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I think it looks simpler and friendlier. No headless dude. Minimal scrolling required @ 1920x1080.



edit: looking at it now I would have the eclipse thing up top as the main logo, but with a gold D. However I will wait for the laughter to die down before I dig myself any deeper... LawBC, here is a quick mockup of what I meant earlier:I think it looks simpler and friendlier. No headless dude. Minimal scrolling required @ 1920x1080.edit: looking at it now I would have the eclipse thing up top as the main logo, but with a gold D. However I will wait for the laughter to die down before I dig myself any deeper...

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MemberActivity: 88Merit: 10 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:27:25 PM #14623 if one were to try and summarize this coin after reading all 757 pages of this post, it would be obvious that a name change is needed and what that name change should be



marketing101coin

or

700pagesofarguingoveralogocoin



try to accept that most people who are looking/willing to invest in it already know about it.. don't drag the solo dev into more of these games of deciding how professional a webpage needs to look.. you know what will surely get 1000x more hits than a shiny logo or a webpage, if he finishes darksend.. as opposed to using his time coming up with hairbrained schemes like an airdrop or opting % of the coin into a lawyer fund (wtf)..



before one needs marketing, one needs something to market.. and if that something is as great as darkcoin could be, one wouldn't even need marketing.. fuck

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LegendaryActivity: 1456Merit: 1000 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:36:39 PM #14624 Quote from: LawBC on April 20, 2014, 09:30:52 PM

Saying it's bullshit. Unnecessary. Etc.



Marketing, (visual) communication, is at the top of the commercial age we're living today. Absolutely everything around you depends of it. It litterally hold the keys of billions people brains and is a true social science.



Giving you a better idea of the power of design and communication, Apple Inc is ranked #1 marketcap above all international corporations.



Apple is running ahead Oil companies, above Google and pharmaceuticals giants, above JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. But what makes this company so successful and special ? It is very simple. Apple is well known for focusing a lot on design and communication. Spending ridiculous amount of money and efforts for making a simple package. And it works. Simple classy and elegant. That's the equation. Right under your eyes.



I am not able to see your life, your deeds. Not even your ages and your faces. When it comes to the internet we have to deal with its inherent anarchy. It is not easy for me as I'm used to hierarchy and teams.



A lot of people here definitely lack understanding of the world we are living here. Let the marketers do their job. The cryptocurrency market is still primitive and every opportunity is possible now.



This will be my last message here as I'm feeling a bit exhausted trying to convince every person here.

Feel free to contact me. If not I'll just go back in the invisible mass of investors. I'll be just fine and more relax

I often came across messages on bitcointalk regarding marketing.Saying it's bullshit. Unnecessary. Etc.Marketing, (visual) communication, is at the top of the commercial age we're living today. Absolutely everything around you depends of it. It litterally hold the keys of billions people brains and is a true social science.Giving you a better idea of the power of design and communication, Apple Inc is rankedApple is running ahead Oil companies, above Google and pharmaceuticals giants, above JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. But what makes this company so successful and special ? It is very simple. Apple is well known for focusing a lot on design and communication. Spending ridiculous amount of money and efforts for making a simple package. And it works. Simple classy and elegant. That's the equation. Right under your eyes.I am not able to see your life, your deeds. Not even your ages and your faces. When it comes to the internet we have to deal with its inherent anarchy. It is not easy for me as I'm used to hierarchy and teams.A lot of people here definitely lack understanding of the world we are living here. Let the marketers do their job. The cryptocurrency market is still primitive and every opportunity is possible now.This will be my last message here as I'm feeling a bit exhausted trying to convince every person here.Feel free to contact me. If not I'll just go back in the invisible mass of investors. I'll be just fine and more relax

Quote from: coins101 on April 07, 2014, 01:49:36 AM Quote from: organizer on April 07, 2014, 12:49:45 AM Quote from: LimLims on April 07, 2014, 12:05:30 AM

The more I think about it, the more this idea makes sense. If Darkcoin will be a niche product because of branding, why not fill the other niche ourselves before others do, with a "light"-branded sister coin?



