Do The Test Goes Viral: A Sign Of The Times?
Hopefully you’ll already have seen the excellent Do The Test video which our friends at WCRS produced for Transport For London, which we’ve been promoting online. If not, where have you been? According to the latest Viral Video Chart, it was the 4th most viral video this week (although today it’s actually 2nd, just behind […]
Earth Touch: It’s Like Attenborough 2.0
A message on Facebook this morning from an old school friend prompted me to have another look at the site he has set-up in his new home of South Africa. I say that so that there are no doubts about the fact that I know the guys running it; that being said, I wouldn’t write […]
Viral Marketing Presentation From SMX London
Last Friday saw me present at the inaugural SMX London on the panel Linkbaiting & Viral Marketing. A number of people asked me to share my presentation online, so I’ve uploaded it onto SlideShare. Meanwhile, as you can’t click through from SlideShare presentations, I’ve presented thevarious individual slides, with notes, below.
For those wanting the full […]
Skeletons, Nostalgia & Free Skis
Can you believe that it’s Friday already or that next week is November? No, me neither. Still rather than fret about how the year is rushing past, let’s look back at some of the interesting things we’ve seen this week, as well as looking forward to an extra hour in bed on Sunday.
This video that […]
DropShots: Like Flickr & YouTube, Only Private
It seems at times that you really couldn’t make this stuff up; I was just about to start preparing some slides to explain to a client how contacting sector specific bloggers can be a great way to drive links to a site, when I received an email from someone who referenced a post I wrote […]
Changes To Yahoo! Show That SEO Isn’t Just About Keywords
The last week has seen major changes to the way that Yahoo! presents its search results. In many ways these changes are a response to Google’s move to, what it calls, Universal Search. Essentially this means that where there is a wide variety of content types that match a user’s search, they are all displayed […]
Joost May Have Gone Into Public Beta But It Still Takes Them 77 Days To Reply To An Email
So after what is potentially the largest private beta ever with over 1m subscribers, Joost has finally opened its doors to everyone else and gone into Public beta mode.
As I am now a full time linux user I can’t run the application but by all accounts from using it in previous version it seems […]
Google Kills Video: Will Its Reputation Go With It?
The ever excellent Guardian Technology supplement has a very interesting piece in it today about the closure of the paid for service on Google Video. It seems that Google is in the process of putting all its efforts into YouTube (much like Yahoo!, which closed its pictures site to concentrate on Flickr). This in itself […]
DC Names
Given a black page and white type how would you express your own name? Here’s how DC employees would do it.
Some excellent entries most of which, interestingly enough, did not come out of the creative dept.
A special note to Mr. Hils Jakison for providing the best entry.
