The Idea Virus

Claimed to be the most downloaded eBooks of all time, Unleashing the Idea Virus discusses the transition in today’s economy from farms, factories to idea merchants and explains the factors needed to get your idea out there.

Seth Godin's book, Unleashing the Idea Virus

“An idea that just sits there is worthless. But an idea that moves and grows and infects everyone it touches… that’s an ideavirus.” Seth Godin, Unleashing the Idea Virus.

Seth discusses concepts which have been common to modern marketing for some time, but by putting his own slant on things and introducing terms such as “hive, sneezers, virus, and vaccum”, he asks some poignant questions:

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June 18th, 2009 / Creative news / Lexi

Howto track outgoing links with Google Analytics using jQuery

Simply include these lines and the jQuery library in your document.

$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[href^=http]:not("[href*=://' + document.domain + ']")').click(function() {
pageTracker._trackPageview('/out/'+$(this).attr("href"));
});
});

(please indent them!)

Cheers

May 29th, 2009 / Tech Talk / tim

Fluid Design Queenstown

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When the guys from Fluid introduced us to their vision of their website, we basically had two options on how to realise it:

Flash or Javascript?

After a few internal discussions, in where we evaluated the pros and cons of both technologies we came to the decision to avoid Flash and make use of the powerful jQuery framework.

The following things lead us to this decision:

  • Accessibility
  • Search engine friendliness

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May 21st, 2009 / Work / tim

Outstanding Ads of IKEA

The one drawback about living in a picturesque town such as Queenstown, is that you miss out on some of the over-the-top advertising ideas that are required to break through the visual noise of a big city.

“IKEA’s advertising strategy is outstanding. I gather best of ikea ads from several resourses to inspire brandplanner or just enjoy it. As you see below, they are surprizing, colorful and overall very cool.”
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May 13th, 2009 / Creative news / Lexi