Cramming two days of social media learning into the overhead compartment
Do you know the way back from San Jose? We do. In fact, we’re on it right now. After two full days of talks and panels and mingling and tweeting (oh lord, the tweeting), Shawn and Chris are headed...
View ArticleFinalist for a DPAC Award, and lonely no more
Our Grilled and Lonely campaign for Bush’s Best Foodservice has been named as a finalist in the upcoming Digital Publishing and Advertising Awards. We’re proud as hell our online dating service for...
View ArticleStephen Fry speaks to you from the Twitter Future
Stephen Fry bent then broke the space-time continuum by reaching 1,000,000 Twitter followers on November 15th, 2009. His message to us from the near-future Twittertopia of 2034 is both cautionary and...
View ArticleA winner
Marlin’s grilledandlonely.com campaign for Bush’s Best Baked Beans won a DPAC Award in New York last night. What’s a DPAC, you ask? (Can’t believe you just asked that.) The DPAC Awards are put on by...
View ArticleTwitter by the numbers
Twitter / Fail Bird illustration by @MyklRoventine Here’s a nice numeric rundown of everyone’s favorite how-the-hell-do-I-market-with-this? social media channel, released at Twitter’s Chirp Conference...
View Article10 Cliches of Social Media Presentations
In the long ago of November 2009, Shawn Finger and Chris Rock (that’s me!) attended the Social Media World Forum in San Jose, CA. Three full days of steeping in social media expertise from the likes...
View ArticleFuture Midwest 2010
Man, how did we miss this conference? It’s “the region’s largest two-day technology and knowledge conference,” and it’s got a freakin’ astrocow for a logo. Surely that should’ve rung some bells in our...
View ArticleComputer geek uses geeky gaming device for something even geekier than gaming.
When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device, he, like all other geeks, dropped everything to go pick one up. But unlike other...
View ArticleConsumer feedback can be a real b*tch sometimes.
Die printer, die! Not since this scene in Office Space has a printer been treated so rudely. But perhaps it only serves as a reminder that when you’re working the HP Help Desk and a soldier serving in...
View ArticleBefore this there was that
This is a pretty interesting article tracing media trends and what came before what we have now. Like before YouTube there was America’s Funniest Home videos. Before blogs there were zines. And before...
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