wtm – world trend monitor
webguerillas recently launched a new service called "world trend monitor". the wtm is supposed to filter relevant trends for you - a radar for current trends all over the world if you don't find the time to dig through numerous resources by yourself. "the world trend monitor (wtm) is a information service that bundles the worldwide most important trends in the
how to sell soap
a couple of weeks ago i posted the clip about the viral learning center on how to create viral videos. here is an entertaining and simple way how to explain viral and word of mouth marketing - or better "how to sell soap". great work amos, love it! (via vm-people) [tags: viral marketing, vm-people, thomas zorbach, wom, word-of-mouth]
praschls geheimblog
bloggers like to play games and the blogosphere is a perfect playground including a worldwide audience. there are blog memes and alternate reality games for instance. a couple of minutes ago i stumbled over "praschls geheimblog" at treehuggin' pussy and don't even know what this is and if it's just a single joke or something bigger taking off
blush dessous – light my fire
bbdo keeps on releasing nice campaigns for blush dessous berlin. "the latest thing from bbdo berlin for blush: matches with a striking strip right on the panty. it just feels great to light your fire." see also the getting undressed and blechschaden ads for blush. (via adverbox) [tags: blush, dessous, berlin, advertising, bbdo, streichholz, matches]
hello – first apple iphone commercial
the first apple iphone commercial aired on the oscars last week. a sweet ad showing 28 scenes from cult movie actors saying "hello" on the phone followed by the image of the device, finishing with the text "coming in june". they don't even have to name the product because everybody just knows, apple-like, simple, ingenious. watch the first apple iphone commercial "hello"
web 2.0 explained by michael wesch
björn thought he might be the last one blogging about this, but obviously he is not. this nice video explaining the web 2.0 slipped under my radar too. this clip is actually michael wesch's video response to this web 2.0 video. michael wesch is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at kansas state university and recently gave an interview at john
google adsense – isn’t it ironic
today i found this google adsense ad on my own blog (see on the right)
cws commercial – say no to dirt
at vm-people we were discussing if you can do viral marketing for nearly every product, even for more "boring" products or services which don't come with a sticky viral message or adjective by itself - being extremely innovative, exciting, enormous, beautiful or extraordinary like the apple iphone for instance. the bottom line - yes you can, given the fact that it
eddie izzard – just hilarious
i'm sorry and this may offend some fans but i never heard of this guy before my fiancée told me about him some days ago. i'm talking about eddie izzard a british cross-dressing stand-up comedian and actor who describes himself as an "executive transvestite" (see wikipedia entry). i love his kind of humor, he is just f
1&1 email server down
after gmail has lost tons of user emails german service provider 1&1 seems to have serious problems now. i was quite a fan of 1&1, having 23 domains and tons of emails hosted there, but since noon (january 17. 2007, pst) my imap account started to make problems and went completely down afterwards - my main imap inbox (more than 8000