2007 in friends and music and other favorites

Hello Viking started six months ago.

Since then, we've had the opportunity to collaborate with wonderful people at Spring, Dentsu America, Venables Bell, 1nteractive, Arnold, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pinnacle Air and BlueCross BlueShield.

Thank you David, Shannon, Ted, Trish, Rey, Mike, David, Colleen, Lissette, Pierce and Woody.

And thanks to all the amazing people who collaborated with Hello Viking, sharing their skill, wisdom and experience. We look forward to working with you all in 2008!

Amidst all the excitement, we chalked up a few other favorites:

Cornelius' Sensuous
(Especially love "Fit Song")

Common's Finding Forever
("Drivin' Me Wild" might be our single of the year)

Fountains of Wayne's Traffic and Weather
(Okay, "New Routine," "Strapped for Cash" and "Yolanda Hayes" might also be our singles of the year; and we really dug the FoW show at First Avenue)







The Police reunion tour
Okay, so the crowd on the floor was 45+. But these guys were on fire.

The Sea & Cake at the Varsity Theater
We love seeing Archer and Sam. They were fantastic, in a fantastic venue.

moo.com
They love to print and we love the work they print. Beautiful website interface.

Michael Clayton
Might be our film of the year. Tony Gilroy's script was awesome.

Must not forget Basecamp. Or HighRise. Two brilliant web applications from 37Signals. Hello Viking probably wouldn't be as organized (and thus as successful) as it has been without these two awesome applications. And we found ourselves almost totally in agreement with Jason Fried when he spoke about 37Signal's process and products at this year's MIMA Summit.

And we got geeked about Twitter.

And Flickr.

Curse you, Guitar Hero III. You threaten to curb productivity in 2008.