AlaaShaker's Weblog

You’re building a website, and at some point, you decided that you want to show some RSS feeds to a couple of blogs or other websites. The options are limited between buying a good looking solution, or getting a free, ugly one, that usually bares the name of it’s creator website – which doesn’t seem appealing at all, especially that 90% of the time the reader doesn’t match your design!
So, here’s a quick tutorial that shows you how you could build your own RSS reader in Flash .. Read the rest of this entry »

I couldn’t help stealing this URL from a friend’s personal message on my WLMessenger. Seems Wilkinson Sword made a creative promotion campaign for their new razor – an exquisite approach towards advergaming.

Watch the video below or click here to watch it on their website (since it will take some time to load in both cases, I’d rather go for the website) …

Well, there has been a huge fuzz about it – some people loved it, while others thought it was a little sick. Judge for yourself. It just remains that the downloadable 98MB game wasn’t as exciting as the people expected from the ad, yet it’s free and you get a chance to win a set of prizes if you get a high score.

Bottom-line: It’s not the traditional advertising you’re used to!