Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media By Fiona Mackay, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html Rita’s Italian Ice Uses Free Treats, Peeps, to Grow Facebook Page By Sara Inés Calderón, Inside Facebook http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/30/ritas-italian-ice-uses-free-treats-peeps-to-grow-facebook-page/ Travelocity Gnome Moonlights On Chatroulette by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/travelocity-gnome-chatroulette/ [...]
The other day I wrote about the creativity of Piano Chat Improv. Well it seems that you can count Ben Folds, who some people theorized was actually the piano chat guy, as a fan as well. The other day, at a live show in Charlotte, NC, Ben Folds did a live version of a piano [...]
Isn’t it great to see creativity at work? I love when I come across an example of a person or brand leveraging the digital world in a creative manner. When I first saw Chatroulette, despite its obvious issues and shortcomings, I saw potential. There was and is a lot that can be done though with [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Surreal World of Chatroulette by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html Facebook, PayPal partner on advertising, virtual goods payments by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/facebook-paypal/ Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Heart Betty White by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital/WSJ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100218/dear-snl-facebook-will-force-you-to-heart-betty-white/ What Kevin Smith means [...]
If you happened across my blog, you probably already know about Chatroulette. If you don’t, it’s a site that let’s you randomly connect to another user via webcam. There are no filters. There are no options. There are no moderators. You simply click to connect with a stranger and hit “next” to move to another. [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Chatroulette’s Creator, 17, Introduces Himself by Brad Stone, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/ Five Reasons to Love Google Buzz, Five Reasons Not by David Coursey, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reasons-love-loathe-google-buzz/story?id=9819647 Google Working On Translating Phone Conversations In Real-Time by Tricia Duryee, mocoNews http://moconews.net/article/419-google-working-on-translating-phone-conversations-in-real-time-/ Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media [...]
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