50 Fresh Interactive Studio and Social Media Agency Websites

 

By Catalin Zorzini

As you might observe, social marketing is the new black. Tons of studies predict huge budgets for social media strategies from the top shots, so the agencies need to sharpen their interactive skills in order to separate clients from their money. Lots of big advertising and PR networks created digital marketing divisions but given the fact that this is such a fresh trend, the independent studios have almost the same chances to land a big contract if they’re creative enough.

Long story short, here is a showcase of 50 outstanding websites of digital marketing agencies, interactive advertising studios and online PR bureaus. The majority follows the trends of modern web design – wide layout, projects carousel, text over images, crisp textures in the background, large headers, homepage smooth animations, and – of course – integrated Twitter & Facebook functionalities.

As usual, please share your thoughts and suggestions in the comments.

Interactive Studio and Socila Media Agency Websites

Second Story

Juxt Interactive

Mammoth

Blast Radius

Ideo

Razorfish

Evolution Bureau

Syrup

AgencyNet Interactive

Concentric

Resn

Rockfish

Red Interactive

Magic Shovels

Wirestone

Techlightenment

F-I The Interactive Firm

Blitz Internet Marketing

FL2 – Interactive

KZero Worldwide

Head Stream PR

Big Fuel

The Upper Storey

Wong Doody

Story Worldwide

The Tipping Point Labs

Social Fish

33 Digital

BuzzLogic

Social Agency

NVI Solutions

Ignite Social Media

Comet Branding

Karma Media Labs

Quango

M 80

Mr Youth

Fanscape

Opus Interactive

Deep Focus

Mojave Interactive

New Media Strategies

Wildfire App

Spring Creek

Sapient Nitro

Genex

Arc Worldwide

Method

Odopod

Frog Design

Area 17

Catalin Zorzini is a design blogger with a social media background. You can read his daily writing at Inspired Magazine and connect with him on Twitter.

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Our Experience with AWS

 We have been working with Amazon Web Services for the last couple of months for various things and thouhgt of sharing our key findings with you all. First of all, I would like to thank Amazon for providing such a great experience to us , a simple webservice call , an instance of a computer up and running. When we started our exploration, we got an account with Amazon and working with S3 for quite some time. It is an another service for storage and works well for its cause.

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Eucalyptus: Clouding Privately

 In our constant pursuit of exploring new technologies, we stumbled upon the Eucalyptus and greatly contemplated on its installation. Being driven by our leaning towards cloud. Eucalyptus really clouded our minds and we decided, "no pain, no gain". And here we are having successfully installed Eucalyptus and here is how we did it. We have the Cloud Controller, the Cluster Controller and Node Controller all up and running. But the document is still a draft version.

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AWS Workshop, Chennai

 With the onset of the Monsoons in Chennai there were Cloud of a different kind looming, and the Met Department was evangelizing them; there was also another Cloud Evangelist in Chennai, Jinesh Varia evangelizing Clouds of different kind, the Amazon Clouds.

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Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application!

 

Had to stream the PDC from Vienna, Austria, that was pretty cool that Microsoft gave that feed for people that didn’t make it to the PDC this year, yet I lost the chance to get my free laptop.

Silverlight Beta is OUT! Announced at the PDC 2009. This is the present Scott Guthrie took out of his pocket as well as 3 iPhones.

Silverlight 4 looks so amazing, the release candidate and hardware acceleration with now being able to get out of the browser with trusted support, means you can create a Silverlight 4 application that can be installed on the clients computer and run trusted to access the local system and call COM components. So Silverlight 4 can call ArcObjects if you hosting the ArcGIS Server in that machine? Or can you call a remote COM object?

Enhancements in no specific order.

• Implicit Styles
• Drag and Drop
• Bidi & RTL
• HTML control, so why not hosting flash in Silverlight?
• .NET RIA Services
• Print support with a print API.
• Drag and drop files from the OS to Silverlight to upload
• Use your right mouse button.
• Out of the box now with trusted support
• Call COM objects from Silverlight 4.

Download Silverlight 4 Beta.

