Every now and again, I get a bunch of spam for some medicine stuff. I have to laugh at some of the email names which include such gems as Unlawfully Ghostliness, Helps Sedates, Codified Rattling and Quibling Scientist.
Swedish Beers
On Tuesday, I went off to the Swedish Beers night, a mobile networking event. Douglas from Sponge ws talking about mobile groups and marketing. The group Jane’s Addiction were given mobiles on a tour; fans were encouraged to sign up for a text group and the band sent updates tot he group whilst on the […]
London 2.0 Meetup
On Monday, I went along to a London 2.0 meeting. As usual with many of these meetups, the first time go along you’re never quite sure who you are looking for. But this time it was slightly easier. The venue chosen was near to the law courts so was full of suits; the meetup group, […]
Snippets 4 April
The Chevy Tahoe make your own ad competition, menetioned previously, has got a fair bit of coverage since the weekend. THere appears to be pver 500 posts discussing it, and on a random flick through the links it looks like the majority of the blog comments are negative. But, from CNet The contest is a […]
Blooker Prize Results
The Blooker prize results got announced yesterday, with the overall winner being the non-fictin Julie and Julia, which looks at the trials and tribulations of cooking all the recipes in a French cookbook. I still have a soft spot for hackoff.com which made the shortlist – I’m currently working my way through the published copy, […]
Boat Race 2006
Today was the 152nd Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race. This is a strange sporting event, a private match between 2 universities but which is watched by thousands from the bansk and millions on the TV. It’s over 4 miles 374 yards, over a tidal river, nothing like the straight, controlled 2000m international racing, But all of the […]
Gretna champions?
In an unlikely story, Gretna, a small town in the Scottsih borders with a population of 3000, has made it into the Scottish Cup Final. This event usually finds the likes of Rangers and Celtic competing. Surprisingly, the team had 4000 supporters at the match.
Creative Challenge
Via Mit Advertsing lab, In what I assume is a tie in with the US version of The Apprentice, Chevrolet have opened a competition to make your own advertisement. In a very nice website, it allows you to combine video shots and music and text however you wish. I can’t work out the way to […]
April Fool Stuff
I’m going to keep this post updated for my own info…. Here’s something from Google. It may not be completely an April fool, but there’s an element of fun about it. Google Circles is a free service which lets you explore the interests of groups of people around the world, in your hometown, at your […]
More stuff
A few other things I’ve had sitting in tabs. Cadbury’s Creme Eggs are launching a talent contest; entries are discussed and broadcast as podcasts. The prize – a free consultation with a talent agent. I’m with Adverblog on this – looks like a ‘what’s hot’ moment. TechCrunch has reviewed Online Feedreaders. I think I may […]
London Events
There’s a few events in London this week. Monday: First is Mobile Monday, the local chapter of what appears to a growing global series of meetings. There’s another get together as well, the London 2.0 Meetup Tuesday: another mobile meetup – Swedish Beers. This is less formal than Monday, with no panel or Q&A; a […]
Marketing RoI
I’ve been following the back and forth between Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel. An interesting challenge – provide hard numbers about the benefits of blogging. It’s far easier with websites to understand traffic, how many people have seen it, than any of the other methods of indirect marketing (ie those that […]
Web 2.0 or just the internet
Newsweek has an article about the new web, or Web 2.0 or the living web. Whatever you want to call it. It’s just the ongoing development of the web, forever changing, always arriving with newthings. Paul Boutin on Slate takes this article and pulls out the various meaings of Web 2.0: a mishmash of tools […]
Gmail delete
I’ve finally received a Delete Button in my email . At some point the Gtalk will turn up in the Inbox – it’s been in my other account for weeks! Update: As Ray says in the comments..change the setting to US English and suddenly I get the Talk option on the mail page, plus the […]
Wrong Runway
Runways are usually pretty big…and I assume that there are intruments involved in getting a plane down, plus radi etc. So how does this Ryanair jet miss a runway by 6 miles and land on an Army base instead of a commerical runway?
Second Life
I’ve finally gone and joined Second Life. I’ll probably spend time over the next few days trying to work out how to use it, with all the accompanying pain of having to work to learn new things. My character is called Chel Maladay, and currently has no assets beyond the clothes I’m, standing up in.
Ezine Tips
As part of the LinkedIn bloggers group, there’s a weekly focus on new blogs – looking at the blogs of our fellow group members. This week it’s Patsi Krakoff’s blog on worting great eZines. This is an advice blog on building audience, subscriptions and improving the quality of what you are writing, not only from […]
Solar Eclipse!
Solar Eclipse! Originally uploaded by Ezu. Some great photos on Flickr. Here’s one from Ezu
Predictive Markets – the wisdom of crowds
One of the talks I went to at SWSX was by James Surowiecki on the Wisdom of Crowds. Looking into The Boat Race this weekend, (more info on Wikipedia) i find that there is a website that is using some of these principles – Inklings Markets. Sign in, and you can bet on various challenges […]
Putting the cat before the horse
For a few moments distracting browsing, try this database of eggcorns. Eggcorns are spontaneous reshapings of known expressions, such as ‘for all intensive purposes’.