Is Your Brand On Twitter?

Like SecondLife in 2007, Twitter seems to be the talk of the new media marketing world in 2008. There are a lot of interesting experiments going on out there using Twitter and its microblogging platform. Dell it seems has been able to sell half a million dollars worth of products using a twitterfeed. In a [...]

Youtube Videos Get Annotated

YouTube has added ways to annotate and add interactive commentary to videos. With this feature, people who upload videos can add background information, create branching stories or add links to any YouTube video, channel, or search results page. There future of online video is annotated. See it in action in the amazing [...]

Building Community To Build Brands

Google is the great brand equalizer online. We all know that any one with a smart web 2.0 strategy can be a GE. Hugh Mcleod a copywriter, artist, internet entrepreneur is a bigger brand online than Hugh Hefner, the charismatic founder of Playboy magazine and actor Hugh Grant. [...]

New Way To The Web

There are many interesting experiments happening out there trying to help websites and web experiences stand out from the sea of sameness. San Francisco ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney has redesigned its website to enable a mouse-free experience. Use a webcam to navigate the site. Try it with an iCam enabled Mac, it really [...]

Social Banking Threat To Traditional Banks

Over the last few years, banking and investment services have been opening their doors to social platforms such as Prosper and Lending Club. Now the vary same entrants are posing a threat to traditional banking by suggesting that they will control 10% of the worldwide market for retail lending and financial planning by 2010. [...]

Turning Insurance Consumers Into Consultants

In the UK, insurance buyers can now become advisors. Zuzzid is a web forum for people to come together and discuss their experiences after buying insurance in different areas - home, car, fire, health or just about anything else. The community website aims to “beat the system” and rant, rave and discuss about various experiences. [...]

Think Inside the Pizza Box

Dominos UK are running a promo that asks people to get creative with their pizza boxes in exchange for prizes. People are asked to submit a video of something they have created with their empty pizza box and encode the link on the Dominos UK site. In the US people who order Dominos can track [...]

Loan Learning

There are many new web services that help you understand your money better. For the many who are looking to buy or mortgage property there’s Quizzle, a new website powered by Quicken Loans that will give a simple understanding of their home and money. With “Don’t guess. Know.” as its tagline, Quizzle gives a free [...]

A Widget’s Worth

Over half a billion people view them, some of the biggest sites on the internet use them, many feel widgets will change the way we browse and receive information. But how much is a widget worth? ComScore is going to figure that out.

Seeding A Viral

Last week we carried a story on how giving away a product or service free or almost free is becoming a viable business model. We also spoke of how free media is fast reshaping the broadcast model, especially in the West. With more and more young people moving online, video piped through the internet is [...]