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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 [...]
Base jumping crash! http://t.co/Q436HA5c Jeb Corliss bottoms out while proximity flying #basejumping #
Great Films Fill Rooms, Sony’s One Shot Wonders
This morning I woke up to an interesting email stating.. I’m Vincenzo Castrogiovanni and I am writing to spread around these ridiculously cool videos by a bunch of our mates, the very talented Memo, Barney, Robin and Ian. They’re to promote Sony’s PlayStation@Store (http://www.greatfilmsfillrooms.com/), and everything you see was done for real, in one take. [...]
Read MoreMobile Commerce Revolution
The use of mobile devices is changing user behavior on how people search, interact and purchase consequently creating a mobile commerce revolution. From mobile devices consumers can compare, search reviews, talk to their friends, receive coupons, purchase in-store or online. With this new powerful tools traditional as well as online companies are going to have [...]
Read MoreGot a Cat? There’s an App for that
Just like cats and tanks you’re going to see this video flare up around the entire web. Friskies has done an amazing job marrying people’s obsession with cats and technology into three iPad applications that are designed for cats. The games play off the natural instincts of cats and will allow cat owners to film [...]
Read MorePower of Geolocation, If I Die Facebook App
If I Die Facebook Application allows people to leave video messages to only be distributed on your social channels after you die. They had one problem though people were not signing up becuase naturally the general public doesn’t think they’re going to die any time soon. Using the power of geolocation and social checkin api’s [...]
Read MoreSocial Commerce ROI
How to show ROI for social media efforts is in debate as it has been for a long time. This infographic was created by Spinback (e-commerce sharing plugins), which is now part of Facebook marketing company Buddy Media. Personally I think the first half of the infographic is a little weak however, shares drives sales [...]
Read MoreCats and Tanks
Well here’s to you 4chan for inspiring another internet trend. The new video cats and tanks by Whitehouse Post will be required reading for all social media students and viral wannabes in the next couple of days. Watch what happens when you put a cat in charge of a tank, humans beware. Cats in Tanks [...]
Read MoreRussian Roulette, Put Your Digital Life on the Line
Maybe inspired by the russian roulette scene in the movie Deer Hunter Miami Ad School in Europe cam up with a concept for Russian Standard Vodka where users put their digital life on the line. If you loose the digital russian roulette game your Facebook profile will be shutdown and messages will go out to [...]
Read MoreStephen Fry on Social Media
Stephen Fry has a unique way with words and his talk on social media inspires some great insight even thought the video is a little old.
Read MoreHow do You show ROI for social media marketing in terms of time and resources spent?
There are 5 main metrics that you want to measure when you’re showing the ROI for social media marketing in terms of time and resources. These metrics are not a silver bullet but are surefire ways to show that you’re driving value for your business. This is the first installment for Social Media ROI [...]
Read MoreFacebook Real Life Like Button
Connecting the digital and the real-world is becoming more and more prominent. With advancing technologies such as RFID, Mobile Tagging, augmented reality and image recognition people are becoming more connected every day. The video blow shows a new implementation of RFID chips that allows visitors at the AutoRAI 2011 Motor show to physically like cars [...]
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