W3Haus UK Labs

Chico @ w3haus London

Directly from W3haus Brazil, Chico, one of the co-founders of w3haus will be staying the month to meet UK clients. See you around!

Gelatube – some Friday end of day fun ;-) Created by W3haus

Created by our Brazil office, Gelatube is a promotional site for the Royal Jelly brand. On the site anyone can use their webcam to distort stretch and squeeze themselves to create the most fun video. The best entries win a chance to win a Nintendo Wii.

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A sneak peek at the new Taschen book we appear in at the D&AD book launch event

Last night we went to see the launch of the new D&AD annual and met up with Julius Wiedemann and the team that designed the upcoming book by Taschen in which we are featured in: “The Internet Case Study Book”! This is currently the only copy in the UK apparently, and, judging by the previous edition, might sell out quickly when it hit’s the shelves!

If you haven’t checked out Taschen’s store in London, we recommend you do – here is the address:

TASCHEN Store London
12 Duke of York Square
London SW3 4LY

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Pillow for workaholics

You can buy it at geekstuff4u

Excel for illustration

Somebody get this guy an illustration software package!

Salsa – Innovative advertising on Vimeo

For those who don’t know, Vimeo is a site that caters for the specialised video community. Similar to Youtube in functionality, but with a much more design and film-maker oriented design, it is the place to share your  video creations online in high quality.

Tostitos Restaurant Style Salsa created this ad, a luxurious world of greens and Salsa ingredients, thoughtfully engaging this niche audience of  film makers. And the result is viral worthy – click below to see:

Nice video to understanding a bit more about Chatroulette

Learn a bit more about this new internet phenomenon

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

A bit of w3haus London and Jaguar shoes

Recently Daniele Tubino, or Tubis as we call her visited the w3haus London office. Tubis works between the São Paulo and Porto Alegre w3haus offices in Brazil as an account managers. After a bit of work talk we headed out to Jaguar Shoes for some Shoreditch drinks (#recommend).

Checking out the now (in)famous illustrated wall

Jaguar Shoes on Kingsland Road, Shoreditch.

Understanding Coke’s approach to social media and fan engagement

Flash running fast on Google Nexus One mobile

Flash Player 10.1 on Google Nexus One from michael chaize on Vimeo.

It looks like it runs faster than a lot of desktop computers we have used, OK ,we’re exaggerating, but it looks very fast for a mobile device. Now that Adobe has signed on most of the mobile phone makers in the market apart from Apple, the IPhone will feel increased pressure to allow the flash plug-in to be incorporated into its browser. Our best guess is Apple will keep a stranglehold on flash and other competing software to Quicktime and open standards as long as possible, caving in somewhere in the near future as competition starts eating away at its market share.