Christine Zmoelnig’s “aesthetic and economic analysis of Macromedia’s Flash technology”
is probably out-of date (it’s a re-published MA dissertation from 1999/2000), but does an excellent job of summarizing the debate as it stood then. I’d say that - while Flash has advanced significantly to address the challeges it faced back then - the mar
(tags: flash design [...]
Entries from May 2007
links for 2007-05-29
May 29th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
In Tool development · del.icio.us
((Insert here)) is the new ((Insert here))
May 29th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 6 Comments
In Buzz/sentiment analysis · Stories
This could be one of Mat’s column ideas: Bobbie Johnson asks whether “Facebook is the new Apple”. Yet it was only last November that Ben Bajarin was wondering “can Facebook become the new Myspace?” and merely last month that Tessa Wegert asked, a touch more conditionally, “could Facebook become the new Myspace?”. Conflictingly, however, also [...]
Some draft ideas for a column (re-post)
May 25th, 2007 by Mat Morrison · 1 Comment
In Networking · New technologies · Social media · Stories · Tool development
(Nathan has just linked to this story on my other blog. I wrote it last October, but wasn’t convinced that the tone would be right for this blog. Now popular acclaim (or, rather, Nathan) has persuaded me to open this up to the other two readers of this blog.
——————————————————Original story——————————————————
I’m supposed to be working up [...]
What went wrong for Bud.tv?
May 24th, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 2 Comments
In Brand innovation · Branded content · Networking · Sharing · Stories
Ad-age is reporting that Anhauser-Busch may be canning Bud.tv due to (colour me shocked) an “audience in free fall”. When Iain wrote about Bud.tv at its launch, he wondered how AB were going to measure success - it seems that it turned out to be the old bums-on-seats (or clicks-on-pages) metric. Launched in February this [...]
Crikey
May 23rd, 2007 by Dan O'Connor · 1 Comment
In Networking · Sharing · Stories
About a month ago I blogged about the moral quandaries surrounding unsecure wireless networks, ie: is it wrong to steal your neighbour’s wifi if you can pick it up in your house?
Well, in the USA, not only is it morally wrong, it’s also a felony, punishable with up to 5 years in jail and a [...]