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Cartoon: Flash Intro Screens (35)
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Just when we thought the damn things were dead and buried, I ran across another Flash intro screen the other day. And like practically every other one I've seen, it was half useless puffery about the organization behind the site, and half lookit-this-kewl-effect self-indulgence by the designer. But they can't all be bad... can they? Has anybody seen a Flash intro that doesn't have you scanning the screen desperately for the "skip intro" link?Shared by AJ (168) Alan Dean (32) Ara (6) atul (71) Brian (26) CesarS (14) Chuck Lawson (6) Coolbox (22) datsro (3) Devlin D (2) ericholter (17) fabio (40) Greg (3) imma (4) Jamie R (8) Jase (13) Jesus (27) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) leo (15) Leo K (6) Michael (20) psvensson (9) rtsnance (4) sarahintampa (79) Satya (7) Sean Blakey (11) Shawn (18) sryo (19) stephdau (4) Tim (17) Tony (11) Warren (2) Wayne (51) wvpv (10) Zaki (47)Contribute comment -
There Must Be Something Between Viral & Obscure... (24)
onYou've probably been in those meetings too: someone mentions a cool, "edgy" (uh-oh) youth-oriented campaign, and someone else says "video", and then someone else completes the axis of online evil with the word "viral". It's been said over and over again, but maybe one more time would help: "viral" can be encouraged, it can be prayed for, but it can't be engineered. Your only hope is to create engaging, compelling content, and tell a terrific ...Shared by Alan Edgett (3) Alex Plank (3) andyed (1) Benjamin (824) clacey2 (9) Colin (4) Deborah Petersen (21) digits12 (635) Drew Olanoff (125) Hisham (21) Jen (12) Jye (11) Marshall (5) Michael (13) Mike F (381) MrManson (6) Reg Saddler (Zaibatsu) (176) Richard (13) Rob (15) sarahintampa (79) Shadowfoot (2) Steve (1) Uzair (122) webtime (355)Explore read four notes
- andyed said: fungal!
- clacey2 said: What a revolution we're in! Yet the Kings and Queens of traditional business strategy and marketing, to continue to scream, "Let them eat cake!".
- Alan Edgett said: Always good to remind oneself...
- Jen said: This is the story of my life lately.... hahahah
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There Must Be Something Between Viral & Obscure... (11)
onYou've probably been in those meetings too: someone mentions a cool, "edgy" (uh-oh) youth-oriented campaign, and someone else says "video", and then someone else completes the axis of online evil with the word "viral". It's been said over and over again, but maybe one more time would help: "viral" can be encouraged, it can be prayed for, but it can't be engineered. Your only hope is to create engaging, compelling content, and tell a terrific ...Shared by Alex Plank (3) Chuck Lawson (6) clacey2 (9) Colin (4) Emil (6) LauraLee (212) Marshall (5) MrManson (6) Rob (15) Shadowfoot (2) Steve (1)Contribute comment
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Tag Clouds R.I.P.? (56)
onI loved tag clouds from the moment I saw them, and I still do. Two years ago, they roamed the social web like buffalo on the pre-Columbian plains of North America... huge, thundering herds of keywords of all shades and sizes. And you'll see them to this day on many of their earliest adopters - from Delicious.com (makeover and all) to 43 Things. These days, though, I'm noticing that on more and more sites the ...Shared by (jeff)isageek (48) Aaron (34) aberdeen (0) Adamo (25) Andrea (7) atul (71) bfernald (8) Brandon Ball (21) Bruce (0) Corvida (64) Daniel Dočekal (1) David Bullock (0) Dedalus (16) Dimitar D (36) drewenut (0) Dustin (1) ehu4ever (70) everyone loves a wee sombrero (68) Fabian Mohr (5) Goyal (3) heidigoseek (12) Hisham (21) Igor Schwarzmann (5) Jeff (45) Josh (0) Jules (10) k1v1n (3) Kevin (5) klaste (0) kliger (6) lkratz (2) louisgray (115) Marcel (21) Marque (0) Matias Sulzberger (11) Morphyoss (0) Phil (0) Ralph Poole (5) ramyon (18) Ricardo.Borelli (5) Rick Turoczy (62) Rob (116) Ron Shoshani (0) Sameer. (1) Satya (7) Shaw (12) Stephanie Gulley (14) Tewe (0) Thomas Reimer S (13) ultraviolet (34) Vincent Neve (0) vlvl (15) westher (101) whatevernevermind (8) Will Sullivan (21) Yaroslav (4)
- heidigoseek said: Tag clouds not necessarily dead... the need for them on a site will be defined by ease of use for the user. Are they necessary? Do they add value? Or are you integrating them just because they're "cool". Delicious would be useless to me without tags.
