A quick congratulations to my friends at San Antonio video production and visual effects company Geomedia for taking home a couple Gold Addys last month at the San Antonio Advertising Federation 2008 Addy Awards.

The theme at this year’s event to honor the best creative work from San Antonio advertising agencies was “Totally Awesome 80′s”. Geomedia Animation Director Troy Davis made the most of the opportunity by constructing some true to life Devo Energy Domes to top off their attire for the event.

The Geomedia team at the 2008 San Antonio Addy Awards

Want to build your own Devo Energy Dome? Be sure and check out Troy’s in depth step by step tutorial on the subject.

Tags: San Antonio; American Advertising Federation

While walking out of the new Best Buy at 1604 and 281 Wednesday afternoon captured this low rez cameraphone shot of line forming for the Playstation 3 release on Friday.

The recent post What Is A Content Developer? observed that some companies could be short changing themselves by classifying their Content Developers as employees devoted simply to supporting a company website. If you take a look at the job listings that we run in the far right column here on ContentDeveloper.com (thanks to indeed) you’ll likely see a current example or two of a company in the early stages of putting this type of organizational structure into action.

Perhaps there’s nothing inherently wrong with a precisely constructed gig, and in some organizations of a certain scale it may even be the best way to go. Still, in many situations the approach seems to risk limiting the upside possibilities for both the company and the employee. That’s why it was encouraging to run across a job description for a Content Developer that broke out of those narrow confines to capture what being a Content Developer can be all about.

The job description is from New York and New Orleans based Trumpet Advertising and reads as follows:

Senior Content Developer – Prolific idea generator. Develops numerous useful and useless ideas and content for a broad range of clients/oversees creative development among creative group according to specific client responsibilities. Continuously seeks new creative extensions, opportunities and ideas on behalf of client brands. Current on what

Content Developer has been a fan of Eyespot since meeting the team behind it at SXSW earlier this year. Eyespot continues to gain traction and attention including recently being named Top Video-Sharing Site by PC World and now reportedly talking to AT&T.

In between the coffee beans and frozen foods you can now shop for AT&T‘s new IPTV product U-verse at the HEB San Antonio 39 #463 at Blanco and 1604.

With U-verse entering the grocery store shortly after Pocket Communications set up shop there, is HEB sticking its toe in the consumer communications technology retail distribution water?

That is the suggestion of telecommunications consultant Tomi Ahonen as reported by Moneyweb.

The New Media Consortium comes to San Antonio this November for their Fall 2006 Regional Conference.

Hosted by the Trinity University Center for Learning and Technology the NMC explains the conference as one that will bring together scholars and technologists from across the region to explore new ideas, discuss the issues which surround them, and share stories of successful efforts.

Billboards for a new mobile carrier – Pocket Communications – have started popping up in San Antonio. Am looking forward to following how a local wireless provider can compete against the national big 4 here in San Antonio – T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and Cingular.

Unlimited calling for $28 month. No contracts. Sounds interesting, but what about data? I visited pocket.com but saw no mention in their FAQ’s about data packages so thought I would I call that extremely lucky sounding 777.7777 number for more info.

My first attempt at a phone call left me feeling less than fortunate though. Was put into a hold loop with a rapidly repeating announcement that one of their reps would be with me shortly. After a couple of minutes I was in a daze and eventually I think the message said something to the effect that call volume is high and to leave a message.

One can appreciate how hard it is to start up a new company so I cut them some slack and called back a little later. This time I am happy to report that the call was answered quickly by a friendly rep, but there was no firm information available yet on data packages. She thought it was going to be $5 flat rate for unlimited web use. If that is what it indeed turns out to be, that will be competitive, but it is worth noting that, according to the business section of the Pocket website, their network is built on CDMAs 1xRTT, a 2.5G approach similar to Sprint’s and Verizon’s non EVDO offerings.

The Pocket list of available phones indicates they’ll be offering the Treo 650 soon. Well, it’s not the 700 but with only 2.5G the 650 still makes sense, and it is good to see they’ll be offering a reasonably full range of devices to choose from.

W3C released Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 this week, including a Mobile Web Best Practices Checker and Shared Techniques Wiki.

screenshot from Amazon Fishbowl