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Creativing :: Remarkable iPhone story from Haiti, Put yourself in a music video, and the future of mobile and social networks
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22 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive | Wired.com Remarkable story about a documentary filmmaker caught in the Haiti earthquake and survived, in part due to a first aid app on his iPhone. Of course, this is as [...]
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- Tags: iphone, mobile, newspapers, outsourcing, social, tool, ugc, video
Creativing :: Twitter for event marketing, Foursquare is serious gaming, and Minority Report here we come
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15 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week As CNN demonstrated it’s impact during the Gulf War, it’s tragic events like the Hattian earthquake that perhaps most demonstrate the power of Twitter. And it’s not Twitter per se, but rather the direct form of simple, unfiltered, [...]
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- Tags: controversy, google, mobile, paidmedia, street view, twitter, video, youtube
Creativing :: iPhone AR helicopter, smartphones and ecommerce, and a look under the hood of any website
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8 Jan 2010What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Tweet of the Week This is a new feature I’m going to add to this column each week. 140 Characters How Twitter Was Born Ran across this story from Dom Sagolla, one of the original team that created and launched Twitter. Note how, [...]
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- Tags: ar, augmentedreality, data, facebook, iphone, technology, twitter
Creativing :: Google Google and more Google, a restaurant does brand experience, and Guitar Hero for the holidays
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19 Dec 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Google Chrome promotional videos Fantastic videos from the Chrome campaign in the UK. It’s great to see Google doing something different from their homespun Wave video approach. This is real artistry. Ultimate Guitar Hero Experience It’s amazing what happens when you take [...]
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- Tags: branding, facebook, gaming, google
Creativing :: Holiday shopping madness video, social media gains advocates, and iPhone news
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11 Dec 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Chaos inside Walmart during Black Friday 2009 [VIDEO] Absurd chaos going on here. You’d think a gun was fired. People in some parts of the world must see this and think this entire country is insane. Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman Mashup Creates [...]
Creativing :: Insta-branding, the future of books, an alternate awards show (finally), and Yahoo goes a little more social
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4 Dec 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Ramparts Magazine: A Bomb in Every Issue – KCRW’s Politics of Culture Fascinating podcast on 60s magazine Ramparts, which went from a Catholic literary quarterly to seminal left-wing publication. Jan Wenner worked there before launching Rolling Stone. So did the founder of [...]
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- Tags: branding, facebookconnect, photography, yahoo
Creativing :: Social gaming’s revenue model is working, Twitter tools and insights, and Facebook Page updates are generating responses
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27 Nov 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: The Goods May Be Virtual, but the Profit Is Real Recently, I’ve posted a number of articles on this trend, and yet more reinforcement keeps popping up. This is a look at gaming, particularly social gaming. While the article doesn’t delve into [...]
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- Tags: facebook, gaming, research, technology, twitter
Creativing :: New storytelling on the iPhone, Google Chrome shows some personality, and the Xbox goes social
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20 Nov 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: The PhoneBook – The future of interactive storytelling? Perhaps iPhoneBook would be more accurate. A simple children’s story book concept for integrating the interactivity of an iPhone with a physical book. The big idea here is that one book could launch an [...]
If you’re interested in discovering any new marketing tools, especially if you work in the creative or communication fields, you might find some of these useful. I certainly have. The list includes Skitch, iPlotz, MeasureIt, and Kuler, to name a few. And I’d love to have anyone turn around and scoop me on any new [...]
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- Tags: creativity, tools
Creativing :: ESPNs anti-social media policy, Facebook’s ad innovations, and change isn’t just for advertising anymore
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13 Nov 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: ESPN Responds to Criticism and Publishes Social Media Policy Previously I posted someone’s prediction that going forward, more and more companies were going to have a social media policy, which I certainly agree with. Perhaps no place will these policies be more [...]
