomoly + Nike & W+K

CONNECTIONS CONVERSATION. INTEGRATED CAMPAIGNS / CONVERSE & ANOMALY | NIKE & WIEDEN + KENNEDY from LE BOOK on Vimeo.

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It was harder to get to this point than you might imagine...

Some great insights into the standout 'digital' work over the past 10 years.

The most interesting of the ideas live beyond the internet of course. Nike+, Chalkbot and EcoDrive are just great innovative ideas in general that have a tightly integrated technology component and although they have been identified as 'Digital ideas' over the past 10 years, they won't be in the next. You can take that to the bank.

I've contributed to a piece in an upcoming edition of B&T that captures my thoughts on digital in a decade. Keep an eye out for it.