I have been waiting for this for years... Unity, a 3D game engine and development tool, is finally out for Windows! This incredibly powerful tool creates fully interactive environments and outputs to Mac, PC and even a web player!

http://unity3d.com

It’s been out on the Mac for years, so I’ve had to be patient. But it’s finally here and I shall be exploring the possibilities it opens up. Demos will be posted here soon!

Al

Yesterday I took myself off to Internet World to peek about and hopefully gain some new insights into the artform that is SEO. On the whole the search related seminars were good, although somewhat basic, but they reinforced some main principals while providing the entertainment of watching a few speakers attempt to break the world speed record for fastest presentation delivery! A wholly enjoyable day topped off by the fact it was free entry, although I do have one question...
Google, where art thou?

All I saw of Google was the logo on the notebook i took with me... For a veritable internet colossus i found this odd.

Oh well. 

Jo

Went to Internet World yesterday and was slightly disappointed with the depth of some of the seminars. I mostly went to the seminars on Usability and to be honest they were pretty basic - make sure you look at what content you have and structure the site before you start design, think about the users of the site etc etc
Even though this was probably targeted at marketing departments surely this is common sense to anyone who is vaguely involved in websites? Maybe the agency day would have gone into more detail and I can't really complain as it was free to attend. But I really was hoping for some useful info....

Lydia

Kiss goodbye to whatever rights to privacy you had left....

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/136610

- Scott

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Recession? Not if you are a firework maker in Dubai:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7740887.stm

 

I often get out of the office and into sales situations with potential new clients. Not all of them end up as clients, but we have a good hit rate. It takes time, effort & a lot of positive energy and it is part of the job that I really enjoy.

Seeing some of these stats about spammers got me thinking. If you only need 1 sale from twelve million emails to make money how is spam ever going to stop? I know that if I only ever got one new client from every 12 millions meetings I’d soon give up (and get another job!!).

So how to stop the spam? I guess the answer is to never buy anything that you get spammed about. Ever. That way it makes it unprofitable and too much work for too little return.

Well, we can dream can’t we!

It doesn’t help that my email address starts with an ‘a’ either…

 

Microsoft today have released Silverlight 2 for download.  Fresh after being widely adopted at the Beijing Olympics as the media distribution of choice, it is fast catching up with Flash player and in this version they've added a load of support for Linux, OSX making it multi-platform. It even works with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE etc (although no iPhone atm).  They've listened to the developers that use it and added a windows desktop player version, and I would expect soon too for other platforms.

- Scott

I love seeing which fonts are used for films, this article from the BBC is a taster.

The revelations that Hollywood stars were paid to smoke in the 30s, 40s and 50s made me wonder what other kind of product placement deals are in place?

Of course James Bond has become the King of such deals, getting products to pay for their marketing, but do gun manufactures pay to get their pistols into films? Does it work that way?

And with advertising exploding in the virtual world, especially sports simulations, where will it end? Are we working towards a future with personalised advertising like Minority Report?

I hope not!

Al