MC Hammer (born Stanley Kirk Burrell) is behind the newest online video start up, due to launch soon. DanceJam.com is going after the niche of dance/music videos and hopes to become the key community for professional dancers and enthusiasts. Who can forget his unique dancing style and famous crazy large pants. The last I heard [...]
2007 is truly the year of Web 2.0 going maintstream! Queen Elizabeth intends to air her traditional Christmas Day speech on her new YouTube channel. The Telegraph has a good article about this for further ready.
This blog post from the New York Times is an excellent summary of what has happened since Facebook launched their Beacon advertising service in November 2007. Beacon is a programme that allows their advertising partner sites to prompt Facebook users on their website to post information about what they are doing back to their Facebook [...]
Simpl launched their new website and blog last week, with help from Marker. When I met Bennett Medary, the Group CEO at Simpl, I knew he would be a great blogger. The brief was to help promote the profile of the company in the marketplace. Well be careful what you wish for! The first day [...]
One of the anecdotal facts around the use of social networks that I have picked up on is that there is an inverse relationship between a consumer’s use of social networks and email. I have been claiming that as people use messaging functionality on sites like Facebook they stop using email for personal communication. When [...]
Asking your consumers to make your TV commercial for you. This is a Pringles campaign running in the UK at the moment, asking consumers to make a TV commercial and upload it to the website. How many of these campaigns are agencies going to push out the door so they can completely flop. This was [...]
Web 2.0 is on the rise but sometimes it is hard to find research that provides conclusive numbers with which to measure this by. This survey looks at the change in behaviour over a period of 2 years. 34% visit a social networking site like Facebook or MySpace, compared with 13% two years ago 78% [...]
Google OpenSocial, MySpace, Facebook. Are you confused yet? No problem, our resident Half-Geek, James Fleet, will break it down for you with these three posts: Google OpenSocial facebook & myspace ad networks facebook business solutions review Technorati Tags: facebook, google, myspace, opensocial
An update from yesterday – some of those Facebook groups I was talking about now have over 2,000 members. I’ve also come across this screenshot of unedited Wikipeda page about Wayne Barnes. The internet has given your customers a truck load of tools to get the word out when they’re crossed. As well as being [...]
After the biggest disaster in NZ since the creation of Lake Taupo, New Zealanders/All Black fans have gone about showing their hatred for Wayne Barnes (referee) through Facebook groups. Logging into Facebook yesterday, I can see Facebook friends joining groups among these lines as well as a bunch of invites for me to join in [...]