websites as graphs
at first i thought it is some kind of social network analysis (sna) tool which represents your blogging network. but the "websites as graphs" project is rather an applet which represents website/link structures as graphs, which in fact includes some sna information because of the websites you link to. unfortunately the nodes are missing more detailed information. "get a wonderful visual
spoofing sony and honda
one of my absolute favorite spots got "spoofed" by tango fruit drinks. a spoof is some kind of a "parody by imitation" and it's a common way in advertising to imitate other spots like jay jays big ad spoof or the ipod flea spoof - which in fact is a fake ad. nevertheless there are good ones and i like tango's version
google trends
dear readers, excuse me for my way to long absence! but my current workload doesn't allow me to keep this blog up-to-date like i would like to. i even had to quit checkin' my blogroll daily getting the hot news and picks in the online marketing and advertising scene. nevertheless i will try to get it going again. so here is
the new boom
"silicon valley is roaring back to life, as startups mint millionaires and web dreams take flight. but, no, this is not another bubble. here's why. i read this interesting article a couple of weeks ago on a flight to berlin where chris anderson from the wired magazine is nicely describing the new boom and why it is not another bubble cause
camera tossing
"throw your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" this is just a line from outkast atliens' chorus but a new technique in photography is emerging. it is called camera tossing and means that you throw your camera in the air with longer exposure in the hope for a nice shot by chance. the results are
linkology
stuart luman analyized how the "top 50" blogs are related to each other: "there are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. to discover how they relate to one another, we've taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. think of those links as votes
german engineering in da house ya
i found one of the new phat volkswagen golf gti mk v commercials some days ago and i'm now finding more and more of them. the commercials are giving the volkswagen golf a new cool and fresh international image and i really share the kind of humour of the brains behind. it looks like there are two different commercial series running, one
come a little closer
straight to the point funeral services advertising. (via russian marketing blog) [tags: funeral, funeral services, coffin, coffin makers, advertising]
cool illustrations by macacolandia
please take your tour through www.macacolandia.com.br and enjoy the art work of these gifted illustrators. there are some cool wallpapers for free download including their funny gorilla logo. i'm definitely not a fan of mc donald's fast food but this second post within a week about them is just because of leo burnett's really nice spot called "feed your inner child".
i’m playin’ it
wicked anti ad game made by the crazy molleindustria caricaturing mc donald's. manage the whole supply chain of a mc donald's fast food restaurant and get your own insights ;-) (via blog.dirkschuetze.de) [tags: ad game, video game, flash game, mcdonalds, molleindustria]