Ms. Dewey
Screengrab of the Ms. Dewey avatar for the Flash interface built to promote MS Live Search. Ms. Dewey makes all sorts of wisecracks for various search terms that you submit in the search form below her. There are quite a few jokes aimed at techies and video gamers, which is particularly apropos, since avatars like this were probably inspired to some degree by virtual reality games like Second Life.
For instance, do a search through her interface for "Halo 2".
Since the target audience is partly made up with technical workers/enthusiasts, it's perhaps slightly risky for them to insult that demographic as much as they do through Ms. Dewey. Probably, her charms outweigh any of the mild rudeness in some of her jokes.
I used this screengrab to illustrate a blog article I wrote about Ms. Dewey and using similar Avatars to enhance websites. Building avatars like this isn't all that hard, and I write about a service that makes it really easy.
Ms. Dewey is played by actress Janina Gavankar, who seems to be the the real winner in this, walking away with some really good personal promotion, and likely a fat check. She's very personable, and I bet we see her in some major movies after this stint. Anyone know who plays her occasional funnyman sidekick, "Ricardo"?
This photo is also Geotagged to MicroSoft Headquarters address in Redmond, Washington, so click on the (map) link under the Additional Information in the righthand column to see the MS campus on a map or satellite pic.
4/11/2007 UPDATE! Ms. Dewey just put in a LIVE appearance at the SES Conference in New York City this week! Check it out at:
www.flickr.com/photos/silvery/456151056/
Ms. Dewey
Screengrab of the Ms. Dewey avatar for the Flash interface built to promote MS Live Search. Ms. Dewey makes all sorts of wisecracks for various search terms that you submit in the search form below her. There are quite a few jokes aimed at techies and video gamers, which is particularly apropos, since avatars like this were probably inspired to some degree by virtual reality games like Second Life.
For instance, do a search through her interface for "Halo 2".
Since the target audience is partly made up with technical workers/enthusiasts, it's perhaps slightly risky for them to insult that demographic as much as they do through Ms. Dewey. Probably, her charms outweigh any of the mild rudeness in some of her jokes.
I used this screengrab to illustrate a blog article I wrote about Ms. Dewey and using similar Avatars to enhance websites. Building avatars like this isn't all that hard, and I write about a service that makes it really easy.
Ms. Dewey is played by actress Janina Gavankar, who seems to be the the real winner in this, walking away with some really good personal promotion, and likely a fat check. She's very personable, and I bet we see her in some major movies after this stint. Anyone know who plays her occasional funnyman sidekick, "Ricardo"?
This photo is also Geotagged to MicroSoft Headquarters address in Redmond, Washington, so click on the (map) link under the Additional Information in the righthand column to see the MS campus on a map or satellite pic.
4/11/2007 UPDATE! Ms. Dewey just put in a LIVE appearance at the SES Conference in New York City this week! Check it out at:
www.flickr.com/photos/silvery/456151056/