Facebook: Fitness First Hate Group. Um I’m just social bookmarking this consumer anti-marketing group on Facebook which is not exactly supportive of Fitness First. For my non- Australian readers, Fitness First is a gym and fitness chain. Not only in Australia but this group (1,297 members, 1,298 when I join, in minute) is primarily Australian….
Don’t yell at me for this one, I just want to explain how social networks can take a real world ritual and turn it upside down – a la buying cards from an anti-Valentines Day site. Valentine’s Day is like herpes: just when you think its gone for good, it rears its ugly head once…
Peter Thiel, the man behind PayPal, Facebook and Thank You for Smoking… Interesting read – I didn’t agree with his opinions and summations but the facts were interesting. Remember – it’s from Tom Hodgkinson of The Guardian, so it is not going to be rabidly pro- capitalism. : Although the project was initially conceived by…
From CrikeyMedia on YouTube In online communities, years ago, we used to use the politically incorrect term “Forum or Admin Nazi” to denote a forum moderator that deletes content due to either a) a rigid interpretation of the rules or b) makes up the rules as they go along. An example of a) would be…
Target opens their legs – but not for bloggers From NewsBusters: Target department stores apparently haven’t gotten the memo that dissing the Internet and bloggers can be a dangerous game for a retailer these days. And, Target isn’t just dissing blogges and “non-traditional media” they might be claiming they won’t even interact with them. All…
I don’t think this is a technical workshop so it might be interesting for those wanting a high level view of developing Facebook apps – or even the direction it’s all going in. There’s a Venture Capitalist speaking for example. You have to register, get more information etc. on the Facebook Event page: Date: Thursday,…
From CNN: OKYO, Jan. 7, 2008 (Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (NYSE:MC) , the world’s largest consumer electronics maker, has teamed up with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and YouTube to commercialize flat panel television sets that allow users to access and view videos online, the Nikkei reported on Tuesday, without…
*yawn* We’ve been through this before – Australian Traditional Media: Just STOP it – but let’s face it, dissing Facebook to the press is what you do when you want media coverage yourself – for your own social network I mean. In this case, Paul Tyrrell is speaking for Linkedme.com.au: Price of FacebookAustralians addicted to…
I didn’t know they didn’t already have one… YouTube has appointed Chris Di Cesare as its first director of marketing. Formerly director of creative marketing at Microsoft, Di Cesare will report directly to Chad Huley, co-founder of YouTube. The marketing executive moved to the video-sharing site two months ago having spent 12 years at Microsoft,…
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