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A Site-less Web Site

Finally.  An agency who gets it and shows that they get it when it comes to creatively demonstrating that the web is a fundamentally different media:

www.modernista.com

It is ‘siteless’ because in the web 2.0 world your business don’t need a home page.  Your content should be embroidered into the fabric of the social web.  The creative strategy behind this type of a site depends on the community for its continued (relevant) existence.

That said, a few days after they launched the site, their wikipedia page was taken down for review by the Kabal who run wikipedia as it broke one of their core rules: no ‘advertising’.  And yet it is not advertising, at least not in the traditional sense.  And it begs the question of wikipedia: why shouldn’t a business connect to their listing if it does adhere to the ‘rules’?  In other words, Modernista has sparked a conversation.

Going site-less is a bit like their client, Hummer:  Functional. Uncompromising. Sharp. Confidence. Powerful.  But, probably not for everyone, just like their site tells us.

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