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Friday, 15 March 2002 |
People are starting to think and do things again in the internet advertising arena, by the looks, after reeling from the techwreck and last year’s decline in online advertising revenue.
Personally I think that almost all online ads are ineffective due to the ineptness with which they are conceived and made, regardless of whether they are using some nifty new technology or not. The internet industry, dominated as it is by technologists instead of communicators, always goes in search of a techno-fix and that is what the firms covered in this article are doing.
Now that Flash 5 plug-in penetration has reached numbers that more than justify making online advertising using it and its allied techniques, instead of Flash 4, you can make some terrific stuff in it.
Why online advertisers do not is beyond me. But it gets back to the main failing of most web designers and developers—they are simply not communicators. That is a whole other profession altogether.
1:10:59 PM 
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It doesn’t export Flash, but it does contain everything else you might want when learning 3D modelling and animation. And even better is the fact that it is free!
I am downloading copies of Strata 3Dbase 3.5 for Macintosh and Windows right now. There is an online manual if you want to read more about the product before grabbing it.
12:44:47 PM
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That name is a mouthful, but this looks like a great product even so, and made for the Mac (OS 9.x only so far as I can tell) and Windows.
It exports to Flash, and has a familiar-looking interface, very Adobe-style, and the academic price is US$199.99. That is going to be too pricy for most colleges in Oz though, with our exchange rate, given how many copies each classroom needs. But its Flash export capabilities make it more accessible than other fully featured 3D products with Flash export added like Maya and so on.
12:17:45 PM
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While still looking for an affordable and fully crossplatform 3D modeller and animator for teaching with, I came across this news item at MacCentral.
Blender was first mentioned this year at MacCentral in an article that told how its 3D creator worked on Windows, Linux, Irix, BeOS, Sun and FreeBSD, as well as Mac OS X. Amazing!
I now recall seeing a book and a guide on Blender in a local bookstore, and that is pretty amazing in its own right. Bloody tragic about the company’s bankruptcy. I wonder if Mac and Windows copies of the product are available somewhere for download? The links within the Blender website seem to have gone completely dead now.
Here is an article on the Apple website about Blender.
10:57:17 AM
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Billions of unspent cash sitting in Silicon Valley venture capital funds, Microsoft lurking there waiting and watching for any new good ideas to appear in the world that they can steal and pretend are the products of their own in-house innovation, thousands of highly skilled highly-educated people sitting around doing nothing.
According to Cringely the times are ripe for new Internet start-ups.
10:26:11 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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