Posted by Guy Dineen
GDD Interactive is an award-winning digital marketing and advertising agency. Built around no bullshit, high performance, results driven core, we work faster, smarter, and more intensely here than any place you’ve ever done a tour at. Trust me. Our 5 person creative group is made up of digital experts who work on everything from [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
If you think you’re up for this, here’s what we’ll expect: You have clear and active demonstration that you live and breathe new media. You are an active blogger, poster, commentator, and contributor in both your personal and professional lives. You have proven experience creating and promoting at least 5 new media campaigns that [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
Mashable shares with us a lot of congress tweeting garnering support and pressure around the debt ceiling debate. Whatever the outcome, it’s very cool that we can have such an instant voice with which to express our opinion to our leaders…. http://mashable.com/2011/07/31/tweets-influence-debt-ceiling/ More
Posted by Guy Dineen
Good news for you foodies out there, not so good news for a restaurant industry already in a bit of a stranglehold by Open Table, who forces them to use their proprietary system and play in a one man game or risk losing customers. Adding the deal component means another obligatory action to stay competitive. [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
Check out this article from Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/business-owners-are-getting-fed-up-with-daily-deals-pitches-2011-7#ixzz1TLdTYxiw The gist is that SMBs are getting tired of pitches from local deal sites like Groupon and Living Social. Realizing that the repeat business they’re supposed to be getting for their whopping 80% investment is either not coming, or is turning out to be customers who aren’t [...] More
Posted by phrough
If you’ve been using 800 for your font-weight value all these years, it’s time to change your ways. Leave it to IE to throw a wrench in the system, as IE9 now supports varied font weights, and 800 > 600 > 400. To get the cross browser behavior you’re accustomed to, you should start using [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
This week the Hollywood Reporter, well, reported that the Emmys are having a hard time getting a rights deal signed to broadcast the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards. Among several rubs that have to do with serious cash changing hands is an issue that hits closer to the living room couch. The networks are raising concerns [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
Well, ok, maybe not all of them. Part of our DNA type is ad agency. We’re also made up of nucleotides of consultants, developers, and artists. But some part of us is all agency. Which is why I got a good chuckle when we go to talking at lunch about the release of Portal 2 [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
ConanOBrien: Congrats to my staff on 4 Emmy nominations. This bodes well for the future of The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. Parks and Recreation producer Michael Schur a.k.a. KenTremendous: All-time biggest ever CONGRATULATIONS to Amy Poehler for her Emmy nomination. Totally undeserved, but congratulations anyway. The Office‘s mindykaling: @arnettwill congrats, Will. Your [...] More
Posted by phrough
Firefox currently holds the title of most used web browser, and this new release makes it clear that the Firefox team intends to retain the title. The interface got a major (and much needed) face lift, and now looks very similar to Google Chrome. The “awesome bar” (a.k.a. the improved URL bar) and its associated buttons [...] More
Posted by phrough
Considering my job description includes front-end development, I’m pretty much required to check out the newly released Internet Explorer 9. I was even a bit excited about it. Rumor had it that IE9 was a vast improvement, and I was looking forward to greater HTML5 accessibility. However, after a quick 15 minutes of use, I’m [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
It’s Sunday morning, 8:30 AM, and I’m working. Around 8:30 this evening I’ll be working too. And when I’m in LA next week I’ll be working. I’ll be working in the air, I’ll be working while making breakfast, I’ll be working while sitting on a bench at my kid’s favorite park, I’ll be working from [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
People have a lot to say these days. And a lot of ways to say it. Like, endless ways to say it. Endless, limitless, real time ways to say anything they like. And since text on a screen is generally pretty cheap unless you’re paying Google, you can drone on endlessly in nearly every corner [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
Nice article in Huffington Post this week about the future (or demise) of online dating. It seems only yesterday that a boy and a girl (or a boy and a boy, etc.) created a profile on an online dating site like Match.com or eHarmony, suffered through a 1 to 14 hour long profile process, uploaded [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
During commercial/pee-break time as we watched Superbowl 45 there were dogs acting as people, there were concussive blows to the head, there were even Go Daddy girls. Yet something didn’t seem right… Was it Slash and Fergie limping through halftime? Was it Christina Aguilera’s improvisation of the National Anthem? Finally it dawned on me: Where [...] More
Posted by Tish Loh
I don’t mind takeover ads so much when they only happen on user interaction. In fact the first time I watched this I was so engaged in the video I didn’t immediately notice what was happening outside of the movie player. The animation is really nice so the takeover portion really sweetens the effect and [...] More
Posted by Guy Dineen
A few of us will be headed to LA tomorrow to be in place for a ground breaking LIVE Twitter feed from the NAACP Image Awards. A long standing client of ours, The NAACP Hollywood Bureau hosts the Image Awards every year to recognize outstanding contributions in film, tv, literature, music, and writing/directing. This year [...] More
Posted by phrough
Using the jQuery plugins jqModal and ajaxForm in combination will give you functional ajax form capabilities in modal dialog boxes, but what happens when you want to upload a file with your form? When FILE fields are present (be sure to set your encrypt attribute on the form element) the ajaxForm function posts the form to its [...] More
