The Business Creative

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Tag: trends

Facebook is the New AOL

Remember the old AOL? The one that would send you CD after CD with free hour offers? The AOL that people would use instead of the Internet and the Web–to get, er, social? That’s how I see Facebook now–increasing isolated and controlled, and soon to be a fading star. [Update: Damn it. A Google search [...]

Creative Business and Management Bits; September 2nd – September 22nd

Recently uncovered in all their glorious, clickable hypertext … September 2nd through September 22nd: Google Flash Indexing Update – Google's ability to index Flash sites is ~relatively~ new, and improving. This is the latest–from June!–but something I kept going back to find but had always been sidetracked. swissmiss | Arial versus Helvetica – I have [...]

Amazon Web Services

If you’re not taking advantage of Amazon’s Web Services, how do I say … You’re missing something. Cloud computing is the idea that individuals and businesses can make use of the massive technology infrastructures and resources we’re connected to via the internet for incredibly inexpensive, scalable, powerful computing and storage power. I’m not extraordinarily technical, [...]

Put Your Money Where Your Digital Is

Listen in to this brief interview with Organic EVP Adam Turinas in which he discusses the joy of spending marketing dollars on digital with Jennifer Jones. But what else would you expect from a chief at one of the largest digital agencies? But then how can one really argue? With key themes like accountability, targeting, [...]