A rant: Advertising fail from one of my favorite companies…

Okay, I’ve been a big fan of 1&1’s hosting plans for a long time. I’ve rarely ever had downtime, and I think their built in features (like their control panel components) are top shelf. But I got an email from them today, as I’m sure many of the 530 people I’ve recommended to them did [...]

Facebook in 3D?…Kinda.

Check out this Palm Pre commercial to see a very cool 3D version of Facebook.  It ones of those rare ads that made me rewind backward while skipping through commercials.
Here’s something that doesn’t make sense to me though. Why build this set? Seems more expensive than doing it entirely in the computer. Hrm….

Deadbeat Blog Owners Make NOTHING!

Have you abandoned your blog?  Some dude at the NY Times says some survey estimates 95% of all blogs become un-updated over 120 days. And some other guy (me) can give you more not-so-shocking info on this un-updatery here… http://www.webproworld.com/search-engine-optimization-forum/85728-95-blogs-abandoned.html
The real reason I’m posting this link is because if you follow that forum thread [...]

3D Posters are… oh, probably expensive.

These holographic 3D posters made by Rabbit Hole will so totally not be in your dorm room. Anytime you have to ask how much something costs…yep, you know you can’t afford it. But RabbitHole, please sticker-shock me!  Make me choke on something when I see the price!  I just want to know without emailing someone… Ah [...]

Comcast commercials = Isometric fail

Just had to share this other blog’s post slam regarding Comcast’s new commercials. First time I saw one of them I have to admit I was like “neat, at least they tried to be cool”. Now after seeing them 20 times (and worse hearing them), I wish they had done a lot better.  First, the [...]

Are you an artist?

So I’m busy putting these new lesson’s sales pages together and prepping a new newsletter (< reduntent? ), and I’m kinda tired of sending out the same ol’ looking newsletter as always, so I was searching through my inbox at other newsletters that “cool” companies have sent to me. One of which was from [...]

Marketing Ideas! Business Card Posters / Tourist Guide Maps

Brian Zaikowski, the artist behind Demented Denizons.com,  has some very cool marketing techniques that are worth sharing here. He creates Business Card Posters and Cartoon Tourist Guide Maps (click for zoom-able versions). Here’s how it works… Brian will find local businesses that want to be included in the design and are willing to give away the poster in their [...]

Someone makes money by making Flash games…Are you next?

You can read all the juicy details over at FlashMagazine.com . Long story short though, a Flash programmer did a little experiment by cranking out Flash games and making money from the advertising. For the most part, the games are almost intentionally one-play quality. Like “cool, I played it. Don’t need to play it again”. [...]

Cool Marriot Ad… yeah really.

By now, you’ve probably seen Flash ads that crawl over standard html, but I thought this was a really good usage. Video from one Flash ad slot interacts with a second ad slot. You could probably go to Fox News.com today to see it in action but I’m sure it won’t be there for long [...]

To use “We” or “I” on your website…

Should you use “I” or “we” when talking about your freelance services?
 I’ve gotten this question posed to me a few times, the most recent being tonight, so thats a good reason to perma-answer it on the blog…