http://recognizedesign.com New Angles on the Web, Marketing and Identity Fri, 02 May 2008 07:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below is a short clip of Seth Godin giving a presentation on how to find the right customers. How is he able to deliver his message so effectively in just over one minute? Unless you're completely asleep, it's impossible to not understand the thrust of Seth's message. What he says has ... http://recognizedesign.com/2008/05/02/presentation-tips-from-seth-godin/ This will make more sense if you can read/understand Japanese, but I'm really loving the accent here. This made the most viewed page on YouTube 11/25/2007. Actually, I think it was the version with Italian subtitles that made the most watched list. Either way, enjoy. http://recognizedesign.com/2007/11/27/banzai-from-stephano-beni/ The Viral Garden has published their list of the Top 25 Marketing Blogs (for week 15). Interesting strategy - justifying gratuitous linking to many of the high traffic blogs in an attempt to generate traffic and build recognition. I don't see any criteria for how the rankings are sorted...but I'd ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/08/01/linking-for-hollers/ I've heard it said that 2006 is meant to be the year of the podcast. Seeing as the number of podcasts out there in many categories has increased exponentially over the past year or so, drawing in a large number of major media producers, such as NPR, the BBC, ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/31/japan-podcast-review/ Her 'real' name is Christine Dolce, and she has a Wikipedia page in her own name - so you know she must be someone. Online, she's known as ForBiddeN, and 976,420 'friends' currently link to her MySpace page, making her one of the three most popular personas on that website. A ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/30/myspace-marketing-la-dolce-weba/ Japan Media Review has reported on an interesting tactic currently being emplyoed by national television broadcaster NHK in Japan. In the wake of a series of scandals at NHK, scores of Japanese households have refused to pay their annual dues to the public broadcaster. Although it's illegal not to pay ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/29/old-media-strikes-back/ Experience the Message had a little entry the other day about US Airways' decision to place advertising on air sickness bags. ETM asks, "What's worse: this or urinal advertising? Piss or vomit? You decide." I'm not sure we have to choose what's worse. Both are seemingly obvious bad marketing decisions. However, ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/28/ad-space-in-the-wrong-place/ Today, Slashdot reported that a Japanese company has found a way to write characters on standing water. According to Engadget, it's "difficult to coax a standing pool of water into forming recognizable shapes and characters." Pink Tentacle tells us that the device is called, "Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin," ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/27/writing-on-water/ Thanks to Gen Kanai weblog for some interesting links concerning Mozilla's marketing campaign in Japan. Naturally, the main Spread Firefox marketing page in Japanese is almost identical to the original English one. Here's the banner for "Spread Firefox in Akihabara." Of course, Akihabara has become famous not only for its plethora ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/26/firefox_marketing_in_japan/ Cyberkinetics is working on the kind of software that will allow our brains to control our computers. In their 'Business 2.0' online department, cnn.com touts that this technology will render keyboards and mice as, "medieval-style torture devices for the wrists." As someone who works with digital design, I can see this ... http://recognizedesign.com/2006/07/26/brainwave-computer-control/