You can find clips from BBC shows on YouTube, fans putting them up to share the love. And now the BBC has done a deal with Google/YouTube to create three new channels dedicated to the corporation’s output. BBC – showing added value programming, ie the behind the scenes stuff that goes on the websites. This […]
Happy St David’s Day
Color Showdown is here
Shameless plug for a site and campaign I’ve been working on, but check out ColorShowdown.com* from Sunsilk for some fun stuff. The site taps into the blondes vs brunettes war (you don’t think it’s a war – take a look a the MySpace groups!). Not sure how many of the target audience read this, but […]
Mutual Support Group
I’ve been reading Jason Calacanis’s fatblogging drive and thought about it but it was not quite enough. Then I read Jeremy’s post on the subject and the topic on the B5Media message board which led me to traineo; looking at that app, witht he support and community aspects was enough to tip me over the […]
Venue Sought
We, (Eric and I) are trying to find a venue in New York to run some geek dinners…at least one of which will feature Ian Forrester and we’ve got some interesting people lined up for others. Looking for somewhere which has a private room (up to about 50 to start with we think), serves alcohol, […]
Viral Video Chart Widget
Getting bored at work. Looking for a few minutes of entertainment. If your poison is videos you can now get charts delivered directly your website using this handy little widget from the Viral Video Chart and you can share the list with all your friends. It’s currently running in the sidebar of this blog as […]
Pillow Fight NYC
Yesterday there was a moment of madness in the city, a Pillow Fight organised by newmindspace. An absolute blast, an urban maul in Union Square, where the cameras, both amateur and professional, nearly outnumbered the fighters.
BBC Value
Ian just posted his video from Future of Web Apps programme, where Michael Arrington suggested the BBC should be dissolved. I did some back of envelope calculations about the worth of the BBC. Let’s say that I watch 2 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. In the US, programme are […]
Don’t forget the pancakes on Jif Lemon Day
An example of a ad slogan that got into my brain years ago and has never left. But today, there’s almost nothing ‘official’ on the web about this, the only bit being on Unilever’s corporate site; so you just have to look up everyone talking about the day and not the company – or complaining […]
Mac bought
I’ve finally gone and bought a Macbook. Not yet got it up and running (won’t connect to the web) but I’ll have more time to sort this out this week.
Pushing a Community around Jericho
Over the last few days I’ve been working my way through all the back episodes of Jericho from CBS. As I usually do, I turn to Wikipedia to see if there any additional pieces of information to add to my enjoyment of the show (I’m a trivai freak at times). The show has a loyal […]
Valentine Blues
If you hate the day, love the day but failed to have a good time, or just like random violence and things going bang, take a look at this wonderful My Black Valentine, (tip from YesButNoButYes). Choose your object of hate, click and watch as a bullet smashes through it, destroying the whole thing. Can […]
Robot Loving
Scott Adams has been asking if you would sleep with a robot. And the answers have been mainly in the positive, with some reservations. Many of you were concerned that the software in the robot would be provided by Microsoft. First of all, I think we can all agree that the name “Microsoft†is bad […]
Top Gear hits Alabama and Alabama hits back
I got told that I had to watch Sunday’s Top Gear. If this clip is indicative of the whole programme I think I’m going to have to. Typical piss-taking from the presenters getting them in some real trouble. Too late…looks like they pulled it. Thanks to Keiron who points towards another copy. How long before […]
Updates on Behind the Buzz
The other blog is ticking along so pop over if you want to read things such as: BarCamp and Press releases – the misguided attempt of a PR agency to send a Press release to the organisers of the event they are publicizing. CSI and Keppler – how CBS are extending their online properties but […]
Meta Comments
Anyone else finding it bizarre that the spammers have now gone meta and are telling me that spam sucks and to delete it? Akismet is doing a great job of capturing it all, but I just find it funny.
Beer Goggles
I love this BBC article about the scientific explanation for Beer Goggles. The study, from University of Manchester, was sponsored by an eyeglass company Bausch and Lomb, I’d have thought that if they have a study released for PR, they may have at least put it on their site but nothing on the UK or […]
Blogher Business
I’m quite excited to be on a panel at Blogher Business 07, in New York in March. A 2 day event, looking at how social media, including blogs, can be used in a corporate or marketing environment. The event is split into 2 distinct days; the first focusing on getting everybody on the same page, […]
Vodafone Betavine
If you had gone to NYC Mobile Monday or just like developing things for mobile phones, you may be interested in the launch of Vodafone’s Betavine Developer network.
Walmart Video and the importance of cross-browser testing
Walmart launch a new video download service today. Apparently their development team is browser challenged as they only appear to have IE available to them. Under that app, their site looks, well, not beautiful but at least OK. However, on Firefox it looks like this: I know that sites sometimes launch without full testing…and that […]