If you’ve ever been to Regents Park in the summer and cross over the bridge by the zoo you will no doubt have been struck by the incredible site of the Feng Shang Princess. What appears to be a Chinese House floating  in Cubmberland Basin. The Feng Shang Princess Floating Restaurant is run by Karen Chua and was built in the 80’s. It serves sumptuous Chinese food and delicacies to a discerning clientèle from celebrities of film, music and TV to locals and tourists alike.

The wonderful menu includes such treats as:

Whole Lobster in black pepper & French Red Wine Sauce, Stir Fried Ostrich with Japanese Yakiniku Sauce and Stir Fry Fillet Lamb in Claypot with Ginger & Spring Onions.

We were asked to create a site that matched the splendor of the restaurant and ended up not only designing and building a fully content managed site, but also taking all of the photography as well.

You can take a look at the site here:

www.fengshang.co.uk

The internet can be a fascinating place with incredible opportunities if you’re willing to apply yourself. Young Canadian Kyle MacDonald certainly applied himself when he decided that it was time to get himself a house.

Kyle came up with the idea of trading ‘up’ using his website. The idea being to get someone to offer him something that was of greater value than his trade – hopefully managing a final trade which would bring him his much desired house.

He started with a large red paperclip. This was traded for a novelty pen which was traded for a handmade ceramic doorknob. The doorknob became a camping stove, then a generator, then a barrel of beer (with a neon sign). Various trades followed to where Kyle managed to get an afternoon with Alice Cooper.

Much to everyone’s disbelief, this was traded for a snowglobe. Unknown to most, however, was that film director Corbin Bernsen   collects snowglobes and in exchange for it he offered a paid role in his new film.

The town of Kipling, Saskatchewan decided that they would love to have one of their own in a movie and so offered Kyle his final goal – a house.

Find out more on Kyles blog:

http://www.oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/

Now, where did I put those drawing pins…..

Google have just announced Froyo – no not some Hobbit themed browser, but the latest release of their Android OS for mobile devices. Android has always seemed to be playing a bit of a catch up with Apples iPhone OS, but the new features detailed seem to make it a lot more tempting.

The updates are in five key areas:

Speed: We all like things to be fast and due to a new compiler it seems that Froyo will be two to five times quicker than the old Android – that’s quite some improvement.

Enterprise: Where both the iPhone and Android suffer over Blackberry is their percieved lack of business ‘ability’ – there are lots of integration changes, but probably (and probably not advertised as such) the most business like features will be in the way companies will be able to shut down phones and control what their users put on them….

Services: This is where things get exciting – it seems that you’ll be able to use your Android phone as a wi-fi hotspot – with an external USB device being able to get online through your phone.

Browser: There are lots of upgrades to the browser – again it’s mostly to do with speed – Google reckon that Android will provide the quickest browsing of any mobile platform.

Marketplace: Changes and upgrades to the Android Marketplace see Google trying to make inroads to Apples App Store. One nice feature (available for a long time on the iPhone) is the ability to update all your apps at once rather than have to update individually.

Whether these new features are enough to lure people away from their iPhones or to drive business away from Blackberry, it’s hard to tell – one thing that might sway iPhone users is full support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 public beta …something you won’t be seeing soon on your apple!

Here’s some more info for you:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-22-and-developers-goodies.html

We’ve been busy bees here at Viziononline with the launch of several new sites (see below) However we’re particularly happy to be designing a new site for Premier League footballer John Utaka.  As a part of this project we’re going to be creating a ‘fly on the wall’ video of a day in the life of John Utaka, following him from Training, to his Academy, business meetings and finishing off with a Q&A session. We’ll make more announcements when the site is live.

We’ve created a slick content managed flash site Jacqui B Interiors who approached us to created their online presence. Jacqui is an etablished stylist, distinguished by her superb translation of personal and corporate identities into an interior environment. With her exquisite taste and eye for detail, she creates magnificent interiors.

http://www.jacquib.co.uk/

Prelet Furniture was established in 2000 with an aim to provide the buy-to-let property market with a service of supplying furniture and appliances without the usual hassle. We’ve completed a total re-brand, including logo, print work and photoshoots alongside a fully functional e-commerce website.

http://www.prelet.co.uk/

The Woolly Hat Shop are one of the largest UK Internet bike shop selling and delivering all your favourite brands stocked under one roof, founded in 1993 we have grown to be one of the largest cycle shop mail order companies in the UK. We originally created their logo and website and have recently completely revamped their e-commerce site.

http://www.woollyhatshop.com/