flippin' flipboard
An app that turns the content from your social graph into a customized magazine-like experience. All the interesting stuff your friends share, presented in a single, slick, user-friendly experience for your iPad.
happy birthday youtube
YouTube is 5 years old. Here is a compilation of the 20 oldest clips on the site. Seems to me the two Chinese guys (The Back Dorm Boys, or whatever they were called) singing "I Want it That Way" raised the bar.
everything you need to know about chatroulette
... without any of the masturbating men you don't want to know about.
buzz at eleven
My take on Buzz so far? *yawn*
But we'll see. In the meantime, if Google hasn't turned you on yet, you missed the announcement or haven't yet grown tired of the knee-jerky blog posts alternately slamming it as lame or presenting it as a social media game changer, this here is Google's official demo clip that shows how the thang works.
six years in the book of face
All y'all probably know Facebook turned six last week. This handy dandy infographic from Mashable captures all the fun and funky stats about the site. It's pretty much illegible as an embed but you can click to Mashable and get to the full size image for the deets.
the mythical united states of facebook
Click through to the PSFK post for details, but in a nutshell a former Apple engineer digs through the friend networks associated with 210 million Facebook profiles and discovers some trends by region. Interesting stuff.
arrr ohhhh eye
Nice Socialnomics promo video highlighting (mostly well known but interesting nonetheless) social media success stories and ROI cases.
sweethearts + twitter = tweethearts
Sweethearts might be the original micro-messager, doling out lovey-dovey phrases short enough to fit on one of their pastel-colored, chalky-tasting candy hearts. This year, the company adds "Tweet Me" to their repertoire of little love notes.
It's nice to see that even a company that has been around for a century and a half can find inspiration in, erm, @gremanda.
mother of all funk chords
Mashup artist Kutiman remixes YouTube - take a batch of unrelated videos of people playing music, cut 'em together and this is what you get. All audio is the actual sound from the videos - pretty friggin' amazing.
More on YouTube or Kutiman's site: http://www.thruyou.com.
on digital storytelling
Nice presentation by Christine W Huang looks at storytelling in the age of Web 2.0. Well done with some nice examples and thought starters (even though I suspect it would benefit from a voiceover.)
we're all in this together
The 2009 update to MadV's 2007 collaborative video experiment in honor of Guy Fawkes Day. Awesome...
The original video from 2007: http://www.youtube.com/user/MadV#p/u/5/Z-BzXpOch-E
the social presence of the top 15 brands
Interesting analysis of the social media presence of Interbrand's top 15 global brands.
About Me
Greg VerdinoMy name is Greg Verdino. I'm a marketer, writer and speaker currently working as VP/Strategy & Solutions at Powered. My book, microMARKETING hits shelves on August 13, 2010. When I procrastinate by surfing the web or manage to step away from the computer and get outside for a few minutes, some of what I find ends up here.
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