Found this article to be a really interesting assessment of the trends happening with all the big players around the trend towards web-enabled desktop apps. One of Apple’s announcements at WWDC was their embracing of SproutCore for this purpose. Read on…

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/06/14/cocoa-for-windows-flash-killer-sproutcore/

Finally some seemingly real news about Search Engines having the ability to search Flash content. With the players involved, this seems like it might be legit:

http://mashable.com/2008/07/01/google-adobe-flash-search/

Great article from A List Apart

The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome

Favorite Quote…

It’s a disrespected line item in a schedule: “final content delivered.” It’s the perennial cause of delay and the stuff of myth (I once shelved a project for three years while the client “wrote” his content

We have a weekly ping pong tournament that jloopers live for. Lots of fun, very competitive. This weeks championship round was Mike v Jason. See if you can tell who won. Time is valuable, so the video is @ 5x.

idotjapan v bromike - JLOOP - 05.02.08 from Greg Stratford on Vimeo.

We’re very proud to announce the launch of the new City On A Hill Productions website. This project was an amazing amount of fun for us. Shane Sooter and Kevin Bryan came out to visit us last Fall (from their homes in Kentucky) and we laid out the groundwork for a completely new online presence for their amazing Christian film production company.

We’ve all been there. There’s a teacher behind the podium, lecturing. A minister in the pulpit, preaching. When someone is talking at you, it’s pretty easy to tune out.

But when you watch a story unfold on television or a movie screen, you become part of the action.

You hear the waves crash on the beach. See the wind blow and the sky grow dark. Worry as you watch two men search desperately for something precious that’s been lost, anxiously hoping they’ll find it. It becomes your story.

That’s what makes story—and film—so powerful. At City on a Hill, we’re using that power for a higher purpose.

These guys do GREAT work. We’re proud to be on their team.

For more detail about this site, take a gander at the redesign launch email that we designed and sent out for City On A Hill. It tells a bit more about the approach to the new site and the promise of more to come…

We’re very excited to announce the launch of www.earthfolio.net.  Its a site we’ve been developing with Blue Marble for quite a while now.  There have been many hurdles to bringing this amazing product to the market, but it is now officially available to the public.nbsp;

We’re very proud of the site.  We worked long and hard to develop an engaging brand platform for this amazing product.  There is a lot of detailed financial information and a fairly intricate architecture to the site, but we hope that the overall feel remains focused on the simplicity of investing with heart. 

Let us know what you think.

P.S.  We’ve been busy over here at JLOOP and we’ve got a number of projects launching in the coming weeks.  Stay tuned!

This is a truly impressive piece of work from BigSpaceship.

http://www.adobe.com/flashon/

I love seeing the next evolution of video in Flash. The fullscreen abilities are at full effect here and the HD video is awesome.

A while back I pronounced on this blog that Google Analytics had killed an industry. I had used products like DeepMetrix in the past and had decided that not only was Google Analytics easier, it actually gave me much better information at a glance than the DeepMetrix tools did. And of course, you can’t beat the cost.

We’ve also used services such as QuantCast and ComScore in the past for more commercial projects and I found this article by Andrew Chen a great way of dividing up the focus of these different types of tools.

This space will continue to evolve in the next few years for sure. There is always more to learn, and here at JLOOP we are always on the lookout for new tools to help us measure our goals.

Once of the first interesting things I learned in “art” school was how the video game industry had outgrown “Hollywood”. To me that meant all of the time we wasted as kids playing video games had potential of turning into something meaningful. For example, here at JLOOP we produce online Flash video games.

Hollywood quickly adapted and these days every blockbuster movie comes with a video game deal. The role has even been reversed on a few projects where blockbuster movies were based from original video games: Resident Evil, Laura Croft and DOOM. Now major media companies are striking deals with top Hollywood players to buy their way into the video game industry. Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer have now both signed on to create original video games. No doubt movies and cartoons will be spat out by Hollywood studios to follow up and cash out on these to-be blockbuster titles.

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We’ve been talking about the concept of the “Identity Crash” that people can experience when they get too involved in too many social networks. With the advent of Google’s OpenSocial and the explosion of Facebook and their platform… it does seem that there is a new frontier. I’ve recently jumped on board with a lot of social networking sites, including Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, etc. I also recently grabbed myself an OpenID, which I think is a great concept. Which leads me to point out this article on Wired Mag that I thought was timely. http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/12/thanks-to-openi.html Definitely something is beginning to emerge here. And given the speed of tech, it could spell a quick and dramatic change in the social networking landscape.