FLIRTing with the Crowds

All things social in design, business & technology

A Flash site is the new 30-second spot

Initiated an interesting discussion (sorry, only in Finnish) yesterday on a topic that had been on my mind lately: whether or not Flash sites (especially microsites) are the new 30-second spot: a standard first (because of high production values) offering by agencies for marketing activities from basic product launch to an invitation for customer collaboration. [...]

Memory Augmentation – not a thing of the future anymore

While watching this video, I suddenly had a strange deja vu about seeing similar ads before. It took me couple of seconds to realize that I hadn’t seen them on TV or even the web – but in old sci-fi flicks, such as Total Recall, Robocop or Blade Runner. Every now and then it just [...]

links for 2008-08-08 [delicious.com]

Jan Chipchase
Jan's page with loads of interesting research on mobile
(tags: mobile research trends future)

Something to talk about – Oct. 4, 2007
How IM can boost your sales
(tags: messaging sales tools)

Tweet Scan
twitter search engine
(tags: search social microblogging tools)

Medialets » Blog Archive » The First 1 Million iPhones: Where Did They Go?
(tags: research statistics iphone business)

The CV of the Future

Want to check out my current skills / interests / experience? Check out the Wordle cloud I just crafted using my Master’s Thesis as input. That’s a CV in a glimpse:

In the visually loaded, lightning-fast media landscape that requires split-second judgements on which visual stimuli are important and which are not, this kind of makes [...]

  • Who am I?

    My name is Sami Viitamäki and I'm a partner and strategist at TBWA\ in Finland. With many years' experience in marketing, media and the internet as both a practitioner and an academic, from client as well as agency perspective, I currently help organizations to better invest their marketing resources by utilizing the full potential of the social web.
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