Some pics from our last one at The Bathhouse, the burlesque theme with Bearjitos all round!
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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.
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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?
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Right here, right now: real-time web
You may not know but there are two types of web coexisting at the moment. One is the familiar website style web that is usually found through typing in a web address or using a search engine like Google. The second type is the equally familiar real-time web that includes things like Twitter tweets and Facebook updates.
So how exactly are they different, and why? Traditional websites are slow to be updated and require you or your software to check for those updates regularly. Real-time web enables new information to be received as soon as it’s published. It’s like writing a message and holding it up in front of everyone who you’d like to see it at once, whether they were expecting it or not.
So why is it so good? It makes publishing and receiving information as fast as a face-to-face conversation. No more messing with code or calling your digital team to get short news updates out there.
So why has it just got better? Traditional search engines like Google are not programmed to keep up with the rapid change of information in real-time web. But new search engines specifically for real-time web functions like Twitter make finding fast-changing information even faster.
Try a few below to see for yourself.
Find the Twitter feeds you’re interested in at www.monitter.com
Search the real-time web to keep up to date with the fastest-changing information around at www.oneriot.com
Make those long urls for articles or obscure pages easily digestable and easy to share at www.bit.ly
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Heavyweight agencies Vs the brand new bantams – who kicks the most digital derriere?
Pre-match weigh-in
The main difference between big agencies and smaller shops is the people in them. They determine the skills the company can offer to a client.
Bigger agencies can afford to attract the best or most talked-about talent.
Some smaller agencies are more ambitious and they can offer employees opportunities to grow with the business.
These comparisons are difficult to prove – objective analysis has to be taken on an agency by agency basis. But we can make a quick and dirty assessment based on nearly a decade of web experience. Let the fight begin!
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