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My Mom’s On Facebook viral video
There has been huge debate to see whether people would remain on Facebook if their mother’s befriended them on this platform. This resulted in a group of guys uniting and creating ‘My Mom’s On Facebook’ song, which has already generated well over half a million views since it was uploaded last week (16 March 2010).
Can you say viral song?
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Foursquare Race to Check In at the North Pole
April 9, 2010 - 12:57 pm
Tags: foursqaure, Liataud, newman, north pole, social media, the last degree
Posted in Social Media, featured | 1 comment
This is pretty much testing a service to its limits as well as putting social media through its paces, and all for a good cause!
When games invade real life - according to Jesse Schell
April 7, 2010 - 10:43 am
Tags: awesome, Fantasy Sport, featured, Gaming, Tech
Posted in Gaming, Tech, featured | 1 comment
Jesse Schell has had his fair share of experience in the gaming world, the creator and mind behind Shell Games a full-service game design and development studio that specialises in innovating the uncommon and the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, and so it was a logical fit for him to chat to TED about how gaming will eventually take over our lives.
Sony PlayStation documentary style video featuring Kevin Butler
March 24, 2010 - 12:37 pm
Tags: awesome, Gaming, PlayStation 3, playstation move, Sony, Sony PS3, video
Posted in Gaming | No comments
Guess who is back? None other than Kevin Butler, the fictitious Sony PlayStation employee. This time he comes to us from the future in a video about the new Move motion-sensitive gaming technology.
Hunch Twitter game can look into a crystal ball and answer questions on your behalf
March 23, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Tags: awesome, Gaming, social media, Twitter
Posted in Social Media | No comments
OK maybe not that far BUT the game asks users to supply them with their Twitter user name and based on who they follow and who they are followed by, it predicts how this person will answer questions. We have a feeling that Twitter quickly scans your Twitter followers and getting some obvious topical data, such as age range and sex. Then it uses the aggregate Hunch data that the service has collected over the past several months.
Men and their football get celebrated through Heineken campaign
March 16, 2010 - 9:59 am
Tags: awesome, featured, Football, social media, video
Posted in Trends | No comments
Men have their sacred time. No one is allowed to interrupt them when an important match is on, except when its their girlfriend, lecturer or boss. Heineken took it upon themselves to remind men of the sacrifices that they make.
Twankernomics - Parody video to infamous Socialnomics
March 8, 2010 - 12:32 pm
Tags: awesome, featured, google, social media, Twitter, video
Posted in Social Media, Trends | 1 comment
The Socialnomics YouTube video has been making its rounds over the Internet for just over year; pretty much like the blow up doll in a men’s prison. It has been used to coax reluctant brands on to social media, get buy-in from the people who hold the budget strings and to be able to pat ourselves on the back. It was only a matter of time until a parody of this video would arrive and here it is.
Are you at one with the brands?
March 5, 2010 - 11:22 am
Tags: awesome, brand, quiz
Posted in Trends | 4 comments
Everywhere we go we are bombarded with logos, adverts, sales pitches; left, right and centre. So the question that comes to mind is does anything stick with us? Are they memorable? Cue drum roll. Please welcome the Brand Quiz.
Norwegian Curling Team Pants Explode onto Facebook
February 26, 2010 - 8:32 am
Tags: curling, Facebook, pants, viral
Posted in Social Media, Trends | 3 comments
The Norwegian team decided to wear these beautiful pants to bring a bit of excitement to the game and stand out from the crowd. In the interview with the team, the captain mentioned that guys are indifferent when it comes to the pants… but the girls love them. The public love these pants so much that it has exploded onto facebook. The fan page that was set up by New York curler Tony D’Orazio garnered 200 fans in 20 minutes and is now at almost 500,000 within a week.
We are google and we can kill you
February 23, 2010 - 4:01 pm
Tags: awesome, featured, google, social media, Tech, video
Posted in Social Media | 1 comment
Google is the new evil incarnate according to comedy.com; “We have never had a single, original idea ever. Our business model is to find something successful that already exists and then use our trillions of dollars to make a Google version. MapQuest sure seems to be popular and profitable. Boom! Google Maps.”
US Police turn to Facebook for help
February 22, 2010 - 9:48 am
Tags: awesome, Facebook, featured, social media, Tech
Posted in Social Media, Trends | No comments
The police in the US have found a new use for Facebook. From finding missing people and posting surveillance footage asking the public to help identify the people in the videos, various departments have created pages on Facebook hoping to gather additional information from the public.
