The above is a screen grab of a search I conducted for transport options, using the Transperth JourneyPlanner service, our local public transport provider.
Before you ask, yes, I do get what they mean here, however my eye was caught with how long the distance and time would take, depending on the number of legs; one leg or three?

Well, I thought it was funny.

Image: Screen grab of Transperth Journey Planner.

Browsing through the public timeline, and my own Twitter feeds, I can’t help but feel the above completely fabricated results graph is surprisingly accurate. Don’t be offended, it’s all in good humour.

Image: Fictional research graph on tweet topics.

Just a few days before Christmas, and we’re just in time to unveil our latest crazy Christmas idea. Last year, you may recall, we created a Christmas tree out of Bam Creative business cards, this year we’ve gone one better – we’re created our own social network!

You’ll need to read all of the copy on the front page, and then watch the ‘Our Users Say’ video, before making up your mind. Do you see our subtle social commentary and message in there? What do you think? – feel free to comment below, or join the Facebook group (oh, the irony!).

After seeing The Original Social Network, will you ever visit another social network again? Have a great festive season, and remember to enjoy the company of family and friends!

Image: Screengrab, TheOriginalSocialNetwork.com.

With exactly a month remaining before Web Directions South 2007 starts, I thought I’d have some fun on the fact that there’s always seemingly more cameras than actual people at these conferences, by starting a fun photo meme…

The object of this meme is to browse Flickr for photographic evidence that you’ve been to previous years of Web Directions, and link to as many of these offending images as you can.

The funnier (or dodgier) the photo, the better.

Once you’ve done this, you then need to encourage three others to do the same. How? Well, by linking to their photos of course. Sorry fellow West Coast Bloggers, Myles, Nick and Kay, I hope you’ll play?

Image: Charger Tyre & Sky, Perth Airport.

It seems that the secret to driving traffic to your blog, is to target other blogs visitors, and then seed your adwords campaign in a way that your ad will show on their blog.

This is possibly the funniest use of Adwords I have seen to date. Look closely at the right hand side of the above screen grab from www.problogger.net. See the ad pointing visitors to www.johnchow.com? Well, it gets even better. When you click on that ad, you get taken to www.johnchow.com, only to find another Adwords ad, as per the below graphic.

This advertisement, folks, points through to www.baron.vc. This blogger then has a post mentioning John Chow, as per the next screen grab.

Shame that there were no Adsense blocks on the main page of this blog, otherwise I may have been tempted to do something crazy using my own Adwords campaigns. Is this a pay-per-click version of the old ‘web ring’ which was very popular in the nineties?

Images: Screengrabs from three blogs.

The crew at Bam Creative thought we’d get in early this year, and do our annual silly electronic christmas card thing. 426 business cards, 500 photos and a few hours later, here it is.

Merry Christmas to everyone – let’s hope it’s a safe one, and the year to come is great.

Photo: Close up of my business cards.

I break my eighteen day posting drought to bring you the knowledge that used chicken breasts are healthier. It must be true, it’s printed on the takeaway menu for a local Perth restaurant, as shown above.

Image: Used chicken breasts, local restaurant takeaway menu.

All this talk of using shoestring budgets and what you have on hand to release your web2.0 applications, coupled with talk of the new Googleplex being tens of thousands of domestic grade equipment being used for their serving of applications made Bam Creative realise that we needed to get on board in a serious way.

So, with much feedback from our technical advisory board and the top engineers we could get our hands on, and keeping with the idealogy that we should release early and release often means that we’re finally today gone online with our own Web2.0 server farm, as shown in the image above, and these Flickr images.

Those with good eyesight should notice;

• A punching bag
• Internet Starter Book (published 1994)
• Huge green colour swatch
• Internet for Dummies book
• Car air freshener
• Four stress balls
• Macintosh ‘No Disc’ screen
• Monkey doll
• Old bar heater

I’d like to congratulate everyone who put in a few minutes each to build our state of the art facility, and look forward to releasing our Web2.0 applications soon. We’ll be celebrating our launch with pizza and beer shortly.

You know you’re too Web2.0 when;

1. You’re painting your home, and ask the hardware store for gradient paint
2. You wonder why the clouds in the sky don’t have tags
3. You call young families ’start ups’
4. You ask people their del.icio.us usernames instead of their real names at parties
5. You don’t call them parties, they’re called social mashups
6. You wonder why the microwave button doesn’t say SUBMIT
7. You start signing your name like fu.lln.ame
8. You paint your car lime green or light blue
9. You consider opening a bar called ‘Social Network’
10. You buy two goldfish and name them Yahoo! and Google
11. You write love letters in 24 point Tahoma
12. You have more usernames than friends
13. ’syndicate user-contributed web services’ starts to actually mean something
14. You play scrabble, and just add R’s to the ends of other players words
15. You tattoo your Flickr username on yourself
16. You wonder how you even survived back in Web1.0
17. You wonder why newspapers don’t have rounded corners
18. You catch yourself explaining ‘folksonomies’ to your grandparents
19. You find this list untrue and offensive
20. You can’t catch a train without making a Rails joke
21. You like your credit card for the fact it has rounded corners
22. You ask staff at your local clothing store if they have any t shirts in #C4F400
23. You look for the RSS button on your TV remote
24. You find this list funny

Image: ‘Pray for Australia’ sign, Maylands, WA.

I’m sorry, this blog isn’t meant to be a collection of Web2.0 Humour posts, but it just seems so easy. I’m all for Web2.0, I reckon much of it is really good, I just like to see the funny side of it (see this post and this post).

But I do have to ask, will this error screen be the future of many Web2.0 applications? :)

For those who don’t understand Web2.0, read the wikipedia entry and maybe visit TechCrunch.