The Deck – Niche Vertical Advertising Networks (FOOA Future of Online...
Jim Coudal, renowned designer at Coudal Partners, gave a presentation at the Future of Online Advertising (FOOA) in New York on 7th June 2007, about one of their businesses, which is called The Deck....
View ArticlePrint Advertising
I was in Scotland last month and I visited a whisky distillery (you have to when you go to Scotland, it’s the law) and they had an old publication from 1936. Here is a print ad for gin circa 1936 Here...
View ArticleInteresting Banner Ad Format
Interesting banner ad format that I came across today for HP. Not sure Microsoft would be too happy about their ad being covered up by it if you click on it.
View Article"Content Aware" Image Resizing
Images on web pages is always a challenge, especially as we deal with the complexity of different screen resolutions, browser configurations and now mobile devices with much smaller screen sizes. This...
View ArticleThe New Auckland City Council Logo
So the Auckland City Council has rolled out a new identity that it was carefully keeping under wraps until after the localbody elections (Dick obviously didn’t want to give the 5 people that voted...
View ArticleW3C to Push for Device Independent Mobile Web Standards
The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation responsible for defining standards on the web. They have just announced plans to introduce a new set of standards that will allow a single...
View ArticleDojo
I’m at the Barcamp event in Auckland. The first session I attended was by Rob Coup who is one of the contributing developers to The Dojo Toolkit. Dojo is a Javascript development toolkit along the...
View ArticleDIY CSS Frameworks: CSS Design Patterns by Darren Wood at Barcamp Auckland 2007
Darren Wood works for Finda as a front end developer. He mentions the blueprintcss CSS framework and another is YUI, the Yahoo! User Interface Library. There is a lot of discussion about if you really...
View ArticleAnimated PNG will be available in Firefox 3
I previously posted about the new features to be supported in Firefox 3 from a session I attended with Robert O’Callahan from Mozilla. One of these was support for APNG or Animated PNG graphics. This...
View ArticleDirectory Convergence
Housingmaps – a wonderful example of directory convergence with the combination of craigslist and Google Maps. As someone who has been using NZ real estate websites over the past couple months this...
View ArticleAlienware – where did you come from?
Has anyone else wondered where Alienware suddenly popped up from. A relatively new entrant to the PC manufacturer’s market that is acheiving incredible growth through word of mouth and targeting online...
View ArticleStarwood Hotels launch first virtual hotel
Starwood Hotels are launching a new hotel chain called Aloft in the US in 2008. They have taken the unprecedented step of turning their artists concepts and plans into a complete virtual hotel in the...
View ArticleDiesel Heaven
Diesel Heaven is a very slick Flash site. Cool use of video, imagery and sound. The navigation gets a little annoying after a while and it is probably highly offensive to various religions, but hey, it...
View ArticleNext step in user interface?
This I want. Yesterday.Though I’m loathe to compare things to other things, think Minority Report. Apparently this project, called “TouchLight” has been developed by Microsoft. It makes use of...
View ArticleWe Were All Thinking It
But this sums it up perfectly, they all do look very similar. The Web2.0 Logo Creator, just add latest buzzword! Here’s our one: The post We Were All Thinking It appeared first on Marker Studio.
View ArticleInternet Explorer 7 (IE7) picked to change browser landscape
As of October 2006 this is how the distribution of browsers looks: Source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp This is sure to dramatically change once Microsoft release IE 7 as a...
View ArticleAccessibility for all
Quite a good report from the BBC that I stumbled across this morning. I’m not sure, but I think that New Zealand’s accessibility laws are pretty slack, whilst I know that the States and the UK have...
View ArticleThat’s not a knife. THIS is a knife
Dear Santa, I’ve been a really good boy this year: Saving orphans from terrorists by making bombs out of used tea bags; Using the Stargate to bring peace to the universe; and Being a full-time love god...
View ArticleThe Venice Project unveiled: Joost is here
I’ve been contacted a few times this week regarding recent references I’ve made to The Venice Project – mostly people wondering what what on Earth I was talking about. There’s so much more to this than...
View ArticleFinal Thoughts from ad:tech
I’m really pleased I came to ad:tech this year and I want to summarise my impressions from the last few days: Our industry is hot. Everyone is talking about interactive/digital being the future of...
View ArticleI’m Feeling So Very Joosty!
The lovely fellows at Joost have just provided us, the humble Beta testers, with additional invitations to hand out to friends etc. If you’re keen to give Joost a try but don’t feel like bidding for an...
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