To promote the new romantic comedy Hallam Foe, this is the Hallam Foe Voyeur widget.
It's a prototype of a PR/marketing mini-site for the widgetsphere, full of RSS feeds and widgets incorporating people and content from other social networks, such as MySpace profiles.
As the main character Hallam - played by Jamie Bell with the binoculars above - spends much of the movie spying on other people, a "voyeur" micro-site that tracks the movie across the blogosphere seems pretty appropriate.
Technically, it's a collection of widgets gathered together as a Netvibes tab that can be shared. (If you haven't seen Netvibes yet, it's one of the better build-a-home-page Web 2.0 companies.)
Here's what's on the Voyeur:
- The trailer, from MySpace Videos
- Interview videos from the bloggers' preview
- MySpace profiles for three characters, Hallam, Kate and Verity
- Official photos via Colin Kennedy on Flickr
- Google or Flickr photo searches for Hallam Foe and actors Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles
- Links out to the official site, blog, IMDB and more
- Google news feed for the movie
- Feed from the official blog, Get Your People
- Bloggers writing about Hallam Foe, via Technorati
- (And there will be a module for the ace soundtrack as soon as Domino Records have it online)
To see the Hallam Foe Voyeur for yourself, grab the tab by clicking here.
NB Some testing shows that this works well in IE 6 and 7 on a PC, but Firefox fails to carry over some search settings - the photo searches in the middle default back to "lighthouse" instead of Hallam Foe, Jamie Bell and Sophia Myles, so you need to type those into the search boxes.
That is brilliant Colin. I just ran it here on Firefox no problem. Netvibes is my aggregator of choise too. Top blog too.
Posted by: David Brain | Monday, 18 June 2007 at 05:09 PM