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Scrabble Celebrates 60th Anniversary
The popular board game Scrabble, which is owned by Hasbro in the US and Canada and by toy maker Mattel elsewhere, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a special website, a special limited edition and a stop-motion video. Scrabble celebrate......Related tags: 60th, alfred_mosher_butts, animation, anniversary, board, facebook, game, hasbro, james_brunot, lexiko, mattel, scrabble, scrabulous, time, video, viral, western-spaghetti, word
Heineken Launches Responsibility Campaign
On November 14th 2008, brewer Heineken has officially launched its first global internet-based responsible drinking campaign entitled 'Know The Signs', to create greater self-awareness amongst Heineken drinkers. The Crier & The Groper Throu......Related tags: alcohol, beer, campaign, cctv, crier, drinking, ebaumsworld, enjoy_heineken_responsibly, exhibitionist, facebook, fighter, groper, heineken, hyves, knowthesigns, marketing, mobile, myspace, neatorama, netlog, oddcast, responsibility, sleeper, socialmedia, video, videos, viral
Facebook Surpasses 110 Million Active Users
Exactly one year ago I wrote the article "Facebook Frenzy" with an overview of Facebook users by country. Time for an update! CEO Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Facebook is still growing at an astonishing rate. Last year (October 2007) the po......Related tags: country, emarketer, facebook, hi5, hyves, iwiw, map, maps, mark_zuckerberg, myspace, nasza_klasa, netlog, newsweek, orkut, overview, popular, profiles, research, revenue, socialnetworks, social_networks, stats, users, web2.0, world, worldwide
The Facebook Breakup
Meet Adam Rucker, a student at the University of Texas and creator of the site RuckitUp.com. Adam and Facebook have been happily together for almost 2,5 years now. But since Facebook has gone through a lot of changes recently, Adam feels like he does......Related tags: adam_rucker, breakup, facebook, mark-zuckerberg, ruckitup, social_media, twitter, video, viral, virals, web2.0
Viral TomTom Spoof Solves LOST TV series?
Oh, what an opportunity. Below video was created by a student in a video project for school. But wouldn't it have been a great viral commercial for TomTom? See how TV series LOST is solved in 30 seconds with TomTom... Its amazing to see, how e......Related tags: facebook, lost, spoof, tomtom, tv-series-lost, tv_series, video_project, viral-commercial, viral-spoof, viral-video, youtube
UK Teens Illegal Pool Crashing Via Google Earth
The latest craze for UK teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is "dipping," or gatecrashing someone else's swimming pool. The teens select their swimming pool using Google Earth, and then notify their mates using social networking sites. ......Related tags: bashing, bebo, beer_cans, brand_managers, dipping, earth, facebook, fancy_dress, gap, getaway, google, great-britain, latest_craze, myspace, next_morning, police, pool, pool-crashing, pool-dipping, revellers, social-network, social_networking_sites, swimming-pool, swimming_pool, swimming_pools, target, uk, uk_police, uk_teenagers
Myngle: Global Language E-learning Network
Myngle is the global language e-learning marketplace, where teachers and students from all over the world Myngle, understand each other better and have fun – as they learn new languages and cultures. Myngle offers a solution by providing st......Related tags: classroom_role, community, community-marketing, community_environment, different_reasons, dutch_tv, e-leraning, ebay, ebay_company, elearning, employees, ex-ebay, facebook, feedback_profile, feedback_system, founder, gift_vouchers, global_language, interaction_between_students_and_teachers, language, language_instruction, language_lessons, learning_marketplace, marketplace, myngle, paypal, private_investors, public_feedback, relevant_teacher, skype, translations, voip
Beefy & Lamby: Natural Born Grillers Campaign
How do you make quality Beef and Lamb top of mind and get people people barbequing this summer? That was the question of Quality Standard Beef and Lamb. Digital campaign with micro site Natural Born Grillers was launched, with characters Beef......Related tags: bbq, beef, beefy, britain, facebook, lamb, lamby, natural-born-grillers, online-campaign, quality-standard, quality_beef, summer, summertime, uk, video, video-online, viral-marketing, widgets
VH1: Loves Series Hyped By Social SuperPoke!
