Archive for July, 2009

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Tulips From Amsterdam

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

In 2008 the creative industry in Amsterdam grew 11.2% and overall, 105 firms from 22 countries set up shop in Amsterdam. Today 40,000 people are active in developing and realizing new ideas, concepts or services representing some 20% of its working population.

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Thursday, July 9th, 2009

The New Proposed Top-Level Domain Names

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

When was the last time you accessed a Web site for a business using the “.biz” top-level domain name or visited your local museum Web site using “.museum” or how about accessing the Web site of “professional” using the “.pro” generic top-level domain (gTLD) names? Thought so. Hard to believe yet another gTLD scheme is [...]

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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Sweden. The Safe Place To Be?

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Some people are very vocal in declaring that we here in Sweden have created a safe society were we try our very hardest to avoid the un-avoidable…death. And every step on the way to it. An outcome of all our attempts to achieve a safe society is that we in fact often get the very opposite results to those we intended.

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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

What’s The Story?

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

One of the basic principles of advertising is to translate properties into benefits. Many classic adverts from the 1950s take the benefit and dramatise it, i.e. shows it in an unexpected and interesting way. That’s still how a lot of advertising works, and has to work.

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