I’ve been reading Vincent Thome’s blog for a while. I can’t remember how I found his stuff but I like it. As a relative newcomer to the advertising genre, he’s been on a number of courses funded by the good folks at DDB (those behind the VW campaigns of genius) and always pings a blogContinueContinue reading “reviving tango | an account planning think tank”
Category Archives: social networks
how businesses are using web 2.0 | mckinsey
You’ll need to register but lots of good stats and nuggets and things about how businesses are harnessing web 2,0 technologies, wikis, blogs etc. Get a good snippet at where I found out about this from Avenue A | Razorfish.
links for 20.04
Some links for a Friday afternoon in the sun (they’re tulips that I grew by the way). Enter a holiday photo competition from Emirates airlines. Or have some fun with photos Bored? Win 10 year seats at the New Wembley with nPower Keep Tony on his toes in his last days & petition him. OrContinueContinue reading “links for 20.04”
state of the live web | technorati
Technorati have just released their state of the live web(blogosphere + social web) report. Some staggering numbers: 70m blogs, 120k new blogs each day 3-4k splogs each day (spam blogs usually = crappy marketing blogs) the blogosphere growth rate has slowed but is still doubling every 320 days (as at March 2007) 1.4m postsContinueContinue reading “state of the live web | technorati”
top marketing blogs
Bone up on the full list. Digitasian’s (and by virtue, close living relatives of me) Verdino & Armano make the top 150. I don’t. Perhaps just as well.
you only live twice
As Virtual Worlds 2007 kicks off (yes, there’s a conference now), I thought I would share this video from Australia ABC network (thanks to Ben Liebmann) that acts as both an introduction to Second Life and its possibilities and also could act as a reference point to clients and colleagues who are buzzing about it,ContinueContinue reading “you only live twice”
fight like a girl
I like my sport. But is this taking the piss? Pillow Fighting League in Canada has recently expanded to the US. Inevitably there’s a My Space site and you can buy merchandise. Checking out the videos on the site, the girls do give each other a good thwacking but I can’t help thinking there’s aContinueContinue reading “fight like a girl”
photos into comics
Comeeko lets you turn your innocent pictures into a comic strip complete with captions, graphics and effects. My quick test is above. Bear in mind I only have some pictures I took in Boston, MA (USA)in Nov 2006 on my craptop as my mac is at home. It’s also 2.15am GMT/3.15am CET and I can’tContinueContinue reading “photos into comics”
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