And The Winner of the Worst New Web Trend is….
Oh my god this must never gain traction folks. More insidious than the animated gif. More annoying than Netscape’s blink tag. More obnoxious than X-10s original pop-up and pop-under ads. And soon to be more ubiquitous than the animatronic Marissa Mayer conference bot.
Ladies and gentlement, i present to you …
the tiled background advert! (88k)
May God help us all.
March 16th, 2006 at 2:25 am
Been browsing the business magazines again, I see.
March 16th, 2006 at 4:40 am
I don’t get that (I guess I live in the wrong country), but I do get a nicely anti-aliased Vonage ad.
And to think I actually used to use allmusic… shudder…
March 16th, 2006 at 7:26 am
Since its an ad for the Army National Guard, I guess they’re do at least a little goegraphic targeting. Don’t worry I’m sure there will be other soon.
Fortunately I discovered that my little local proxy server (the proxomitron) actually filters out that tiled background. I wonder how it knows to filter that one but not the others? Good little proxy server.
Yes Niti, you know me–I love me some business journalism. They got all the crazy insights.
Speaking of music here are some great little music finding site I came across recently…
http://www.pandora.com/
http://www.music-map.com/
Judging by how many peeps have them tagged on delicious I’m about the last person to discover them.
March 16th, 2006 at 8:46 am
Quite, I wrote a paean to Pandora in Perspective, ok, it wasn’t to Pandora so much as the business and it’s founder, back in Sept,
http://www.nitibhan.com/perspective/2005/09/evolving_with_m.html