// 21 March 2008, 01:12
My prayers have been answered! I have finally found a way to block ads in Safari! The program is called SafariBlock from FSB Software. Go download and install it right now! »
The website is awful, but use the left-hand navigation and then click the “downloads” tab.
For a while I’ve heard rumours about add-ons that completely [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, computers & gadgets, the internet, web technology
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// 13 December 2007, 23:40
I officially cancelled my MySpace account after about a year of waining interest and use. The final straw was the fact that my account got hacked for the second time, and someone, I suspect a bot, posted spam comments on several friends’ pages. Need a design reason why MySpace is over:
As you can see, the [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, brands & branding, design: web, the internet
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// 21 November 2007, 10:33
Mac ad on Vista homepage - click for a larger screenshot
Online advertising is a tricky game. Considering recommendation and association engines are still somewhat imprecise, we often wind up with very cheekily placed ads. I recall one instance where a news article about terror threats in New York was framed by banner ads seducing us [...]
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// 22 August 2007, 22:18
Does this angle make my butt look big?
I knew it was going to happen the minute I read that strapline: “You can never be too thin. Or too powerful.” Apple’s new iMac turned heads when they debuted a few weeks ago, but the attention was on more than the new innovative industrial design. There clever [...]
// a tale of advertising: online, design: product
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// 21 July 2007, 09:54
click for a larger view
This turned up in my inbox today, and I had to draw some attention to it. First off, not a bad looking graphic header, which is a new thing to me. Second, this appears to be Japanese, whom I didn’t realise were in the spam trade — I thought that dubious honour [...]
// a tale of advertising: online
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// 28 June 2007, 16:33
Who doesn’t love a good spoof?
The original Dove “Evolution” ad:
The parody “Slob” Ad:
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// a tale of advertising: online, advertising: tv/radio, web technology
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// 23 May 2007, 11:23
I don’t usually comment on banner advertisments on web pages — I think because I am still convinced that if I ignore them, they will go away — but I saw two today on my hotmail page that caught my eye.
Some fly-by-night degree pusher called degrees.info has compiled a cute little menagerie of [...]
// a tale of advertising: online
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