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22nd September 2006

Design agencies often have the ear of the client CEO

“Claire is not referring to my post but commenting on the BBH/Sony thing. I don’t really have any strong feeling on that, so we’ll skip neatly over it. Let’s have a look at some of the things Claire says in her article. ‘the management consultant is rapidly being replaced by the design consultant as the industry bete noire.’ I’m not 100% sure on this, but I do think design consultancies are gaining more respect and kudos. Especially the good ones. Obviously. In fact it’s probably because there are so many bad ones that the good ones are starting to rise up.”

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22nd September 2006

AJAX Activity Indicators

A collection of animated GIFs that can be used on a web page to indicate an AJAX function is running in the background.

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22nd September 2006

photofront - a better frontend for your photos

“Photofront aims to fill the gap between Flickr’s photo sharing and social networking with a more professional look and feel. Photofront offers the feel of a photography portfolio with the ease of your flickr account.”

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