You know what it's like when you start a new project. At first, everyone's dead keen and bursting with energy and ready to follow you to the ends of the earth. Pretty soon, though, you have to start sorting out the boring stuff like planning, timings and – gasp – deadlines.

You could turn to some fancy project management software – but who wants to do that for stuff that's meant to be 'fun'? Where are the normal apps for normal people? That's where our new Facebook application comes in. Orange People Projects makes it super easy to create and share projects with your friends and the big wide world. Recruit volunteers to help with a community project. Organise a gallery show. Or just plan the biggest block party the world has ever seen.

Start by naming and creating your project, then add events, a timeline, photos and even a ‘To Do’ list of tasks for you (or better yet your minions) to complete. Others can join in and contribute their skills and ideas, or just help you spread the word. And if we like it we’ll help publicise it too.

And don’t worry if you don’t have a project to work on, you can find all sorts of stuff to get involved in. To get started, check it out on facebook here.

It's Friday, you've just finished lunch, and let's face it – you're in no mood to get back to work. So put those afternoon ambitions on hold, brew yourself a nice cuppa and settle in with our weekly round-up of all things awesome…

The tech-savvy among you should get laugh or two from Intel's new online game, IT Manager III – or at least from this rather weird promo video. After choosing your favourite snack and, er, network configuration, you play an overworked tech support person who has to run around solving employees' tech problems, fixing the servers, zapping stuff à la Matrix etc. Pretty fun, unless you actually are an IT manager.

Elsewhere online we've laughed at some football fashion disasters, marveled at the world's first computer-less blogger and debated Total’s Film’s top 8 concert movies – surely a bit of an old man’s list that missing some recent greats? The Libertines on home video? Sonic Youth in The Year Punk Broke? Join the discussion and enter our Taking Woodstock competition on the Film Club while you’re at it.

Back in the real world, yesterday saw the arrival of the subtle mob – a quieter take on the now-ubiquitous flashmob. You can take part tonight in Bristol, or tomorrow in Liverpool – don’t forget to send us your pics! If you’re in London, check out our friends at BAFTA’s Games Networking Night, for anyone working in (or just interested in) the games industry.

Finally, there’s the excting prospect of walking, projecting texts and even cycling amongst some giant bubbles in the sky. It’s all part of a proposal for the Olympics called The Cloud – and with backing from Google and engineering firm ARUP we wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled it off – or should we say up?

That’s it for this week, but we’ll be back next Friday with some ideas for your Christmas wishlist. Pens at the ready!

–The Feed Team

Apparently the Bright Top Ups advert has been tickling the funny bones of more than one YouTube user. And that’s fine with us because Fluffy Cone and friends must be the happiest characters on TV. Even your favourite, Screaming Peg, is happy to be screaming.

And we’ve finally worked out what she was screaming about. The Bright Top Ups Widget.

We've made a little box of screaming, springing, beat-boxing happiness to brighten up your blog or social networking profile.

The Bright Top Ups widget features all your favourite characters from the advert, but the fun doesn’t end there. It’ll also keep you updated on all the prizes Orange are giving out to pay as you go customers.

If you’re not familiar with Bright Top Ups, here’s the lowdown. Every time you top up you’ve got a one in three chance of winning anything from a laptop to a mini fridge, scooters to free minutes and texts. The prizes change every month, so you can go on winning and winning.

As this is the widget that keeps on giving, it’ll give you a nod every time Orange changes the prizes, makes every top up a winner, or runs an awesome prize draw.

The widget couldn’t be easier to get. Just click and grab that embed code or choose your Social Network location and get smiling.

We'll have none of that, thank you: stay safe online with Orange's help

The top three safety mantras drummed into us at school were as follows...

Number 3: eat the liver and onions at your peril.

Number 2: look left, look right, look left again.

Number 1: don't talk to strangers.

All excellent pearls of wisdom for diverting danger. But these days, as well as the real world, there's the online world for young people to stay safe and happy in too.

There's so much great stuff to see and do around the internet, including connecting to people across the globe. But it's good to be aware of the potential risks and know how to avoid them, so you can enjoy the digital experience to the max.

Want to discuss staying safe? Whether it's on a mobile phone or on the internet, there's help at hand from Orange with their new Safety Talking Points For Children.

From offensive content and cyber bullying, to helping young people avoid meeting someone who isn't who they say they are, there's lots of topics to get the discussion going. Orange have also covered off the little things that can protect you and your family, that you might not even have thought of.

At The Feed we believe that online safety is something we should all know about and can help each other with. So whether you're a young person curious to learn more about internet safety, or you're after the know-how to protect your family, why not head over to the Orange Safety Talking Points For Children website. You can browse the articles, rate how helpful they were and find useful links too.

Now that's what we call safe as houses.

We've been leaving a trail of teaser photos since August, but now we can reveal that Orange's first ever Multimedia Store is open for business.

As you read, we're there talking to the first customers and finding out what they think of this one-of-a-kind store. Keep your eyes peeled for our video tomorrow.

We first visited a long time ago, well before the transformation was complete. It was a veritable bomb site as the old store was stripped back to the bare bones.

But it's come a long way since. Last week, it was really starting to take shape and the team worked like Trojans to make it happen.

Designed to encourage people to interact and have fun with technology using their mobile phones, the Multimedia Store is stuffed full of toys and gadgets to play with.

As you enter, you immediately come across a large cinema area. Pull up a pew here to watch product demos and videos of Orange events, like the recent Orange RockCorps gig.

