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Eastpak – I am the Bag

One of the best campaigns I have seen lately belongs to Eastpak. Referring to their “Built to Resist” motto, various characters are seen mentioning the product’s strong, tough and contrary standing on their campaign videos. All the videos reminded me Fantastic Film Festival at Austin. During the fest we were seeing the most absurd films [...]

Posted 07 May 2010 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

Jumping in to Foursquare Reviewing Location-Based Games for Business
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Posted 04 April 2010 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

10 Website Traffic Tips To Get More Visitors To Your Site More Often
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Posted 28 March 2010 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

Top Social Media Monitors

I will just list some of the top social media monitors. These technologies are emerging to help companies keep track of  the conversations exploding online. This entry will be very helpful as a guide for digital media people who are being asked by their clients more and more about how to monitor the [...]

Posted 29 November 2009 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

22 Facebook Funded Startups

Recently, 22 Facebook related startups were announced to press at the FbFund Demo Day.
I highlighted some of them below. For now, my favourite is definitely http://friendradio.fm. I began to watch Youtube video of all my Facebook friends’ songs in seconds. It’s an application very easy to use, simple and well designed. And, the second [...]

Posted 06 September 2009 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Digital Family Tree

A brief look to top media, web portal and agency companies.

Posted 06 April 2009 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

News From Family

 
MYPOCKET is my brother Burak Arikan’s new project. MYPOCKET discloses Burak’s personal financial records to the world by exploring and revealing essential patterns in the daily transactions of his bank account. These are the records that we usually keep secret, whereas financial institutions intensively analyze them to score our credibility. Archived on the site, the [...]

Posted 28 January 2008 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

Openads

Openads is an open source advertising community dedicated to helping publishers make more money.
With openads, Web site owners are free to choose banners, campaigns and terms that suit them. Openads’ “ad server”, a device lets Web site owners take control of their online advertising management. It provides the technology needed by Web sites to control [...]

Posted 23 January 2008 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

Thinking With Type

I have just read a book about typography, Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton. This book is not only about offering solutions to designers about their basic challenges. It’s also very useful for advertising people to form the strategy of the most effective prints, magazine copies, and of course web sites.
For instance, it says [...]

Posted 20 January 2008 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °

Postsecret.blogspot

I have learned about PostSecret from my team mates this year while working on a campaign. Also, after listening the creator of this blog, I understood one more time the power of interactive communities. Frank Warren discussed his famous art project and web blog at the University of Texas at Austin in November. More [...]

Posted 31 December 2007 † Burcu Arikan § ‡ Comments (0) °