Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

[Neil MacLennan]

I've recently seen a new (well, 'new' to me anyway) CD product. Its a CD 

that's been cut/shaped down to the size of a business card and has four

little dimples that help it sit in the "CD single" little tray of your

standard CD player.


It fits about 16Mb of data and the one I was given had a company profile as

a cross-platform autostarting CD Flash movie -- nothing that wouldn't have

fitted on a floppy disk, but they took advantage of the extra disk space to

add beefier sounds and background music.


I thought it was really cool and it looks just like a regular business card

except for rounded corners (and a silver back!) When I first saw it someone

had to tell me that I could actually play it! I must confess I was a bit

reluctant to place a rectangle in my new blue G3 DVD drive -- but the

dimples did their job.


They need to be specially manufactured, so they're not very cheap and they

suffer from the dreaded "minimum order quantity". Great for forward-looking

companies -- not so great for a CV, which was after all the original thread.


Cool nonetheless.


Neil MacLennan

Reality Creative Design


PS and for those people you give it to without "modern technology", it has

the conventional contact/business details printed on the face!


PPS I realise this may sound a bit far-fetched to some of you -- note the

date -- it's not April 1 -- this is true!


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