I recently found this useful site Variable Grid System that will make your sites pixel perfect! Just type in the width of your site and the number of columns you want and it will automatically spit out your column width in pixels. Your developer will love you for this!

The entries for the Drinking Nightmare Short Film Competition are in. The judges have narrowed down 6 finalists and the end results are fantastic!  Check out drinkingnightmarefilms.com.au to vote for the winner and you can enter the draw to win $5,000 cash!

We’ve seen many websites these days offering their sponsors a “takeover” on their homepage. This is nothing new, images running on the side, sponsor logos on the right of the page….but Honda’s Let It Shine campaign takeover (together with Vimeo) takes the meaning of a “takeover” to a whole new level. Its possibly the best interactive takeover I’ve seen and leaves a smile on your face!

Click here to get the full experience.

This isn’t exactly new, but for those who haven’t seen it… play around with Miltos’ and Aaron’s Man In The Dark.

I came across this web page while searching for isometric drawings in Google. I love architecture and perspective drawing and was really fascinated by this guy’s work (Victor Timofeev). The ink drawings splashed and smeared with colour to distort the images are pretty striking. Check it out.

Are you tweeting until your fingers hurt, but still have no followers? Maybe you’re just boring or maybe you lack the ability to get eyeballs on your profile…… because you’re boring.  Enter Featured Users a twitter ad network where you can pay for visitors in the hope they will become a followers of yours.

Is this another reason to question the integrity of twitter? Urmm yes, but this isn’t the first service of its kind, also check out FOR SALE – my Twitter account.

If you enjoy photography and blogging, combine the two with Allan Cole’s “AutoFocus” WordPress theme to create your own photoblog. It’s specifically designed for photographers who want to display their work in a simple and elegant way.

Download from Allan’s site:
http://allancole.com/wordpress/themes/autofocus/
or from WordPress.org
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/autofocus

I just finished up Day 1 at The Advertising, Marketing and Media Summit 2009, currently on in Melbourne. Not surprisingly, a lot of the keynote speakers were covering digital, which was my particular interest in attending. It seems, that increasingly all marketing roads are ‘leading to digital’ and this is supported by igloo creative director Tony, who sent me a great quote – “there is no such thing as digital marketing anymore; it’s marketing.”

Anyhow, I thought that I would distill down the headline points that I found particularly interesting. Looking forward to Day 02 and hearing from Brady Jacobsen who will provide his prediction on Twitter. Andrew Englisch – CEO, igloo http://twitter.com/AndrewEnglisch

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Jonathon Kneebone from The Glue Society

- Share a vision with your audience
- Use all available channels – ATL, BTL, Outdoor, Mobile, Online, etc
- Engage, Engage, Engage

Great Ad from VW which really connects through music – Slash Plays VW

Carly Loder from BT Financial Group

- Quality is no longer a competitive advantage (it’s an expectation)
- Hire people that do more than just listen
- Fail often before getting the right answer

Joe Pollard, CEO ninemsn
- Use technology to improve engagement
- Slide shows are ok, but Deep Zoom Technology is the future. Like Silverlight. Check this example; Grazia Photo Wall
- Use pictures and video to tell the story

Joe Barber, CEO The Third Screen
- Prediction – 50% of MySpace users will access the site by mobile by 2010
- People prefer mms over sms
- Bluetooth on the way out
- 53% of Australians want to access the internet from their mobile
- 33% of top brands in the USA have Mobile WAP sites.

Do you think annie will like her card?

Is Magpie a very clever way to monetise Twitter or SPAM masquerading as legitimate advertising masquerading as content?

Imagine this: You choose to follow my Twitter account because I know a lot about mountain biking in and around Melbourne. I feed you lots of useful tips about specific trails including hazards, closures and other such pertinent information. All of a sudden you receive a tweet from me advertising Kona bikes. What the? I know you ride a Giant Anthem XO … (more…)