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Oddcast has released an interesting new audio status-updating tool for publishing your voice to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. You may recognize the company from its SitePal service, which provides animated characters for websites.
The new tool called AudioPal lets users create 60-second personal voice messages that can be posted to their personal web pages, blogs, and social networks.
Earlier this year Yahoo announced that the Yahoo Blueprint Platform was being extended from several hundred mobile devices in several thousand. Now the company has opened it up to third party developers.
The BluePrint is a platform on which developers can create mobile websites. It uses simple XML, and is the same technology Yahoo used to build oneSearch and the Yahoo.com mobile home page.
Murdok discussed the creation of ad copy and the stages of the buy cycle with Mona Elesseily of Page zero Media recently. Do you have a process you use for ad copy creation? Tell us about it.
Headlines are tricky – especially when writing for the Web. You want to be search engine friendly, but at the same time, you don’t want to readers (or potential readers) to skim over the headline like it’s part of a technical manual.
Part 2: Mobile Site Optimization
The question remains; how should you optimize a mobile web page? All of the presenters provided tips, but Cindy Krum’s presentation provided the majority of information. I listed a blend of the tips from all presenters below:
Thanks to some very insightful comments on my recent Co-creation post by Drew, James and David, we’ve hashed out the difference between co-creation and customization.
Continuing the conversation about co-creation, here was my definition of it last year on Brandshift.
Firefox Flicks, the grassroots marketing campaign designed to increase awareness of the Firefox browser, ended on Friday.
It’s time once again for another installment of everyone’s favorite, our Straight Up Site of Interest.
Creating a character is a work of art. Many animators use Flash to create their characters for presentation.
