Connecting the Dots / An Agency Blog

Nope, it’s not a 1974 Warren Beatty flick about government assassins battling it out on the top of the Space Needle, but it does make for an excellent title and segue. The Parallax View is actually not a view, it’s the simple scroll of a mouse that unveils the latest design cowbell of HTML5 enabled sites: Parallax Scrolling. Continue…

Looking at the same thing everyday isn’t exactly the best way to notice the nuances of its evolution. Like your face. Stand in front of a mirror and hold up a picture of yourself from five years ago and you’ll see what I mean. Change. It’s happening every minute, every day — we just don’t usually notice it. And when we do, we don’t like it much.
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It’s been floating about for just over 2 weeks now, but in case you haven’t heard about it, here’s a 16 page PDF that culminates digital and device usage studies from users 15 to 56 years old in 11 countries. Complete with attractive and intelligent looking stock photos of people looking inquisitively off into what we presume to be the far reaches of the internet, Living With The Internet: A Global Study of What’s Driving Web Behavior was released on June 2nd. The document confirms everything we at Engine Digital already knew (wink, wink). A joint venture between Microsoft, MEC, and Mindshare, the study’s findings highlight behavioral shifts in internet and device usage when compared to a similar investigation that was conducted in 2007.

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The Internet of Things is a term that keeps popping up in my research and reading as of late. A PDF I finally got around to cracking open on my Kindle, by Julian Bleecker called Why Things Matter, played compliment to a press release from Pepsi on April 27th about their foray into social vending.

Is someone or somebody trying to tell me something? Maybe, but rather than trying to figure it out here, let’s instead take a look at what these two seemingly disperate items are talking about with reference to things and the internet.
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It’s Friday, which means it’s time to drop another installment of everyone’s favourite ongoing blog-isode, Last Week’s Meme!! Where the team at Engine Digital decides on the most exciting thing that happened on the Internet, a week too late. (we’re busy, ok?)

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