Advertising Now. Online

Advertising Now. Online is an in depth look at how ads have evolved "beyond the banner." The second book from Taschen's series on advertising, it reviews some of the most compelling and effective ad campaigns found on the web. Profiles of successful ad campaigns from around the world by award-winning agencies, including Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Tribal DDB and OgilvyOne, among others, offer insight into …

SimulSays

SimulScribe, the brilliant and simple voicemail service that transcribes your messages into an email (20 November 2006) has just launched a new application that beats Apple to visual voicemail. SimulSays, released today, is a downloadable application for your BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 that shows your transcribed messages and lets you play them back without having to dial in. Even better, you can easily reply to …

RootPhi Rethinks Recycling

Brian Witlin, cofounder or RootPhi, is interested in rethinking recyclability to retain the intrinsic beauty of the first generation object. One of his explorations in this direction is being leveraged by Timbuk2 to create a new generation of messenger bags made from plastic trash. Witlin's patent pending machine bonds plastic trash together to make a stronger material that can be cut and sewn. It works …