Sony is tempting the users of their Playstation Network with a virtual world.
Home is a series of virtual spaces and places. It’s different from Second Life in that you choose which space you want to visit, and then teleport there, instead of walking or flying like in Second Life.
The PlayStation Network, which currently has about 13 million PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable registered users, is integral to Home. The PSN is the network that users access to play each other in online matches, download games or videos to the hard drives of their consoles, and records a player’s success in…
I’m one of the newest members of Chrysler’s Customer Advisory Board. Hopefully, that actually will mean something in the near future, even if Chrysler gets bought by GM.
A while back I stumbled upon (literally, not StumbleUpon) the fact that Chrysler wanted to interact more with consumers to garner feedback on their products and their decisions. Chrysler Listens is the concept and if you’re interested you can visit the Web site and offer your opinions.
You also can submit your name and hope to be one of the 2,000 “insiders” who get to be on the Customer Advisory Board.
It’s a great concept and…
In the never ending battle between video sites and studios, MGM and Youtube are close to an agreement. They’ve decided to allow Youtube to host full length videos on their site. Starting today, YouTube will have some of MGM’s content available.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios will kick off the partnership by posting
episodes of its decade-old “American Gladiators” program to YouTube,
along with full-length action films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The
Magnificent Seven” and clips from popular movies like “Legally Blonde.”
These will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video.
They are not the only studio considering posting content online in this format. Hulu also features…
I love social media…particularly social networks. I also love wine. After caving in to familial pressure (the only way my brother would join Twitter) I joined Facebook. Lo and behold I see a message to join a wine lovers community which I naturally did. After being on not even a few minutes, I already zoomed through to check it out.
Since I still have a life, I’ll have to go back at a later time to check it out further. I just hope it doesn’t wind up another Twitter-like addiction.
In a great piece written over at the Artists House Music Blog, Andrew Goodrich breaks down what he believes are the healthy traits of a successful music business. He explains that in a such a buyer heavy market, the keys to keeping an entity healthy lie in creating value in absolutely everything you do.
His four main traits of a healthy (music)business are:
Have an easily identifyable competitive advantage.
Constantly strive to increase your product’s viral nature.
Create a social object through which people can build genuine connections and relationships.
Create a synergy amongst your products that points to your core competency.
I particularly love his mentioning of creating a positive feedback loop:
“Make…
Thanks to @keryp on Twitter who retweeted the link for this voting badge…yes, I voted this morning and got my Starbucks after. (Too bad they didn’t extend the free coffee to include lattes.) Yes, you may think it’s last minute–at least I went this morning and not this evening.So, if you haven’t voted yet, what are you waiting for? At least the free Starbucks should be incentive.
Have you ever wondered what people in this world think is stupid? Now, you can find out because when stupid is used on Twitter, it will automatically show up on “StupidFeed.”
I’m not sure of the point of the feed. Perhaps Forrest Gump said it best: “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Had I the time to volunteer at a grassroots level for a political candidate I would be doing so.
I recently participated in a PR News/Cision survey about social media regarding its use and how executives perceive and use this new bonanza of public outreach.
The results are in and, according to the survey, social media involvement is now considered a standard public relations practice. That doesn’t mean everyone wants it to be, however.
The more than 900 people who participated also “voiced a mixed bag of concern, skepticism and optimism over the value of the blogs and social networks that are currently being implemented within their organizations.”
That’s not really surprising considering many of the folks getting corporations involved in the…
Following in the footsteps of Facebook and MySpace, LinkedIn is adding apps to their interface. Unlike Facebook and MySpace, though, it’s using a stricter standard, requiring approval before allowing it access to the network. This will help avoid an influx of “junk” apps and apps that clutter up a userpage.
Some of the apps include a reading list app from Amazon, allowing users to share recommendations.Among productivity apps, a trip planning service called TripIt, SlideShare allows for sharing of images and information in a slideshow format, online file storing at box.net, and project management with huddle.
