Archives for December 2006
links for 2006-12-17
Southwest Airlines Wanna Get Away
Southwest Airlines pursues a citizen generated advertising approach. Should be interesting.
(tags: Southwest CGM)
Scripting News: 12/16/2006
Traditional PR folks take notice: Say goodbye to embargoes. They used to make sense. Now they don’t. Microsoft is turning product launches into an art form.
(tags: trends embargoes product launch)
Shopping Search, Via [...]
New Second Life Data — Some Highlights & Happenings
The Official Linden Blog posted five new charts showing the growth of the community and economy of Second Life on Tues. I have been traveling and did not have a chance to take a closer look until this morning. Here are some highlights:
Second Life world is made up of over 3,500 regions of [...]
links for 2006-12-16
Cingular turns cell phones into wallets in N.Y. trial | CNET News.com
While millions of Europeans use their cell phones to make purchases every day, “some” Cingular Wireless cardholders in New York City will be testing a new service that allows them to make purchases with their cell phones. It’s amazing how far the U.S. [...]
Census Says: We Spend 60 Percent Of Our Waking Hours Consuming Media
The U.S. census 2007 abstracts were released today. I love digging into the Information and Communications section every year to see how much time and money we’re spending on media. The 2007 projections says each of us are spending about 3,499 hours and almost $900 per year watching TV, listening to our satellite radios, surfing [...]
links for 2006-12-15
Gartner: Blogging to peak in 2007 - Yahoo! News
Rubel said it first, but now Gartner predicts the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide.
(tags: blogger peak)
GigaOM » Bill Gates on the Future of Web Apps
“Leaders in various aspects of the web community” spent a [...]
Rachelle Spero Joins GCI Digital Media
I’m thrilled to announce that Rachelle Spero is joining our Digital Media practice to lead the charge in our NYC office. She brings 14 years of public relations and interactive marketing experience to our table. She has solid digital media and healthcare experience, plus technology and consumer marketing know-how (a press release will go out [...]
links for 2006-12-14
The Corporate Blogging War Has Officially Started
HP, IBM and Dell (a GCI client) are having a conversation via their blogs — for the first time — about energy management, enterprise blogging and transparency.
(tags: enterprise blogging milestone)
links for 2006-12-13
eMarketer.com - The Online Video Market Comes into Focus
New data on on-line video market. Who’s watching? Everyone.
(tags: video videocast)
Takkle.com - High School Sports, High School Athletes
Sports Illustrated’s new social network for high school athletes. Builds off their “Faces In The Crowd” column. Thanks to Emily Thomson for the heads up.
(tags: social [...]
links for 2006-12-12
Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists’ Cameras - New York Times
Advertisers have long been drawn to Times Square as a valuable place to reach consumers, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for space on billboards and blazing video screens. Phone cameras on the ground are making their campaigns viral.
(tags: Times Square viral marketing videos [...]
Healthcare Blogging Summit 2006
This afternoon I spent some time at the Healthcare Blogging Summit in Washington, D.C., and I thought I’d blog about it from my Amtrak ride back to New York (using my Blackberry for broadband access which is handy).
I attended the conference because we work for a lot of pharmaceutical companies, and I wanted to see [...]
