http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk some Thoughts about digital marketing and online advertising Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en impressive technologyhorrible puke inducing corporate style video Video: Microsoft Surface at Sheraton Hotel & Resorts http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/08/microsoft-surface-hits-sheraton-hotels-in-the-usa-makes-guests-spew-in-the-lobby.html At TEQUILA\ we used to joke that often at meeting where we needed to be smarter in presentation from the usual t-shirt and jeans, all of us would pull out of the wardrobe the "Digital Uniform" - invariably we'd all turn up in some kind of matching outfit. That was two ... http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/07/the-digital-marketing-uniform.html Adobe make Flash searcheable Could be big news for those of us who love the power of flash as a rich media and animation tool, but have to keep in mind accessibility and search results when building sites. (tags: adobe flash google marketing search seo searchability) http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/07/links-for-2008-07-02.html one guy shows that we really are all the same no matter where you are on the planet. 14 months and 42 countries later. http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/07/where-the-hell-is-matt.html Poke launched their much publicised Orange Balloonacy campaign yesterday. Today it looks like their servers have crashed with the site simply reporting a bad gateway error or, as is now happening, a very nasty looking PHP report. Sometimes, too much is a bad thing.  I have to say though, they must have ... http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/when-the-tech-lets-you-down.html Just found this nice little site whilst reading some RSS feeds this morning.  Wordle.net can take a list of words you input manually, or alternatively can take your Del.icio.us tags and turn them into really nice looking word art.  Well worth a five mins some time during your day today. Howard http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/beautiful-tag-clouds-from-wordle.html Osmo Wiio is a Finnish researcher of human communication. His laws of communication, Wiio's laws, are funny and insightful. If communication can fail, it will. If a message can be understood in different ways, it will be understood in just that way which does the most harm. There is always somebody who knows ... http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/osmo-wiio.html Yet another lovely online promotional execution from the people over at Poke for Orange. Over at playballoonacy.com they've launched the World's First Internet Balloon Race. By placing a small piece of Javascript widget code into your blog or social networking page (you can see mine at the bottom right of ... http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/orange-balloon-race.html I've been meaning to blog about outdoor digital advertising for some time now. It's something I find very interesting, and over the past year or so as I've been walking to and from work here in London I've seen more and more screens popping up in public places. I've been ... http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/outdoor-digital-advertising.html As much as I love the MS Surface - even though they claim to be too busy with more important people than me to let me see it and work on a project for it - this video also makes me laugh. Take that Apple! http://www.adventuresdm.co.uk/archives/2008/06/its-a-big-ass-table.html