Facebook and MySpace users will find 30 new VH1-branded animated icons that are reflective of VH1 hits Flavor of Love, I Love New York and Rock of Love. VH1 taps into SuperPoke!, the ubiquitous social networking application which allows users ......Related tags: animated_icons, application_which_allows_users, facebook, facebook-poke, flavor_flav, flavor_of_love, loves-series, marathon, money, myspace, networking_application, poke, poking, reality_series, rock_of_love, romantical, short_messages, socialnetworks, social_networking, superpoke!, usa, vh1, viral, web2.0, which_allows_users, widget-applications
How CMO's Misunderstand Facebook's Power
Facebook use has soared over the last year, and will soon be Britain's most popular website, according to analysts. In an earlier post here, I called Google the cafeteria and Facebook the trendy restaurant of the Internet. The latest figures ......Related tags: age_interests, auction_site, britain, briton, burmaster, chief-marketing-officer, disruptive-marketing, ebay, facebook, google, instant_messenger_service, internet_research_company, media-agencies, media-planning, messaging_service, outdated, science, search_engines, seismic_shift, service_windows, short_space, stickiness, video_spaces, which_allows_users, windows_live_messenger
Cool Video Cartoon: The Social Networking Wars
Recently I wrote at ViralBlog that I felt Google seems to be the cafeteria of the internet and Facebook is like the new and trendy restaurant. But if you take a look at the hilarious video cartoon below on the social networking wars, I might ......Related tags: animation, cafeteria, comedy, facebook, fun, google, myspace, scottgoodson, smo, social-networking-wars, socialmedia, socialnwtorks, strawberryfrog, twitter, video, video-about-twitter, video-cartoon, viralblog, wars
Cafeteria Google vs New Restaurant Facebook
As former CMO, former IAB CEO and last 4 years as digital agency MD, I have really experienced the power of Google. Google has disrupted marketing strategies, neutralized monopolies of large brands with huge marketing budgets and has offered small br......Related tags: advertisers, agencies, blogging, blogs, branding, buzz, campaign, ceo, cmo, commercials, community, consumers, digital, ed, facebook, google, iab, internet, marketers, marketing, msn, myspace, networks, online, opinions, optimization, portals, s, seeding, sem, seo, strategy, traditional, uploading, video, videos, viral, yahoo, youtube
Judson Laipply Announces Evolution of Dance 2
Judson Laipply, creator and dancer of the #1 Most Viewed (All Time) Video Evolution of Dance on YouTube, has confirmed Evolution of Dance II will be released soon in partnership with Sonos Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music syst......Related tags: dance, elvis_presley, evolution_of_dance, facebook, gary-brolsma, internet_celebrity, judson_laipply, madonna, mc_hammer, michael_jackson, music, myspace, numa_numa, sequal, sonos, tay_zonday, thriller, video, viral, vogue, where_the_hell_is_matt, youtube
MyDeco Scores With Viral Facebook Widgets
Viral and Digital agency TAMBA from the UK have recently launched the first of a series of Facebook widgets for mydeco, a customisable interior design website that lets users plan their own room designs using 3D models, created by the founders of las......Related tags: adds, agencies, api, apps, desgin, design, digital, ers, facebook, founder, furniture, knowing, lastminute, launch, model, mydeco, photos, retailer, s, series, tamba, uploading, users, viral, web2.0, widget, widgets
Fila Launches British Gangster Style Viral
Fila, the iconic Italian sports brand associated with 1970s style and fashion, has produced a slick and humorous British gangster style viral with cult actors Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan to promote its Centre Court pre-distressed trainers. The Fila a......Related tags: 1970s, brand, cult, danny_dyer, facebook, fashion, fila, gangster, red_bee_media, seeding, short_film, sports_brand, tamer_hassan, video, viral_film
Quizzle: Social Mortgages Live To The Public
In AutoMotive Jeep has coined it's smart social media and community strategy. In Banking social lending company Zopa was a smart and social first mover. In Broking social trading community Zecco was refreshing. So what will The Wisdom Of Cr......Related tags: banking, banks, broking, budget, community_strategy, facebook, financial_jargon, first_mover, free_evaluation, home_value, jeep, loans, money, mortgage, mortgages, quicken-loans, quizzle, social-lending, social-media, twitter, wisdom_of_crowds, zecco, zopa
EA Joins Hasbro to Battle Scrabulous
The Hasbro vs the Scrabulous Facebook application case is a great example which shows why most companies still don't get the new world of marketing. Bloggers and tech pundits alike unanimously slated Hasbro for this, what some described as 'idiotic',......Related tags: branded, branding, case, copyright, ea, facebook, game, games, gaming, hasbro, marketer, marketing, online, popular, scrabble, scrabulo, software, user, users, youtube
MicroSkype: Will Microsoft Buy Skype Also?
