Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
This past week getting "Rickrolled" went mainstream. That's when a number of political blogs, including Wonkette and Andrew Sullivan linked to a YouTube video claiming to show Michelle Obama going on a less than savory rant. The result: a mass mainstream audience getting "Rickrolled."
Tags: design, michelle obama, prank, rick astley, rickroll, video, viral, youtube
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Google's Android has progressed by leaps and bounds since CES. The demo at Google's I/O developer conference in SF is stunning. Definitely will give Apple and BlackBerry a challenge when it launches later this year. Check it out here (demo starts at 21:07):
Tags: Add new tag, android, apple, application, blackberry, google, googlephone, i/o, iphone, nokia, video, youtube
Posted in Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 by John-Alistair George
Finding video on the web has been a pretty hit or miss affair for quite some time. This is due to the fact that we solely rely on the descriptions added by users to video content. And while some may argue that this is the best model (and most scalable) ...
Tags: aol video, meta data, meta tag, msn, semantic, tagging, TubeTagger, video, yahoo, youtube
Posted in Analytics, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Technology | No Comments »
Friday, April 18th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
ComScore came out with some interesting data around internet usage and TV viewing habits recently.
Marv Pollack, who posted his findings on the ComScore Blog, found that "during most waking hours, more people (age 15+) are using the Internet than are watching television. It is only for the last two hours ...
Tags: Advertising, Analytics, broadband, comscore, consumer behavior, graphs, statistics, tactics, tv, usage, video
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 by Lindsay Wong
Every week we send out updates on emerging media trends across Avenue A | Razorfish. Now we've decided to share them with you as well. Here's the first in an ongoing series:
1. unlike.net - Alternative Online City Guides (startup site)
What is it? Unlike.net is a new series of online city ...
Tags: flickr, killer startups, media, messaging, read write web, Social Media, twitter, twittermethis, unlike, unlike.net, video, viral, viral marketing, wired, wom
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Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Get ready for the next wave of digital display and video advertising. From today's New York Times:On Thursday, Google started testing video ads on some pages of search results. And it is developing ad formats with images, interactive maps and other more elaborate features.Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search ...
Tags: ads, Advertising, google, Media + Entertainment, role, search, test, video, Web 2.0
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