Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) Ooh, I don’t like alligators, but if they can save my life, I’ll have to be nice to the critters. Researchers at McNeese State University in Louisiana have found that proteins in alligator blood may provide new antibiotics for the treatment of diabetic ulcers, severe burns and antibiotic resistant “…

(TrendHunter.com) Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktoum, crown prince of the United Arab Emirates of Dubai, purchased the female camel for 10 million dirhams (2.72 million dollars) at a camel beauty pageant in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.

When you are a crown prince and can have any camel in the world, …

LONDON – Audi Q7 is sponsoring the second series of Bear Grylls Born Survivor on Channel 4, in the first broadcast sponsorship deal featuring the marque.

(TrendHunter.com) I have addicted to Shazam which is one of those rare text services that works BRILLIANTLY.

Basically you text 2580 and hold the phone to the speakers for 15 seconds. You then get a text saying what the tune it is within one minute.. The service is amazing as it really does work and pick up the most…

(TrendHunter.com) A couple of months ago Axe released a funny ad for its Axe Dark Temptation. In the TV ad, once the guy sprays himself with Axe Dark Temptation he turns into a chocolate man that the girls just can not resist. They kiss, lick, bite and touch him everywhere he goes.

Now, Axe has unleashed a unique c…

Sarah Lacy, the BusinessWeek writer who caused a melee at South By last month, turns her attention from Facebook to Yelp for the moment.

Yelp’s real Web 2.0 bragging right is its business model. Unlike many companies in its peer group, Yelp provides a compelling advertising platform. People go there intending to make a transaction—say, find a Thai restaurant in New York or an accountant in San Francisco. And it’s always easier to sell ads to someone when you know what they want. Even on a search engine like Google, people are only looking to transact part of the time. Often, they go to get information. And on a social network such as Facebook, people aren’t looking to transact at all; they’re just there to connect with friends.

I like how Lacy breaks that down. Web-based business models are all clamoring for ad dollars, but how many of them have asked the hard questions of themselves? Like, “Will our users click banner ads?”

LONDON – Game company Mattel has launched an official Scrabble application on social networking site Facebook to rival Scrabulous, the popular unauthorised version that has been attracting more than 600,000 players daily.

According to Adweek, Chrysler is intorducing a new customer-centric corporate tagline: “If you can dream it, we can build it.”

The campaign addresses topics, such as quality, fuel economy and safety. One print ad asks, “What exactly are the qualities of quality?” and features a lengthy essay on the topic that talks about “putting the customer back in charge.” The new tagline appears at the end.

“[The campaign] is part of Chrysler’s effort to listen to customers more than ever before,” said Deborah Meyer, Chrysler’s CMO. She said the carmaker’s new customer advisory board has already garnered 5,600 online responses from people who are willing to tell Chrysler which designs and features they want to see in future cars.

LONDON – Carlsberg has overtaken Stella as Britain’s best-selling lager for the first time in nearly two decades as the credit crunch appears to be driving drinkers to turn to cheaper and lower alcohol brands.

So hi kids, Adland the commercial-archive.com has migrated from our old IP to a new one since we’ve actually physically migrated from the Thames Valley Hosting centre, hosted by memset to a new superior facility in Fareham, also hosted by memset.

Here’s something people don’t think about when it comes to servers and websites, but are they environmentally friendly? Ours actually, is. Yes indeed. Or rather as environmentally friendly as something that eats electricity 24/7 can be, buy choosing where they get this electricity from wisely.

Anyway, we moved a few weeks back and now I just migrated the IP numbers. If you noticed any sudden glitch that would have been me messing with things. My bad. It may take 24 hours for the new IP#’s to propagate.

Now, pardon me while I dash off to yet another meeting. (and this is why I’ve posted nothing else today, sorry I’ll get right on that whole “cloning myself” project. ta-ta!)

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