Some pics from our last one at The Bathhouse, the burlesque theme with Bearjitos all round!
02.09.10/pause/
Video Watching
Just thought we’d drop you a few stats on video usage as it has come up a few times in the last day or so…
- 1 billion – videos served by YouTube every day
- 182 hours - number if online videos the average internet user watches in a month
- 82% - of Internet users that view videos online
- 12.2 billion - videos viewed per month on YouTube (US)
- 924 million – videos viewed per month on Hulu (US)
Source of stats: a video of course…
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
04.03.10/mix/
Bounty for your ideas
I’ve been doing some research into places online where people that have creative skills can come together, and do a skills swap. I stumbled upon this neat site http://www.ideabounty.com/ that brings clients and people with ideas together, with the best ideas getting a bounty for their owner. If clients are brave enough and have a tight brief this could be a great way to get a huge amount of ideas before selecting the best one.
Ideas Exchange
04.03.10/eject/
Treat yourself
I love listening to Ben Watts Buzzin Fly radio show www.buzzinfly.com It could be the reason why people love me or hate me in the office, as I tend to make sure I get in early and switch it on before anyone arrives. (The artwork they use to promote the label is amazingly cool too). Read the rest…
04.03.10/pause/
The office battle iPhone v Android
There’s been a lot of noise about the iPhone, mostly positive. So when it came to throwing my old Sony Ericsson out the window and finding a new phone I naturally looked at the magical world of the iPhone. It turns out that even though its good, got great marketing and first mover advantages, it is not as ‘bling bling’ as the HTC Hero running Android. Apple lovers will never want to admit this… partially because most ran out to buy the iPhone… but patience is a virtue and HTC Android phones are consistently out doing the iPhone in blogs, reviews, and user studies. Read the rest…
22.02.10/rewind/
Fight talk
George Mallory famously replied “because it’s there” when asked why he wanted to climb the highest mountain in the world. Some people are driven to follow their dreams and their imagination, regardless of what anyone else may think at the time. It is only in hindsight that we think of these mavericks as pioneers. And as legends. Let me introduce you to two modern day George Mallorys…
The first is Jake Burton, founder of Burton Snowboards. If you think snowboarding only became popular in the late 90s, you’d be right. But Jake founded his snowboard company back in 1977, when few people had even heard of snowboards, and even fewer wanted them. He designed and made snowboards by himself and went out to show people how much fun they could be. His perseverance payed off and he now owns the biggest snowboard company in the world.
22.02.10/play/
Tarting up your pie
Pie charts are so nineteen-eighty-(actually, was there ever a time when pie charts seemed innovative and attractive?) As you all know, online can do amazing things with images, communication, concepts and networking. Imagine what it could do when it’s let loose with boring, unsexy data…
You want hot data? You want to tease your audience with facts and figures they won’t be able to get enough of? You want to give them dataporn, Or data visualisation if you’re already getting a bit hot under that collar.
22.02.10/play/
Flash in the Pan?
Adobe Flash has long been the standard for rich animations and transitions on the web as well as being the de facto way of delivering video. However, with the iPhone spurning it, the iPad looking to follow its baby brother and competing technologies playing catchup, what does the future hold for Flash?
22.02.10/pause/
Let’s kick IE6 while it’s down
Ask most web developers what takes up most of their time
or frustrates them most about developing on the web and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser will most probably feature somewhere in their response, namely version 6 (IE6). And it’s easy to see why.
Developing for IE6 adds a significant amount of time when building a web page, due to it’s reluctance to conform to agreed web standards and some quite significant bugs and random behaviour. Read the rest…
16.12.09/mix/
CMS Uncovered
Content Management Systems are a useful product that we offer our clients. They are attractive because they allow a client direct control of their site content without any specialist web development knowledge. As an agency, they free up our time so we can spend the client’s time and money more productively than doing text amends!
However, choosing the wrong Content Management System can introduce inefficiencies, unnecessarily restricted designs and ultimately lead to a poor user experience and disappointment.
Here are our top tips for helping clients choose a CMS.