Here’s the World’s First Steve Jobs Statue
It's in Budapest, via a company called Graphisoft. Do you care about those details?
How my team at JESS3 drove 200,000 views to one of its videos
Over at JESS3, the creative design agency I work for, I describe how I secured over 100 embeds and thousands of tweets and Facebook shares for a single video: On January 17 we released both a YouTube version and Vimeo version of the video, and JESS3’s PR team immediately went to work promoting the video...
Tell Us How You Feel: Web Feedback and MoMA
Think back to the last time you went to a museum. Did you walk away changed? Inspired? Disappointed? Maybe you felt the millennially-ingrained desire to express those feelings to your internet following a la Twitter or Facebook. These companies have acquired valuations in the billions due to their ability to capture user feedback and translate...
Kenneth Cole’s Cairo Tweet Ignites The Internet’s Righteous Indignation, Inspires New Trend
Kenneth Cole thought that he'd do as all good marketers do and capitalize on a topical discussion point in order to bring attention to his brand. However, Cole's attempt to somehow tie the recent uprising in Egypt to to the fact that his spring collection is now available online did not go over terribly well....
Netflix Takes Aim at the Cable Guys, With a Promise to Start Firing Tomorrow
Netflix, which is fighting with the cable guys and telcos over streaming video costs, says it will publish a ranking of the best broadband performers. Or in other words: Netflix says it will tell some broadband customers that they ought to get a new provider.
Will Twitter Kill @ThBlackSquirrel Or How Not to Blog
Tweet Mixed up in today’s extremely active Twitter stream, you may have noticed one topic that seemed out of place, namely that Trendsmap or @TrendsDC was showing a fairly popular dive bar called The Black Squirrel was suddenly a trending topic. Looking into the issue further, I found that the traffic was being generated after...
News Corp. Shuts Off Hulu Access to Cablevision Customers–And Turns It Back On [UPDATED]
One new twist in the Cablevision-News Corp. fight: News Corp. cut off Cablevision subscribers' access to its shows on Hulu, as well as its own Fox.com. And now it's turning it back on again.
A Delay for the Daily: Apple, News Corp. Push Back Launch Date