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2010 Super Bowl Commercials
7 Feb 2010 | 3:51 pmIt’s Super Bowl time and that also means SuperBowl commercial time as well. The Super Bowl profile over on MySpace is tracking all the news and streaming videos of the Super Bowl commercials as they air. Here’s the list so far: McDonald’s 2010 Superbowl Commercial with LeBron The Last Air Bender Trailer from 2010 Superbowl Boost Mobile Shuffle Super Bowl Commercial Bud Light Asteroid Superbowl Ad Doritos Watch Yourself 2010 Superbowl Commercial Simpsons Mr. Burns Coca-Cola Commercial Doritors Dog Collar Super Bowl Ad T-Pain Auto Tune Superbowl Commercial CareerBuilder… -
Grammy Awards 2010 Live Stream
31 Jan 2010 | 1:26 pmThe MySpace Music team and Shira Lazar are hosting the 2010 Grammy Awards Live Stream today. Check it out! -
New Baby, New Job, New Space
14 Jan 2010 | 6:37 amThis seems to be a big week for me. After announcing our first kid is on the way, I’m also happy to announce that I’ve accepted the position of Director of Content Socialization at MySpace. Some of you may not know but I actually have a pretty long history with MySpace. When the service launched I was actually one of the first 3000 users to setup a profile. I can really remember the atmosphere back then, the almost feeding like frenzy so many of us went through. Of course, the concept of social networking and building online friends was somewhat new, but it was clear these platforms… -
I’m 50Cent’s #1 Fan
13 Jan 2010 | 5:17 pmOf course you can be too if you head over to http://www.myspace.com/fanvideo. There you can make your own video with 50 and a few other artists. This very slick effect is from MySpaceUK, I’m trying to find out a few more details about this. Update: Looks like this thing really took off and the servers couldn’t handle it. Hopefully it’ll be back online soon. I also got the following background via our MySpaceUK Editor Will Francis. The application was created by top London advertising agency BBH and production company Pulse Films. Post production came from Absolute Post and…
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Manolith
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Johnny Depp Unsurprisingly Directing Documentary On Keith Richards
4 Feb 2010 | 1:12 pmHe would, wouldn’t he? Johnny Depp likes rock music. Johnny Depp wants you to know that. Which is why Johnny Depp is directing a documentary on Keith Richards. You have to hand it to Johnny Depp he seems like he’s pretty consistent with his affections on certain subjects. Which makes me wonder if he isn’t just constantly high. Lord knows I would be. You’ve got your own private island, act in movies that you never watch, and just pal around with rockstars all day. Why WOULDN’T you be high? According to an interview, Depp is working on a documentary about the aged rocker. No word yet… -
Nick Jonas Bags on Bob Dylan
4 Feb 2010 | 1:08 pmTimeless. Croaky. Legend. These are some of the words that could be used to describe Bob Dylan and his music. Add to that list: subject of Nick Jonas’ ridicule. Never mind the fact that in about a year, nobody will care about the Jonas Brothers, as the fever is already dying down. Never mind the fact that they’re going to try to go solo, and they’ll probably bomb miserably. Never mind the fact that musically, they’re less talented than the band they’re a carbon-copy of, Hanson. Nick Jonas thinks he’s going to be around. Nick Jonas thinks he’s going to be around for a long time. -
Cigarette Explodes, Destroying Man’s Teeth
4 Feb 2010 | 11:00 amAn Indonesian man was riding his motorcycle and smoking a cigarette when he had to pull over, because the cigarette he had been smoking had exploded, destroying six of his teeth. “It’s funny when it happens to Elmer Fudd, but less so when it happens to me while I am riding my motorcycle,” I would have said, were I this man. But were I this man, I would also have said it in Indonesian, and been Indonesian, therefore I would not know who Elmer Fudd was, yet I still would have referenced Fudd, causing a rift in the nature of reality that only Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neil… -
Thursday Throwback: Garbage Pail Kids
4 Feb 2010 | 10:00 amFor this week’s Thursday Throwback, we’re going baseball cards. Well, baseball cards if they were designed by some really, really demented people. And thank God, because as child of the 80’s, I reflect fondly on the emergence of Garbage Pail Kids. For those of you who don’t know, Garbage Pail Kids were the brainchild of Topps, Inc. and future Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman. I’m not being cute. He won the Pulitzer for his holocaust comic Maus, but let’s get pack to the Garbage Pail Kids. First released in 1985, they riffed off of the look of the super… -
Video of the Day – Mel Gibson Is Over It
4 Feb 2010 | 8:00 amMel Gibson Curses Out Interviewer – Watch more Funny Videos
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TechCrunch
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TED: Now with More Elitism?
