Google is the John Bender version of Geocities February 23, 2006
Google’s at it again. This time they’re diving into the free website world. They introduced the Google Page Creator today, an app that I haven’t been able to test. They’ve put it into invite only mode because of all the hits they got from Googlenuts today. I signed up for an invite and will update this post with a review if and when the Google Gawds allow me to do so.
I’m not a big fan of this initiative only because I think it’ll invite millions of non-designers to design their own website where they feature the latest hairball their cat coughed up, and we already have enough eyesore sites, myspace pages, and hairballs, to last us for a few million years.
Let me know if any of you are able to get an invite and would like to let us know what you think of it and share some screenshots.
The 3 Best Flashes I’ve Seen Since I Watched that “Late Night” Movie January 28, 2006
The new Swedish Heinz site is one of the three best flash sites I’ve seen in many years. A minimalistic beauty.
This site is for Leo Burnett here in Toronto and is recognized as one of the best ad agency sites of all time. It went live last year but still deserves plenty of attention.
And this last one is my absolute favourite website of all-time. They just updated it with new scenarios. I told everyone I know about this site and now I’m telling all of you. It’s for Ikea in Europe. Not sure which country. I will warn you that if you don’t have broadband it could take several minutes to load. But the wait’s worth every second. If I had an award named after me it would be given to this site, hands-down. This is truly what marketing is. This is how you tell a story.