Top interactive & ad agency websites
I figured I'd put together this list as a resource to look at and see what some of the top
interactive and ad agencies are doing and how they are doing it with their websites.
I often find it beneficial and inspiring to look around the industry and see what's happening.
I hope you find something inspiring from this.
Top interactive agencies (source Adage top 50)
1. Avenue A/Razorfish - http://www.razorfish.com
2. Sapient - http://www.sapient.com/
3. digitas - http://www.digitas.com/
4. Agency.com - http://www.agency.com
5. Ogilvy Interactive - http://www.ogilvy.com/o_interactive/
6. grey interactive - http://www.greyinteractive.com/
7. publicis modem - http://www.publicismodem.com
8. organic - http://www.organic.com/
9. tribal ddb - http://www.tribalddb.com/
10. IMC2 - www.imc2.com
11. r/ga - http://www.rga.com/
12. AKQA - http://www.akqa.com/
13. Leapfrog Online - http://www.leapfrogonline.com/
Top Ad agencies (source - ad brands)
1. Mccann Erickson - http://www.mccann.com/
2. BBDO - http://www.bbdo.com
3. Wieden+Kennedy - http://www.wk.com/
4. The Martin Agency - http://www.martinagency.com/
5. Goodby Silverstein - http://www.goodbysilverstein.com
6. Ogilvy Mather - http://www.ogilvy.com/
7. tbwa - http://www.tbwa.com/
8. Saatchi Saatchi - http://www.saatchi.com
9. Leo Burnett - http://www.leoburnett.com/
10 Crispin Porter + Bogusky - http://www.cpbgroup.com/
Install Boxee On your AppleTV
Boxee is sort of this really cool social network for streaming Video, photos etc. to your laptop or HDTV. I personally enjoy using it in conjunction with my AppleTV to add streaming content and expand it's capabilities.
Sorry but, I'm a true blood Mac dude so my instructions will be for a Mac.
The Windows instructions are available through the links I'm providing.
First you will need to create a patch stick that will allow you to install the boxee as well as a few other resources to allow everything to work correctly.
I use the atvusb-creator. You will need a thumb drive that is at least 512MB by their instructions. I actually used a 256MB drive and all worked perfectly.
Follow the steps for creating your patch stick.
Take your patch stick and place it in the USB slot on the back of your AppleTV and hold down minus (-) and the Menu button on the AppleTV remote
to reboot the device. If this step is done properly, you will see the system reboot. Instead of the Apple during boot you will see the Linux mascot "Tux" sitting
on an AppleTV. Then you will see the output of the installation. Read through the output and check that there were no errors. If not your good to go.
Head over to Boxee and set yourself up an account. You will need to set you credentials before you can enter Boxee.
You will notice that there are some new choices in the AppleTV menu. I always run the updates from that menu to ensure that everything is compatible with the current OS on the AppleTV. Typically when Apple releases a new version of the AppleTV OS Boxee may or May not break. If so then just redo the steps above.
If you need further assistance Boxee has created a more detailed version of this install on their Wiki site http://wiki.boxee.tv/AppleTV_Installation.
Good luck playing with your AppleTV
Quit whining over the iPhone 3GS early adopters
With the announcement of the new Apple iPhone 3G S at the WWDC this past Monday Apple announced that you could get the current 3G model for $99 and the two new models at $199/$299 respectively.
Everyone in the world including myself was amazed at the pricing structure it was almost to good to be true AND IT WAS. At least for those who were still in a 2 year contract for purchasing the 1st Generation model or the current 3G's. These folks have to pay the premium price for a new phone and are being labeled as "upgrades" $399/$499.