To your left is a floor-to-ceiling interactive screen; one of the biggest in the UK. Take part in creating the world's largest virtual Mexican wave by asking a member of staff to record you doing your wave. Shortly afterwards you'll see yourself up on the screen, along with all the other wavers. Here's some testing going on.

Further into the store are a selection of spanky handsets hanging down from different pods, just ripe for you to get testing. They're helpfully divided into categories, so social media mavens, film fans, music addicts and those on the move and in need of sat nav, can all find recommendations right for their needs.

There's also a games pod, where you can use a mobile phone to play computer games on a large TV screen, and a whole counter of phones, laptops and accessories to browse.

We think it's a great success, but the proof will be in the pudding when we talk to people visiting the store today. And we can't wait to show you their reactions :)

The video advert in action

In honour of a little entertainment on a Friday, here’s our favourite stories from the week…

Pepsi and Entertainment Weekly made history this week, but there seem to be plenty of moans about it. Copies of the magazine contained the first video advert inside a print title. Like something out of a futuristic film, it’s activated when you turn the page. It may not be the most groundbreaking of ideas but the amount of criticism is astonishing. Gripes include not being able to fold it and the loading delay. Hmmm, folding video. One for digital origami experts perhaps?

Thoroughly in disgrace is Kanye West for his ill-advised outburst at the VMA Awards Show. He’s even had a ticking off from President Obama. But for us it’s not so much what he said, but the fact his slack-jaw has spawned an internet meme craze. Photoshoppers of the world have been splicing the disgraced rapper into increasingly bizarre situations. Our favourite is Kanye telling Dumbledore he ain’t a patch on Gandalf. Perhaps such design dexterity will make him think twice before he hijacks the stage.

Finally, if you’re attracted to zombies and harbour a penchant for snacking on aluminium (and you’re still single, can’t think why), then get yourself onto OKCupid. The dating website has compiled a list of keywords that elicit the best responses. An interest in zombies or metal scored high (erm, naturally), while complimenting another’s physical appearance constituted a turn off.

Have a good one. Over and out.

Monopoly City Streets: great for meglomaniacs

Welcome. It's Friday. Thought you'd never make it? Ha! Look see, you did. Here is what's been going on this week...

On Wednesday a hoard of greedy real estate tycoons carved up the world for purchase and you did nothing to stop them. Okay, it was only in the virtual world of Monopoly City Streets, but the exchange of a board for Google maps is a nice touch. Expect a virtual flurry of tyrannical tycoons to steal your street from underneath you, very soon.

We were a bit gobsmacked after reading about two Australian teenagers who Facebooked their plea for rescue, after becoming trapped in a storm drain. We know updating your status via mobile can be addictive, but come on... dialling the emergency services is infinitely more sensible. Thanks to a friend who saw the update, the duo were saved by a very bemused fire brigade crew.

But onto more fruitful and inventive ways to use technology: IBM employee Andy Stanford-Clark has hooked his house up to send Tweets. Cue bizarre new term ‘tweetject’ and a whole host of Tweeting appliances. Thumbs up for this creative and quirky way of using Twitter.

We’ve fallen in love with Winston, a South African pigeon who valiantly flew 60 miles to deliver 4GB of data on a USB stick, and beat the broadband in the process. The Feed is definitely in favour of the reintroduction of animals into the work place and we expect to see memos being exchanged via goat very soon ;-)

To round off, if you’re at a loose end this weekend, the onedotzero adventures in motion festival is back in London. Head down to the BFI Southbank for the best in digital and motion arts. Interactive installations include Squidsoup's portable pixel playground, where you get to play god with a sandpit of virtual bugs.

Enjoy, whatever you get up to, have a goodun.

Special thanks to Sam, our Feed Intern, for her most excellent research and wordsmithery in this article.

Sight. Sound. Smell. Touch. Taste. The five senses. As integral to us as the very air we breathe. They are at the heart of how we perceive the world, how we make decisions and communicate. But human kind has also amassed reams of knowledge, now stored on the internet, that we regularly access using our mobile phones and computers.

The remarkable SixthSense prototype joins up all that 'found' data, with the more intangible information gained from our five senses, so we can interact with it in a natural, intuitive way using hand gestures. So how does it do this?

SixthSense has a mini projector, a camera and a mirror worn around your neck. These connect up to a mobile computer that sits in your pocket. Any surface from a wall to your hand, can be projected onto, to be your 'computer screen'. The camera recognises and tracks your hand gestures and other objects around you.

On your fingers you wear coloured markers (red, green, blue and yellow on your thumb and index fingers), so the camera can track and stream the movement of your fingers. It looks like this...

Just some of the things it can do are projecting live news reports onto a newspaper...

Resizing and sorting photos using a framing gesture on a wall...

Or using your hand as a mobile phone interface...

We must admit, SixthSense has blown our minds a little bit. You see, when we use a laptop or mobile phone, we are physically adapting our own movements to the machine so we can get to the information we need. But with SixthSense we can use natural movements and gestures to do the same thing, all the while combining it with the constant blips and whirrs we're receiving from our eyes, ears, tongues, nostrils and skin.

We admit, there's a touch of the Hollywoods here with allusions to the film Minority Report, but using our bodies in such an expressive way in relation to what is essentially dry old meta data, is a huge leap forward in the way we communicate with each other and perceive the world around us.

We love it. And if you do too, then trust us, you'll be hooked by the video above, unveiling SixthSense and what it can do, from TED.com.