I’ve been watching Visual Jazz slowly emerge for some time now. They are starting to get close to developing the agency of the future (hopefully they won’t catch wankitis). As they start to move into other media this company will surely boom.
Unless STW or Photon comes along to take over. With some big accounts […]
Archive for June, 2007
Online / Offline Media Balance
It looks like the online advertising experiment of the past 2 years seems to be over, for now. In a story by Nat Ives (adage.com) it reports that TNS Media Intelligence have reported a 1.7% increase in online spending. Mind you, an industry that is now worth US$152.3b won’t be complaining.
One of the things I’m […]
SilverLight - not so shiny (yet)
I’ve had my first request to develop a site using Silverlight. I quickly knocked the idea on the head and pointed out that we can achieve what he wanted with Flash.
So if a software company makes a pretty movie about their product, is it easy to use? Silverlight is very complex to setup and develop […]
Trends
one of the sites I monitor has had an increase of 124% search referrals on the key phrase “web design”. Out of interest I typed this in Google Trends to see if there has been increase. To my surprise it has been in steady decline for the past 3 years.
AJAX had a massive search boom […]
Online ad revenues hit US$4.9B
Internet advertising revenues for the first quarter reached US$4.9 billion, representing a 26% increase over the first quarter of 2006, according to research from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The joint IAB-PwC survey covers online advertising at Web sites, online e-mail clients and other online services.
6 Deadly Sins of Web Design
ok we have heard them all before. Most of the lists a plain’ol common sense. Today I read a story in a local business magazine that was purely self promotion. So here is my take on the list, I’ll flesh out each one over the next week (or three).
So what are the ‘real’ deadly sins?
forgetting business integration […]