We’re a bit like a digital agency, only we don’t actually seriously 100% believe that everything can be solved by a web site and an oddly-shaped online ad.

IAB runner up

Banner+Aid's done quite well. We've just found out this morning that it collected 2nd place in IAB's Creative Showcase awards behind Droga's Cascade - Brewed by Feel.  Good on us I say - especially to the time Rhys and Stormboy put in to getting it up and running - and Russ Tucker and the guys at Tequila for their enthusiasm and ideas. Funny what an idea can do, rather than a big budget. This is a free project - one for others.  

Country Road: The Movie

After careful negotiation with the Chinese Consulate we're proud to announce youtube/countryroad is live - playing the latest in beautiful product films, behind the scenes insights and historical archives. Thanks T.

DIGITAL KARMA

Over the past 24 hours we’ve come up with one hellava sweet, uber simple and cost free way for the online community to get behind the Red Cross and help them support those affected by the Japanese Quake and Pacific Tsunami. Banner+Aid is a not-for-profit messaging tool that enables flash banners to be labeled with a special corner that expands to reveal messages for charity. It's a perfect way for worthy causes to piggyback on paid for media without cost and a way for business and media buying companies to show support for people in need! Check it out below and help spread the word guys. banneraid.net (click here for the full press release)

Xmas cards

Finally. And for xmas. A little gift from the lovely people at Studio On Fire. They're beautiful, thick and red lovingly letter pressed. If anyone would like one (only), email us at talk@abitlikethis.com and we'll snail them across - or even better drop by and we give you one for free. Here's some extreme closeups (note the red edge - seriously, we got the edges printed. Like amazing... :)

Painting. One day. All done.

New digs, new beginnings

fbStatus – Our first Jquery plugin

Just completed our first Jquery plugin. Often we need to display a clients facebook status on a project and while there's a great Jquery plugin for Twitter that does this called Tweet there isn't anything for Facebook. Inspired by the code written by Pretty Klicks we wrote a simple little plugin called fbStatus. Plans in the next revision will be to more of the features found it Tweet. Get your hand's on it at the Jquery repository, see it running here or fork it on Github.

WHAT’S THAT SENATOR?

The Conroy Filter is another little self-initial project by the team here at the studio. We built it for Senator Conroy, it scans Twitter and replaces all the rude words (you know which ones) with words like 'kittens', 'strudel' and 'bubbles'. It's like the normal twitter, but squeaky clean. (Possum it up your Babychino!)

Hecho en Mexico

We've just pushed a little job live today, it's a baby one -  a little contra jobby. Mandy at Amor y Locura has exclusive access to these amazing classic Bogart-with-cigar-Margarita-in-hand range of super comfy chairs available online here at her new buy from the page because big cartel didn't work website. It's amazing what the offer of free supercool furniture will do for people. Hugh takes some photos, Tobie mixes up a quick layout,  Benji rolls out a WP template, Alex ties up a quick calcuation in Javascript and Roberto's your Tío.

We’re claiming it as a win for abitlikethis

Friday night at the MADC awards saw us claim the first cast in steel with a shimmy of bronze "award" for us here at a bit like this for everysecond.betfair.com in the best website category -  Yay yay fkn yay. I say "claim" as technically the award was for M&C Saatchi, however I can assure all folk that indeed the awards protagonists were in fact Tobie C for Creative Direction and Conceptual Dev consulting at M&C, Design and refinement AJ Lawang with Greg Fiske (in house at M&C) and two ABLT-esque gentlemen Rhys Sullivan (with a bit of Jemi) for the programming. And here it is: Therefore and with good reason we're claiming it a bit, which makes us all a bit happy. Full list of the nights recipients here: http://www.madc.com.au/public_site/img/art/2010-MADC-Awards-results.pdf