Social Media
Hulu + YouTube = Funny Or Die, or how to solve YouTube’s revenue problem
Say What? They say YouTube isn’t making any money. Its bread and butter is user-generated content, although it has managed to draw partnerships with some major Hollywood content providers, such as Fox and Warner Bros. Nevertheless, the money is supposed … Continue reading
There Is Such A Thing As A Free Lunch
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been trying to save some cash during this economic crisis, downturn, whatever you call it. In fact, my friend and I were recently talking about how we need to take on window shopping … Continue reading
Twitter on the auction block
This really isn’t news per se. Facebook made a run at them late last year but fell short in their bid. Now comes Google. Robert Scoble has weighed in. I think Scoble raises some excellent points in this post. I … Continue reading
“The current (news) meltdown is just a warm up act.”
2020: What’s Next for News Is Dan Conover’s bold look ahead is the best I’ve seen. One emerging trend he spots is ‘predictive intelligence’. Modern journalism is based on the idea that impartially telling “both sides” of a story is … Continue reading
The Potential of the Crowd – The Case of Kutiman
What you are about to see here is a week-old, mind-blowing example of data mining and passion. A talented young man by the name of Ophir Kutiel, a.k.a Kutiman, poured through the countably many videos on YouTube of people playing music, practicing instruments, jamming, or showing off their mad skills and love of music and created beautifully lyrical mash-ups that musically surpass most of these performances by a few miles.
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We all want to feel a sense of connectedness and belonging. Even when we are singing loud in the shower, we are hoping someone is listening. What Kutiman created here is an extraordinary moment of someone from the apartment next door joining in your shower-singing in a duet across the walls the separates you. Continue reading
Tracking Twitter
Lots of companies are now trying to incorporate social media into their marketing campaign. Twitter as a very famous social media platform has become a important place for companies to do that. Tracking Twitter(http://trackingtwitter.com/brands) is a website used to classify companies that have profiles … Continue reading
TwitterFall: Twitter on crack, on roller-skates… in a jumpsuit
I remember when first hearing about Twitter, someone explaining the concept as “Text Messaging on steroids”. As an observer more of a player in the Tweet-Mania, I came across this latest Twitter Tool: the TwitterFall, presented by a journalist as: … Continue reading
Reality (Social Media Marketing) Bites
Image by Geek and Poke I’m a huge fan of leveraging web resources, especially the new ones like social media that have popped up in within the past decade. But, I’m going to play devil’s advocate. I don’t think we … Continue reading
