Jee Li just gave a quick run through of the bubbleproject.
Appropriate langauge
The magistrate has a post listing some of the terms that are deemed inappropriate when addressing people. it includes all the usual terms that are deemed politically incorrect or offensive. It also includes things like ‘love, pet, dear’, but no ‘hen’ which is the generic term found in wonderful places like Clackmannanshire.    The give no […]
Phones on Planes?
No. Please no.  At least put themin a booth or something so the rest of us don’t have to hear them say ‘guess where i am, on a plane’.
Big Brother In Second Life
I’m not sure whether I think this is innovative or downright scary but Big Brother is moving into Second Life.  Check out the trailer, which appears to be the sales pitch for the franchise and does not mention the SL version. In the virtual version, they are looking for 15 people in 3 time zones […]
Cable troubles
Setting up the new apartment I have had two very different customer service experiences from the facilities suppliers.  On ringing up ConEd, the electricity/gas supplier, they had no problem in changing over the account into my name. Time Warner cable on the other had will do nothing until the previous tenant remembers to cancel their […]
Make a Superbowl Ad
The US’ NFL are runnng a competition this year to have their Superbowl ad created by a fan.  Interestingly, they are not jumping onto the ‘upload your video’ bandwagon but making peotential ad writers turn up and audition in person. (although, given the rules of the pitch, I think they should have allowed video presentations) […]
University Challenge Questions
Dave has picked up on one of the latest questions from University Challenge: “What XML formatted files are used on web sites to provide machine readable content summaries and are often visually marked with an orange box?” In this case the students apparently got the answer correct. However a few weeks ago they asked: “What […]
IAB – Fran Kelly keynote
Frank Kelly is the CEO of Arnold US and has written a book ‘The Breakaway Brand – How Great Brands Stand Out’. However, I found his talk about using interactive to help build brands extremely frustrating, with multiple asides and exclamation marks in my notes as he said something that I disagreed with or just […]
7 days in a Nissan Sentra
Nissan have been runing some interesting commercials this week, to promote the new (I assume it is new) Nissan Sentra. Marc Horowitz has blogged his story – it was last week – and explains the rules. I must live 7 straight days out of my Sentra. I am free to come and go from the […]
New Software
I’ve changed over the software, imported the posts and managed to get most of the links working in the same way. I think I’ve sorted out the feeds by following the relevant instructions, but not too sure. So added an upgrade entry into the old ones.  All I need to do is upgrade the style […]
Rugby and Roulette
A couple of virals for Friday – both UK based. The first is from the Rugby Football Union, not your usual source of viral videos, with a short funny encouraging you to go out and play rugby. If you are a cat fan, this may not be your cup of tea. The second is from […]
Life is short…make it Eventful
Today, I had the good fortune to listen to Jordon Glazier, the CEO of eventful, talk about his service. They say time flies ont he web but I was surprised that the service was only 1 year old as I it feels like I’ve been aware of it for much longer. That said, I use […]
Halloween Time Virals
A couple of ‘virals’ have come through the mailing list over the last few days. The first, from Capri-sun, is fun, but found in a very confusing site. It ‘supports’ the new drink made from Blood Oranges and is claled Guffy the Ghost. Use you mouse, click a lot, kill lots of pumpkin headed vampires […]
Withnail and I – 20th anniversary
It’s the 20th anniversary of Withnail and I and to celebrate there is a new special edition of the DVD coming out. To support the release comes the mandatory website and viral game. Using a version of the memory game, you have to serve Withnail an increasing longer drinks list until he falls down drunk […]
MS Soapbox
Microsoft’s entry into the video market looks pretty good. It’s got all the expected features – tagging, commenting, links/embedding, accounts (tied into your Passport account) all put together in a pretty slick interface. Even better, the video quality seems to outshine YouTube and Google Video. To test it out, I grabbed the Bravia Ad (the […]
OfficeMax Tul Pens – an interactive campaign
BL Ochman has been interacting with OfficeMax and their new line of Tul Pens. At first glance, it looked like a compnay had taken it so far, but not all the way, constrained in part by logistics, costs and legal. But the response back to her shows that this company if more on the ball […]
New Ad for Sonia Bravia
Sony Bravia TV have a new commercial out. Using gallons of paint and a disused Glasgow tower block, the ad was filmed over the summer. It can be found over on their ‘blog’.. Another great ad from them, bringing home the message of colour without no other. However, whilst being able to produce a 70′ […]
wheeee!
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Google Buy YouTube
I signed up for the Google Press Mailing List; up until now it’s been pretty quiet and RSS/other sources have been quicker. Today it’s been working well, with 2 releases this morning about Google Video signing deals with Warner Music and Sony BMG to allow uesers to watch their music videos and to purchase them […]
Flushed Away slugs
One of the emails from viral monitor today was about a nice little short animation of Dancing Slugs; it was forwarded to the list by a PR agency (That’s what the list is there for). On YouTube, the clip is there twice, the first from ‘flushedaway‘ a new member who joined yesterday. The clip is […]