As Twitter continues to take off and people catch on to its potential to direct traffic online, we’re seeing more and more fake accounts building up on the network.
Whilst extreme social networkers like Scobleizer and Kevin Rose have 20,000+ followers hanging on their tweets, other people are resorting to more grey hat tactics to hijack our attention – impersonating well known personalities in order to build up a following.
Some of these accounts are old and disused, but others are very active and have big followings behind them. Read the rest of Fake Twitter Accounts (Twitterjacking..?)
Filed under: Social Media on May 18th, 2008 | 16 Comments »
During [the twentieth] century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television. Before they came along all entertainment was interactive: theatre, music, sport—the performers and audience were there together, and even a respectfully silent audience exerted a powerful shaping presence on the unfolding of whatever drama they were there for. We didn’t need a special word for interactivity in the same way that we don’t (yet) need a special word for people with only one head.
Filed under: Social Media on May 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
The M3 yesterday: smooth as a baby’s cheeks (cyclist not pictured)
Funny article on Boing Boing tonight. There’s been a mini-demonstration in LA with cyclists and rollerbladers riding down the highway, apparently to demonstrate the impracticalities of rush hour commuting in a car. Obviously the traffic was more or less gridlocked (as it is there every… Read the rest of Cycling in Cape Town on the highway
Filed under: Cycling in Cape Town on May 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Brandtags is a pretty cool free association tool – view the logo, type your first reaction into the text box.
The site is the work of, in the words of ReadWriteWeb, “Marketing consultant and web connoisseur” Noah Brier. It only went live on Friday and yesterday (Monday) he reported having received over 77,000 tags already – quite a sample of data for one weekend. Read the rest of Brandtags - a public brand perception tag cloud
Filed under: OSX Software, Social Media on May 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Today Google will announce has announced the launch of Google Friend Connect, which is now open to preview release sign-ups. Read the rest of Google Friend Connect Demo
Filed under: Social Media on May 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
Inevitably those red bricks started bugging me.. so I’ve changed things up top, got myself a whole bunch of new fonts and applied a new darker texture. Any comments are welcome as always. I’ve got to stop fiddling with this blog though and do some work .. aaaarrrgghh! Still so much to do on it though.
The broken type in the primary nav was a happy accident involving my… Read the rest of Masthead Redesign
Filed under: Design on May 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
This is long overdue, I’m going to try and write one of these once a month. Right now there are some definitely some new albums out there that deserve a mention:
The Santogold album
Talented singer and alchemist, Santi White
Santogold is some hot and bothered fashionista shit that is blowing up all over the interwebs right now – believe me, my… Read the rest of Monthly hot new albums post
Filed under: Music on May 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Awesome concept here for all you Heat magazine devotees, or anybody interested in being first to get their mitts on the hottest new stuff.
Cool spotters is a Tech Crunch endorsed startup that not only shows you the pics of who’s wearing what or driving this that and the other thing, they get their users to tag the stuff in the… Read the rest of Coolspotters - Fashionista crowd sourcing
Filed under: Social Media on May 9th, 2008 | No Comments »
Once concept, two strategies
Toyota seem to be on to a good thing with their new Facebook app. Anyone who adds it to their profile gets to indulge in a little kiss-kick with the environment – offset your flatulent exhaust pipe by planting trees in needy fire-damaged forests.
Toyota describes it thusly on their blog:
“Using Tree Planter, users gift trees to their friends. For… Read the rest of Toyota's Tree Planter Facebook App
versus Volkswagen's Carbon Neutral Project
Filed under: Digital Marketing on May 8th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yes, you read that right, our own nobel prize winning soldier in the army of the lord is behind a new music site where everything is for frrrrr.
The strapline on SOS records logo reads “Speed of sound music at the speed of light” – somewhat ironic when the flash interface takes around a minute to load. But hey, someone’s gone to… Read the rest of Bishop Tutu launches the new Napster
Filed under: Digital Marketing on May 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
