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We at my company coANDco UK are proud to have produced two videos for Middle East online media and advertising expert FoldedUp.com. Soraya Abbar has been directing and producing two videos. The first one is a very nicely done short advertising getting the idea of FoldedUp.com to the point:

Finding your way around the variety of media channels is not easy these days. Especially in an emerging market such as the Middle East. FoldedUp.com is the perfect partner to bring clarity into the confusion. This has been nicely illustrated in the first, shorter illustration video using the music of Maura Musciacco.

The second video is more about company information, the hard facts and the actual tools the site provides.

Company: FoldedUp.com
VFX Director/Editor: Soraya Abbar
Agency/company: coANDco UK
Music: Maura Musciacco

Check out this great infographic about the history of advertising. Very exciting times ahead of us.

via Mashable

http://www.coop.ch

Apple’s stock market capitalization (AAPL) has not yet quite surpassed Microsoft’s (MSFT), but the value of its actual business is now higher.

Specifically, Apple’s business is now worth $200 billion, while Microsoft’s is only worth $197 billion.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/26/businessinsider-apple-worth-more-than-microsoft-2010-5.DTL#ixzz0p3g8Ejr1

I recently found a video called Drum solo 4 on YouTube and I found it would crash my browser. I tried Firefox, Safari and found, it would even crash Chrome. It would block my computer until the browser prompts me to abort the script.

The video plays nicely on the iPhone, however. What struck me was, that it had almost 140′000 views in less than 3 days. This is a lot. Particularly for video of average content like this.

I soon found the explanation for the count: Enter any two words of the English language in YouTube search, and this video would show up. You can find a list of words from http://scenari-platform.org/svn/dev-core/trunk/Lib_XulRunner/mac/dictionaries/en-US.dic. Somehow, this kid has managed to get all those words in as tags or YouTube’s new closed caption which YouTube also uses for displaying search result. Try it out, for example search for “Admiralty” and “Marzipan”.

Hopefully YouTube will fix this before everyone will spam their search!

My sister has taken part in a competition by the Culture Label. Please check out her submission and feel free to vote for her!

Thanks and much appreciated.

Here are some of the funniest I’ve seen so far. Some of them I’ve used myself

John finds a good question is like a miniskirt. Long enough to cover the essentials, but short enough to keep everyone interested.
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ʎɐqǝ uo pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ɐ ʎnq ı ǝɯıʇ ʇsɐן ǝɥʇ sı sıɥʇ

Jane is proud of herself. She finished a jigsaw puzzle in 6 months and the box said 2-4 years

John just got a compliment – there was a note on the windshield saying “Parking Fine”.

Jane used to play sports. Then she realized you can buy trophies. Now she’s good at everything.

John found out light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Jane is cl.e’a]ni.ng he’r ke]yb28o|a;rd

John: Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Jane found out her library book ’successful time management’ is weeks overdue….

John: ║▌║█║▌║▌││║▌║█║▌│║▌║█║▌║▌││║▌║ *ZAP* *BEEP*

Jane: ☆:*´¨`*twinkle twinkle little star…point me to the nearest bar ٩(-̮̮̃-̃)۶*´¨`*:.☆

John: Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Jane thinks of herself in 3rd person since joining Facebook

John ¡ǝɯıʇ ǝɯɐs ǝɥʇ ʇɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ǝsn puɐ puɐʇspuɐɥ ɐ op ʎןןɐuıɟ uɐɔ

Jane ™ is a registered trademark. All unauthorised reproduction and distribution will lead to prosecution.

John finds automatic doors makes him feel like a Jedi

Jane: Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

John would like to point out that 72.4% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

Jane: okay who’s the wise guy putting all the W’s in the M ‘n’ M’s bag?

John says, “before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes, so when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.”

Jane says: Hey baby, wanna come over to myspace so i can twitter ur yahoo til u google all over my facebook?

John is worried – he figured out he’s developed the ability to turn off his alarm clock while asleep.

Jane says we could merge My Space, Facebook, You Tube and Twitter and call it: MY FACE YOU TWIT

John says, “I am nobody. Nobody is perfect. Therefore, I am perfect.”

Jane says, Love your enemies. It will confuse them!

John knows Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words…

Jane says, “children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children”

John says ⓜⓨ ⓟⓞⓢⓣⓢ ©ⓐⓝ ⓣⓨⓟⓔ ©ⓘⓡ©ⓛⓔⓢ ⓐⓡⓞⓤⓝⓓ ⓨⓞⓤⓡⓢ

Jane started time traveling next year

John says Dyslexics are teople poo

Jane is upset she mixed up her voodoo dolls. If you feel any sharp, stabbing pains, please call me and describe the location. Thanks!

John: Since writing on toilet walls is done neither for critical acclaim, nor financial rewards, it is the purest form of art. Discuss.

Jane needs a giant ( ̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅ ̲̅]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅ ) to mend a broken heart

Swiss Miss – the famous swiss designer based in New York City has blogged about my sister’s RRR Ribbons project!

Those ribbons are great, I am wearing one myself. Helps keeping awareness and stands for responsibility and sustainability.

See how to make one on youtube:

Have you ever wondered where all your GBs of HDD space went to? I’m sure you’d be surprise to find, where it all went. Probably old lost videos, long forgotten backup files, downloaded programs or long expired temporary files.

GrandPerspective for Mac OS X helps you finding all the big files which use up your space at a glance. Literally. Bigger boxes mean more space, smaller boxes mean less space. Blocks refer to files in similar folders (you can also chose how the blocks should be structured.)

Have you ever had a closer look at the TextEdit icon of Mac OS X?

Dear Kate,

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. the rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or verify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them.

Because they change things.

Take Care,
John Appleseed

The original quote from the TV Advertising goes:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.