Pancentric Blogs

James ‘fastest thumb in SE1′ Prebble was in action over the weekend in the world marble championships.

Despite a strong showing and an easy win in the first round, the Germans, beach towels in hand, were victorious on the day and took the coveted title.

Commenting on the experience, Jimmi was heard to say

“Some people say Marbles is a game of luck. I say rubbish! It takes skill, the right attitude and years of dedication to reach world standard.”

Jimmi is, as I type, back down the gym training for next year’s event. Our local hero can bee seen in the YouTube clip below. Watch out for him 42 seconds in, clapping his hands whilst donning a fetching green and yellow wig. Don’t say it wasn’t taken seriously!

Great write up on the Guardian Sport blogs here.

Here at Pancentric we have been doing some work on how the Semantic Web can help our clients and add value to their online propositions. These typically range from the potential to be more “findable” through to understanding how corporate knowledge can be better known and used. Taking in along the way the usefulness of self describing data and the democracy of tagging. I would bore on about this, but…. it is nice to see some of the mainstream media starting to pick up on some aspects of this vis http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3532832.ece . Not sure about the headline though, I guess that’s why I don’t work for big media.

Launched last night, www.millbayplymouth.com is the culmination of 12 weeks work by the team.

The Millbay area of Plymouth is undergoing a radical, and what looks to be a stunning, redevlopment over the next couple of years. Already underway, the redeveloped coastal quarter will incorporate a mix of new homes with commercial, retail and leisure space and cement Plymouth’s position as one of Europe’s finest waterfront cities by reclaiming a partly redundant harbourside area close to the city centre.

To supply the imagery on the site we used a local photographer who takes pictures of Plymouth and the surrounding area in his spare time. Contacted through flickr, Jason was more than happy to contribute some of his best images for use in marketing this great new development in his home town.

To get a feel for the scope of the development it’s probably best to take a loot at the ‘Explore‘ section or even watch the flythrough - produced in partnership with another agency.

The first phase of the site is primarily focussed on marketing the development at the world’s premier property conference, MIPIM in Cannes, France.

To accompany the site there is a kiosk version which has been modelled specifically for use on the marketing stand at MIPIM. This will be developed further for future use in the on-site marketing suite at Millbay.

There are huge plans for the coming months not least expanding the site as more details of the development are realised as well as some very exciting community features - more of which we can reveal at a later date.

In the mean time, check out the site.