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Google Now Analyzes Ad Placements – Improves Search Ranking Algorithm
Yesterday Google announced a major(!) upgrade to its search ranking algorithm which will drastically change the way designers and more importantly online marketeers will think about their website layouts. In Google’s ongoing effort to help users find more high-quality websites … Read
Wunderkit Is Over-Hyped: Men Who Stare At Wooden Walls 2.0
I got an invitation today to try out wunderkit and after 15 minutes of clicking around I have to say it’s so f*cking sad I don’t even know. This is in no way innovative nor easy to use. It’s simply … Read
Let It Snow, Google
Google’s got a creative and tricky search result once again. After “tilt” or “do a barrel roll” it’s now “let it snow”. People who aren’t celebrating christmas can type in “hannukah”. Google started with those tricks some time ago but … Read
20 Creative 404 Error “Not Found” Page Examples
After countless hours of development everybody is happy when pushing a website or application live. What people usually forget is to a create meaning-, helpful or at least creative “404 Error Not Found” page. This is not something developers often … Read
Twitter’s Redesign Looks Nice
Watch this video on YouTube. Twitter on Thursday introduced a new look for Twitter.com and TweetDeck that it hopes will simplify the user experience. One major difference on the homepage is that tweets appear on the right side and take … Read
E-Mail Newsletter HTML Boilerplate Makes Development Easier
Once in a while everybody working for clients on the web needs to create an e-mail newsletter and we all know how cumbersome, terrifying and time-consuming this task is. Not anymore!…well, at least you get a head start with this … Read
Twitter Spam Is Rarely Targeted, Sometimes Just Absurd
I just tweeted this with my private twitter account @nadr: I’m shocked about a helicopter from liberty tours crashing into a plane, then falling into Hudson river. First of all it is always a tragedy when people get killed, secondly … Read
Tropicana: We’re not red, we’re not blue. We’re 100% orange
Simon Owens told me about a non-traditional branding project he’s been working on for Tropicana: an abstract visualization of the aggregate conversation on Twitter showing frequency and context of election-related words. The site pulls a continuous stream of tweets mentioning … Read
Electric Face Disco
Ok, this has nothing to do with brands, marketing or advertising but it would still be a great viral if it were from an agency promoting a music product. A little bit of masochism is needed to actually do this: … Read
WordPress Plugin “Most Comments” + Widget
This post is for the bloggers out there using WordPress. I was searching for a wordpress plugin that shows posts with the most comments but couldn’t find any that has enough options, so I developed one myself. Now that it’s … Read
Malibu Rum’s Relaxed Brand Experience
Malibu Rum Austria relaunches its website with a massively enhanced brand experience. We, the Brand Infection team around Nader Cserny, have put the focus on transforming Malibu Rum’s slogan “Seriously easy going” into “Seriously easy web surfing”: a relaxed brand … Read
Pernod Ricard Austria Website Launches
After a intense work period of two months, spirits company Pernod Ricard Austria and I successfully launched their new website. The website includes information on over 40 products with each approx. 4 different qualities (7yr, 12yr, etc.). Each product page … Read
Check your brand’s social score
Check your brand’s position in the web 2.0 world, with socialmeter. The app currently scans Del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Jots, Linkroll, Netscape, Reddit, Shadows, Spurl, Technorati, and Yahoo My Web. For example, I measured Brand Infection‘s social score:
Mentos Sheep Volley
Mentos, the German Freshmaker has just put online a funny and pretty enjoyable advergame called Sheep Volley. The more or less innovative part of the game is that users can take pictures of their sheep while playing, then send them … Read
Clio Xtrem Racer
Renault is online with a new game “Clio Xtrem Racer: Race to resurrection”. The gamer at the wheel of “ghost” car races against the time for reincarnation into New Clio. This futuristic racing game developed by Publicis Net France challenges … Read
