[Sigia-l] "The role of anti-marketing design"

[Dmitry Nekrasovski]

Couldn't agree more. I also wonder why Scoble didn't profile someone
from the online porn industry. Those people have "millions of
passionate users and tens of millions of page views" too, don't they?
:)

Dmitry

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Dmitry Nekrasovski
http://www.smallmultiples.com

On 3/6/06, Terrence Wood <tdw at funkive.com> wrote:
> Listera:
> > Another example of what happens when peoples' appreciation of design is
> > reduced to visual layout. Three cheers for hyper-specialization. :-)
>
> Forget about design for a moment - the article is the embodiment of
> everything that is wrong with the internet - there is a complete lack of
> understanding of, well, most things. I actually thought it had more to do
> with pimping .NET as a scalable server solution, but perhaps that's
> because I view the site as MS' answer to Guy Kawasaki (Apple evangelist)
> minus the talent.
>
> There is no proof of a causal relationship between the sites adsense
> performance and it's visual design. Reading the comments it is more
> probable the performance is linked with the offer (free dating service),
> and the SEO manipulation (e.g. keyword loaded alt tags), both of which
> have nothing to do with (visual) design.
>
>
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