The Times on line have recently reported that based on visitor numbers, Sydney is the 11th most popular city on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/glossary:

1. TWEETUP – a physical gathering of tweeters
2. TWEEPLE – Twitter people, users, etc.
3. DWEET – a drunken tweet
4. OH – short for “overheard”, aka “hearsay”. Used at beginning of a tweet, followed by a colon, then what was overheard.
5. RETWEET – the Twitter equivalent of “forwarding”, abbreviated “RT”
6. TWIT – the act of sending a tweet, as in “twit this”
7. @REPLY – a public message that is directed to someone in particular, usually in reply to one of their tweets
8. DIRECT MESSAGE – a private message sent to someone’s “inbox” on Twitter
9. FOLLOW – to subscribe to someone’s stream of tweets
10. TWEET – a short 140 character message sent on http://twitter.com
11. TWITTER – an awesome microblogging site found at http://Twitter.com that allows short messages called “tweets” using 140 char each

Hungry? How hungry? Would you sacrifice 10 of your Facebook friends for a Whopper?
If this neat little campaign was running here in Australia I would have a smaller number of friends…
without hesitation. Most likely the work of those damn CP+B’ers.

Yep, we got one last night @award for the Sprite Truth Hunters Campaign. Nice work team. Head hurtz now.

So if you google “Australia” the first three results will be… the Australian Government,
Australia’s Wikipedia entry and then this site…

That would be Australia.com… for Tourism Australia. As in the site people all around the world go to when thinking about popping down under for a little poke around or that massive transforming voyage of self discovery to experience the vast majestic beauty that is Terra Australis, New Holland… Oz

Or you may have come across it searching for some little movie that may have just come out starring that little red headed girl from BMX bandits and that Wolverine dude. Anyway…

Continuing our theme of undertaking some of the biggest site launches in the country this year (trumpet blown) we have another high profile project that should leave everyone involved with it, walking a little taller this week. And if that wasn’t enough how about throwing in the design and build of Tourism Australia’s media site as well. Are these people robots?

No they’re not, just a swell bunch of talented, hard working clever people.

Hat Tip to: Fiona, Heath, Daniel, Duncan Pete V, Cearns, Mr David Carson esq and Mike Barry*

The photo below sums up the whole “vibe” of the project.

* I’m sure more peeps were on this… tell me…

A little while ago we completed a small project called “CBA Webolution Phase 1″which meant we did a quick refresh of the personal banking section of a new up and coming bank who you may of heard of before, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, anyone? No? Didn’t think so. Anyway they seemed to like the pixel polishing we did for them so they asked us to work on another project called “CBA Webolution Phase 2″ No problems, easy, should knock that one off on a Monday morning before lunchtime. Right?

(Puts joke aside)

Seriously now. Wow. 12 months later and several lifetimes of work have been lovingly poured into the redevelopment of CBA’s Business and Corporate banking sections. And it shows. Top, top work from all those in the agency who touched this project with extra hat tips to Matt, Kathleen, Ellie, Mike, Fabulous, Luke, Jamie, Penn… and (thank god for blogs as I will have to update this list several times). I hope everyone involved feels all warm and tingly, because it really is a massive achievement. Well done guys!

The iTunes App store where you can download/buy new apps for your iPhone has turned into a boonaza for small time developers who armed with good idea now have platform that can propel them in supedevstardom . And along with the fame comes the money, small time success stories are talking about profits of $250, 000 in two months. The full story from Wired.

A great post from Presentation Zen on what we can learn about “slide design” in business presentations from the world around us, or more specifically “Learning slide design from an Ikea billboard“. Great tips for the non-designery crowd.

Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Awarded Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.
Awarded Best Experimental Film at Tirana International Film Festival 2007

Yep you sure can. Now this has been slowly introduced rather than a grand A-lister mega launch, but along with our brand shiny new office, we have a hot new visual ID. Years of development and a cast of thousands have been involved with this project and now it’s starting to appear everywhere and in every format. Even a new roll of stickers can cause normally sedate people to start woo-hooing.

The old and the new.

So it usually goes like this. The above the line agency develops a brand campaign (read: TVC) and then hands down bits and pieces from above for all the other agencies to integrate with.Here’s your piece you stick that on the website, here’s your piece you stick that in a little envelope and mail it out to people.

What if the digital agency developed a new wonderfully intuitive site for the brand and all the other channels were used to promote it. Not just slapping the URL at the end of the TVC, but putting the site at the centre of the message (and still being about the brand to boot). The great thing is that the site does really deserve it. It’s tops.