9 Feb 2010 | 12:33 pmLet me say upfront: I have never been to TED, mostly because I have never been invited and I can’t imagine a world where I justify paying $6,000 for a conference. But I live in Silicon Valley so every year leading up to the star-studded event, I have to hear about it from nearly everyone I know: People who love it and people who hate it. For the last few years, these conversations have gotten ugly. What I’ve seen and heard from the outside depicts the sad transition from what used to be an inventive, elite industry conference that cross-pollinated experts from the worlds of technology,… -
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 12:20 pm“Busy people don’t want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.” – Microsoft statement on Google Buzz. When one of the big guys launches a new product, competitors generally just sit it out and let the press do its thing. But Microsoft made a point of reaching out today with the quote above, criticizing Google Buzz as “another social network” and noting that Hotmail has aggregated Flickr,… -
Yahoo Not Pleased With Google Buzz’s Buzz
9 Feb 2010 | 12:18 pmGoogle officially unveiled Buzz, their major step into social statuses through Gmail today at an event held at 10 AM PT. Within the hour, Yahoo PR was set in motion to let everyone know that they actually did this first, almost a year ago. Here’s the humorous email that was sent out: It’s been almost a year and a half since we first launched Yahoo! Updates – a social feature that lets people share their status, content and online activities and stay connected to what their friends and family are doing on Yahoo! and across the Web – and we wanted to share the latest on what’s… -
Sergey Brin Used Google Buzz To Write His NYT Op-Ed On Google Books
9 Feb 2010 | 11:54 amDuring the Q&A session today following the Google Buzz event, Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed something both humorous and interesting. When asked a question about practical uses for Google Buzz, Brin noted that he actually used the service to help him write his op-ed about Google Books that ran in the New York Times last year. Brin noted that he was having difficulty with the article because it’s just his one point of view. So he put out his draft on Google Buzz (which Google was testing out internally within the company at the time), and quickly got dozens of comments. Brin… -
Screenshots: Google Buzz In Action
9 Feb 2010 | 11:17 amNow that the Google event is over, the company has started turning on Buzz for Gmail users. Here are some quick screenshots of it in action. CrunchBase InformationGoogle BuzzInformation provided by CrunchBase
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Techmeme
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If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present (MG Siegler/TechCrunch)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:40 amMG Siegler / TechCrunch: If Google Wave Is The Future, Google Buzz Is The Present — See our live notes from today's Google Buzz event here. — Google has a problem. Despite having their hands in just about everything online, they've never been able to tackle what is a key part of the fabric of the web: social. -
Introducing Google Buzz (Todd Jackson/The Official Google Blog)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:20 amTodd Jackson / The Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Buzz — We've blogged before about our thoughts on the social web, steps we've taken to add social features to our products, and efforts like OpenSocial that propose common tools for building social apps. With more and more communication happening online … -
Google Officially Announces Google Buzz - A Google Approach To Sharing (Alex Wilhelm/The Next Web)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:05 amAlex Wilhelm / The Next Web: Google Officially Announces Google Buzz - A Google Approach To Sharing — Buzz will begin to roll out in the next 9 - 10 minutes. Full roll out over the next few days. - We are updating, bear with us. — As we expected after yesterday's breaking news, Google has officially announced … -
Google Buzz in Gmail (Gmail Blog)
9 Feb 2010 | 11:05 amGmail Blog: Google Buzz in Gmail — Posted by Edward Ho, Tech Lead, Google Buzz — Five years ago, Gmail was just email. Later we added chat and then video chat, both built right in, so people had choices about how to communicate from a single browser window. Today, communication on the web … -
Google Buzz Launches (Andrew LaVallee/Digits)
9 Feb 2010 | 10:20 amAndrew LaVallee / Digits: Google Buzz Launches — Google shared more details Tuesday on Google Buzz. … Buzz, which adds status updates to Gmail, could step up the search giant's competition with social hubs Facebook and Twitter. — Could Buzz be a Twitter-killer? A recap of Google's press conference …
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Tony Adam - Startups, Influencing, Marketing, & Strategy
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Are Google’s real time and latest results REALLY based on relevance?
