Interactive Buzz - December 28, 2007

The last buzz of the year! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Here's to a healthy, happy & prosperous 2008!

Nice Design - FedEx Microsite
http://experience.fedex.com/
This is a well designed little microsite to help user understand a little more about FedEx - if you care, that is. The little animated people are pretty cool.

Virgin Mobile and Facebook
Content from Adverblog
Virgin Mobile has created a little application called Dooblebook they're sharing on Facebook to promote their new campaign of "Pay for 1 hour, speak for 2". It's a simple branded 'matchmaking' quiz, but ties nicely in with its brand message (above) and uses imagery of Jean Claude Van Damme, who shows up in the company's tv commercial for this same campaign. A pretty good integration of campaign with Facebook. You have to have a Facebook account to view this link, but here it is anyway.

Interactive Buzz - Dec 28 '07

Hi Darcy. These postings are dedicated to you. Have a happy holiday.

Happy Holidays from Flint Interactive
Brian Barber and the team did a fantastic job at creating this little animation. It brought back some great memories of my Fisher Price Farm set. What the holidays are all about - great memories. Good job team.

Voice Blogging (Check the widget to the right on this page.)
I don't know if that's the correct term or not, but I discovered a new tool today. Utterz. You can set up an account, call a phone number, say whatever it is you want to say and have it pull into your blog. Pretty cool. This would be great if you're traveling a lot but still want to post to your blog. Or - it's just more fun to hear someone's voice vs. reading their type. So I think. My UTTERZ message is on the right in the little widget I added.

Advergame - Got Milk?
Wow. While the load time is about 5 days, the wait is worth it. The design, execution and creativity behind this advergame is really quite beautiful. I'd love to see the California Milk Producers annual advertising budget. Whew! I WOULD be interested in seeing the ROI on a tactic like this.

Very cool site with lovely functionality and design
This site in general is pretty cool - but I love the Flashy Flash. Especially when you rotate through the various models (by using the arrows or your mouse-wheel, which is really pretty cool if you ask me!), or when you click on the little (?) icon above the couple's head then click the arrow and watch the piece of paper flip over. Purdy. (But potentially slow-loading.)

Snow Globe Boy - From McKinney

Interactive Buzz - Dec 7 '07

Campaign Integration
You've all seen the new AT&T campaign right? This site is perfectly integrated and and taking the TV, Print, Billboards to the next level. You enter your own unique "place"... THEN you can buy "goods" with that unique place on it (that's truly unique to who you are). From traditional media to interacting on the site to 3 dimentional advertising. Fantastic job AT&T. (When I type in my various job duties - it appears as if I'm a "Createcist".)

Here's mine - I'm from Faruthgo:



Amnesty's Online Demonstration
This is an interesting site I found thanks to Adverblog. Upload your face + you message. Here's their Adverblogs explantion: (http://kominactie.amnesty.nl/)

"Here you can demonstrate for human rights. At the platform you'll find a virtual square where you can add your own avatar to show your involvement. It's in Dutch, but you'll get the message. Goal is to get specific attention for five victims of human rights violations on the international Human Rights Day, which is annually held on the 10th of December."

Interactive Agency's site - Interesting Execution
Warren said it best, so I'll just use his words. (Thanks Warren)

I don't get the "screen door." I think it's a weird Belgian design
element. But I like the subtitles and I like the samples link that comes up on the left side each time she lists a recent project. (I can't imagine that this is the first time a web site designer has done the old "cobbler's children go barefoot" idea for their web site, but who knows.) Personally, I find the immediacy of the video ("News Four live at Eleven!!!") angle really engaging. The project manager is pretty and incredibly well rehearsed/well spoken and the nav bar at the bottom is ruthlessly obvious -- purposely designed lo-tech to emphasize how busy
they've been with great work on big name paying clients. This is a really well thought thru idea and execution...even to the point of providing update videos on the site's non-progress.

Blowing Our Own Horn
I wouldn't be doing justice to our own incredibly interactive team if I didn't post some of our own very cool work we recently launched. Plus, a link here or there is good for their SEO causes.
http://www.duenorthproducts.com
http://www.ulteig.com
http://www.woodmaster.com
http://www.bankrepublic.com