Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Social Media’s Expanding Role in College Admissions by Elizabeth Schiffman, Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/07/social-medias-expanding-role-in-college-admissions/ Facebook And Social Game Companies: The Honeymoon’s Over by Oliver Chiang, Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/05/07/facebook-and-social-game-companies-the-honeymoons-over/ Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative by Ryan Singel, Wired http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/ Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week (slightly late edition). Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web by Samuel Axon, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-open-graph/ SCARY: Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers by Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider/SAI http://www.businessinsider.com/scary-blippy-publishes-user-credit-card-numbers-2010-4 Nielsen: Facebook’s Ads Work Pretty Well by Jack Neff, Advertising Age http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381 Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive by Matt Raymond, Library of Congress blog http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Boy Scouts Add a New Digital Badge by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/boy-scouts-add-a-new-digital-badge/ Twitter Rolls Out Ads by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Emily Steel, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303695604575182233558434518.html iPad online [...]
Earlier today I read a short post by Shiv Singh asking if society is going to become all advertising all the time. It included a trailer from “Logorama” where the whole world was covered in logos. Is this the world that we are heading into, a world where all we see are ads plastered on [...]
First off let me congratulate the New Orleans Saints on a great season and a well deserved championship. Now, on to business… Some people watch the Super Bowl for the game. Others (most?) watch it for the commercials. At the conclusion of the game, many were quick to point out the lack of a social [...]
Earlier today I read an article today (original post here) about a KFC ad that some are finding offensive. I’m not going to comment on whether the ad is racist/insensitive/offensive, that’s another debate. But one thing the ad does bring into focus here is the impact of social media on global advertising. This ad was [...]
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