New publicity-friendly name, fair launch, focus on privacy. Let Darkcoin be the testbed and bring across any changes when it's stable. We're in a unique position to capture the subset of the market that are choosing not to invest in Darkcoin because of its branding, because we can implement darksend before it's open source (that is, if Evan gives the ok). I don't see that there's much to lose with this strategy. We can be sure that others will do exactly this once Darkcoin goes open source, so why not capture that market now, in a way that lets existing Darkcoin investors get in early and mitigate their risks?



Lims, we talked a little while you were setting up as the marketing guy. Just to be frank and honest, this is a terrible thought and you are just feeding these distractions about branding and marketing when the name and/or logo will have absolutely NO impact on the success or failure of the coin. Brands build themselves, lots of people talk shit about doing X,Y,Z to create a brand. But in the end, it needs to do what it says it does.



See my earlier post about lack of focus in this community.





Lims, we talked a little while you were setting up as the marketing guy. Just to be frank and honest, this is a terrible thought and you are just feeding these distractions about branding and marketing when the name and/or logo will have absolutely NO impact on the success or failure of the coin. Brands build themselves, lots of people talk shit about doing X,Y,Z to create a brand. But in the end, it needs to do what it says it does.See my earlier post about lack of focus in this community.

Apple died until is launched a new mac with round edges and see through plastic painted a shade of pastel crap. It was no more technically advanced. People were simply paying for brand coolness. Apple also made the iPhone off the back of white headphones that gave people a way to link themselves to cool brand identity when they purchased an iPod.



Apple is all about making products look good and giving users a way to associate with that cool by just buying their stuff. It did use to have innovation inside too, but it really took existing ideas and made them look better and gave them better form factor.







Apple died until is launched a new mac with round edges and see through plastic painted a shade of pastel crap. It was no more technically advanced. People were simply paying for brand coolness. Apple also made the iPhone off the back of white headphones that gave people a way to link themselves to cool brand identity when they purchased an iPod.Apple is all about making products look good and giving users a way to associate with that cool by just buying their stuff. It did use to have innovation inside too, but it really took existing ideas and made them look better and gave them better form factor.



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MemberActivity: 88Merit: 10 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:43:17 PM #14627 i like how you're trying to school on me how the world works and yet you use the most cherry picked hype company that exists...



yeah apple spends more on marketing than r&d..



did they do that before the ipod came out?



did you see 750 pages on apple forums talking about the logo for their ipod before it came out?



did you see 750 pages arguing over what color the ipod should be before it came out?



guess what, you're employee #999 in the room.. pitching the same thing the other 997 salesguys already did.. and tying up the resources of the single developer in the company



real world? show me a real world corporation that is 100% marketing with no product? that's called snakeoil and vaporware

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MemberActivity: 88Merit: 10 Re: [ANN][DRK] DarkCoin | First Anonymous Coin | First X11 | First DGW | ASIC Resistant April 20, 2014, 09:48:23 PM #14629 Quote from: dime on April 20, 2014, 09:43:17 PM i like how you're trying to school on me how the world works and yet you use the most cherry picked hype company that exists...



yeah apple spends more on marketing than r&d..



did they do that before the ipod came out?



did you see 750 pages on apple forums talking about the logo for their ipod before it came out?



did you see 750 pages arguing over what color the ipod should be before it came out?



guess what, you're employee #999 in the room.. pitching the same thing the other 997 salesguys already did.. and tying up the resources of the single developer in the company



real world? show me a real world corporation that is 100% marketing with no product? that's called snakeoil and vaporware



ps... this probably came across more antagonizing than it needed to be... your webpage looks nice..



i just think there's a much greater need for the community to build services around darkcoin and for evan to finish darksend before going off on wild tangents than for more marketing.. we've had 750 pages of marketing already.. it's time to give it a rest until we have more substance ps... this probably came across more antagonizing than it needed to be... your webpage looks nice..i just think there's a much greater need for the community to build services around darkcoin and for evan to finish darksend before going off on wild tangents than for more marketing.. we've had 750 pages of marketing already.. it's time to give it a rest until we have more