Monthly Archives: September 2008

A musical road trip

By Alastair | Published: September 22, 2008
On the drive into work today I think I had an epiphany in the way I explain how brands can extend their presence and value online. Now I have already blogged about how Dell has changed the way they project their brand image online and engage in conversations. But that would only seem to work because [...]
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Metallica <3 Turner Duckworth

By Alastair | Published: September 19, 2008
While eating my breakfast this morning I clicked through on some links on QBN and onto this great article about Metallica’s new logo and corporate identity that was designed by the design firm Turner Duckworth. I think I spent as much time reading the comments as I did reading the article, so if you click [...]
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Ever wonder which social bookmarking service to use?

By Alastair | Published: September 16, 2008
No neither do I, but I found this interesting. The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Services Via funny enough this was via Zeus Jone’s Facebook feed.
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This is interesting

By Alastair | Published: September 12, 2008
EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.
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A Useful Experience

By Alastair | Published: September 10, 2008
This a little bit of shameless self promotion (I have always loved that category from threeminds.com). For the past few months a small, dedicated team here at McCann San Francisco has been redesigning Microsoft’s Student Experience (their name not ours). http://www.microsoft.com/student. We were originally briefed to make it a “cool” student portal; but we flipped that idea [...]
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The Agency of the Future

By Alastair | Published: September 9, 2008
Here’s an interesting piece of self promotion for web agency Sapient and a small amount of self validation for me and my career. Needless to say I agree with nearly all of the points. I am particularly interested in #2 ‘pull tactics’, it’s something I have been writing about recently and should the first real article/opinion [...]
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Web Design Trends 2008

By Alastair | Published: September 7, 2008
Here’s a great site that I’ve recently been visiting with a great post of web design trends of 2008. Here’s the link: http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends/ via http://devkick.com
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Conversing with Dell

By Alastair | Published: September 4, 2008
Here’s a really good recap of how Dell is using the web as a two way communication channel and listening to their customers instead of just telling them what to buy. What stands out about Dell is the investment it has made in its self-awareness. It has a squad of 42 employees who spend their workdays [...]
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