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Net Gains (May 05, 98) |
Bookmark time again, and this week the spotlight is on the favourite
bookmarks of Joel Sequeira, Business Development Manager, Netventures
Communications India Pvt. Ltd. (NCIPL). Netventures was incorporated
in Hong Kong in 1995, and currently maintains offices in Hong
Kong, UAE, Bahrain, India, Canada, and associate offices in France
and USA. NCIPL is the powerhouse of website development for the
group, and is the creative force behind sites like Goa-Interactive
(http://www.goa-interactive.com), NRIWorld (http://www.nriworld.com),
Business Barons (http://www.business-leaders.com) and corporate
sites of Qatar Airways (http://www.qatarairways.com), Goldiam
(http://www.goldiam.com), and Kalpataru (http://www.kalpataru.com),
to name a few.
Joel turns to CNN (http://www.cnn.com) for his quickest update
on world news. He starts his day off with his dose from CNN and
checks the headlines once again before he calls it a day. What
better way for him to stay updated with most of his waking hours
spent on the job ?
Another favourite is the Pacific Products website (http://www.pacprod.com),
mainly for the nifty collection of ecards that can be created
in 10 easy steps, for free. But there's more to the site than
just free cards - there's a gallery of shops and ongoing auctions.
The currently featured favourite products fall in the salt &
pepper shaker category, with themes of people, sports, animals,
music, Coke and even Disney! The auction page has an item up for
auction, to which net users around the globe can bid for, given
a start price. The current item is a sports impression figurine,
for which the bidding started on April 13th, going
on till 15th May. So if you have over US$400 to spare,
go for it. They confirm your bids via email, and then post it
online to egg others to bid higher.
The remaining favourite bookmarks all have something to do with
web designing. Gabocorp Imaging (http://www.gabocorp.com) is one
of the sites Joel is partial to, because of the design. The site
is available in the Flash version and the plain vanilla HTML version.
If you choose the HTML version, you're treated to a big helping
of attitude basically explaining why you're wasting your time
on the HTML version. Some sites just don't realise that Internet
users are more interested in seeing sites the way they want to,
and will not always take the extra effort to see it as the company
would like them to. The company has a goal of creating websites
that are not your everyday sites, but "a complete sensory
experience from beginning to end. Intuitive interfacing, rich
imaging, powerful audio, and solid technology." When
we're concerned about being able to send an email message before
being disconnected, fancy sites can take a backseat …
HighFive (http://www.highfive.com), is a dynamic design online
magazine with interviews, articles, news, and reviews of the best
sites on the Web. The site basically exists to promote fine design
and high style on the Web. If they keep up the pace, the site
will soon become a useful reference area for building well designed
websites.
Finally, Fila (http://www.fila.com) is a site that is built around
sports shoes, but focuses on sports news, personalities etc.,
instead of making it a dull corporate site. The interesting thing
about the Asian version of the site is that it is built by an
advertising agency. A rather logical step, with clients asking
their agencies to build websites for them. However, in India,
you can count on your right hand, the number of ad. agencies in
the website solution business. Not that there exists a scarcity
of web design houses here…
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