Twilio recently rick-rolled TechCrunch.
To learn how to rick-roll someone in your life, check out what Twilio has to offer.
Twilio’s information says that it allows Web Apps to make and receive phone calls. This has the potential to be awesome, and I think the idea of rick-rolling someone on their cell phone is hilarious, as long as it’s done to a person with the right sense of humor.
This shows that sometimes having a sense of humor and a willingness to annoy someone can often work in getting the word out about your idea or service. Don’t be afraid to take a chance.
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Researchers at Michigan State University have found that 90 percent of TV commercials contain some type of music and yet the use of jingles is declining.
David Allan analyzed more than 3,400 ads from one week of programming on ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX. Allan, whose work appeared in the Journal of Advertising Research, said he believes the increased use of music is due to music-file sharing on the Internet. He noted music companies are realizing that their stars’ music in ads is a type of product placement and advertisers are realizing the star power of some performers.
Of course, not every musical…
Remember all those people you swore you’d keep in touch with, after high school or college? Well, most of us didn’t do such a good job, with the keeping in touch.
Wink.com and reunion.com have joined forces to help you try to find all those people you thought you left behind. They have merged and will be announcing a new brand in 2009, as well as retooling their search engines.
Wink allows you to search across social networking sites like MySpace, facebook, linkedin and several others, while reunion.com allows you to join and add your information, but if you want the real scoop on…
Had I the time to volunteer at a grassroots level for a political candidate I would be doing so.
Okay, forgive my ignorance. Despite being a Twitter addict, I’ve yet to find out what/who the Twitterati are.
When you get involved in blogging, it’s cool and exciting to watch your statistics climb as more people start checking out your stuff. Nevertheless, especially for those just starting out, it can be intimidating to link to other blogs or ask them to link back.
Here’s a good post from ProBlogger with some tips on making it all a little easier.
I am into social networking, I love social media. I love Twitter especially. I am also a business owner. Where does the line between personal and business interests stand?
I confess, I have met prospective clients via Twitter. However, it was not my sole intention to Tweet to troll for business–it became a happy accident in the few aforementioned situations. Has Twitter become a tool for Svengalis out in the business world? I love the idea of as meetup.com puts it: “use the internet to get off the internet”. However, once it becames a blatent tool for commerce, then I get mixed…
So, this one time, at band camp…photos of you doing a keg stand are taken and end up on Facebook. Not a big deal, until a potential employer checks out your online persona and decides maybe you aren’t cut from the same moral cloth they’d prefer for an employee.
It’s been a concern of college students and even some high-schoolers lately as job providers have realized you can learn a lot about people based on what they, or more likely their friends, have posted about them online.
Now, a 14-year-old in Pinckney, Michigan has gone one step further – actually distributing inappropriate and…
So, you want your podcast to be easily accessible to millions of people, well, why not list it on iTunes? That way people who don’t get their podcasts any other way, and there are quite a few of those, will have access to your broadcast.
Here is your Step - By- Step
1. Get your RSS feed URL, you will have to have it on hand.
2. Open iTunes, or if you don’t have it download it, then open it.
3. Go to the iTunes store.
4. From the pull down genre menu, choose podcasts.
5. Find the ‘Publish a podcast’…
I just stumbled upon this video produced as a marketing piece by vm-people of Germany. Now, hold on to your tube socks. It’s about to get all kinds of meta in here:
The clip below is viral marketing about viral marketing.
Blowing my mind, man!
Sure, it’s not ground-breaking, but it’s a fun little piece and I bet it drummed up some business for them.
(Ok, I admit it. I only like it because the music is fun and so easy to bob your head back and forth to. Sue me.)
