Here are two rather pleasant things that have been launched into the world wide web from Poke towers recently;

1.Orange Unlimited is a never ending page of interactive flash fun that brings to life the Unlimited campaign tag line ‘Good things should never end’. The characters you will meet were illustrated by the awesomely talented Rex, my favorite bit is the beat juggling musical characters on a washing line - it’s abit like a simpleton’s version of the incredible tenori-on.

2. Spinvox is a clever little thing with a tidy new website…’SpinVox is a service that can be accessed from any phone. Speak Freely and SpinVox will convert your words into text and send them wherever you decide: mobile, inbox, TV screen, blog and more. Give it a try now’

Here are three good things that have been sent round at Poke this week…

1. See the drastic change in the pay gap between the average CEO and the average worker since 1970 with the swell CEO payscale slider.

2. More infographics, this time from Flip Flop Flying - Facial Hair of US, UK and UN leaders.

3. ‘Climate Change’ animation from Airside+ Mother.

Made this site for my new mates in Australia, have a look, and maybe buy something…

p.s. I still like my old mates

Just the way you like it…

1. Consume typographic excellence at Studio 8 Design.

2. Nice interface touches on the microsite for Richard Serra’s MoMA show.

3. I WANT MetaSerif Book.

Spotted anything interesting on Google Maps new Street View? It really is quite scary but also a great development on google’s behalf. Integrating panoramic flash content into Google Maps, is this the beginning of a real-time video view?

Top 15 Google Street View Sightings
Google Zooms In Too Close for Some
The camera behind Google’s Street View

Today I am sporting the personaliseable (is that a word?) world clock screensaver.

Bureau for Visual Affairs have recently produced this simple flash portfolio site for photographer Andrew Hobbs. At a first glance the interface looks and feels pretty fresh, efficiently serving up detail views of the photographers work (might be nice if there was a full screen option?). The clever bit is when the site’s flash engine works out the size of your browser window and adjusts the presentation accordingly, nice.

…is a project I have recently been invloved in at Poke - an advent calendar designed for the greedy consumer who want to open all those windows at once!

Flash development courtesy of a certain Mr. Cowan.

More Bingo skill here for this Poke produced animation promoting the Orange world mobile service (it’s about the 19th page into the first section of latest work of Bingo’s site!).

You’ll have to forgive me for another team Poke trumpet blowing post, but the good stuff keeps on coming!

This time I want to tell you about Zopa, a project I was working on this summer. The company was featured on the BBC news a few days back. Watch the BBC spot for an understanding of how it all works…

Our brief was to bring the community aspect of the site to the fore and demonstrate how people lending to other people is quite simply the best way to do money, aswell as refreshing the look and feel of their existing website inline with the branding the company had developed with North design.

We hope to have made Zopa a far more social experience by introducing an engaging flash environment populated with real Zopa lenders and borrowers, who have real data attached to them for users to interrogate and learn more about Zopa and its markets.

The characters you meet at Zopa were illustrated by Cookie. We are all really enjoying seeing the team at Zopa introducing the characters across the site, from paddling pool parties to characters lucky enough to be equipped with rocket packs!

More Zopa links:

Techcrunch, Style boost, Zopa vs. Prosper