Samsung HD Video trick challenge.
This is a fascinating YouTube Video riddle by Samsung. Let’s see if you can find out how it works:
Interview with Obamas New Media Operation Manager
Mary C. Joyce was the New Media Operation Manager of Barrack Obama’s electoral staff. German Techsite Golem interviewed her during re:publica, a german blogger conference last week. It’s not about the tools, she says, it’s the strategy. I almost guessed that…
(Found here.)
Weblinks, April 8th
- Steven Berlin Johnson about old growth media and the future of news (not newspapers). Very interesting points about the bright future of news and the possible role of newspapers/journalists – yes there might still be a future for that industry.
- The information architects Japan have launched their fourth version of the web trend map.
- Stop buying attention, start earning it, is the tenor of an adage keynote presentation (found here)
April Fools Day from YouTube
Nope, this is not about their current struggle with the rights of music videos in several countries (including Germany and the UK). It’s about their „new“ design, which they introduced today!
Click here to see a larger Version. In case of problems, they give you the following tipps (in German, I am afraid, but the cartoons are explicit enough…):
(the last tipp says: move to Australia…)
Pharrel vs McDonalds
While in Paris on a connecting flight, Pharrel tries to order a Big Mac while it’s still 6am – and the french staff neither know Pharrel, nor do they want to offer him anything but breakfast – and last but not least they don’t seem to know him and aren’t impressed at all by his musical performance:
McDonalds obviously has nothing to do with it:
A McDonald’s rep confirmed that the stunt wasn’t commissioned by the fast feeder. However, he was impressed with the publicity. The rep said: „We were surprised and entertained by the video of Pharrell performing [our jingle]. We certainly welcome him as a customer, and we appreciated his spontaneous and funky celebration of our food.“
And I wonder: what will McD do next, how will they appropriately (digitally) respond to this video, which gathered half a million views in only a few days?
How to do social media right in 2009
Here is a rather interesting social media presentation, especially because of the cases listed and categorised:
View more presentations from Marta Strickland.
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