February 10th, 2009 Posted by: Sam Granleese Comments (0)
There seems to be a free online planner for everything these days – none more intriguing than Bedpost.com for which I recently received a invitation to trial their beta website. Pitched as “a personal web application that will give you some insight into your sex life” Bedpost had me intrigued to understand what sort of person or consumer might decide to track every living detail about this traditionally private part of their lives. Could it be more than a scoreboard for narcissistic frat boys?
Functionality:
At its simplist, Bedpost is a calendar database – the user enters details of each sexual encounter with the following details:
* date
* time
* partner
* rating (out of five)
* custom descriptive tags
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January 14th, 2009 Posted by: Simon Morgan Comments (0)
Popular Author and Podcaster Scott Sigler has proven social media can create commercial success.
His recently released hardcover fiction book, Contagious recently made the New York Times Bestseller list, coming in at #33 – the result of a group of advocates (or junkies as Sigler calls them) rushing out to buy the book in a semi co-ordinated way.
We’ve talked about Scott previously in this blog, and his successful bids to top Amazon, by galvanising a highly involved audience to ‘bum rush the charts’. This, however is the first time success has crossed over so comprehensively to the mainstream.
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January 8th, 2009 Posted by: Dixie Comments (0)
What better way to start the new year than with a little de-cluttering of your friends on facebook – you know, the ones whose friend requests you accepted out of pity. Burger King now give you the perfect excuse with WHOPPER SACRIFICE! Ditch 10 friends and you’ll score a a free burger. Nice use of social media/social networks to generate word of mouth with a tangible consumer benefit. Hmmmm, I’m feeling peckish…..
December 15th, 2008 Posted by: Sam Granleese Comments (0)
Social Connectivity Just Got Hotter. From the official Facebook developer wiki:
Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform — enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site.
As a developer, you can add social context to your site in four main ways:
* Identity. Seamlessly connect the user’s Facebook account and information with your site
* Friends. Bring a user’s Facebook friends into your site. You can even link friends that have existing accounts.
* Discovery. Publish information back into their friends’ News Feeds on Facebook.
* Privacy. Bring dynamic privacy to your site using XFBML.
If you’re as excited about this as I am, then imagine Read more
November 21st, 2008 Posted by: Sam Granleese Comments (0)
One of the remarkable elements of the recent US Presidential election was Barack Obama’s online campaign executed by Chris Hughes (24 and co-founder of Facebook). The achievements in effective social media engagement have been written about extensively but the true magnitude, importance and influence of this channel have been unknown until now.
The Washington Post today reported that Obama officially raised over half a billion dollars online:
In an exclusive interview with The Post, members of the vaunted Triple O, Obama’s online operation, broke down the numbers: 3 million donors made a total of 6.5 million donations online adding up to more than $500 million. Of those 6.5 million donations, 6 million were in increments of $100 or less. The average online donation was $80, and the average Obama donor gave more than once.
This represents over 80% of all funds raised and demonstrates a distinct competitive advantage over his rival John McCain in engaging (and raising support from) the US electorate. McCain accepted the restricted (but guaranteed) public campaign finance.
Along with other successes such as Apple iTunes, this clearly leads the way for the evolution of ecommerce in the form of micropayments as a means of extracting revenue from the ever increasing long-tail of content or donations from political supporters.
November 11th, 2008 Posted by: kristy Comments (0)
Kanye West – made famous for being on the cutting edge of urban culture. The beats, the cameos, the fashion and most of all the heightened level of urban entertainment.
A man that knows what he likes and it looks as though he’s found something new from us that he likes, check it out here:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/
… scroll down below Louis Vuitton.
Check out the Website here:
http://corolla.com.au/
Thanks to Jon Knight for this find.
