Quietly launched last week, but now shuffling into a centre-stage position, is the wonderful travel.dk.com from Poke for Dorling Kindersley.
All the usual suspects are there - content browsing, integrated booking with affiliates (with many more partners to come), advertising partners, user-submitted content and comments and ratings. I think we’ve managed to do all of those […]
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Show me the way to Amarillo. Or Belgium.
Published by February 14th, 2007 in work, interesting, books, new poke things and webstuff. 1 CommentThe Malice Box Quest
Published by January 5th, 2007 in books, new poke things and webstuff. 2 CommentsNew piece for Penguin and one of their lead titles for 2007 called The Malice Box - Poke have just pre-launched the game of the website of the book.
The book is a fast-paced thriller - a bit like the Matrix meets The Da Vinci code - following the main character Robert Reckliss on his quest […]
Another nice idea from Penguin - a series of classic titles with “draw them yourself” blank covers, and a web-based competition to boot.
Best idea we’ve had so far? A very ornate, pen and ink drawing on the Dostoyevsky of some beautiful letterforms spelling out “I’m a pretentious twat” (in Russian).
The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters
Published by October 15th, 2006 in interesting and books. 0 CommentsI love books me. I own loads. I love buying them. I love holding them. I love the smell of them. It’s just the READING of them I find hard. I predict there’ll be loads of posts about books, but I also predict I won’t finish any of the books per se.
Anyway, my friends at […]
A tidy piece of work from my brother’s company Beef - the website for Homobrittanicus - Chris Stringer’s book that examines the development of mankind in the UK.
“This unique history reveals us for who we really are, shows us the history of our island, tells our full story for the first time and gives […]
