Facebook IPO?
| July 10th, 2007Via Red Herring. Hope this doesn’t mean the end of it being good.
Archive for July, 2007
ASCII coded geeky curtains
| July 6th, 2007I love stuff like this where geekery makes its way into the real world. Here’s a lovely pair of curtains complete with ASCII tree graphic, found via the amazing We Make Money Not Art blog, ran by Regine Debatty who I had the pleasure of bumping into at PSFK London a while back. Um, how many links can I cram in one sentence?
Howies T Shirt Design Competition
| July 4th, 2007I love Howies and always have done. They are starting to print their own T Shirts and to mark the occasion they are running a competition to design the very first T Shirt that is printed. 
Get your entries in now. (Instructions below or follow the link)
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The brief is there is no brief, just make it thought provoking, make it bold, make it
beautiful, make it entertaining, or make it plain old dumb - it’s upto you. Do what
you love, but make me want to wear it.
email your entries to art@howies.co.uk
(JPEG’s or PDF’s no bigger than 5mb and try not to use more than 5 colours)
closing date is Tuesday 31st July 2007
The winning design will get a limited edition print run that will go on sale in
the catalogue and on our website. The winner will recieve the first t-shirt printed
and some nice howies kit.
Get doodling.
Pete
Anti UGC - the feeling grows
| July 2nd, 2007So, here’s a really good quote that sums up something that brands need to be wary of.
UGC is a great way of engaging with people but one day (and maybe that’s going to be sooner than we think), consumers are going to start demanding a share of the revenue from it. It all feels quite one way at the moment, although there are plenty of exciting solutions waiting in the wings and in some cases actually live.
Just a thought but why can’t I have my own account whereby everytime I view a piece of branded content I get paid for my click and this becomes a trade off for my “eyeball”. There’s obviously an incredibly big debate behind this and one I haven’t researched fully . . . but this quote and the fact it’s running on the front page of POPURLS made me think I should.
