Adventures in New Media
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The new television isn’t made in Hollywood. The new television doesn’t need Time Warner or NBC.
From a viral Trader Joe’s ad that’s had 340,000 views on YouTube to TateShots from the venerable British museum, people are watching TV in a new way. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: fashion, new televison, streetsyletv, style, TateShots, video, viral, WordPress
Tags: social marketing, twitter, web 2.0
“We need to make your site more Web 2.0,” I say. I’m always met with a blank look. That why I’ve posted some example links on del.icio.us. Read the rest of this entry »
We found a cool blog about blogging. It’s full of useful, practical info and is good to look at, too! Read the rest of this entry »
Browse the Best of 07 in Web 2.0 site design and get inspired for a new year! Read the rest of this entry »
LinkedIn has an interesting feature called “Answers” - pose a question and the commmunity weighs in with helpful info. Recently, someone asked for examples of the best Web 2.0 sites.
As the usefulness of the web grows, we all have more and more passwords and user names. Some sites allow anything; others want 7 or more characters, upper- & lower-case, numbers. It gets baffling. But here’s a great utility for managing it all.
Dr. James Haswell or Spartanburg Radiological Associates has passed along an interesting post from Brian Clark of CopyBlogger. The gist: stop worrying about Google and be happy.
As reported in Brand Republic, The Financial Times of London is turning away from the paid-content model in news.
Suddenly, all my old friends and colleagues are popping up on LinkedIn. It’s definitely Web 2.0 for Boomers.
Think social networking is just for kids? Think again. The Tate in London Read the rest of this entry »
Business people always ask me “But what can I do with a blog?” Read the rest of this entry »
As the world awakens to the power of social networking on the internet, all the hype has been about MySpace, YouTube and Second Life.
Want to go to a site that’s tapped into the buzz that will be tomorrow’s boom? Try Mashable.
Mashable reports on what’s new in the world of social networking. There’s a post about Yoomba, a service that let’s you make VoIP calls from your email. And Vizu, the free polling company. They’ve just added Google Maps to their service so you can see where your cause is rising (or tanking).
Some is good, some is bad. But to spot tomorrow’s stars today, bookmark Mashable.
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine featured an article about the avant garde French designers M/M.
They’ve worked for Calvin Klein, the Musee D’Art Moderne and Bjork. And it’s well-beyond just graphic design, typography and inventing fonts - they’ve done magazine covers (Paris Vogue), stage sets and music videos.
One wonders how and when M/M’s ideas will work their way into the mainstream. Is there some way we can use their thinking in web design? Email campaigns? Inspiring stuff.
To get a better feel for their work, go to the Times article and watch the multimedia presentation.
