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April 06, 2012 | By: Beth Schwartz

An Event Apart Seattle – Day Three

Smart_dept_3 What have you been most amazed that your mobile device can do?

And just like that, the entire room exploded. 300 designers, strategists, and general techchampions attended Luke Wroblewski's Mobile Web Design workshop, an intensive add-on to An Event Apart. Hanging on every word Luke said, entranced by his unparalleled presentation style (the man makes Keynote into an artform), we passed 8 hours like kids in a tech-centric candy store. Okay, clearly I've tasted the @lukew Koolaid, but listen to the guy for 5 minutes and you’ll understand why. 

He encourages us to rethink everything we have learned about mobile and takes us back to the most important element: our audience. Today’s workshop wasn’t focused on the microscience of kerning or the philosophical implications of a content management system; it was about how to create mobile experiences that make sense. From identifying best practices for input options to offering a side-by-side review of patterns in respo...

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April 06, 2012 | By: Nate Kneezel

The First Inside Joke TV Ads Ever

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“Six Is A Serious Number”

Six is a serious number

Six is the fingers on your hand plus your thumber

There’s a lot of numbers it’s true

Like 8, 39 and 22

But six (seis) is a serious number

If you’ve ever been number curious

This number six stuff is serious

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On the Run at Mobil created the hard-to-forget hip-hop jingle Six Is A Serious Number three years ago for their new summer promotion which featured twenty-ounce fountain drinks for twenty-five cents the day after the Cardinals scored six runs.

Over the next two years they took a page out of Madonna’s book (no, not that book) and reinvented themselves by creating two new versions of the song. 

In 2010, Six Is A Serious Number threw on some stirrups and done went country. And in 2011, Six Is A Serious Number got back to its hip-hop roots.

But here’s the catch. The commercials only ran during Cardinals baseball games. So Six Is A Serious Number’s audience was limited entire...

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