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When a brand is discussed often the first thoughts concern the logo, the colour scheme, or product packaging. In a world where almost every market is oversaturated with companies offering similar offerings how does your brand stand out from the crowd?

I am facinated by the power of language. Subtle changes to a sentence can completely change its meaning, even if unintentially. Recently, my pet hate is the word 'just'. When added to a sentence it can introduce conflict, disrepute and underappreieciation. A prime example is inter-department or manager to employee communication. 

Its been a busy month for damonky. We've relaunched the website, started to sell t-shirts, and generally enjoy  the wonderful world that is Devon. From reading our blog you would think that we had been in a coma for the last year. If however, you follow us on twitter you would be privvy to regular links, thoughts and discussion. This point has been raised by chris shiflett in his article "Ideas of March" . Whilst I won't go over it again I certainly think its a good thing to blog more.

There is no doubt in my mind that the iPad will open up the internet to a whole new segment of the market. It will allow people to use the internet without the complexities of a modern desktop system. It will also, as Stowe Boyd states in his article Why Closed works, it changes the metaphors used when interacting with a device. No longer will we think in terms of our data, but instead our processes - our tasks will dictate the data, rather than data dictating our tasks / apps. Users will be free from the scattered file-system, free from the files that they cant open because they cant find the app to open it.

Working on sites very close to live is always tricky. Clients want to use the site unhindered, you want to check it through before it goes live. The one thing you don't want happen is for the public to discover and access the site before it goes live.

JiglibFlash is a great physics engine for the flash platform. Combined with Papervision 3D you can do some amazing stuff. The library has been recently updated and nownot only contains a car physics model, but mouse constraints. The mouse contraint can add a new level of interactity to your scene.