Viral, Are We There Yet?
There’s no doubt that viral videos are every marketer’s dream, but viral can’t be made… or can it?
“We want to keep a good thing going.”™
There’s no doubt that viral videos are every marketer’s dream, but viral can’t be made… or can it?
The ICQ of 1996 is no more, now it’s a hub of facebook, flickr and twitter connectivity, streaming in news feeds, photo updates and tweets in the user panel.
Microtransactions, monetary purchases for in-game items to expand a game’s content, has been in Japan for quite some time, but as it creeps into the USA, how many people are going to be on board?
Indeed it is hard to imagine a world where we cannot simply “google it” to get the answers, even though that world existed only a short while ago, and it is equally hard to totally predict the change that will occur because of this technology.
There’s been several battles on this topic from account bannings to players in some games taking matters into their own hands. Going on gold farmer raids, putting them on hit lists and hunting them down. But now, a more interesting approach is being taken by Blizzard, the makers of World of Warcraft.
Twitter, has rocketed from obscurity to the status of social networking phenomenon, but with the recent rash of celebrities leaving the site is the Twitterverse on a path to entropy?
WhiteFi could revolutionize mobile media, save the Radio Industry and generally make the world a better place by fostering new conservation technologies.
When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) made the decision late in 2008 to allow unlicensed broadcasting devices access to “white spaces” in the television spectrum, many saw the move as a potentially giant step forward for US wireless networking.
By now, most of us are familiar with the social networking phenom that is Twitter. Twitter has proven to be a great way to keep up with our fast paced, fast changing world, by following life as it unfolds in real time. The ApolloPlus40 project, created by Nature News, proves that Twitter is not just a great way to discover what people are doing now; it can also help us discover the past.
Perhaps you have stumbled upon or even participated in an emerging phenomenon in the Internet community: HI-larious comment threads. The article that I found was focussed on Epic Amazon Review Threads (EARTs), but in my opinion this is far more widespread than just Amazon.