Daily Brad, the blog

It’s funny, I remember that Janet Meiners (the blogger who got me started doing this blog) said that one of the reasons she started blogging, is that she didn’t have that great of a memory. She said that she blogs to remember ideas she’s come across or had herself to save for reference later.

So I thought I’d blog about a recent discovery that prompted a few ideas in my brain that I thought I might forget. (That’s the funny part… at least to me anyhow.)

While poking around the web to find cool things, I ran across an offering called MOO. Moo? Yup, MOO. Even though the story behind their name is a well-guarded secret, the grand statement on their website states why they exist and what they do:

The web. You can’t touch it, write on it or put it on the mantle. You can’t hang it on the wall or pass it to the cutie on the bus and you certainly can’t give it to your mum for her birthday. MOO want to change all this. We dream up new products, personalised by your stuff on the web, that let you take that virtual life offline. We hope you like them.

So what does that all mean? Well, for starters at least, NO MORE BORING BUSINESS CARDS.

MOO allows you to make small business-like cards called MiniCards (28mm x 70mm). You create unique designs for the back of the card, and share your Skype name, Flickr pics, email, blog, and vital statistics with friends and attractive strangers, in the real world on the front of the card. There are some examples on how people are using their cards on the MOO Flickr Pool. There even seems to be a movement to collect and share these cards.

But my thought - what a FANTASTIC tool for a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, etc to show off his work. Since each card in the pack of 100 can have a different back-side… the possibilities are endless!

This is just another one of those in a long-line of new personalization products that are out there that I just love. I’m excited to give these a try myself and see how it goes. I also like their web-page design - very fresh.

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