Favorite new multimedia sites

With every new location comes a new pipe to deal with... and this one is... slim. Checking out Flash sites lately has been a little circa-1997-56k-modem-enter-a-URL-and-go-make-dinner-while-it-loads. Nonetheless there have been a few delightful ones this month that were absolutely worth the wait:

Best B2B
Motorola City's show-and-tell of their commitment to public safety. Wait, stop yawning at the title, this site is slick:

Best I-don't-even-begin-to-get-it but somehow admire what you're doing:
Modernista's site relaunch that basically leverages DHTML and some open sourceness to dynamically assemble content from around the Web. I think the point is: we fundamentally get how the Web works in ways that other agency's don't. I think the visual experience is, in a word: painful.

 

Best basic landing page:
Haagen Dazs Help the Honeybees issue site. For its beautiful illustration and actually worthwhile soundtrack.

Best for kids:
Nintendo's Professor Layton and the Curious Village game promotional page. It brings the game to life and (at least seems) very fun and interactive for kids.

Comments

[Christoph]

The Nintendo website seems to be quite good. It is hard to find good websites for children.

[Holly Roby]

The honey bee site is beautiful but oh-so painful to wait for each and every piece of information to load. I gave up on it even though the peril of the honey bees is keeping me awake at night.

Love your blog; read it all the time.

www.babrain.com/blog

[df]

thanks for the modernista point.
i'm surprised at my utter disdain.

[Susan]

I have you on RSS and sometimes peek in. I work for the Government and Safety division of MOT and I don't think anyone in my group had ever seen that Motorola City site. Go figure. Anyways, I write the manuals for the infrastructure and some of the operator GUIs seen in the Command Center tab - specifically the MCC7500 and the FSA4000 software. The infrastructure for the systems aren't mentioned because no one cares about routers and switches unless they fail. :)

It's nice to see a positive company shout out these days. So, thanks.