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Interesting Print Ads
Posted on 29. Jan, 2009 by Nikos.
These are some interesting print ads that I found on several websites. Take a look and leave a comment if you want. Land Rover Defender Above the Clouds “Land Rover Defender is presented as the vehicle to take on the mountains with this print advertisement from the United Kingdom. We’re shown a view of a [...]
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Bank of America is on Twitter!
Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Nikos.
After Comcast and other companies, Bank of America joined Twitter recently. Today BoA has more than 750 followers and this number will be increased. BoA announced the new Twitter account with this message: As of last week, we are now listening AND responding to customers on Twitter. You can find us at BofA_help. So we [...]
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Apple introduces iLife ’09 at Macworld Expo
Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Nikos.
Yesterday at Macworld Expo, Phill Schiller announced that availability of iLife ’09. Not a huge surprise, as a few of us guessed we’d see an iLife update today, but it does offer some cool new features. iPhoto iPhoto has been updated with two features called “Faces” and “Places.” Faces, as you may have guessed, lets [...]
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Audi Q5 Perfectly Synchronised
Posted on 27. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
The Audi Q5 is presented as the car with perfectly synchronised engineering in “Synchronized”, a television commercial combining intricate choreography and visual effects. Advertising agency Heimat worked with Psyop to create real images of driving using thousands of perfectly synchronized humans holding cards. The 60 second commercial begins with acrobatic engineers providing real time human [...]
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Apple & Microsoft – Find the difference!
Posted on 16. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Apple and Microsoft.. How similar and how different they are? The new Microsoft Store (as we say Apple Store) has a logo that is very similar to all Apple products’ logos with two gray shades (picture). Just be patient! The new Windows 7 are coming with ‘new and innovative’ ideas! (maybe they will include Spotlight, [...]
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Sexy Subaru Forester Ad in Canada
Posted on 16. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Sexy sumo carwash commercial featuring music by Electric Six. Japanese SUVs just got a little sexier. The Sexy Subaru site was developed at Tribal DDB, Toronto by creative director Dré Labre, copywriter Travis Sellar, agency art director Ryan Semeniuk, production manager Cathy Kim. Filming was shot by directors Cy Hogg and Joel Grenier via Fuel [...]
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Google’s increased market share in October 08 – 71.7%
Posted on 14. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Google continued to increase its U.S. search share dominance in October, widening its lead over Yahoo and Microsoft. In October, Google’s share of Web searches by people in the U.S. rose to 71.7 percent, up from 71.2 percent in September and 64.5 percent in October of 2007, according to market research company Hitwise. At the [...]
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Apple building its own search engine?
Posted on 13. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
According to TechCrunch’s “multiple (if thin) reports,” Apple may be working on a search engine in the interest of weaning themselves from Google’s teet. Given that Apple defaults to Google search on Mac and iPhone versions of Safari, and given that Google is sort of competition now with Android, the rumors make sense…but given that [...]
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The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0
Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Women have been heavily instrumental in redefining the way we interact online. Here’s a look at the most influential of these. (L to R: Leah Culver, Pownce; Rashmi Sinha, Slideshare; Dina Kaplin, blip.tv; Marissa Mayer, Google; Cyan Banister, Zivity; Lisa Stone, Jory Des Jardins, and Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer; Caterina Fake, Flickr; Gina Bianchini, Ning; [...]
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The world’s first timesculpture ad by Toshiba
Posted on 11. Nov, 2008 by Nikos.
Toshiba‘s new “timesculpture” ad takes The Matrix’s Bullet Time film technique one bizarrely cool step forward by animating within the freeze-frame. It was filmed with 200 Gigashot camcorders arranged on a special rig, recording a 20 terabytes of data from which the ad was composed. Check it out—it’s like a weird moving Bullet-Time ballet, and [...]
