Flash is commonly used with websites to bring life and movement, to bring entertainment and improve the experience. When used well, it really helps with telling the story and getting a message across. When used badly, it sucks. Kellogg’s Special K use of flash definitely falls into the latter category. It uses heavy flash to […]
Sneezing Panda
Thanks for Tom for pointing to this. It’s just so cute.
Geni – a living family tree
Geni, a new venture from ‘former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe’ is a different take on social networks, using the hook of family history and genealogy to get users and connect people. But where it falls down with me is that it is focuses on living people; it’s not […]
Luck of Seven
Noel Hidalgo is trying something different with Luck of Seven. on the luck of seven is an open-source, around the world project by noel hidalgo (aka noneck). for seven months, he will visit the seven continents, sail the seven seas, and visit the seven ancient wonders of the world. Using a wiki, noneck will harness […]
Long Tail Music charts
The UK music charts have been opened up to the Long tail with the decision to count downloads whether or not there is also a physical copy of a single or available. A number of songs which charted last year or earlier were back in the charts last week and for the first time a […]
JWT Job Site
This is one of the more interesting job sites I’ve seen. It’s a very different take on the company I currently work for who are recruiting entry level people – are you Ready to Sell Your Soul?
Slingbox working
My dad’s finally got the router working at home and now I can log into the Slingbox and Tivo to watch and record Uk programmes. I love technology at times 😉
Widgetised
I’ve updated this theme so I’m now widgetised. Given my general flakiness with CSS and php, I think it’s all OK but not too sure. I’ve tested in Firefox 2 and IE 7 on the laptop; if anyone has other browsers can you take a look and see if the 3 column layout is retained?
Spam Phone calls
I have a landline (or at least a VoIP version of one). The only people who have the number are may parents. And the phone company. Who seem to have no problem giving that number to all and sundry resulting in a multitude of spam calls. Which I thought was not allowed. And the do […]
Searching for fractured neck symptoms
It looks like I’m currently the top search result on Google for ‘how do you know if you have a fractured neck’. I hope the person who came to my site after using that term ended up going to the doctor and getting an X-ray!
Behind the Buzz – the other blog
My other Blog, Behind the Buzz, is where I’m posting more and more of my marketing posts. It’s still not quite ready with the b5media styling, but as I’m busy posting anyway, here’s links to some of the stories on that site: Superbowl Madness: Both the NFL and Doritos chips are running campaigns to make […]
iPhone lawsuit
I guess Apple never got round to signing those licensing agreements with Cisco for use of their trademark term iPhone. And now they are suing. “Cisco entered into negotiations with Apple in good faith after Apple repeatedly asked permission to use Cisco’s iPhone name,” said Mark Chandler, senior vice president and general counsel, Cisco. “There […]
iPhone reactions
To be honest, I’m not really into phones. I have a pretty good one for the UK, all 3g and live tv and browsing etc but the data plan sucked and it’s no use where I am. And my US phone is just about manages to phone and text, there nothing else really to it. […]
iphone Countdown
If you are determined to get one and you want to find out how long you have to wait – iphonecountdown.com has the numbers for you. From Mike via Dan.
The advertising world and the new web
Hugh is offering to help solve the conundrum of meshing big, corporate business advertising as performed by the big corporate advertising agencies with the world that is Web2.0. He has a solution he’s willing to offer you for $100k. And if I had the cash, I might have taken him up on the offer, given […]
Attracting attention
You’ll have most likely seen the SNL Dick in a Box Sketch. And GETV’s response about Boobs in a Box. Now there’s the one sure way to get a man’s attention in the Valley.
Rav 4 Jousting
Don’t do this at home – Rav 4 (Toyota) have 2 videos sitting out on the web showing people riding along on cars and jousting. Unlike Grolsch Holland, this is completely siloed though and you can only see it on their site. No downloads or embeds for the Rav 4 fans then. No trusting what […]
Fighthunger Video competition
I wrote earlier about the UN Fighthunger video competition. Well, they have no released the winner, Kristen Palana. The other winners can be seen be seen here. Let their persuasive powers wash over you and go and donate!
The Truth in Ad Sales
A satirical look at what goes on in an ad agency, presenting a pitch to the client and what it really means. It rings a little true!
The Orginal Social Networking
I’ve had this open in my tabs for a while but only now got round to blogging it – a critical look at the increase in social networking in 2006 and whether or not this is just a fad. ‘Community’ and ‘socialising’ have been huge in 2006 but the big question is how long they […]