2 Feb 2010 | 7:20 pmI’ve had a few colleagues and friends lately ask me about Google’s real time search results since they launched real time search about two months ago. To some of you, this might be an obvious post, as Rae from Outspoken Media pointed out with her post about Google enabling real time spam. I was then alerted by a friend that apparently Google is filtering people based on relevance and followers and all that jazz. He pointed to an article talking about how Google ranks tweets. Which the author talks about hashtags, followers, relevance and all that jazz to get you to think that the… -
foursquare: The arrival of the location based business “game”
18 Jan 2010 | 9:05 amI’ve been on this huge kick of creating visibility for products online lately. All I can think about is how to gain visibility for an online brand. Along with that, I’ve been really interested in two other things: Local and Location Aware applications. I’ve had my eye on Yelp for a bit, but even more so lately as the mobile market is growing. But, even more than Yelp, I’m a huge fan of foursquare since I jumped on the bandwagon back at SXSW. Something I really like is that, like any smart business, they are adapting the product to the market and use. They’ve… -
Why being a strategic marketer is so important
4 Jan 2010 | 8:45 amI’ve spent the last week at my parents house in a little town in Los Angeles called LaCrescenta. It’s been the first time I haven’t been in an office for over 1 week in 10 years (side note: this is the first time I’ve been at my parents for this long for almost 5 years). It has been good to take some time and reflect on things and do a little bit of looking at things from that 10 thousand foot view. Which has led me to thinking about why it is ever so important to take time, take a step back, and think more strategically. Looking at things strategically As it turns… -
Social Media Marketing for your Business at SXSWi
26 Aug 2009 | 8:00 amAbout two months ago, I reached out to Chris Winfield, Brent Csutoras, and Todd Malicoat about putting together a Social Media Marketing for your Business Panel at SXSW Interactive. We all thought it would be a great idea and I put it together. All of us particpates in some sort of Social Media Marketing, Optimization, and Promotion on a daily basis with clients and/or the companies we work for. We wanted to share the knowledge that we have all gained on how to successfully drive traffic to sites, how to measure that traffic, and how Social Media Marketing for your Business really works. We… -
SEOktoberfest Charity Auction for the last ticket
30 Jul 2009 | 11:49 amAbout two weeks ago I tweeted about having to say no to something and being bummed. I was invited by the SEOktoberfest crew to be an expert speaking and attending the conference. Unfortunately, because of prior commitments, I had to regretfully decline this once in a lifetime experience. From the expert panelists, to the parties, and of course, who could turn down the playmates? So, why am I telling you this? The SEOktoberfest Last Ticket is available and the charity auction has started! If you can participate in the auction, it is a MUST! You have a chance to participate in an auction that…
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Guy Kawasaki
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How to Avoid Gullibility
8 Feb 2010 | 3:45 pmWe’ve all been sucked into doing something stupid, right? Fortunately, Steven Greenspan has written a book called Annals of Gullibility. In its conclusion he explains how to avoid gullibility, and I’ve provided a synopsis for you. Read the full story at the American Express Open Forum. More on psychology if you need the advice. -
How to Be Empathetic
4 Feb 2010 | 10:24 pmBy definition, good marketers are empathetic. That is, they have a capacity to understand and care for the needs of others. Bruna Martinuzzi explains how to be empathetic over at the American Express Open Forum. -
How to Not Be Annoying on Twitter
4 Feb 2010 | 10:19 pmAmber MacArthur explains how to not be annoying on Twitter over at the American Express Open Forum. Sage advice for you to develop a great reputation and following on Twitter. More Twitter tips. -
The Elements of Guyle: British Blogging
27 Jan 2010 | 10:06 pmWant to make your blog classier? You should blog like a Brit. I explain how to do this in ten easy steps. -
How to follow the Apple announcement
27 Jan 2010 | 7:56 amFollow the Apple announcement at Apple.alltop. We aggregate over 200 sources there.
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Matt Cutts
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Chrome support for Greasemonkey
8 Feb 2010 | 9:30 pmBack in December, I happened to click on a Greasemonkey script in Chrome and was shocked that it just worked. At the time, I wrote a note within Google that said Whoa. I just clicked on a Greasemonkey script in the latest dev version of Chrome (4.0.266.0 on Linux). Chrome offered to install the GM script, so I said okay. The script ran perfectly in Chrome with no changes at all! I don’t know how many Greasemonkey scripts will run in Chrome unchanged, but at least some will. Last week brought that news as an official announcement. My guess is that scripts that don’t use specific… -
Improving Arabic searches and talking more about ranking
2 Feb 2010 | 12:55 pmMoustafa Hammad and Mohamed Elhawary, a couple engineers in our search quality group, just did a nice post about improving Arabic language searches: Our algorithm employs rules of Arabic spelling and grammar along with signals from historical search data to decide when to leave out spaces between words or when to remove unnecessarily repeated letters. Now, when you type a query leaving out spaces or repeating a letter, we’ll return better results based not only on what you typed, but also on what our algorithm understands is the “correct” query. There’s a few nice… -
Installing Android development environment on Ubuntu 9.04
30 Jan 2010 | 6:18 pmI wanted to play with writing Android apps on my home Linux computer, which is currently running Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). These are mostly notes for myself, so don’t feel guilty if you skip this post. - Make sure your system is up-to-date: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade - Install Java sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk - Switch Sun to be the default version of Java. It’s much faster than the built-in version, at least when I tried it. sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun - Make a directory, e.g. mkdir ~/android - Download Eclipse from… -
Keep an eye on changing pages
25 Jan 2010 | 6:58 pmGoogle just launched a nice feature on Google Reader: the ability to keep an eye on pages for changes. This works even if the page doesn’t have its own RSS feed. This sort of thing is very handy. You could use it to spot new things on a privacy policy page or watch for changes in the executives page at another search engine. Check out the blog post, but it’s easy to use: just add any url to Google Reader. -
PubCon 2009 talk: State of the Index
22 Jan 2010 | 1:34 pmIf you followed @googlewmc on Twitter you would already know about this, but I recently recreated my “State of the Index” talk from PubCon in November 2009. Here’s the video of the talk below: And here are the slides if you’d like to follow along: The talk is almost half an hour, so I hope you enjoy it and learn something new!
