.ME of course

Once again, many thanks to Sanja Lazović for the fabulous shots from her to.me album:

Posted on March 4th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Examples, Registry (.ME) • Comments (2)

Does it seem odd: an extra dot right after the domain name? Not at all! This is how it was meant to be in the first place. URLs like http://google.com./ work just fine. So why do people skip that last dot? Good question. Most probably, because it does not add any extra value and we […]

Posted on March 1st, 2010 • Tags: Amazon • Category: Analysis, Branding, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)

GET ME IN! Limited is a European company dedicated to an open marketplace for tickets in the U.K. and Europe. They operate the largest marketplace for tickets to live events, providing a forum where fans can buy and sell tickets in a safe and guaranteed way. Now part of TicketMaster of course.

Posted on February 20th, 2010 • Category: .COM, .ME, Examples • Comments Off on Get Me In

One of the world’s best papers, regularly features “me”-tagged pictures and slogans [1, 2]. Below goes the last month selection:

Posted on February 20th, 2010 • Tags: The Economist • Category: .ME, Examples, UK • Comments (5)

Many will call these url’s ugly hacks, but they are pretty useful designers’ resources: Favetime -> http://fav.eti.me/ Styletime -> http://styl.eti.me/ Votetime -> http://vot.eti.me/ All based on eti.me.

Posted on February 19th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Domainers, Examples, UK • Comments (5)

bon prix, an online retailer with pan-european presence, is enjoying its new jingle, “it’s me”.

Posted on February 19th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Examples • Comments (1)

Het Financieele Dagblad, Dutch most popular financial paper, and Nyenrode, a country top business school opened a challenge offering young people to win tuition fee to the school. Under “VOTE FOR ME” jingle of course:

Posted on February 19th, 2010 • Category: .ME, .NL, Examples • Comments (2)

Continuing our research on “me”-tagged brands, below go this month six highlights. “ME TOO” shoes

Posted on February 16th, 2010 • Category: .AU, .COM, .ME, Branding, Examples, Marketing • Comments (5)

Certain.ly a feature one misses on Bing, Google offers suggestions for what people are looking for. In the case of “me” it is:

Posted on February 15th, 2010 • Category: .ME, Analysis, Discussions, Examples • Comments (2)