[LINK] website animations

[Eleanor Lister]

Kim Davies wrote:
> 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
>   

i sure hope this carks it too ... i am getting very tired of setting up
sites for suits that have not the faintest clue what's happening or how
to use the site; so they demand ever flashier crap on the grounds that
they are tapping into a market dynamic, which naturally a mere geek like
me is too thick to cope with or understand.

grrr

regards,
    EL before coffee

P.S: i'll be strangling some suits later .... wanna watch?

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Eleanor Ashley Lister
South Sydney Greens
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