I’m sure you have already heard about the Mayan prophecy regarding the supposed end of the World on December 21st, 2012. Despite of the veracity of this interpretation, there is already a trailer of a movie about this subject. It is interesting to notice that at the end of the trailer, instead of giving a URL for a website, they suggest you to Google: 2012. The results, as Daniel reports on his post, are a set of different websites and content even on social networks to start making buzz around the movie. As you have noticed, this is a completely new way of introducing a movie, and yes, it is viral. For details read Adverblog
LGenius – How to improve TV
LGenius is a division of LG created to push the boundaries of imagination and their first mission is to take TV to the next level designing innovations around people’s needs. With that in mind they invited people in the UK to submit ideas on making it better. Recently, in a conference at Korea LG introduced some truly genius innovations. Despite the funny part, there area really good ideas already submitted. Via
Cómo dimensionar la presencia online de una empresa (Digital Footprint)
No siempre es fácil para una compañía dimensionar su presencia online o la de sus competidores, y tener información acerca de quién está hablando y qué está diciendo es fundamental al momento de preparar una estrategia de Marketing Online o PR Digital. Recientemente comentaba en mi otro blog que tuve la oportunidad de colaborar hace unas semanas en el desarrollo de un estudio de presencia online (Digital Footprint) para una empresa muy conocida del ramo del software. El estudio se hizo enfocado en México y América Latina y la intención era identificar los blogs, sitios de internet, y al final a las personas, que estaban hablando acerca de la compañía y de sus marcas. Los resultados del estudio son confidenciales pero a título personal puedo decir que no hay muchos blogs mexicanos -en comparación con otros países- que se dediquen a explorar temas de software, y esto es una lástima. Seguir leyendo
The threat against Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality has ruled the Internet since its creation and it’s understood as “the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet“. In other words, it is about equal access to the Internet. Not only in the US, but in Europe, there has been a lot of activity regarding the intention of telecommunications companies (carriers) to take control over the content that is transmitted through their networks. Companies that have made their way based on Net Neutrality -such as Google, Amazon or e-Bay- are against this intention, and have joined with others to conform the Open Internet Coalition with the aim to protect an open Internet where everyone can access what they want when they want. Artists such as Moby and REM have also joined the cause through Save the Internet, another coalition that has the same Seguir leyendo
El Top 25 de las Redes Sociales
El mes pasado Compete.com publicó su ranking anual de redes sociales en el cual destaca, además de Facebook en primer lugar seguida de MySpace, el incremento exponencial de Twitter. El año pasado, Twitter figuraba en la posición número 22 y hoy se encuentra en la posición 3, con un poco más de 54 millones de visitas al mes. Para ver el ranking completo haz click aquí. Vía UseOnline.net
Adding Twitter to your Business Model: A Real Life Example
A lot has been said about how to incorporate social media to the business. Some companies had taken the path of creating profiles for their brands and products as if they were real people and start interacting with others. On the other hand there are real executives from companies that had just jumped into the social media to start a face-to-face real conversation with consumers. Springwise brings us another example: A restaurant that has incorporated Twitter to its business model. Kogi Korean BBQ takes the taste of Korean barbecue and melds it with the portability of Mexican tacos and burritos. The company sells its food primarily through two trucks that are always on the go to new locations in the Los Angeles area—to know where to find them, customers must follow Kogi on Twitter (and more than 7,000 already do). More on Springwise.
IE8 Net History: Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft just launched this video to promote the new version of Internet Explorer. Instead of talking directly about the product, they made a funny video with celebrities talking about the Internet history. As Faris says, “The cool thing about being this huge gray corporation is that every time you don’t act like it, it’s awesome.”
Absolut Kindness
In an Absolut World, currency would be replaced by acts of kindness… And if you liked the ad, you might also like Validation, a great short film by Kurt Kuenne:
SuperNews!: Twouble with Twitters
or the truth about Twitter… hilarious.
The Dramatic shift in marketing reality
This video, produced and published at Vimeo by Scholz&Friends about two months ago, is really interesting to see how marketing has changed since the beginning of the past century until now. In the past we had few brands to choose from, and we were devoted to the one of our choice… today it is quite different. Scholz & Friends: “Dramatic shift in marketing reality” – aka “A short history of marketing” … from Michael Reissinger on Vimeo.