Friday Links

http://www.canneslionslive.com/ This should be our aim as an agency to win one of these, tons of inspirational work in there anyway…

http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondfest/ it’s pissing down with rain this week-end so be dry at home and still enjoy some great real acts…

http://www.apple.com/ a new OS, a new phone and a new browser, apple needed a new lick of paint…class as always…

http://www.improvise.ru/enter.aspx?return=/bus/draw.aspx How to get people to spend hours with your brand? ask them to interact… fantastic…

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/razr2/experience/ Slick like the phone…like the use of the background has an introduction to the section

http://www.hungrysuitcase.com/ Lot of sections that are fun but useless like ‘Sammy’s answering machine’ and I don’t think the target audience like a talking suitcase…

http://www.c-class.co.uk/home.php when less is more…simple, interactive, engaging…beautifully…shame you are redirect to the normal site after but honestly it doesn’t matter at this stage, I am sold…

http://www.pgo.fr/models/cevennes/index-en.html In 4 sections you will know enough to fell in love with the car, as long as you have a screen big enough…

A direct line to the consumers is always a good think but needs a lot of men power, men hours and a lot of positive thinking: Sony is trying it http://blog.us.playstation.com/ which is sexier than http://www.threespeech.com/, Microsoft been doing it for a while too http://www.majornelson.com/ and http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/default.aspx

http://www.coldplay.com/ A new site for this huge band, the hand written is a lovely idea but what about other countries? The forum seems to have gone, where are registration? perhaps that are just happy with their 310000+ friends on Myspace then…

http://www.valenatureza.com.br/ great idea, involvement and all that but never forget what the user can do…when I visited the site people were stitching rude words…what I like is the ‘Who helped section’...

http://www.coffeehousechallenge.org/ I think we should get all of BD down there for our company meeting and see if Starbuck really provide comfortable space and complimentary refreshments without asking us to leave…good idea sadly I do not see a lot of challenges being done, most area are empty when you do a search…

http://www.diorbackstage.com/ I don’t know why but I was expecting a higher level of design from a brand like Dior, at least you can buy from the shop and there is a forum hosted by handbag.com