What's m3 then?

It's here! at last... I'm happy to say that m3, our rich media content delivery platform is ready and launched - in beta for now.

So what is it? Well we have, for a long time, been fielding requests from all sorts of businesses looking for something slightly different from our core consumer offer. These ranged from corporates looking for quick turnaround and low setup costs for the delivery of rich media campaigns to small businesses seeking an affordable entry level for content delivery to relieve the pressure on their web infrastructure. m3 is the result of that and more specifically of negotiations we have been having with some agencies and hosting providers who are desperate to provide rich media content delivery services to their clients.

The service provides users with the ability to very quickly register and upload assets in any format for delivery over the sort of scalable global content delivery network usually only affordable to large corporates and media owners. It has a very low entry level at £50pm and no setup costs at all. It currently supports progressive download for Flash, Quicktime, h.264 or any other video format, http content delivery for html, pdf, mp3, ppt or any other file format you wish to distribute, and Windows Media streaming. Next week we will be adding full blown Flash streaming as well.

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A quick blog from Word 2007: some cool sites

Well, call me a luddite but its there and it seems easy so I thought I'd try it. I am guessing this is going to result in an unbelievable quantity of unnecessary mark-up, and I am going to have some problems with the (unrelated) image I am trying to upload but its worth a try! A shocking week this week but some interesting finds - we were basically collecting 'aspirational sites' – which is pretty subjective but I have kept a few that seem noteworthy regardless – mostly flash content and interesting brand and immersive experiences…

http://nikeplus.nike.com/nikeplus - despite being on my Christmas list for at least 2 years I am yet to be able to say that I have the right equipment to be an active participant in this case-study online tool/community/product showcase/social network/interactive experience… a great site

http://demo.fb.se/e/ikea/dreamkitchen/site/default.html this is just a visually stunning matrix-style effect created for an ikea campaign. Audio effect is really well done too, I'm not sure I can stop spinning it long enough to see any of the products but certainly effective in its visual appeal.

www.vodafonejourney.com – north kingdom got a licence to spend money here and the result, whilst extremely corporate and cheesy, is still impressive even a couple of years on.

http://www.monocle.com/ - an RL site but a good example of video integrated into a well designed site. To quote a colleague 'nothing seems like an add-on' and it's also fantastically consistent with the printed magazine.

There are loads more that I could mention – we had about 60; some of the car sites offer interesting experiences like the standard but immersive www.audi.com, the more artistic http://sixjourneys.mercedes-benz.co.uk/r-class/home.php or the wackier www.fordvehicles.com/flex. Apple, Innocent and Absolut stake their usual claims with really strong presences true to their consistently impressive brands. Others worth a tip of the hat included Diesel's slightly sleazy and fully customisable product showcase, the slightly peculiar www.michelinman.com/forward full of bibendums wandering about a 3d world and the unbelievable (for a site that's about milk) gaming experience that is www.gettheglass.com.

Watch out - addictive property

I just tried Geni and I have to say that its the most addictive thing I've seen for ages on the web. So simple and easy, I found that within 10 minutes of starting someone had already added my great grandfather, and its still growing. I have to say i think the intuitive interface is what makes it at the moment but there is so much potential - presumably that's what got them $10m in six weeks of existence! Well done I say... perhaps we could add some video to the profiles?

update: 2 hours later I have 59 people on there and numerous clickable other trees to explore. And that even though i managed to break the habit after adding about 5 people. I know i'll be back but the question is what for and for how long will i be coming back? GenesReunited still keeps mailing me but i have to say I have long since stopped clicking the links... I'd have thought with the new spending money they'll think of something...