Karls Blog

Next Digital sponsored the Alfred Hospitals 'Buy a Day for Dad' fund raising campaign by delivering a fantastic web site. Built on Umbraco, it's a great initiative:

http://www.buyadayfordad.com.au/

Made from a heap of old CPUs...

http://matttovey.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-march-2007-project-to-upgrade-one-of.html

Nice :)

OK - last post for 3 weeks, so see you all on the flip side...

Saw this though a Slashdot post, but Umbraco, our favorite open source .NET CMS is in the Codeplex Top 25 projects. More details here:

http://www.plentyofcode.com/2007/08/most-active-open-source-projects-in.html

Nice work Niels and crew!

PS - off to Italy for 3 weeks, so don't expect many posts in the coming weeks!

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22272046-663,00.html

Missed this one until now, but we recently launched the new Melbourne Docklands site:

http://www.docklands.com.au/

Build on FatWire, we have developed a platform to help rapidly deliver sites like these to market in rapid time. Nice work team!

Nice punt Sav :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cerDBOd_zlg

Funny - coped a cheap hit afterwards, but bounces up and keeps walking! All those tough NFL guys with all that padding and those helmets!

Come play AFL - we'll show you how its done!

Just launched from the Next Digital Brisbane office...

http://www.procurement.riotinto.com/

I didn't!!! VERY interesting and well worth a watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

Looks OK to me, liked the previous one better though...

http://www.theage.com.au/

Fabian and the guys in our Shanghai office did a fabulous job getting our first Chinese site up and live:

http://soulfire.cn/

Nice work guys!

As the business end of the season begins in the REAL footy (the AFL :), Next Digital has just relaunched 'The Oval' site:

http://www.theoval.com.au/

From the Simon...

"As part of The Oval Phase II implementation for Ford Australia, the team has just launched the 1 Vs 18 footy game. The game is based on a TV commercial where Barry Hall plays a game of football Vs an entire team of kids."

Next Digital just launched the new Mazda 3 MPS site for Mazda South Africa...

http://www.gotbite.co.za/

Based on Umbraco, Mazda wanted to attract some user generated content, so people are free to upload videos and text messages, and after approval, they get published for the whole world to see :)

A few sites are a little dubious in their presentation of data to browsers (like the NY Times and Experts Exchange for example) and show full page contents to GoogleBot, but not to normal browsers. Someone blogged about having the same problem:

http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/index.php/2007/07/30/experts-exchange-should-be-removed-from-google-search-results/

I find a lot of interesting info on EE, but have never wanted to pay for the membership. So I found this neat way to change the User-Agent of Firefox to more 'accurately' view content on EE ;)

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-firefox-extension/mask-your-browser-identification-with-user-agent-switcher-277458.php#c1859352