http://www.skydeckcartoons.com

Here’s a novel idea for your next ad campaign – advertise on loo roll!

Justtoiletpaper.com offer custom printing for your paper – available in all colours including brown
The possibilities are endless!

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For all you fashion addicts finally The Clothes Show and London Fashion Week are so last season.  Fashion Weekend at the Urbis is where you want to be this October and whats more its right on our doorstep…. well it is for me! 

A bargainous £10 opens the doors to a full weekend of shopping, discounted designer labels and trends that will keep you looking hot season after season.

Taking place from 4th-7th October at Manchester’s most stylish venue – Urbis. Fashion Weekend in association with Grazia and is Manchester and the North’s ultimate fashion and beauty event.

During this weekend the whole of Urbis will be transformed into an exclusive fashion experience, as the venue for Fashion Weekend Manchester, the North’s ultimate fashion and beauty event. Filled with the latest catwalk creations from the hottest designers, you will get the chance to visit exhibitors, take in a catwalk show, and purchase key items from designer collections at fabulous prices.

For more info and tickets www.fashionweekendmanchester.co.uk or http://www.urbis.org.uk/page.asp?id=3181

If you’re not using these techniques for your online marketing yet, you’re increasingly missing out on an advertising revolution.

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Here’s a collection of useful articles I’ve found while researching the subject:

Social Networking, Blogging and Web 2.0

Marketers Start to Use Social Networks for CRM Instead of Ads
Real Promise of MySpace, Facebook Lies in Potential to Help Nurture Consumer Relationships — but How?

Blog It and They May Come
Small businesses find blogging can be useful — but awfully time consuming

How To Run A Corporate Blog
…offers a few tips on how to blog for your company without spilling secrets, getting fired, or putting your readers to sleep.

Web 2.0′s Top 1,000 List!
Everything Web 2.0

The top 150 marketing and advertising blogs
A dynamic directory of sites scored via social bookmarking sites

Publishing 2.0
Daily Blog, the (r)evolution of media, driven by the migration of media to the Web and new digital technologies.

Social Media Marketing Tactics
How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand & Control Your Message

101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website
Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings.

How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day
A short but good-practice case study

The Top 10 Things You Should Know Before You Blog
Best practice blogging

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)
A great source of inspiration

Branding

Last but certainly not least – don’t forget your Corporate Branding!

The importance of Branding
Why you should take your branding seriously

Your feedback
There must be some great links I’ve missed here – if you know of any unique resources for marketing via Social Networking, why not share them here!

Alternatively, if you’ve found this resource useful and have had success using some of these techniques, please do share your experience.

If you’ve ever had problems scaling or cropping images to multiple format and work spaces, this will amaze you!

“The basic idea is that if you want to stretch out an image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. The same goes for shrinking an image – it will eliminate the less important features of an image and leave the main subject areas intact and in the same relative location as they previously appeared in the image.”

More information about Dr. Ariel Shamir and his research.

I can’t see this anywhere online to buy yet but you can imagine it would make a great plug-in for Adobe Photoshop!

Tao starts to collecting anonnying SPAM emails on his personal blog, and wants to share his collection with all of you

http://www.elian.co.uk/category/my-spam/

Do you think your 42 inch TV is “really big”? How about this one?

Panasonic Viera 103 inch Full HD Plasma, the same size of a double bed.

UK price is around £50K

Well, for the next five minutes anyway. Who would have thought that a portable CD player could have looked so cool! This is a definite contender for the iPOD!

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Getty images have just released a new version of their website for users to preview. The new site will launch fully over the next few weeks.

At first glance it looks like they’ve made significant improvements to their search interface. Allowing you to filter searches based on dynamic criteria based upon your search results, a popular technique employed by larger e-commerce sites. Getty hope the new interface will enable you to find images faster, broaden your search criteria for more image results and instantly access similar images that are tagged with related keywords.

I think it’s a step in the right direction from a traditional stock library facing increasing competition from the swarm of royalty free image libraries that are emerging every day.

Last night Apple announced its new line of iMacs. The incredibly thin design comes with a new anodised aluminium frame and glass cover and is available in 20″ and 24″ glossy widescreen displays. A new keyboard design has also been rolled out.

iLife 08, iWork 08 and updates to the .mac service have also been released.