Today, I spent a significant portion of it surfing the net, and I couldn’t help but notice a constant supply of ads, becoming more and more prominent on the web. At first I thought, well it could be a fluke, but after the amount I’d seen rose above 10, I knew that the place had changed. Even Google are doing a Flash Video Ad service.
Even Windows Live Messenger has been including ads like this in their content (the one above was in Live Messenger, hidden until rollover). These are generally …
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So many people were highly sceptical at Microsoft’s latest attempt to broaden their horizons. Microsoft has long predicted its future as selling software, not as a package, but as a service. It has now broadened its goals to account for this. It has now offered many services, which almost take the entire of the internet, and its capabilities, and mulch them into one huge brand. This brand is about a year old, and is called Microsoft Windows Live. It includes all of the old features from MSN, …
Full youtube movie.
This has got to be my favourite youtube-take-the-mic-out-of-ms style advert that I’ve ever seen on there. There’s also some pretty good design work put into the video. Congrats to whoever made it (romph?). I’m going to sign off the laptop now.
And I’m back!
In this experiment, a number of tags, loaded in with XML are randomly shot around the stage. Try swiping them off the desk using the button in the top left. They will come back after about 2 or 3 seconds. You can also click on them, which brings up the same data that is in the Lee Brimelow Carousel v3. None of the code is the same, I just like the writing
The purpose of this is for people to open it and see how many people use the eval …
These guys really didn’t think through the advertising they’re churning out - unless they have amazing lawyers anyway. I found this debate on Flickr and thought it was relatively funny so I posted it here.
‘Gwire’
Incoherent anti-Apple campaign on the underground. I don’t know what it’s for, exactly, idont.com is just a holding page. Maybe it’s one of those adverts for religion? The work of adbusters-inspired art students? Anyone?
Liam Daly
iDon’t.com is SanDisk’s marketing campaign to convince people that their Sansa e200 is the better choice compared to …