July 23, 2010

Thanks PSFK Periodic Table of MadMen

June 21, 2010

Awesome. I'm definitely following David Peretz on Twitter. Great stuff from Leo Burnett

David Peretz, a Leo Burnett employee, wanted to go to the Cannes Advertising Awards. His boss agreed under two conditions. If he went, he'd be live streaming of course, but more importantly he'd have to agree to whatever his twitter followers asked him to do. I'm assuming that dangerous or insane requests can be disallowed, but at the moment, he's getting a Fail Whale tatoo.

Check out the live stream here.

http://davidondemand.com/

May 4, 2010

is Google's Chrome faster than a speeding potato? You be the judge.

http://bit.ly/bFhZHb

February 19, 2010

A few of the ICrossing producers meet to welcome Monica from the SF office at Gjelinas on Abbott Kinney

February 18, 2010

Behind the Scenes of the Old Spice Commercial---Want to find out if it was done in a single take?

January 23, 2010

Outrageous. Carat Ad Agency and Facebook force man to give up name for vanity URL

This is bad, really bad. The man’s name in question is “Harman Bajwa” — Remember his name is literally Harman...Read more...

http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6676

January 19, 2010

Ad Age: Facebook is the new Twitter

Although this article (http://bit.ly/4IRvTy) has a sensationalist subhead, there is only one line in the article that relates to that statement. I quote "our research shows that even more than Twitter, people are using social network status updates -- mostly Facebook -- for these same sorts of connections."

This is a theme I've been exploring for a couple of months now. Here's my original post from Nov. 11: Is Facebook the inevitable social portal? http://tinyurl.com/yjgv9pp

Put simply, Twitter is going to go away. It's easy to figure out how to use it, but most folks can't figure out why to use it. Having been on twitter for almost two years, I love it but I notice the adoption rate over that time, despite Ashton Kutscher, is nothing compared to the rise in Facebook users. People get Facebook..it's about friends. Twitter is about business.

I have no doubt that Facebook will absorb all of Twitter's functionality soon; they just incorporated the retweet feature. And doubtless, everyone on Twitter already has a Facebook page. In fact, one person I follow, Matt Singly (@mattsingley) who has 32,000 followers on Twitter, posts to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.

That is the future.

We will tire of maintaining multiple tools. When I can port my fellow Tweeters to Facebook, and maintain those connections there, I will do so, I just hope I'll be able to retain the conversations and friends I've met on Twitter, because they represent a very diverse amalgam of brilliant, educated, humorous people and and I will miss them if they go away completely.