> Dude, > > Kind of a poor job of schilling there - I think there are many on this list > that are in some way today or in the future, going to be designing sociality > into online experiences, and knowing about your company would be useful - so > give us the 411! > > -- > ~ will
Will, I hit enter when I was only partially finished since a sudden meeting came up, but yeah - a weak shill at best! This shows why I wasn't so hot at going freelance - I can't self-promote worth crap! Anyway, I'm a/the Information Architect at Vitrue: http://www.vitrue.com - We serve these through our platform which manages the content (photos, photos, video, audio, text, etc.), ratings, comments, users, language filters, categories, tagging, media mixing capability and promotions. We're in process of building syndication (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc.), Mobile application (upload, iPhone app, mobile management) and so on - it's an exciting time in an interesting space! In some senses, we're competing with YouTube, but for the service and product benefits, it's usually up against ad agencies who do one-off launch and forget micro-sites. We distinguish ourselves by a richness in functionality and experience, with a stable but evolving back-end. The basic idea to our product is to customize the UI according to a client and their promotion's needs. Of course with each project there comes special requirements which mean we try to balance between these requirements and trying to maintain a usable and functional product, not to mention trying not to burn out our hardworking implementation team. The promotion we first did with Adult Swim was a joint contest with Honda for "Submit a T-shirt Design and we'll use it unless it sucks, then we won't." It's no longer online, but the write-up is at: http://vitrue.com/our-work/cartoon-network-honda-fit-art-contest Some of our larger scale projects include Captain Morgan's (http://www.captainmorgan.com), Ben and Jerry's (http://www.benjerry.com/imagine/) and Klondike (http://www.klondikecontest.com/) but the negative scoring comment brought the Adult Swim contests to mind. So, Kim... It'd seem that the simple answer would to simply have a rating system of any sort, and the higher rated would naturally be pushed to the top, and the lowest would end up on page 2+ (often as good as online death!) - or would drop out of the listing altogether after a certain point. If you wanted a "Hall of Shame" grouping, that can be a tag category, search criteria, or simply a place where they go "If it has more than ten Ratings that are less than 2". It does seem to bring up more questions about the kiosk: does it put these confessions on a site? Is the site linked to another company, service, product? If it's in Vegas, does it entice with money, booze or sex? Thanks for the prodding, Scott -- The lesson here is that we cannot remove artificial dependencies, but we can reduce them. - Hao He ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