Microsoft is shaking and breaking up the digital media landscape by announcing its bid for Yahoo! It's clear that Microsoft with the Yahoo! purchase wants to claim back a part of the SEA cake from Google, since Microsoft's portals MSN have clearly lo......Related tags: beats, delicious, digital, e-commerce, ebay, facebook, flickr, gmail, google, googletalk, im, instant-messenger, knowing, logic, media, media_landscape, microsoft, msn, msn_messenger, next, portals, skype, social, stable, users, yahoo, yahoo-messenger, youtube
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
Microsoft already took a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 Million last year. Now Microsoft shakes up the digital media landscape by announcing its $44.6 Billion bid for Yahoo. The software giant announced this morning its intentions to bid $31 a share......Related tags: bill-gates, bill_gates, ceo, ceo_steve_ballmer, facebook, google, jerry-yang, jerry_yang, media_landscape, microsoft, microsoft-bids, microsoft-to-buy-yahoo!, microsoft_ceo, milestone, proposal, search_strategy, software_giant, stake, steve-ballmer, steve_ballmer, transformation, yahoo, yahoo_ceo
Here Comes Another Bubble
The San Francisco-based group The Richter Scales created this hilarious Silicon Valley music video, sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire". The web 2.0 bubble video really cracked up Robert Scoble: "I have Diet Coke coming ......Related tags: facebook, internet_bubble, music_video, richter_scales, robert_scoble, silicon_valley, skype, techcrunch, web_2.0, youtube
Facebook's Monthly User Growth: 7 million!
About a month ago I posted the article Facebook Frenzy, giving a roundup of Facebook buzz, thoughts about the TripAdvisor's application "Cities I’ve Visited" and the publication of demographic data of Facebook users in 31 countries, taken from Face......Related tags: communities, community, countries, country, facebook, google, microsoft, myspace, social-networks, statistics, stats, user, users
Facebook Gears Up Social Ad Strategy?
Social media is hotter than ever before. Everybody around the globe is talking about the rapid growth of phenomenon social network Facebook. But most large social networks and video portals reply poor if you do an advertising request per e-mail. Will......Related tags: community-marketing, facebook, mark-zuckerberg, microsoft, myspace, online-advertising, social-advertising, social-media, stake-in-facebook
Alejo Needs 50.000 Signatures To Convince Boss
When Alejo asked for a week off to go on holiday with his friends in January, his boss was not very willing to cooperate. In fact, he told him it would be easier to gather 50.000 signatures than to fulfill his Argentine summer dream. So that's exactl......Related tags: alejo, argentina, boss, facebook, holiday, petition, signatures, vacation, youtube
Interview Rob Norman Global CEO GroupM
Andy Plesser at Beet.tv did a series of video interviews out of the Future of Business Media conference in NYC last week. See the below interview with Rob Norman, CEO, Global at GroupM. I have had the pleasure to meet Rob in Marbella and NYC this ......Related tags: ad-rates, beats, beet, business_media, ceo, cpm, cpm_rates, czar, facebook, google, groupm, marbella, media_conference, online-advertising, pleasure, stake, video, video-ads, videoegg, video_advertising, video_interviews, visionair, wpp
Facebook Frenzy
Two weeks ago I posted a thorough study and analysis of the phenomenon Facebook by FaberNovel Consulting. This weekend I came across a lot of other interesting Facebook buzz. It all started with Valleywag's rumor of Google snapping up Facebook for ......Related tags: buzz, countries, country, documentary, facebook, john_battelle, mark_zuckerberg, netherlands, research, social_media, statistics, tripadvisor, users, valleywag, web_2.0_summit
Dylan Messaging Viral Draws 600,000 Fans
Nearly 600,000 Bob Dylan fans around the world have watched the Dylan Messaging viral campaign, to promote the release of his greatest hits album DYLAN, out October 1. The Bob Dylan viral messaging campaign, launched by Sony BMG's Columbia Records an......Related tags: bob_dylan, e-card, facebook, facebook_application, greatest_hits_album, subterranean_homesick_blues, viral, viral_campaign, youtube
What About Your Social Network Portability?
Influential bloggers from the Bay Area (SF) speculate that Google will launch a three dimensional social network still this year. The bloggers also say that this new 3D Social Network will be mashed-up with Google Earth and Google Maps. Rumors also s......Related tags: eu, facebook, google, google-api, google-earth, google-maps, hyves, iab, mma, mobile, myspace, number-portability, orkut, second_life, social-media, social-network-portability, tmobile, vodafone
Facebook: The Social Media Revolution
A number of marketeers and companies are already using the Facebook Application Platform succesfully to spread their viral marketing campaigns, e.g. Bob Dylan Facebook application, EMI & Springdoo Facebook app, Free Burma and Slide. FaberNovel Co......Related tags: bob_dylan, facebook, facebook_apps, forrester, social_media, viral_marketing
Google & YouTube: One Year Later?
Today it's exactly a year ago Google shocked the world with the YouTube acquisition for $1.65 billion. Before that NewsCorp bought MySpace for $538 million. Last week we read the bullocks that Facebook would be worth over $10 billion?! I'm a holey be......Related tags: content, dailymotion, facebook, google, heavy, metacafe, ugc, viacom, video, viral, youtube
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