Volkswagen were less than amused by a YouTube user creating a parody of one of their TV commercials featuring a Nazi theme. They have filed a subpoena demanding that YouTube release the identity of the user that uploaded the video. I’m struggling with this to be honest. I know that VW’s ad agency in the [...]
Guest Post by one of our customers. Gemme Ede from FCm Travel I was presented with an opportunity today: to resist being a model consumer (something I hate to be since I am a marketer), or, give in to the temptation of the ?"Buddy?" company? The Buddy system requires you to text your full name [...]
Halo 3 will be possibly the biggest game release yet for the Xbox 360 video game console. Mountain Dew have released a limited edition soft drink to accompany the game release. This is causing quite a stir online amongst gaming geeks everywhere. Check out the photos on flickr. This is a clever piece of co-op [...]
You can not really consider Google a content provider as such, in that they are not like Yahoo! who employ people to produce original content. Google News is a great site, entirely put together by a computer. Now take a look at the Google 2007 Australia Federal Election site. They have aggregated content and functionality [...]
I met the founders of b5media at a conference in New York in June. All very influential bloggers that always have something interesting to say: Productivity Tips for Bloggers – ProBlogger.com (Darren Rouse) Why Google is the World’s Biggest PIMP – AdvertiseSpace.com (Chad Randall) Rockin’ Girl Bloggers – ShaiCoggins.com (Shai Coggins) Technorati Tags: b5media
HSBC in the UK has backed down on plans to remove interest free overdrafts for students and recent graduates after the National Union of Students (NUS) organised a protest group on Facebook attracting over 5,000 members in a matter of days. It is not that there weren’t other ways the NUS could have mobilised a [...]
There is a lot of talk in the traditional UK and US media recently regarding the privacy issues around social networking sites like Facebook. Groups concerned with the proliferation of identity theft have claimed that Facebook is not very clear with their privacy settings and policy. The implication is that people unwittingly give away quite [...]
*dons tinfoil hat* KiwiSaver. The recently released, government backed savings scheme being pushed out to people in New Zealand. Now, I’m not that paranoid (cynical yes, paranoid? no), but the whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. I guess it’s just a poor choice of language on their part, but here’s what comes to [...]
As more and more people around the globe get into online environments; whether it’s simply something like myspace or facebook, engaging an online community (eg kotaku) or playing online games; governments see the pie getting bigger, and consequently, want more fingers in larger pieces. Congress (that’s in America folks) will be issuing its report on [...]
MySpace have launched their answer to YouTube. Well that is what people are saying but they already host more consumer generated videos than YouTube so are well and truly a player in that market. myspacetv.com is focused more on professional content. There is a good article on the Telegraph on this. Technorati Tags: myspacetv