Wolfram Alpha – The New Google?

Well not quite. Wolfram Alpha is the search engine that was launched earlier this month by British Computer Scientist Stephen Wolfram. So why isn’t it the new google? Google returns results as an index of web pages that are relevant to the search terms you enter. Which has its Pro’s and Con’s. Wolfram Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” which returns one page with answers to factual questions. So if you are looking for information based on fact, like the GDP of a country then this is the place to come, for a quick and simple answer. So maybe it is best described as a bit of a hybrid between Wikipedia and Google.

With the Wofram machine boasting a ten trillion curated facts database to start them off with it will be interesting how this search engine grows and moe importantly how it will look to improve on Google’s offering especially since they launched their own version of Wolfram Alpha Google Public Data.

Wolfram_alpha

www.thelatenightsalon.co.uk – a site for sore eyes

There are cheers rising from across the land, as people type thelatenightsalon into their web browsers. For a boutique London design agency has finally launched its new site. creative director Toria Jaymes has this to say of the new site:

“I’m proud the launch of our new site is here and finally live for the worlds hungry eyes to see. Our new home page has some nice updateable components. With the features sections nice iPhone sensory style “slide and grab” and our main viewers screen set to feature animation and film and focus on current exciting projects and will always remain on rotation so won’t become stale. I’m pleased to say we kept the rest of the site nice and easy to navigate and fluid. So viewing our work and creative projects is as simple as scrolling on through with no annoying click throughs. I’m a firm believer in letting the work speak for itself. What we didn’t want to be was fussy and excessive. Hope you like it. x”

thelatenightsalon

Toria Jaymes Can’t stop Twittering on!

Yes our very own Creative Director here at the late night salon Miss Toria Jaymes has joined the ever increasing crowd who just can’t stop Twittering about themselves, with her ever increasing influence on the creative scene here in London the likes of Vice magazine are just one of her followers. If you think you can keep up with her ever changing life then follow her at http://twitter.com/toriajaymes

Toria Jaymes Twitter

Snow Munny Anywhere!

To keep with the snow theme we were amazed to come across this photo of one of Toria’s (our creative director here at the late night salon) Munny characters (from her ever expanding army) who had decided to make the most of the recent snow fall in London. He stayed out there so long he even turned PINK .

Munny in the snow

Snow is falling – all around..

Well with the recent dump of snow that we have had in the UK this week, it triggered our memory to share with you all the Christmas message that we put together to send to everyone in London and beyond. In true design agency style we didn’t just want to send a picture in an email, but to do something a bit more creative. So we came up with this little number, let me take you through it….

First the lucky recipients received an email that looked a little something like this.

xmas email

To find out what happens next just click on this

Adidas go green

There is a wonderful outdoor space right outside our design agencies office in the heart of Shoreditch here in London town. Quite a lot of the time it shows the same kind of ads that you see all over the country, but every now and again brands, street artists and whoever has an inclination to do something creative, use it to produce some pretty unique stuff.

We managed to grab a quick shot of this very interesting interpretation of an adidas trainer. Luckily we didn’t get landed with having to water it!!

adidas trainer

Street Life – The Late Night Salon Hood

Just off busy Commercial st in London: Hidden down these quiet alleyways, are unspoilt worlds. Dark, aerie and beautiful.

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