1. Dr. Augustine Fou
http://linkd.in/augustinefou
January 11, 2013.
Web
Experiments

2. Context of my thinking ...
Omnicom
Chief Digital Officer
McKinsey & Company
Advanced Professional Degree
MIT
PhD, Materials Science
Digital
January 11, 2013 2

3. Innovation is a process …
Marketing
Business Technology
Digital
^
January 11, 2013 3

4. SharedMost.com
January 11, 2013 4
Color-codeed
overlay for links
on ANY webpage
to show which
links were most
shared. Uses bit.ly
API for data set.

5. 3D Visualization of Dow
January 11, 2013 5
30 component stocks plotted against the performance of the index (the plane);
size of the “head” is market-cap; red means negative for the dat

6. drag2share.com
January 11, 2013 6
An RSS based news
reader where news feeds
are on the left, email
addresses are on the
right, and news items are
in the middle. Sharing is
made easy and quick by
drag-and-drop of the RSS
item onto an email address
on the right side.

7. signatory.com
January 11, 2013 7
An electronic signature
service which digital
signs a document and
allows both the signer
and recipient to verify
the document has not
been altered since the
time of signing.

8. PictureSandbox.com
January 11, 2013 8
Javascript based visual search interface for finding Creative Commons Flickr
photos and microstock photos from other collections. It detects your available
screen size and brings up as many thumbnails as will fit on the screen.

9. FootageSandbox.com
January 11, 2013 9
Visual search
interface for
YouTube videos.
With preview and
link back to
original video

10. Phreetings.com
January 11, 2013 10
Javascript based
interface to create
egreetings using
Creative Commons
images from Flickr
via drag and drop.
Type a message
and click send.
Attribution and
link-back is
automatic.

11. MusicSamplr.com
January 11, 2013 11
Javascript based music discovery
engine using Amazon’s related
music.
A user starts with an artist s/he
likes. Nine additional artists are
listed around the center tile.
Sample clips from the artist in
the middle are played back to
back to create a continuous
medley.
User clicks any tile from the side
and it moves to the middle and
samples from that artist are
played.

12. WebTelePrompter.com
January 11, 2013 12
Javascript based teleprompter
designed to allow users to
copy and paste any text they
want to read. Users can
choose font size and scroll
speed and read from the
teleprompter.
Because of the position of
webcams on notebook
computers, the user can
practically look at the camera
when reading.

13. DigitalStrategyInstitute.com
January 14, 2013 13
Top digital
marketing
news from 6
sources, ran
k ordered by
bit.ly clicks
and color
coded.

14. PrivateCheck.com
January 14, 2013 14
A way to secure
paper checks by
preventing the
disclosure of the
checking account
number and
routing number

15. Privac-e.com
January 14, 2013 15
Single-use credit
card number for
anonymous online
purchases.

16. TextDigestor.com
January 14, 2013 16
A quick way to
determine the
frequency of
keywords in
any document

17. CopyTrackr.com
January 14, 2013 17
A javascript include
which adds
functionality to any site
so that any content (text
or images) that is
copied from the site will
have an added line
which cites the source
and links back to the
site from which it was
taken. Analytics are
included too.

18. Contextual Bubble
January 14, 2013 18
A Chrome
extension which
adds functionality
like
dictionary, thesau
rus, translate, pag
erank, and social
sharing to any
web page once
some amount of
text is selected.

19. Metasearch Extension
January 14, 2013 19
A Chrome extension which adds 3 types of search: 1)
discover/browse, 2) recommendations, and 3) “surgical
search.” It passes the query to specific types of search.

20. HashtagScrubber.com
January 14, 2013 20
Stream of tweets containing
specified hashtag
• Scrubbed for bad words
(red)
• Partial bad words
(orange)
• Spam (from spam
accounts)
• Links and shortened
URLs are verified against
list of known malware
sites

21. TrustedRx.org
January 14, 2013 21
Unique alphanumeric
codes for the rapid
detection and
mitigation of
counterfeit drugs. It is
a crowdsourced
process where end
users check the codes
themselves online or
through mobile
devices.

22. Buyify.com
January 14, 2013 22
Tag items or pictures
online with unique
short URLs that lead
to the product page on
Amazon to buy that
item. If the purchase is
completed, the person
who “buyified” the
item will get the
revenue share.

23. ChannelSurfYouTube.com
January 14, 2013 23
“Sit-back” experience for
YouTube where user
picks a channel or types
a starting search term.
Then related videos are
played continuously.

24. LivePhotoFrame.com
January 14, 2013 24
Javascript based
service which
allows a user to
upload photo(s)
and have the
pictures
automatically
show up on a
remote connected
frame.

25. SecureSlideViewer.com
January 14, 2013 25
Upload a powerpoint or Zip folder of slides
and it creates a secure browser-based version
of the deck for sharing.

26. AdIsolation.com
January 14, 2013 26
Enter any
website URL
and see all
the ads being
served on the
page.

27. CellularAutomataGenerator.com
January 14, 2013 27
Set initial
conditions
and number
of rows to
generate.

28. Dr. Augustine Fou – Agency Czar
January 11, 2013 28
“I run experiments to test concepts;
the web projects listed above were
done over the last 16 years and give
me hands-on experience with what is
possible in web technology.”
FORMER CHIEF DIGITAL OFFICER, HCG (OMNICOM)
MCKINSEY CONSULTANT
CLIENT SIDE / AGENCY SIDE EXPERIENCE
PROFESSOR AND COLUMNIST
ENTREPRENEUR / SMALL BUSINESS OWNER
PHD MATERIALS SCIENCE (MIT '95) AT AGE 23
acfou@mktsci.com
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