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Philips: Wake Up The Town

Written by Niels Bellaar on October 21st, 2010 | 1 comment

Having troubles waking up in the morning? You’re not alone. When winter comes and mornings are dark as the night many of us suffer and struggle to get out of bed. Imagine you’d live in a town where the sun doesn’t shine for four months…

To promote its Wake-up Light Philips set up an experiment, “Wake up the Town“.

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Is There No Future For Mobile Social Media?

Written by Niels Bellaar on September 14th, 2010 | 1 comment

Not really. According to eMarketer mobile platforms and location-based networks could actually take social marketing to the next level. Now there’s something to work with. Especially when seen in relation to another trend, the amount and kind of apps we use on our smartphones.

On it’s blog Nielsen writes that “according to the latest edition of The Nielsen Company’s Apps Playbook, the average number of apps that smartphone app downloaders have on their phones is now 27, up from 22 in December 2009.” So we use more apps, but how does that affect mobile use of social media?

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Viral Friday: Future Of Screen Technology

Written by Niels Bellaar on September 10th, 2010 | no comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to The Astonishing Tribe. In this video TAT shows their take on the future of mobile screen technology. The runner up spot is for Samsung Galaxy Tab. With the introduction, and the success, of the iPad the waiting for a serious competitor started. PlayStation completes this week’s top 3. This video about the PlayStation Move shows pretty much everything you can do with, well, the PlayStation Move.

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Viral Friday: Tipp Experience

Written by Niels Bellaar on September 3rd, 2010 | 2 comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Tipp-Ex. The “tippexperience” YouTube channel features a nice interactive banner in which you can tell a bear and a hunter what to do to, or with, each other. The runner up spot is for The European Tour. David Howell, Paul McGinley, Marcel Siem and Rhys Davies try to skim a ball 200 yards across a lake and hit a 9 inch gong. Windows Live completes this week’s top 3 with their “double rainbow” spoof.

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Viral Friday: Call Phones From Gmail

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 27th, 2010 | 3 comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Google. This week Google launched a service that allows you to make phone calls from Gmail. The runner up spot is for Black Swan. Black Swan is an upcoming American psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky. Halo completes this week’s top 3. Bungie and Microsoft are now introducing the individual team members of the Noble team, the Spartan squad.

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Media Isn’t Social. People Are (Mostly)

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 22nd, 2010 | 1 comment

Some time ago, David Armano (SVP for Edelman Digital) did a 16 minute TEDx talk titled “reinventing social media”. Using several examples David gives his view on how we, people and brand alike, need to change what we do online (and specifically on what we know as social networks) in order to use these media in a social way.

As Armano describes it: “This thesis based on the belief that “social” translates into the conversion of an organization which requires shifts in culture, technology, process and ultimately behavior. If an organization does not empower its people to behave in a productive and beneficial social manner than can we actually use the word “social” to describe it?”

Check David’s 16 minute TEDx talk after the break.
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Viral Friday: Roger Federer’s Gillette Trickshot

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 20th, 2010 | 1 comment

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Gillette. You probably know Roger Federer, the tennis god, does Gillette commercials. He also does tricks. The runner up spot is for Rémi Gaillard. After all his pranks and tricks you might think by now people would have seen it all and no longer care for Gaillard’s pranks. But you’d be wrong. Roger Federer completes this week’s top 3.

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Viral Friday: Dumb & Dumber Inception Style

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 13th, 2010 | 5 comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Dumb & Dumber Inception Style. Inception is everywhere. Already named one of the best movies of the year, but remember that psychological thriller “Dumb & Dumber” released back in 1994? The runner up spot is for Geico. The American insurance company, launched a campaign with the tagline “Can Geico really save you 15% or more on you car insurance?” Jackass completes this week’s top 3. The boys from Jackass are back for the third time on the big screen and they are in 3D. This is the trailer.

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Mobile Web More Popular In China Than In US

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 10th, 2010 | 3 comments

You probably know that China is the promised land when it comes to growth in mobile communications. But did you know in China the mobile internet is actually more popular than in the United States?

In March 2010 Nielsen did research on the usage of mobile internet in China and published the outcomes in their Mobile Insights Report on China. Data is based on face-to-face surveys with 4,946 consumers age 15 and up in 19 cities around China.

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Viral Friday: Halo Reach “The Battle Begins”

Written by Niels Bellaar on August 6th, 2010 | no comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Halo: Reach. Last week game developer Bungie released a jaw-dropping trailer for their upcoming first-person shooter video game “Halo: Reach”. The runner up spot is for Heineken. Last Monday Heineken uploaded its latest commercial, by TBWA\Neboko, to YouTube. Deliver Me To Hell completes this week’s top 3. The possibility in YouTube to use annotations and link to other videos has opened doors to new ways of using the video portal.

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