Installing Silverlight 4 Beta with Silverlight 3

Make sure you remove the Silverlight 3 Runtime before installing VS2010 that will install a new Silverlight 3 Runtime with a newer project.

http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd/archive/2009/10/21/visual-studio-2010-and-silverlight-3-sdk.aspx

Getting started with Silverlight 4.

http://www.silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Cheers

Al

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Hosted Solutions Expands the Stratus Trusted Cloud, Unveiling Hybrid Option, Complementing Existing Offerings

 Hosted Solutions, the East Coast’s premier provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS), today expanded the range of its Stratus Trusted Cloud™ offering, introducing the availability of a hybrid option giving companies the industry’s widest range of options on how and where to more effectively host their IT infrastructures.

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework

 Note – these posts are put together after a short time with Silverlight 4 as a way of providing pointers to some of the new features that Silverlight 4 has to offer. I’m posting these from the PDC as Silverlight 4 is announced for the first time so please bear that in mind when working through these posts.   The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) has been getting a lot of interest lately and it’s something that’s out on CodePlex and it’s also part of .NET Framework 4.0. It’s also part of Silverlight 4. The name’s a good one – it’s a framework for building an application that is made up of a bunch of loosely coupled components with a lot of flexibility around component discovery, registration, lookup and lifetime management. If I had to sum it up in my own words I’d say something like; MEF composes an application by extensibly discovering a set of components which offer exported functionality and ( possibly ) rely on imported functionality. The link between the two is a simple string name ( a MEF “contract...(read more)

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Inline Styler: Converts CSS Rules into Inline Style Attributes

 

Creating HTML email is pretty easy, however updating the look and making sure appearance is same across all email clients can be difficult at times. This is because designers write inline CSS to overcome problem of how external CSS is referenced differently in different email clients.

Inline Styler is an online tool that allows that converts your HTML with external CSS into HTML with styles inline. This allows you to develop your CSS HTML email as you would with any other XHTML compliant webpage, using external CSS and without resorting to inline styles, allowing change with a minimum of fuss.

You can also use Inline Styler from your own applications; A simple API is available for Inline Styler for this purpose. By POSTing requests to Inline Styler you can receive a plain-text response containing your converted HTML. Additionally inline <style> tags are also allowed in your code and will be factored into the code output.  CSS 2.1 selectors are supported, but some pseudo-classes are not (warnings are given where unsupported rules are used).

Visit Inline Styler: http://inlinestyler.torchboxapps.com/

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Real Rapid Application Development for RIA: Silverlight 4 Beta available for download

 

Wow, this is really an awesome release, Silverlight 4 Beta is real RAD for RIA.

Check out the official silverlight.net site to download the new stuff with full Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 support (it’s a developer release, so no go-live license at this time): Silverlight 4 Beta Get Started

As usually, Tim Heuer has an amazing and detailed post with many examples: read it here.

Other great Silverlighters resources:

• Corrado Cavalli’s PDF guide to the new features;
• Silverlight 4 beta released at #PDC09 by Laurent Bugnion;
• Silverlight 4 training course by Adam Kinney and John Papa;
• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes by Mike Taulty;
• Silverlight 4 Beta Released by Andrea Boschin.

Enjoy!!

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Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Viewbox

 Note – these posts are put together after a short time with Silverlight 4 as a way of providing pointers to some of the new features that Silverlight 4 has to offer. I’m posting these from the PDC as Silverlight 4 is announced for the first time so please bear that in mind when working through these posts. Viewbox is pretty well understood – it’s been around in WPF since version 1 and it’s also part of the Silverlight Toolkit. In the current Silverlight 4 preview it’s also back in the platform. The essential idea of the Viewbox is to scale its child content to fill the space that the Viewbox itself is occupying. I’ve always found this useful for situations where I’ve got content that I’ve organised at a fixed size and I simply want to scale that up/down rather than trying to do some dynamic layout with the content. If I’ve got a simple UI such as; <UserControl x:Class="SilverlightApplication11.MainPage" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http...(read more)

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