The One Big Thing: Follow The Data

Photo courtesy of theeerin. In this mashed-up and syndicated online world, the The One Big Thing you need to know for preparing for the increasingly local and mobile Web is Follow The Data. Have you taken a good look at your business data online? Just the essentials: Who, What, Where, When? Any business that relies on local, feet-on-the-ground [...]

Logorama – Oscar Winner For Animated Short Film

This is awesome! Logorama won an Oscar this year for animated short film. Definitely shut the door or put the headphones on if you’re at work: Plenty of colorful language. Found at iLP via BuzzFeed.

Trend: Haul Videos

Haul videos are the democratization of the home shopping network. They typically feature teen girls just back from the mall, shopping bag in hand, gushing over their purchases (or “haul”) to their webcam to be uploaded to YouTube for the world to see. Haul videos are funny, a little weird, and they’re the latest thing. The following [...]

Facebook Farmville Parody

A hilarious spoof of Farmville in the form of a fake television commercial. Found at YouTube from Tobuscus via Mashable via Julio Ojeda-Zapata.

Google Nexus One Smartphone Unboxing…Ninja Style

This sure looks like it should be an official Google ad for the Nexus One but it appears to be just some super-talented animator showing off his stuff. Found at YouTube from PatrickBoivin via Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s Your Tech Weblog.

Bud Light Paintball Airstrike Ad Hijacked By Retailer

Last week I discussed how the advertising industry can revitalize itself by focusing on creating commercial content that is compelling in and of itself rather than content that tries to dupe consumers or is designed to be forced upon them. One example of this type of content that I failed to mention is television ads for [...]

Career Advice For College Students

[/caption] I spent a good chunk of the last two weeks, my vacation, setting up a social media presence for some of my nieces and nephews who are either in the process of applying to colleges or have just begun their careers. Geek that I am, I bought them domain [...]

New Facebook Privacy Opens The Floodgates, Offers More Control

The new privacy settings Facebook is rolling out today should have the ironic effect of substantially increasing the volume of user-created content that is available to the general public, according to All Facebook: As Chris Cox stated on today’s privacy call, “everyone is the new default” for status updates and links. Facebook made sure to highlight that [...]

Facebook Relationship Status: Just Married

This couple changed their Facebook relationship statuses to Married and tweeted about it…at the alter. Found at YouTube from Locuester.

The Wire – WCCO TV’s Innovative Collaborative Journalism Project

I haven’t been shy about my admiration for the work that John Daenzer, WCCO TV’s Director of New Media, is doing over at the station. He is, I think, one of the unsung stars in Minnesota’s digital universe. (I should note here that my company, Tunheim Partners, has done work for WCCO TV in the [...]

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