We just launched a new web site for ZillionTV, a start-up in the Bay Area that has a revolutionary new idea for video entertainment.
Declare your independence from one-size-fits-all television. The ZillionTV™ Service is all about putting you in control. Choose the shows you want to watch, when you want to watch them; choose the ad categories you want — or watch no ads at all. It’s your very own personal television experience.
Most people are getting pretty hyped on design patterns and frameworks these days. Most of what I have seen floating around though is the use of MVC. MVC is a really nice pattern, and I wish I had known about it when I was doing a lot of PHP work as it would have saved me at least 100 huge headaches. When I looked at rails I was really impressed with how easy it made it to change the application view and data as two very isolated entities. Now there are tons of frameworks available for flash that use this pattern. PureMVC and Cairngorm are both really nice options that encourage loose coupling. If your project is big, or has multiple developers involved than using one of these frameworks is going to be the way to go. Your application will be scalable and multiple people can pick out their own parts to work on without messing with the others. This is flash though, and a lot of times you are not building something this big.
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Here’s a behind the scenes peek at the latest shoot for Sony PlayStation Buzz! The shoot took place at the studio of our good friends Autofuss
Visit: http://www.us.playstation.com/buzz/
IBM has partnered with Ricoh to develop a new company, InfoPrint, poised to become the leader in the digital printing industry. By moving away from a product driven approach to a solutions focus, InfoPrint wanted their websites—both external and internal—to represent their new company’s vision, especially the home page. We developed the strategic approach for the dot com and intranet sites, which included focus group research among global customers, resellers, and employees. The sites also needed to work globally, as InfoPrint has customers and offices around the world.
The Ogilvy team realized they had struck upon a great branding opportunity while working on iPath Exchange Traded Notes (Barclays) for their annual online display refresh. The mathematical intricacies of origami art and an exchange traded note mirror each other, not only in the brilliant way in which science and art can meet and create a beautifully designed product, but in the passion and true ingenuity, which are the driving forces behind great products. While searching for who would help bring our creative idea to life, Ogilvy found Robert Lang, a world-renowned origami artist, with a background in physics and mathematics. Through precise mathematical formulas, Robert merged his knowledge and artistic passion to create a new style of origami that far surpasses what the world has previously seen.
Automated Document Factory (ADF) is one of the solutions that InfoPrint offers. ADF provides a fully automated system that optimizes output productivity, postal optimization, and mailroom integrity in the production process, saving customers time and money. The ADF solution needed to be explained in an engaging and interesting way with great detail. Ogilvy recommended an interactive demo with 3D elements to create a compelling demonstration of the ADF solution, with the customer able to choose from three different information streams. The ADF demo was translated into other languages for global use and was well received.
