Have you got the Paris Attitude

Hold on a second, before your read further: this post IS NOT about Paris Hilton. C’Est So Paris is a brilliant website by BDDP & Fils agency for the Regional Tourism Committee of Paris Ile-de-France. They came up with a great concept to promote a city you wouldn’t expect to have to promote (do we really need an advertising campaign to send tourists to Paris??) and they did it with a lot of sense of (French) humor.

You don’t have to speak French to fully enjoy Paris (but it surely helps a lot, despite what the website is trying to communicate…). The website is fun, the offline campaign maybe it’s scary…

Thanks to Adverblog 

Top Domain Names of 2006

There’s one industry which has continued to flourish, whether it be web 1.0 or 2.0 or anything in between. And that’s the domain name market. The Domain Name Values Weekly site polled 30 domain name experts to find out their Top 20 Domain Transactions of 2006. The main criteria wasn’t most money paid, but best long-term value (4+ years). Here are the results:

Top 20 Domain Transactions of 2006

1.  Red.org (8) – $50,000 [note: this is Product Red's domain name]

2.  Football.us (4) – $18,510

3.  Brown.com (5) – $300,000

4.  NewYork.info (2) – $46,392

5.  XS.net (2) – $13,000

6.  Fun.mobi (0) – $100,000

7.  CD.com (0) – $277,750

8.  Blue.com (1) – $500,000

9.  Stockquotes.mobi (0) – $27,000

10.  Sex.net (0) – $454,500

11.  Wifi.com (2) – $225,000

12.  Cameras.com (1) – $1,500,000

13.  SexEducation.com (1) – $120,000

14.  Prize.com (0) – $70,000

15.  Wrestling.com (1) – $500,000

16.  CD.net (0) - $20,000

17.  Flowers.mobi (2) – $200,000

18.  20.com (0) – $75,000

19.  Scouts.com (1) - $107,000

20.  Bike.com (0) – $500,000

* First place votes in ( )

While I’m no expert in domain names, it’s interesting that 3 .mobi domains are in this list – the mobile Web coming up. Also 9 of the domains are not .com. There are 3 domain names for colors and 3 sex-related domains (some things never change).

Only 1 seven-figure domain in this list though (cameras.com went for $1.5M), so the market isn’t as bubble-ish as it was in the dot com era.

thanks to read/writeweb for the story

There’s a new winner!

Dr. Necessiter and myself (Dr. Hfuhruhurr) also known as Laz and Mattski here at Brainfarm try our best not to be obvious in our love of our favourite computer. We try (and sometimes fail miserably) to be impartial, but alas, we’re Mac fans. We joke about how pathetic we are when it comes to all things Apple.

For example, planning a 3am rendezvous to watch people type updates (no, not a live video stream) when Steve Jobs does a keynote.

That’s right – 3am.

Typing updates.

Our MacFriends in the U.S have got it easy!

Geez, we’re pathetic.

By the time those worlds, “Apple TV” and “iPhone” are tapped out we we’re hyperventilating. Then we would download the Keynote and watch it.

Again.

Geez, we’re really pathetic.

But, despite having 8 Macs, 4 iPods between us, getting up at weird hours to watch Keynotes, scouring the Web everyday to keep abreast of the latest Mac news and basically worship at the Apple altar, we would never, ever go THIS far.

That’s true devotion for you.

Dr. Hfuhruhurr