I became very bored with ozeanmedia.com previous site designs.  We had three different designs for the same site content.  Our developer was extremely clever in his coding, our designer extremely clever in his designs.  Bottom line:  Ozean learned a lot with our greatest experiment - our own site.  However, we did learn A LOT from various A/B testing.  I don’t want to be crass, but we used the site as one big experiment.  We learned how people moved through the site (or didn’t), etc.   We experimented with different content for SEO measurements.  We played around to see what would happen.

This holiday weekend, after no longer stomaching my frustration, I embarked on redesigning the site.  I had two goals - 1) to redesign the site in 48 hours and launch and 2) play extensively with HTML5 and Jquery.  Mission Accomplished.

Next goals:

1)  Measure how a relaunch of a site effects SEO with redirects.

2)  Content re-write to measure effects on SEO.

www.ozeanmedia.com

Total360Sports for the University of Florida stadiums is reaching people in ways we never even thought possible when we were creating the application.

 With Ozean’s latest launch of the Total360Sports Panoramic Seat Selector, we expected a large reaction. We didn’t realize at first, however, just how much our application could affect people on a really personal level.

 The application, which we aptly named Total360Sports, generates a panoramic virtual tour for hundreds of points at a sporting venue. The ticket holder is able to enter in their section, row and seat number and is immediately transported to the view from that seat in the stadium, which they can rotate a full 360 degrees and even zoom in. Views are even available from a number of special interest points, such as center court at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center and the “F” point at Ben Hill Griffin, taken during the Florida vs. Florida State game in November 2009.

Over 12,000 photographs were taken at 3 sports venues at the University of Florida and were strung together to construct a view just as realistic and accurate as what fans will see when they are physically there. So realistic, in fact, that many Gator alumni, upon first glance of the new technology, are struck with a whirlwind of nostalgia that brings them back to their college days of rooting for the Gators from the student section. At least, this is true for one soldier serving in the Middle East, who is currently on his second tour.

 News of the new application caught his interest, and he decided to visit GatorZone.com to see the full virtual experience in action. 
 

“The view from the “F” is a slice of heaven from home that made my week,” he said. Since the shot was taken during the infamous rivalry game, the stadium is filled to capacity and Chaz Henry is in plain view. The soldier was impressed by how lifelike the panoramas actually are, as compared to other similar virtual applications which use a computer-generated method to give fans a cyber-tour of the stadium. It’s safe to say that the one created by Ozean and for the University of Florida has a far more genuine feel.

From overseas, it was impossible to visit the Ben Hill Griffin football stadium, but now, with the virtual tour, he can be reminded of the excitement of being at a Gator game as if it were yesterday.

All the hours Ozean put into taking the thousands of individual photos of the stadiums was worth it – even if we were able to affect one person with such magnitude. We hope, however, that we can extend this level of fan enthusiasm and interaction throughout the Gator Nation.

To check out this experience for yourself, visit GatorZone.com and click on Tickets and then Locate Seats.

The Hippodrome Theatre, one of Ozean Interactive’s clients, is in the running for a Pepsi Grant! Pepsi Grants are given to people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that have a positive impact.

 Please go to http://www.refresheverything.com/categories/arts-and-culture to vote for The Hipp. You have to click on the $50,000 category and then keep hitting “load more ideas” as theirs is toward the bottom. You’ll see it say Hippodrome Theatre though.

 You can vote for the whole month of December so keep voting to help them out!

The OK Go! Boys are at it again.  You may remember a previous post about their brilliant video of a Rube Goldberg machine that was AWESOME!

Well they have just released their latest video: End Love, and it is brilliant!

Using time lapse, and again the video is in ONE CONTINUOUS shot.

The only thing wrong with this video is I will spend the rest of the day thinking about video production workflow and how to recreate this.

Go buy their album. These guys have to stick around to entertain us.

From Lieberman:

“The fastest we go is 172,800x, compressing 24 hours of real time into a blazing 1/2 second. The slowest is 1/32x speed, stretching a mere 1/2 second of real time into a whopping 16 seconds. This gives us a fastest to slowest ratio of 5.5 million. If you like averages, the average speed up factor of the band dancing is 270x. In total we shot 18 hours of the band dancing and 192 hours of LA skyline timelapse – over a million frames of video – and compressed it all down to 4 minutes and 30 seconds! Oh and don’t forget, it’s one continuous camera shot.”

“We also made a special friend in the process. Her name is Orange Bill and she’s a goose. You will agree that she clearly has a future in music videos.”

Ozean Interactive is pleased to announce the launch of a new website.

Alachua Self Storage Screen Shot

Alachua Self Storage is located in Alachua, FL. They offer both climate controlled & non-climate controlled storage units for commercial / business storage and residential storage.

They can handle all of your storage needs, offering a range of unit sizes and options.

Credits:

Account Executive:  Lauren Kruglanski

Designer:  Patrick Prugh

Developer:  Chris Lane

Asst Developer / Copywriter / SEO :  Alex Patton

Gainesville, FL -  Ozean Interactive in collaboration with the Stephen C. O’Connell Society is proud to announce the launch of a new website design and website development project.

screen shot of www.oconnellsociety.org

The Stephen C. O’Connell Society is building on the legacy of Stephen C. O’Connell and the tradition of excellence demonstrated by Florida Blue Key since its inception in 1923.  The O’Connell Society is established and managed by Florida Blue Key Alumni to profoundly support and guide tomorrow’s leaders by perpetually endowing current and future leadership and service initiatives entrusted to and executed by the Florida Blue Key active chapter.

Alex Patton, Ozean’s CEO, is a proud alumni of Florida Blue Key, and his company is extremly honored to be selected to design and develop the Stephen C. O’Connell Society website.

CREDITS:

Designer:  Patrick Prugh

Developer:  Chris Lane

Asst. Developer:  Alex Patton

Project Manager:  Alex Patton

I have decided to share Ozean’s story.  The story of the creation of Ozean Media, its transformation from a traditional advertising agency located in Gainesville, FL to an interactive advertising agency serving the world, and the entire story in between.

It is going to be a difficult process for me.  If you know me, I am a private person, but I have been encouraged to share this story by people I trust and respect.

I am going to share the story on a page on Ozean’s website.  You can find that page here.

I ask for your patience, as I anticipate this being a difficult process.  Godspeed.