If you haven’t seen it yet, take a few minutes and go check out The Wilderness Downtown. It’s an interactive film/music video by Chris Milk featuring the Arcade Fire’s “We Used To Wait”. It’s also the coolest thing you’ve seen in a browser in a long time. What Milk, Arcade Fire, and a team at [...]
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And You Thought Wireframes Weren’t Awesome
February 4th, 2010 | Web Sites, video | Matt | 1 CommentI’m pretty sure there’s a low percentage of people that free-associate “wireframes” with “kick ass!”, but they probably haven’t seen this video yet. How’s your mind? Blown?
Determining The Best Social Medium For Your Message
September 16th, 2009 | Web Sites, social media | Matt | 2 CommentsBlogging (WordPress, Blogger, etc.) Good For: Long-form content. Deep, detailed, insightful writing. Extensive discussion. Not So Good For: Spur of the moment and mobile posting. Verdict: A blog is at it’s best when it can showcase a clear, well defined thought, however it’s also the most versatile of the tools and can be used for [...]
In Defense of Flashturbation
June 10th, 2009 | Web Sites, design | Matt | 2 CommentsStop me if you’ve heard this before: “Don’t use Flash OMG! It’s sooooo tacky and overdone!”. OK, so honestly most of the time I’m not going to argue. I do think, however, that Flash has gotten a bad rap recently. We need to do more than just lay off the use of Flash, we need [...]
Point B Is A State Of Mind
January 26th, 2009 | Web Sites, ideas | Matt | No CommentsI was thinking the other day about the informational search process on the web. Basically I thought about two types of searches that people preform, and that lead me to an idea about Point B… The first type we’ll call a “closed query” because it has a definite answer. These are questions like: What’s the [...]
The Google Machine Has Spoken
October 24th, 2008 | Web Sites | Matt | 2 CommentsYou’ve probably heard someone (probably a new media pundit trying to sound cool) say “If I can’t find you on Google, then you don’t exist.” This is totally ridiculous. While showing up in Google is certainly important, it’s far from the be-all end-all, oh. my. god. you should probably quit the internet right now, kind [...]
Octagon Global Recruiting
May 29th, 2008 | Viral Marketing, Web Sites | Matt | 6 CommentsI knew something was up when that low budget, semi-confusing commercial for Octagon Global Recruiting ran during the last 15 minutes of the season finale of LOST. I’m a big fan and to me everything about it screamed Dharma Initiative. Apparently I wasn’t the only one, seeing as how the site was so bogged down [...]
How To Explain Web 2.0 To (Just About) Anyone
April 15th, 2008 | Web 2.0, Web Sites | Matt | 7 CommentsHave you ever tried to explain something new or “web 2.0″ to someone only to be met with a blank stare? Yeah, me too. Well have no fear, you can put your buzzwords away. Just use this handy guide as a reference. Also, I highly encourage you to put your revisions/additions in the comments (oh [...]
