Daily Music
We Were Promised Jetpacks – It’s Thunder And It’s Lightning
We Were Promised Jetpacks is an indie rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland, comprising Adam Thompson (vocals, guitar), Michael Palmer (guitar), Sean Smith (bass) and Darren Lackie (drums). The band’s debut album, These Four Walls, was released on 15 June 2009 on Fat Cat Records. I recently just came across them while I was digging through [...]
Sufjan Stevens – Vesuvius
The Age of Adz (pronounced odds) is Sufjan Stevens’ first full-length collection of original songs since 2005’s civic pop opus Illinois. This new album is probably his most unusual, first, for its lack of conceptual underpinnings, and second, for its preoccupation with Sufjan himself. Vesuvius off of The Age of Adz pulls you in right [...]
Lemolo
Lemolo followed me on twitter this last week and I noticed they were local to Seattle so I decided to check them out. When I first hit play I was honestly skeptical when a extremely simplistic electronic beat started. In hopes that it would get better I waited to see if it would build but [...]
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Facebook Augmented Realty Application
Posted by Elliott on April 28, 2011 · View Comments
Built by Famous Interactive this augmented reality Facebook application is one of the best I’ve seen that adds value to consumers. When a user opens up the augmented reality application they not only see the new WP7 but semmlessly layers a variety of social content as well. Have you seen a better Facebook augmented [...]
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Facebook Studio, Learn From Top Facebook Marketers
Posted by Elliott on April 20, 2011 · View Comments
Facebook marketing is hot right now however, there are still many people that don’t know how to truly leverage the platform. A new site dedicated to Facebook marketing has launched Facebook Studio to let people learn from the top Facebook marketers and if you’re if you think you have what it takes to compete [...]
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GOAB: Integrated Social TV
Posted by Elliott on April 14, 2011 · View Comments
With this concept birthed out of the digital agency Syzygy I’m excited to see how TV could actually become interesting to me again. The best way to think about this concept is that your mobile device can sync with your TV to become a social interactive remote control. This ideas allows TV watchers to [...]
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Desperados Interactive YouTube Campaign
Posted by Elliott on April 14, 2011 · View Comments
I’ve seen quite a few interactive YouTube videos but I have to say this is the cleanest one I’ve seen to date. Desperados YouTube Take over leverages Facebook Connect, personal preferences and interactive actions to control how the story unfolds. Take a gander and go try it for yourself.
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SaS, up For Grabs, Facebook Marketing
Posted by Elliott on April 14, 2011 · View Comments
Usually under utilized in Facebook marketing campaigns SAS used pictures as their cornerstone for their campaign. Keep in mind viewing pictures is the #1 activity on Facebook. However, the way they had their fans use their pictures was eventually shut down by Facebook it is an interesting example how to engage your audience in a [...]
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How Mobile Is Changing User Behavior [Infographic]
Posted by Elliott on March 21, 2011 · View Comments
Mobile devices is changing how people use the internet. Here’s a infogrpahic that we worked on at Microsoft Tag. Let us know what you think and if there is any other stats you would like to see. Update I received a request to make this into a SlideShare so here you go – you can [...]
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Random Collaboration
Posted by Elliott on February 28, 2011 · View Comments
Music is amazing and is leading the web in what is to come since Napster. If you search music with timing and key you can come up with some amazing finds. Play these together, some or all, start them at any time, in any order. If you do this you’ll understand the importance of keywords, [...]
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StumbleUpon vs. Facebook: 12 million users to 300 million users who refers more social traffic
Posted by Elliott on February 25, 2011 · View Comments
Facebook and twitter are undoubtedly the most talked about social media sties on the web. The fast pace growth of these networks created a whole new field to the practice of traffic generation, link building, search, brand management and customer relations on the web: Social Marketing. Even though these social platforms have changed the game [...]
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Social Mobile Gaming
Posted by Elliott on February 16, 2011 · View Comments
Social mobile gaming will become increasingly prominent in social marketing and advertising over the next year . With the computing, motion and GPS technology built into smart phones the possibilities are endless. The following social mobile game for Hitman “Hitman Vendetta” was put together to keep their audience engaged until they release their new game. [...]
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Sports Illustrated and Mobile Tagging
Posted by Elliott on February 15, 2011 · View Comments
Last week I talked about how print is the #1 medium that social marketers overlook and today I wanted to share how Sports Illustrated has implemented mobile tagging into their publications. Sports Illustrated: Sports Illustrated has done an amazing job digitalizing their print assets by driving their readers through the print – mobile – social [...]
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