Archive for June, 2009

When in Amsterdam – take risks – seriously

Another advertisement campaign with a serious word over the banner: “seriously”. Unlike the previous one of British Elephant insurance, Dutch guys at Amsterdam Institute of Finance have better perception of the niche targeting.

You can see them practical.ly in every issue of The Economist. So they must have enjoyed good learning curve over the past decades [...]

Lonely

Exact.ly a year ago, lone.ly was put on an auction after my initial bid. That time, I though, lone.ly was about a dating site, so I opted out.

In fact, it turned out to be quick.ly made few hundreds bucks by a guy, Carol McGregor, who bought it just one week prior to the auction, well, [...]

New search tool for Libyan .ly domain hacks

As most jingling .ly names are sold out, you can only acquire one in the secondary market (either private.ly or via a broker, e.g., Sedo), Libyan Spider came up with the new search tool for .ly domain hacks. It will help you searching for short meaningful domain names that end up with “ly” by [...]

MyWeekly

Not very popular, MyWeekly magazine for women, still can be found on top UK shelves in Tescos, etc:

To a markerteer’s surprise, it has a very short entry on Wikipedia:
My Weekly is a magazine for women in the 45-and-over age bracket, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd of Dundee, Scotland. It tends to consist [...]

Instantly Yours

Photo Me, an international provider of mobile photo booths, went for “Instantly Yours” theme (read the original article on .ME of course).
Let’s turn on a bit of creativity, and allow us to come up with:

InstantlyYours.com and Instantly-Yours.com
Instantly.com
Instant.ly
Instant.ly/Yours

So, which one do you like the most? The shorter it is – the better it looks, is it [...]