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May I have your attention please?

July 2nd, 2008

Recently, we received an award for the most “attention-getting” ad in a Readex Research ad perception study of the publication Homeland Security Today. The ad was for Harris RF Communications: our Talk as One, Work as One campaign. For those of you not familiar with Harris, they are an international communications and information technology company [...]

Web Leftovers – 3/21/2008

March 21st, 2008

Take five minutes out of your Friday to visit some of the sites, blogs and videos we’ve been stumbling across in the past few weeks. Renault Megane ‘Everything is Sport’ CommercialFrench vehicle manufacturer, Renault, shows us just how desirable their cars are. Even the moving parts will do whatever it takes to get in one. [...]

Web Leftovers – 2/20/2008

February 20th, 2008

It’s been a while since the last list of things we’ve come across while crawling through the web’s many tubes. Interactive Ikea CommercialIkea lets you change angles on a series of slow-motion videos of what they refer to as "The Complete Bedroom." As the clip plays, you’re also shown pricing for several items in the [...]

iPhone: Look and Tap is the new Point and Click

July 6th, 2007

I’m as geeked out as anyone about the iPhone. But as a web designer/developer, I’m a bit disconcerted. Why? It’s yet another web browser / interface to deal with (at Martino Flynn, we generally develop for Firefox 2 on Mac and Windows, Safari 2 for the Mac, and Internet Explorer 6 for Windows, the latter [...]

Google on Flash: “We’re blind, blind!”

July 6th, 2007

 From the Google Webmaster Blog: “As many of you already know, Flash is inherently a visual medium, and Googlebot doesn’t have eyes. Googlebot can typically read Flash files and extract the text and links in them, but the structure and context are missing. Moreover, textual contents are sometimes stored in Flash as graphics, and since [...]