ISITE Insight

May 27, 2010
www.isitedesign.com/insight

Web strategy, sage advice & delight from ISITE Design

Pushing Pixels

Watching Crow

When a nice crow family took up residence outside our Portland office, we did what any wired agency would. We set up a live 24/7 Crow Cam. Thousands of viewers were glued to the screen as five eggs hatched into lovely baby crows. Ok, who are we kidding, these are some ugly birds, but the cam is still oddly captivating. More on our Crow Cam

Agency Tidbits

Drink like a fish

Spawning a new site for Salmon-Safe… Inhaling cheesesteaks between sessions at J.Boye Philadelphia… Plotting some upcoming CMS workshops… Recruiting speakers for sixth annual Love @ First Website event… Looking for a few good project managers… Caravanning up I-5 for power meetings in Seattle… Tightening the screws on the company spam filter.

Below the Fold

Game on

Unless you were off ‘hiking the Appalachian Trail,’ you probably noticed Google changed its logo to a playable Pac-Man game for a few days. It was all fun and power pellets until the folks at RescueTime calculated that the game consumed 4,819,352 hours of collective time totaling $120,483,800 in lost productivity. We just wonder how much time they wasted trying to make that computation. Waste some more time

ISITE Insight is produced by ISITE Design, a full service interactive agency in Portland, Boston, and Dallas. When not scrambling to craft this witty masterpiece each full moon, ISITE Design helps organizations improve business results and wow online visitors with interactive solutions.
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Bodacious Bookmarks

Sites we love on and off the clock.

• David A. - Modern Mechanix
• Mark M. - Nike Football
• Matt R. - Microfilmmaker Magazine
• Patrick C. - Banksy Film
• Sheryl H. - Donors Choose
• Steve K. - Pip.io
• Will M. - Mozilla hires Celik

Inside the Numbers

5,830 – the number of words in Facebook’s much-discussed privacy statement. By contrast, the US Constitution was penned in 4,543.

Source: New York Times

Pop Quiz

There’s a magical connection between these three things: An otter, Brown University and June 18. First one to e-mail the correct answer wins something barely worth the effort. (A few of you said the questions were getting too easy, so no howling!)