Creativing :: Craziest iPhone game evah, the future of movies, and Steve Jobs’ presentation secrets
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6 Nov 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Endless Racing Game for iPhone, Next Level – Video This is crazy. Using the compass and bluetooth, you can string together multiple iPhones to create an open-ended track that these cars race around. I’ve downloaded it, and am on the hunt for [...]
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- Tags: facebook, facebookconnect, gaming, iphone, movies, social, twitter
Creativing :: Futbal Hero video, Facebook’s latest marketing strategy, and Sony goes hunting for game spammers
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30 Oct 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: YouTube – Kasabian Football Hero It’s always great when a cool video is accompanied by a good song. While more documentary than music video, this is a fun riff on the Guitar Hero user interface, despite actually using open source version Frets [...]
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- Tags: art, facebook, gaming, social, socialmedia, strategy, video, youtube
Creativing :: Seinfeld on smartphones, a variety of iPhone app approaches, and development issues marketers should know
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23 Oct 2009What’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: What Seinfeld thinks about Blackberries and iPhones I don’t know what he’s been doing for the past five years, but he hasn’t lost it. Adobe’s Photoshop.com iPhone app goes live I’m digging this. It has the standard color balance and tinting features, [...]
Creativing :: Twitter Celebrity Death Match, Info Gets Entertaining, And The Future Of Everything
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16 Oct 2009My weekly update of what’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Demi versus Perez? See Twitter So celebrity angst is blowing up on Twitter. Let’s see, you take a group of people flush with cash and big egos from getting lots of adulation, a good percentage of them are [...]
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- Tags: facebook, films, information, navigation, social, twitter
Creativing :: A breakup test from Bjorn Borg, the problem with Web reputation systems, and iPhone app development gets easier
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10 Oct 2009My weekly update of what’s going on in new media marketing, pulled from social bookmarking site Creativing.com: Break Up Test One of the funniest things I’ve seen all year. And from Bjorn Borg (he of the frozen tundra demeanor). In truth, this doesn’t really come from Bjorn. Actually, it’s from his underwear. Building Web Reputation [...]
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- Tags: blogging, branding, humor, media, technology, tool, tv, twitter
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There's so much digital marketing info flying around the web that sometimes it makes my brain hurt. This is where I process it, and you're welcome to join in.
- Doug Schumacher: Exciting for sure. One area that I think has a lot of potential is not only showing me places around [...]
- David Gillespie: Hey Doug, The thing I like about ForuSquare is it is also a front runner on the emerging wave of [...]
- ken manning: I like how Yelp introduced the Monocle feature a few months back. It was an easter egg in their exis [...]
- Doug Schumacher: Tom, You're dead on. The 'Anvil' case you mention is a perfect example of how entertainment prope [...]
- Tom Richards: Hi Doug, Well written. I totally agree. Thanks for sharing this. A bit off topic but this got me [...]
- Creativing :: Stunning infographics, the future of Web content, and NASA explores Flickr
- Creativing :: Virtual booze on Facebook, tracking through RFID bracelets, and the Web of Intent
- Creativing :: Facebook goes location location location, Hysterical ChatRoulette spoof, and stock footage you haven’t seen (and would want to)
- Creativing :: Twitter the movie?, Mafia Wars goes guerrilla, and the future of the Internet is ‘things’
- Creativing :: Apple’s fantastic arrogance, Facebook and Amazon friend each other, and two excellent augmented reality apps
- Creativing :: Facebook is heroin, Farmville engagement is sliding, and the Twitter Times personalized newspaper
- Creativing :: What Steve Jobs should say, kings of YouTube, and dissecting the Old Spice campaign
- Creativing :: Social Media’s World Cup, Ridley Scott directs YouTube, and social media meets the offline world.
- Creativing :: Massive Glastonbury photo tag, Google’s uphill run at Facebook, and mobile heads in-store
- Creativing :: Conan O’Brien’s tweet, Social media pushes the ‘cuddle’ button, and Web 3.0?
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