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Archive for February, 2008

Snapple Water Protects Your Body

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing

Just wanted to take a moment to give Snapple Anti-Oxidant Water props for their new “protect your body” commercial. If you haven’t seen it, check it out. Instead of going on and on about how good it is for you, they’ve gone the extra step again with edgy marketing to target their audience. Instead of

Changing Gears: Career Move

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, design, life news, project management, seo

I’ve left my position at Terralever as a front end architect to explore other opportunities within the Phoenix area. Over the last few months I’ve developed an interest in other aspects of the web industry, not just xhtml/css. I’d like to expand my abilities in areas such as web marketing strategy, seo/sem, design and other

Refresh Recap: Demo Night

By aprilholle | new technologies, speaker reviews, things to do

Great Refresh meeting last night over at Inza Coffee. There were about 10 to 15 5 minute demos of new and exciting web projects coming out of Phoenix. Some of the highlights were: Show in a Box – If you’re interested in starting a video blog, but you’re not technically savvy, check out Show in

Links of the Week Vol. 5

By aprilholle | design, flash, links of the week, new technologies, technology reviews

A collection of user interface design patterns and trends that are becoming “standard”. A standard design gallery featuring your not so standard oriental designs. The perfect carrying case for your new Mac Air. Great article on selling customers on emotion rather than technology and process. Scientists create robots that lie to save themselves. Stickk, a