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I just found out that the third biggest bank of Spain, La Caixa, keeps it like Chupa Chups with Salvador Dali. In 1980 the spanish savings institute took a painting by Joan Miró as basis for its logo: a blue star, a yellow and red dot.
I’m wondering if there are even more artists, painters and the likes who inspire or create logos for companies!?
After spending some time with development I am happy to present you the new Brand Infection with a lot of enhancements. I’m sorry it took so long but you know how it is :-)
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Happy you’re here and getting involved. Should you encounter any errors or wish to feed me back let me know.
Thanks for the many (positive) e-mails!
To tell you straight away: Brand Infection is not dead.
It’s just that I’ve moved into an apartment without internet (no DSL and not even telephone modem), had private troubles and couldn’t post new articles.
Nevertheless I’ve been working offline on a new version with a lot of cool features, released july:
Please keep your faith in this project, support and kind words.
Thanks, Nader
Funky, dumb, cool(?) gadget by Sony in cooperation with Skype: a mouse-phone, eh phone-mouse, hm.
The Sony VAIO VN-CX1 functions just like any optical mouse, but when you press a small button on the side it transforms into a VoIP phone. Unfortunately not wireless, not that cheap (83$) but maybe still handy.
Why have 2 devices when you can have 1?
Because I don’t want to be tied to my PC? :-)
Short: Coffee is healthy for the brain although you need to make sure to drink enough water, so your blood doesn’t clutter.
Read more at WebMD
Adotas.com: A report by Epsilon Interactive, the company which recently announced plans to acquire DoubleClick Email Solutions, and the GfK Group found that 58% of the 584 U.S. respondents “agreed that e-mail they receive is usually targeted to their need and interests,” representing a 5% increase from over a year ago.
Looking at my inbox again I found 3216 items since 12th December 2005 with “targeted e-mails” like
Who the hell are those 58% and is a measurement with only 580 respondents valuable for the US? No.
Remember the letter, advertising a telephone provider, written in Arabic!?
It had to happen. Soon after writing about logos on chocolate I found EggFusion, a company producing branded eggs. Marketers will pay for On-Egg messaging in order to put their logo and farmers will get more profit as they get paid per egg. On the website it says: “In exchange for enabling this services, EggFusion will share a percentage of revenue generated from both services with you”
Clever but a bit funny. I’m wondering if farmers are modern enough to integrate this process in their production.
Next one is advertising on toilet paper :-)
Normally I only see street-artists when going to touristy places and usually they only draw pictures of antique, barock or simply put boring remakes of ancient art.
Not this guy who created an amazingly realistic looking Coca-Cola bottle in 3D, only with his crayons. Wow!
Interesting article on Forbes Magazine about why Merill Lynch prefers Yahoo! over Google as long-term pick.
The analyst said Google generates almost all revenue from search ads, the fastest-growing Internet sales category, while 82% of Yahoo! sales come from a blend of online marketing services with the rest from user fees.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any Google or Yahoo stock but maybe I should buy some Yahoo. Google seems to come further down for the moment
Technorati’s CEO, David Sifry just released his latest State of the Blogosphere Report
Among the highlights:
According to a new research by the European Interactive Advertising Bureau, the average European internet user spends 10 hours and 15 minutes online a week; a 17 per cent rise on 2004 and a 56 per cent rise on 2003. As reported on Revolution, With the exception of early mornings (6am to 10am), the internet is the second most-used medium throughout the rest of the day. The research also found blogging is becoming more popular, with 13 per cent of European users regularly contributing to online blogging sites.
I am not surprised when I look at TV shows, “outdated” print news and popular radio.
I know this is not a tech-blog but since programmers are also reading it, I thought I’d post a job description here. Others can quickly skip this message :-)
I had some time over the holidays to dramatically improve the search functionality. Next to searching for blog entries you will now see results for brands and ads too.
Have a go on Coca-Cola, Bisley, the Axe Effect, … or some Ad Videos
