Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

[Russell E. Unger]

While a neat thought...and, they certainly seem a little more usable with Flash

than Director (only holding about 16 megs, I believe), it would seem to me that

the monies spent on such a marketing collateral might be a bit wasted,

unfortunately.


Plus, it'd probably make you look like a huge geek if you handed it out to a

girl in a bar...


John Norcic at Cicron Consulting Australia wrote:


> Hello All,

>

> Can I make a point about the cd business cards. I think there a nifty thing

> and all, but what the hell do you do if, like me you own one of those

> Pioneer Slot Loading Drives - wait for it to shoot out the back of your

> power supply.

>

> :)

>

> John@Cicron

>

> -----Original Message-----

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From: hub <infohubmedia [dot] co [dot] uk>

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com <flashershocker [dot] com>

> Date: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 7:30 PM

> Subject: Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

>

> >Details can be found at: www.romcard.com

> >

> >----------

>

>>From: "Neil MacLennan" <neilreality [dot] co [dot] uk>

>

>>To: flashershocker [dot] com

> >>Subject: Re: FLASH: Wondering about CD CVs?

> >>Date: Tue, Apr 20, 1999, 9:59 am

> >>

> >

> >> 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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