Web Culture
3 September 2008 | View Comments
Could this be the first written Rick Roll? When iChat is down, good employees improvise… Notepad iChat Transcript: Lance: Man, not having Internet blows Lance: Oh, s***, but check this out… Lance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiV Me: That one’s cool, but it’s nothing compared to this one. Me: http://youtube.com/watch?v=rtFotf7NEWg
Tagged in iChat, office, Rick Roll, social media
Social Media
1 August 2008 | View Comments
I don’t want to sound like a fanboy of Peter Shankman’s Help A Reporter Out (HARO) since I already posted about it recently, but I wanted to point out this video produced by one of the many fans of Shankman’s new query service. High quality blip.tv verison also available. In truth, I am sort of [...]
Tagged in community building, community manager, fanboys, Help A Reporter, Peter Shankman, social marketing, Social Media, social media
Social Media,Web Culture
21 July 2008 | View Comments
I saw The Dark Knight at the first IMAX midnight showing Thursday night. In the long line of fans and fanboys, some dressed in Joker or Batman costumes, I kept thinking about the viral marketing and alternate reality game, or ARG, that has now come to an end, I assume, with the release of the [...]
Tagged in 42 Entertainment, alternate reality games, ARGs, Batman, movies, The Dark Knight, viral marketing
Social Media,Web Culture
11 July 2008 | View Comments
As “news fatigue” sweeps the nation’s youth and increases the difficulty of presenting in-depth news, MSNBC has a new suite of tools to present news in an interesting way. Called NewsWare, the new collection of offerings lets visitors play with their news and take it places like Facebook when in widget form. GAME TIME! The [...]
Tagged in Facebook, MSNBC, news, news fatigue, NewsWare, widgets
Web Culture
17 June 2008 | View Comments
One of the biggest knocks against MySpace — especially from me — was that the design of the profile pages was just too busy. Too much color, flashing boxes, music and spam. photo credit: freezelight I never even made a profile on MySpace because I never saw the need to enter that public online chaos. [...]
Tagged in advertising, data portability, Facebook, Facebook's Beacon, Friendster, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, redesign, social networks, spam
Social Media,Web Culture
13 June 2008 | View Comments
I mean REALLY understand it? Even on paper? Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. How about now? I bet you want ice cream now, too. Video from leelefever (Common Craft) and found via Todd And
Tagged in social marketing, social media, viral videos, Web-explained
Web Culture
22 May 2008 | View Comments
I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment. If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into [...]
Tagged in aggregation, Facebook, FriendFeed, Google, lifestreaming, Open Social, Pownce, Robert Scoble, social media, twitter, zen
Wannabe Viewpoint,Web Culture
7 May 2008 | View Comments
Last month, Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net asked his Twitter followers — that includes me – why they loved Twitter. He took those responses and turned them into a video slideshow on YouTube enhanced with a rocking instrumental track. Check me out around 4:03 AND AGAIN at 4:17. Yeah, that’s right — twice. Don’t worry. I’ll [...]
Tagged in Darren Rowse, early adopters, friend divide, meme, ProBlogger, Robert Scoble, social media, social networks, twitter, YouTube
Web Culture
24 April 2008 | View Comments
First, it was just a silly scene at the end of The O.C. episode “Dear Sister” — I know, of all TV shows to create a meme, The O.C. Then Saturday Night Live (SNL) made it into a digital short. After seeing it spoofed on SNL, YouTube users made remixes of popular Internet videos based [...]
Tagged in Dear Sister, meme, Saturday Night Live, The O.C., The Office, viral marketing, viral videos, YouTube
Social Media
21 April 2008 | View Comments
Pitching bloggers, just like traditional media outlets, takes research and significant effort. To be effective, you really have to know your audience and what will interest them. Off-topic pitches are a bad first impression, and they can stick with you if you are unlucky enough. With the growing number of social media communication tools and [...]
Tagged in bloggers, Brian Solis, Marshall Kirkpatrick, pitching, Public Relations & Marketing, research, RSS, social media, spam, twitter