From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V4 #220 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, August 12 1999 Volume 04 : Number 220 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: News item featuring Thomas Dolby's Beatnik Xtra [RThurF@aol.com] Alloy: welcome new members! [RThurF@aol.com] Re: Alloy: welcome new members! [Robyn Moore ] Alloy: Newbie here [Tony Rivera ] Re: Alloy: Newbie here [CJMark@aol.com] Alloy: girlfriend? [dalexander@juno.com] Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V4 #216 [dalexander@juno.com] Alloy: OT - Names needed. ["Keith Stansell" ] Re: Alloy: OT - Names needed. ["L.L Frattarola" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 16:44:10 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: News item featuring Thomas Dolby's Beatnik Xtra There is a reference in this article to Nuforia's new website for Altoids mints (http://www.altoids.com), which incorporates Thomas Dolby's Beatnik Xtra in its design. I've just visited this site, and I know I'll be returning again soon... it's truly well-made & unique! This week's Online Art Show was hypnotic to say the least. And the music, of course, sounds fantastic. Robin T the article follows: Internet professional services firm Net Explorer, Inc. (NEI) and communications design firm Belk Mignogna Associates Ltd. (BMA) announced today that they have merged to create Nuforia Inc. (www.nuforia.com). Nuforia's mission is to help clients increase their presence, potential and profitability through integrated e-business and branding solutions. The new management team includes Net Explorer's Bill Bingham, who maintains the role of chief executive officer, and BMA's Howard Belk, who has been named president (see www.nuforia.com for further information on the management team). The culmination of months of intense collaboration and a shared vision for strategic growth, Nuforia represents a powerful alignment of technology, design, and consulting experience. Nuforia's clients and vendors are already taking advantage of immediate access to a wider range of strategic communications and systems services available as a result of the merger. "NEI and BMA share the belief that the New Economy is not about logos everywhere and technology for technology's sake: it's about building customer relationships through distinguished brand experiences," said CEO Bill Bingham. "Nuforia's integration of exceptional creative and technical expertise has exponentially greater potential than either discipline alone. Together, we are successfully positioned to deliver solutions that are more personal, more customized and more strategically aligned with our clients' business objectives." Net Explorer, incorporated in 1996, offers a full range of e-business and technology consulting services in online applications, customer relationship management, portals, knowledge management systems, custom application development, and systems integration. NEI has provided clients such as Oakley and Cooper Cameron with the benefit of its strategic alliances with leading-edge Internet technology vendors including Netscape, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Oracle, Allaire Corporation, BEA WebLogic, Compaq, Dataware Technologies, INTERSHOP and Vignette. BMA brings to the table more than 10 years of experience working with leading corporations including Seagram, PaineWebber, Dow Jones and SONY to develop mission-critical print and interactive communications such as Web sites, annual reports and branding strategies. "Nuforia is driven by a disciplined, experienced management team that has already fostered a cohesive and intensely collaborative environment," said President Howard Belk. "We are refining a unique approach and methodology that maximizes our respective strengths, and maintains a relentless focus on delivering boutique-quality experiences to our clients." One of the first assignments executed under the auspices of the new company is bringing Altoids(TM), the Curiously Strong Mints(TM), to the Web (www.altoids.com). Chris Peddy, Altoids Senior Brand Manager, said, "They really took this project to heart and delivered a dynamic, vibrant site that truly reflects the essence of our brand." More than a derivative online advertisement, Altoids.com is a self-sustaining interactive product in its own right; a brand experience that embodies the "curious, strong, and original" Altoids personality. It is one of the first sites to utilize Thomas Dolby's Beatnik Xtra audio technology with Macromedia Director and Shockwave and has received notice in trade and consumer press for both its creative approach to branding and its technical performance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:27:27 EDT From: RThurF@aol.com Subject: Alloy: welcome new members! Just a note to say WELCOME to our newest members :) I'm glad you've joined us! Make yourselves at home... I think I hear Robyn M coming this way with the comfy chairs.. Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:46:55 -0700 From: Robyn Moore Subject: Re: Alloy: welcome new members! At 03:27 PM 8/11/99 , you wrote: > >Just a note to say WELCOME to our newest members :) I'm glad you've joined >us! Make yourselves at home... > >I think I hear Robyn M coming this way with the comfy chairs.. More chairs? (yelling back from the storage room) How many? Do we need any more glasses for the bar while I'm back here? Welcome to any and all newcomers :) Robyn M @ Robyn Moore @ http://www.alveus.com/kbrm/robyn.html @ You knew the job was dangerous when you took it. - S.C. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:49:28 -0700 From: Tony Rivera Subject: Alloy: Newbie here Well, at the prompting of others on the Pulp Culture list, I have joined this list, in hopes of finding more lively conversation. I used to be a semi regular poster on the Tap Room site, under the name Rodent. Just thought I'd say hello to all the other TMDR fans out there. I think the most interesting Dolby news I have is that I'm going to be getting married in October and the theme / first dance will be "The Beauty Of A Dream." We're going to be using the version from the single, the more minimal one with just the piano. Til next time... Tony, a frog on a leaf >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>{ trivera@tibinc.com }<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< "The Earth can be any shape you want it, Any shape at all Dark and cold or bright and warm, Long or thin or small But it's home and all I ever had, and maybe why for me the Earth is flat" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:35:22 EDT From: CJMark@aol.com Subject: Re: Alloy: Newbie here Welcome Tony..!! Hey Robyn... did I hear you say you needed some help mixing drinks? Since I have a few minutes... let's see if I remember how.. hmmm Cheers! Mark ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:03:42 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com Subject: Alloy: girlfriend? DAbbitt wrote, ... authoritave speculation on whether or not JaMac's girlfriend was wearing a blue sequined or a brown chiffon dress in a picture he's displaying on his web page, and, ... 'girlfriend'? 'Girlfriend'?!? She's my fiance! ...but then again, she was my girlfriend in the picture... but only for one day longer. And that's JAMac, as in James Ashley MacAlister! Not JaMac! sorry. didn't mean to yell. >did I mention that my favorite song is "Screen Kiss"? > >- -Dabbitt Ooh. That's my real close second. My favorite is "Beauty Of A Dream." (Hey! Dolby content!) ___________ JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:08:43 -0600 From: dalexander@juno.com Subject: Alloy: Re: alloy-digest V4 #216 CRACKERS wrote, >Never stay mad at someone over one disagreement. I can't tell you how many fewer dear friends I would have now adays if I had let one knock down, drag out row get inbetween our friendship. Sometimes a little time apart to cool things off is just the ticket and will help you gain perspective on the whole thing. Someone would really REALLY have to screw me around before I'd end a friendship. I've got a friend like that! He's nothing but a stuck-up, insulting, girlfriend stealing, money robbing idiot... and I still love the guy. Strangest friendship I've ever had. We both completely believe that the other is a total looser and it doesn't bother us to rub it in each others face. I think we do it because we've both grown tremendously from the relationship. We're also friends because we've never stabbed each other in the back (well, pretty much) or have done anything sediciously against each other for unfair advantage. After all, if he didn't steal my girlfriend, I might not have ended up with Teresa... my true love. ___________ JAMac (Dennis S. Alexander) www.dennisa.com - Nutrition/Income Opportunities "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams" - Eleanor Roosevelt ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 23:14:23 -0600 From: "Keith Stansell" Subject: Alloy: OT - Names needed. Ok, here's an off-topic post but I want to get input from the creative minds of Alloy. Last Saturday I picked up my new roommates - two kittens. They are brother and sister and into everything. The problem is, I'm having trouble comming up with names for them. I was thinking Bart and Lisa because they are always fighting, but I'm not sure. Any suggestions? - -Keith Stansell Denver ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:17:47 -0400 From: "L.L Frattarola" Subject: Re: Alloy: OT - Names needed. > > The problem is, I'm having trouble comming up with names for them. I was > thinking Bart and Lisa because they are always fighting, but I'm not sure. > > Any suggestions? > How about Lucy and Linus? Sorry, couldn't resist! Lucy Frattarola ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V4 #220 ***************************