One of the amazing new Waves we’ve discovered is the iBUILTit Wave-a testament to how creative people can be, and will be, once they decide to take matters into their own hands. A case in point is the Coca Cola Facebook page.
Viral videos aren’t new, but one that hits this big is-and it’s pulling in big bucks for T-Pain. It’s a video that advertises T-Pain’s new iPhone™ app called “I Am T-Pain” and for only $2.99 it can record your own voice with the same auto-tune effect that T-Pain uses.
Depression is up. Connection with nature is down. This modern schism is being reconnected by something called eco-therapy. People spend so much time in their heads doing email, texting, iPodding and iPhoning, it’s no wonder they feel cut off from the earthy, foundational feelings that come from interacting with nature and all the benefits that entails.
When you’re livin’ the DVR Lifestyle, you take charge of time. Your actual age has nothing to do with it. A perfect example is the 100% polyester Max-for-Adults rompers that go for $610.
“Don’t talk to strangers” is good advice; but once you’re able to take care of yourself, well, you might want to log on to Omegle. It calls itself “a brand new service for meeting new friends,” and it is.
There’s a brand battle heating up, and this time the consumers are sitting ringside. In the Brandalizm Wave, people aggressively promote or destroy brands, and in this case Sprint and iPhone are putting on a show for them.
To promote its Send Money tool, Paypal created a microsite called “Do Stuff for Money.” The idea is to get you to use the site to send an offer to a friend via Facebook or email. The offer has a price, and if your friend agrees to do it, he or she gets the money through Paypal.
Evidently there are a lot of seniors who would like to rewind back to a time when they could hang out at a malt shop or coffee house with their buddies and feel like they owned the joint. Mather Lifeway® is banking on it.
While Twitter is still trying to find a way to make money, Dell recently reported that it made $3 million using Twitter. That isn’t a huge fortune these days, but that’s not the point. The news is how Dell connected the reality of product selling with the virtual world of social networking.
As the economy twists and turns, Hindu hermitages are finding that people are seeking them out not only as a place to go for a week of meditation, but also as a place to live. One ashram in Honesdale, Penn., charges $3,000 a year to live there in addition to working in the kitchen.
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