A Source Of Inspiration

What a busy week! Didn’d had much time to blog, so here are the latest picks:

• The departure of the legendary economist and Nobel Prize winner, Milton Friedman.
• Microsoft, Yahoo and Google agreed on a standard sitemap protocol.
• The World Usability Day was celebrated last 14th
• Former AOL pro blogger Calacanis posts an interesting view on Web2.0 an the advertising model
• AdTv to be launched on January, with more than 3000 ads.
• IAB reports that “Internet advertising revenues reached an estimated new record of $4.2 billion for the third quarter of 2006″.

And some new inspirations:

• Adobe launches a new color toy - Kuler.
• Typography in gigantic proportions at Geogreeting
• Lifesize Googlemaps by Adam Bartholl
• Beautiful animation for Lux Provocateur soap.
• The blender you just might need.
• The web version of “The Office” in PhilTube

Pedro Bidarra, Creative Director from BBDO Portugal is well know for being a blood-minded type of person. But i guess this time he’s way over his marks.

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(FYI, i post-edited the subtitles)

This video might have something to do with recruitment or to showcase the viral competences of the agency. Anyway, it’s funny to see the enormous ego of a Creative Director end like this.

Nice interstitial from Motorola that i’ve just found on Rottentomatoes.

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The Christmas season already opened in retail stores, so i guess it’s time for the the interactive scene to start giving us some presents. Starbucks is one of the first examples i’ve seen with http://www.itsredagain.com/

It’s the traditional e-card evolved, allowing you to select a personalized card with voice (Natural Voices from IBM, maybe ?).
A global campaign reach, with several languages supported, the mood of the site reminds us of the Christmas decorations of Starbucks cofee shops.

Design: http://www.ourcommon.com/
Development: http://www.odopod.com/
(A tip from AdvertisingEtc)

The Portuguese mobile solutions company YDreams, has released this weekend the the latest installment of the Underwold series, with football star Cristiano Ronaldo as the main character.

The collaboration with Manchester’s United pretty boy is a big push in the visibility of the company and a sign that the Cristiano’s publicists are aware of the power of mobile in younger markets, especially if it’s endorsed by one of their idols.
You can download the mobile game at: http://www.cristianoronaldogame.com/

Big thanks to the team at BannerBlog for posting one of my submissions.

It’s mostly old work, since my attention span never seems to get enough time to update our online advertising gallery.

For the Flashers out there, MediaBox has recorded sessions of day 1 and 2 of Adobe MAX 2006.

Among other subjects, you can watch:

• Flash Player 9 penetration
• Adobe Apollo forecasts
• New software releases from Adobe
• Integration between Adobe and Macromedia products
• Porting Flash Player to PS3
• The Max Awards
• Flash Mobile and Flash Lite opportunities

(Via Biskero)

From http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000201.html
Quote: Jon Gay and Robert Tatsumi (the creators of Flash) have teamed up with Gary Grossman (the creator of ActionScript) and Peter Santangeli (former vice president of engineering at Macromedia) to create a new start up company named Software As Art. So far, no public information on the new company’s products or services is available. Looks like for now, we’ll all just have to wait and see what these Flash pioneers get up to.
Posted by moock at November 8, 2006 06:35 AM

Will we have a new “Art Player” ?