What is Zeus Jones doing with its new site?
Modernista! took the cake for reinventing the agency Web site, normally a drab and frustrating affair, by creating a meta-site. It was even cited as evidence of the shop's awesomeness in a recent fawning profile. Some, however, claimed Modernista! ripped the idea off from Minneapolis shop Zeus Jones. (Lance Jensen, avid AdFreak commenter, said that isn't true.) Well, Zeus Jones is back with a new site of its own. It takes a feed approach, aggregating employee feeds from Twitter, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Vimeo, SlideShare and other social services. The site is comprised nearly entirely of widgets, in keeping with the Zeus Jones take of "marketing as a service." Users can even copy the widgets to their own sites, and use them to pull in the Web activities of their friends. The side panel features a scrolling feed from the shop's blog, From the Head of Zeus Jones. Check it out and let us know what you think. —Posted by Brian Morrissey |
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August 27, 2008 in Agency web sites, Modernista!, Morrissey, Zeus Jones | Permalink |
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This is a smart approach. My only suggestions would be to pull it out of the Flash containers, as it provides no SEO value from the aggregated content.
We've got about 8 people on FriendFeed in our office, and have this approach as well.
Posted by: Taulpaul | Aug 27, 2008 10:46:52 AM
You know why this is a really well done agency web site? Because they put the two pieces of information most people go to agency websites for: the address and phone number- right in the top right corner where you can easily find it.
Beyond that, it's nicely laid out, easy to navigate and all that.
Personally, I'd have squelched all those "z" endings (e.g. "Locationz" "Blogz" "Vidz") because they sound kind of teenaged, but that's a pretty minor quibble.
Posted by: Alan Wolk | Aug 27, 2008 11:20:31 AM
Site is cool. But their holiday party looks boring as shit.
Posted by: Rick Chambers | Aug 27, 2008 1:39:50 PM
