Year: 2007
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Ugly evolution
Thanks to Stan at BrandDNA for posting about Channel 4‘s trailer for Ugly Betty, which shamefully I have to admit, I missed. Lovely take on Dove Evolution though so worth revisiting…
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One less car
I saw a bike rider wearing a flourescent jacket with this written on the back this morning. And I rather liked its simple but effective communication, even though my mountain bike is currently collecting cobwebs in the garden shed. The medium really was the message. It occurred to me that if I had been in…
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Ten up
Useful chart on the first decade of internet ad growth courtesy of Paul Kedrosky’s blog . Also available on flickr here. Strictly speaking, as Tim O’Reilly points out in a comment on the post, the first internet ads appeared (via him) in 1993, but let’s not split hairs…
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Drunk monkeys and the NME Awards
Another heads up for Dead Fish readers…the NME awards have just taken place (follow the link for write up and lots of good stuff). Muse won best band, Arctic Monkeys best album, My Chemical Romance and Jamie T also took honours, Primal Scream were godlike genius. There’s a behind the scenes video which has just…
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Spooky
Just had a comment left on my recent post about the re-emergence of Boo.com (the URL that spawned one of the fastest crash and burns in web history) from ‘insider@boo.com’. It reads… ‘Ever heard of the “wisdom of the crowd”?Do you trust the multitude?Prefer friends and family?Like to be totally in control and do it…
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Riverdance like you’ve never seen it before
You will no doubt see this a lot over the coming days but here is the very funny Comic Relief viral video for Red Nose Day . It’s promoting the RND T-Shirts which are only onsale at TK Maxx . Nice piece of cause related marketing…for a very good cause.
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The BBC, Web 3.0, sitting in a tree, K.I.S.S.I.N.G
Hot on the heels of their You Tube deal, the Beeb have announced a ‘Web 3.0’ deal with IBM. I’m already getting a little irked by the ‘Web 3.0’ thing, but you know that when the mighty BBC get behind an idea it has a good chance of happening. They are co-developing a technology, starting…
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How Napoleon inspired the computer
Ever wondered whether it is possible to link all knowledge? It’s more than a little ambitious, but if you could, just think what you could do to construct interesting narratives for brands, particularly if it’s all about the stories we tell. The James Burke Institute have developed a project called the Knowledge Web, which is…
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Face2Face
As picked up by PFSK. Face2Face is a project designed to bring a better understanding between Israelis and Palestians by highlighting the similarities between the people on either side of the separation wall. Massive images of Israeli and Palestinian people who do the same job are being posted, today, face-to-face in unavoidable places on both…