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Flickr Groups for Logo Design Lovers
via AiBURN - Illustrator On Fire by Sean Hodge on June 03, 2008
Logo design is one of my favorite areas of design. It allows you to create symbolic imagery and serves as a unique and interesting design challenge. Logo designers need places to get critiqued, discuss logo design related subjects, and show off their best work.This article showcases some great Flickr groups for logo designers. As with most Flickr groups the longest running groups have huge...
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Nokia receives European Commission merger control approval for the acquisition of Trolltech
via Nokia Press Releases by (author unknown) on June 05, 2008
Espoo, Finland - The European Commission today announced that it has unconditionally approved Nokia's voluntary tender offer for all the shares in Trolltech ASA (OSE: Troll). Nokia will now proceed with the consummation of the offer. Settlement for the shares tendered in the offer is expected to take place on June 6, 2008. In accordance with section 3.9 of the offer document, Nokia has...
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Daydreams at M&C
via CR Blog by Patrick on June 04, 2008
The normally pristine white atrium at ad agency M&C Saatchi has been transformed into a showcase of the multifarious talents of creative collective Daydream Network…Last night saw the opening of an exhibition which will run at the agency until 23 July. This is the second time that M&C’s executive creative director Graham Fink has invited the Network into the agency. As before walls, pillars...
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Stairway to Brand Heaven & Hell
via Logic+Emotion by darmano on June 02, 2008
Inspired by a chat with Jared Spool.
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Do you own trees?
via Seth's Blog by Seth Godin on June 01, 2008
Today's New York Times reports an astonishing fact: Book publishers wholesale their ebooks to Amazon for precisely the same price as their paper books. Amazon loses money on every ebook for the Kindle they sell because publishers don't discount zero-cost ebooks. Apparently, the publishers don't count the paper, storage, inventory, shredding and shipping expenses in their cost...
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ISO 3166 country names and 2-letter country codes for HTML, Python, ActionScript, Flex, JSON, and XML
via Aral Balkan by Aral on May 31, 2008
... and the corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements" of 246 countries and is free to use.Unfortunately, it's an HTML table. Which means that you have some manual data massaging to do if you want to use it. Sucks big time.ISO also sells the ISO 3166 "database" for about $148 USD. And it comes in -- get this -- Microsoft Access Format. I bet we've all got a copy laying around so...
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Musicians Back 'Net Neutrality
via ClickZ News Blog by (author unknown) on May 29, 2008
... dontated tracks to the compilation, which will be released by indie Thirsty Ear Recordings.Kind of ironic that musicians, who have seen their industry gutted by the Web, would band together to support this critical cause. It would be nice to see interactive marketers and advertisers, whose bread and butter depend on a freely accessible Internet, make their own brand of noise about the issue.
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The Fork in the Road for Social Media
via ReadWriteWeb by Bernard Lunn on May 28, 2008
Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one. But they may end up back in Kansas. Down the other road, lies a future of being the primary repository for your connections (aka the social...
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the revised complete creativity 100
via ToothlessTiger by Henriette Weber Andersen on May 27, 2008
So - I have looked at the complete creativity 100 list again - and revised it a bit. you can still find the “elderly creativity 100″ on henrietteweber.com. or you can vote for this one at digg.com1. your knowledge of “what’s out there” makes you base your choices on your knowledge of what works and what doesn’t work2. creativity means creative choices of inclusion and exclusion...
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US & UK CMO’s Avoid Website Responsibility!
via ViralBlog » Viral ideas.Trends. Inspiration by Igor Beuker on May 25, 2008
Warning: this item contains shocking material and evidence about Chief Marketing Officers in the US, UK and Netherlands, when it comes to taking website responsibility. Skip or zap this item if you can’t handle this ignorant behavior. Once per quarter I get tremendously confused, furious and frustrated. Reason for my anger is the published study, done by Colemal Research for SDL Tridion. From...
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