FLASH: OT: The original Samir question

[Gahlord Dewald]

===the original question posted by Samir===


It seems most marketing companies are now investing a cool buck in

creating "cool' intros to catch people; Should I say internet is being

"assimulated" to become the new medium for rich media advertising even though

the user is made to wait? Dunno how far people have gone. I would really like to

know from the people who convinced these marketing gurus on coming to the net

with flash!


Anyone  here who came across anyone?


Samir Ahmed

======


Frankly, I never even clicked on the links provided in the original email

because they were superfluous to the question. Maybe if I had then I'd have got

all bent out of shape about spammers too. For the record, I also got the stupid

spam a week or so ago and just deleted it like the other detritus that comes to

my inbox these days.


More importantly though, I actually think the question posed is interesting and

related to our line of work (though if you're a flash monkey buried away in a

big company it probably concerns you less than if you're a freelancer or biz

owner).


We've all seen stupid flash intros. Some of us have even made the damn things.

We've all come across people (friends, clients, relatives) who associate flash

with stupid long-downloading intros. I for one, would be interested in a

discussion about how these pieces come into being and how people have responded

when actually asked to create one.


If Samir is a shameless spammer then at least he asked an interesting question

while he was doing it. Had effort been focused on his question then we might

have actually learned something.


g


Gahlord Dewald

Weeds Media Consortium

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