- Adamo said: beh meravigliosa la lapide con la tag cloud
- k1v1n said: it's not just tag clouds. the move is on to remove all navigation that is not contextual. YAY!
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Cartoon: Knol Experts (16)
onEarlier this week we reported that Google had opened up Knol, its Wikipedia competitor, to the public. It had announced a private beta of the service last December. Now that Knol is public, it makes us wonder who you would rather party with: Knol experts, Squidoo lensmasters or Wikipedia editors?Shared by (jeff)isageek (48) Brit (23) Frederic (4) gisc (3) hnouwens (2) idhorat (0) Jill (48) kenmat (2) Leena (850) Mark (11) Mike F (381) noel (16) Pål Hivand (8) Shane Coffey (84) small (22) zos (33)Contribute comment
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As Amazon S3 goes, so goes the world (14)
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Shared by Adam Maldonado (109) Annarella (20) Digg Boss (641) dj empirical (64) guy (479) Jeff (129) Jon (7) LUCCHINA (423) Muhammad Saleem (233) PaulTheWineGuy (36) Polina (5) Rob (20) susanna (63) will e (17)- Polina said: Megan, don't kill the dinosaurs!
- dj empirical said: attn: Tom.
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Cartoon: Cloud Computing (24)
onThere's a panicky voice inside me that wonders, whenever the power is knocked out for more than a minute or so, if this is it: the failure of the grid, the fall of civilization, the end of all things. And then the lights come back on, and it's all fine again. The weekend's six-hour Amazon S3 outage caught a lot of people by surprise, including more than a few blogs and web apps who rely ...Shared by AJ (168) ancameme (0) Andrea (8) Andy (4) atul (71) audi (6) b (26) Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (10) Espig (5) Fenng (44) gisc (3) iBspoof (12) idhorat (0) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) Midh (0) Phil (42) Pittaya (1) psvensson (9) rebrse (135) Richard (19) smdahlen (11) sugree (43) Thiago (3) tim (27)
- Andrea said: Oh no!
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Cartoon: Favicon Dead Pool (24)
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Here is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.Shared by AJ (168) al (8) atul (71) Aziz (1) Ben (5) Dedalus (16) Drew Olanoff (125) ehu4ever (70) embee (32) Eric (7) felix (1) Marin Purgar (20) Paul Dunay (8) Phil (0) Ricardo.Borelli (5) Richard (0) small (22) stantont (6) Steve M. (16) Steve918 (12) Tom Steel (3) ultraviolet (34) Will (1) 費里曼先生 (3)- Steve918 said: I love this cartoon!
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"Take me now, you magnificent beast" is well under the limit (11)
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- ritesh said: Im a twitter fan. But this is funny :-) http://twitter.com/itsmeritesh
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Friday Cartoon: Wikipedia Editors (23)
onHere is a new cartoon from Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Rob runs a regular cartoon blog called Noise to Signal, in which he puts in graphical form some of the big questions of the social web.Shared by Angelos (4) Aranittara (7) Brianna Laugher (5) CesarS (14) Gene Locklin (38) Hassan (11) Hisham (21) ieruo (11) Josh (5) Kcrystina (3) Konstantin (10) LouCypher (34) Michael (13) Mike F (381) Muzo (8) Nathan Reale (0) Nihar (19) philip88 (5) Rizzn (71) Sandaruwan (16) Soulhuntre (70) Txema (1) YuSuPh (1)Contribute comment
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