Microsoft New Family Ad Gets Jup Raves
Consensus among Jupiter advertising types: we love the latest Seinfeld/BillG Microsoft ad from Crispin Porter + Bogusky. It s hilarious and totally engaging. Colleague Michael Green likes the idea that it s funny and quirky enough that you want to wa...
This one works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWPf1BWtkwIts long and great for a viral video; so many jokes, good chemistry. Much more interesting than the first one....
When to be Redundant, Repetitive, and Say the Same Thing Twice
Remember your fifth grade What I did on my summer vacation paper, where you used the words pool, baseball and bike 100 times apiece? And your English teacher dutifully marked your paper up with her red pen. Redundant. Don t ...
WordPress Wednesday News: 4 WordCamps, WordPress 2.6.2, Bad Themes, Count Twitterers, Threaded Comments, and Sticky Posts
Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2...
Web-based Carpooling Startups Woo the Enterprise Market
As gas prices have soared, more commuters have made the switch to carpooling, and they re turning to a host of free web-based services from government-sponsored transit programs to iPhone apps and widgets to meet their needs. But the plet...
25 Powerful Tweets Remembering The 7th Anniversary Of 9/11
Today is the anniversary of 7 years since 9/11 and there are signs all over that it is happening with a new memorial in DC being dedicated today and radio shows and TV programs all talking about the same thing here in the US. One of the most powerful...
The Interview: Kevin Micalizzi
I first met Kevin P. Micalizzi @kevinmic at a tweet-up I organized for Boston Tweeple in August. Chatting with Kevin at John Harvard s he described his background with Avid Technology and the work he did there kick-starting social media. I thought ...
I m Looking for a few Good Social Media Stories
I am starting my 16th month of writing my Social Media Global Reports. To date, I have interviewed 108 people in 34 countries. They are a diverse lot, ranging from Michael Dell, founder of the world s second largest computer company to Wael Abbas who...
My Fun Blackberry
RIM made a bunch of announcements today. MySpace, Tivo, Slacker ... they already had Facebook. Years ago the only people you saw using a Blackberry were overly serious investment bankers from Wall Street. It s fun now. It comes in colors. It has fun ...