Henry Jones at Web Design Ledger is fascinated with great looking business cards. So much so he revently launched a new site called Card Observer. Card Observer showcases only the best business card designs. They do this for a couple of reasons: to shine the spotlight on the talented designers who create these beautiful cards, and to inspire. …
Flying Elephants!
David Kiefaber of Adfreak says the IFAW spot above makes it point in a "roundabout and needlessly abstract way." That's not what I'm thinking at all. I'm thinking flying elephants! Best of all, when the dreaminess of flying elephants fades, one is left with the stark reality that elephants don't fly and that they're best left to their natural habitats. …
Spotlight on NW Creative: Financial-Chaos Free Moments
People are bugging out because the financial world is spinning spinning spinning. These conditions make it exceptionally difficult for a bank to get its message out. But that's not the case for credit unions, at least credit unions in the state of Washington. Seattle-based Big Bang Electrical's new campaign for the Credit Unions of Washington aims to give consumers "financial-chaos free moments." The campaign spans …
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Micromedia Is Mega
Niche Web Sites Buck Media Struggles is a pretty provocative headline at a time like this, when content companies of all shapes and sizes seek profitability. According to The Wall Street Journal, SB Nation, Seeking Alpha and HealthCentral Network, which create and aggregate content about topics like sports, business and health, are recording sharp gains in visitors and -- in many cases -- revenue. "Consumer …
LinkedIn Is Serious
Abbey Klaassen at Ad Age notes that LinkedIn is well positioned to capitalize on the downturn in the economy. The professional networking site hit 36 million members last Monday and is adding them at a rate of about one member per second. According to ComScore, it's gone from about 3.6 million unique monthly visitors a year ago to 7.7 million today, which would make it even with Yahoo HotJobs, the third-largest …
Christina Aguilera And The Sweet Smell of Israel
Fans of pop music might expect Christina to air her laundry in public. Instead the pop diva hung her hangers in public, as part of an experiential marketing stunt to drive interest in her new perfume. Mizbala of Tel-Aviv placed tens of thousands of quality clothes hangers, with a perfume sample and a branded Christina Aguilera label in public locations all over the country. …
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Yet Another Facebook Story: Nauseating Smarminess
Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb is saying what many of us are thinking about Facebook these days. ...Ownership of content, not the lack of input on policy, was what people were upset about. Facebook appears to forget that it's just one of many ways people use the internet. It's wildly popular today, but just as people have used other social networks in the past - they have other options for social networks to …
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The Wall Street Journal has a copy of an internal memo sent by Steven Swartz, the president of Hearst newspapers. In the memo he says Hearst newspapers will begin to charge for online content. "Exactly how much paid content to hold back from our free sites will be a judgment call made daily by our management, whose mission should be to run the best free Web sites in our markets without compromising our ability to get …
