[LINK] website animations

Kim Davies kim at cynosure.com.au
Tue Aug 14 08:36:37 AEST 2007


Quoting Ivan Trundle on Tuesday August 14, 2007:
| I predict that this will quickly join Microsoft's Clippy in the 'Let  
| The Marketing Department Run The Business' category.
| 
| >Given the interest that a talking-animation seems to generate
| >for a website, <http://www.sitepal.com/> (check out her eyes)
| >I'm guessing that in future websites will have animated hosts.
| >
| >It's early days, <http://www.circuschallenge.com/index.html> but
| >I can see a pop-up google-mam animation hosting whole site visits?

This all seems like deja vu to me. Didn't boo.com launch to great
fanfare some ten years ago with an avatar host just like this, only to
cark it in a pool of red ink shortly thereafter?

kim




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