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A very popular turn based strategy game from Nintendo has now been ported to the web, very cool!
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Mini online racing game
Monthly Archive for October, 2006
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coke finally pulls head out of ass!
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more cars in secondLife
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classic:
Web 1.0: Joshua Davis on the cover of Art News.
Web 2.0: 37signals on the cover of Forbes.Web 1.0: Users create the content (Slashdot).
Web 2.0: Users create the content (Flickr).Web 1.0: Crap sites on Geocities.
Web 2.0: Crap sites o
UPDATE:
change of venue, it appears the User Research Friday is going to be a great event for us to tack onto the back of, and they have a cocktail hour starting at 5.30, it’s right near Union square so a pretty central location and looks like a lot of people focused on User Experience/Customer Experience stuff. i’m sure we can manage a little blogger break out session. Address is here:
Bolt Peters. 410 Jessie Street, Suite # 504. San Francisco
I’m sure we can still do the Irish Bank after that.
UPDATE-END
Anyone up for an after work drink in SF on Friday?
So far Dino from the Chroma Blog and Daniel R from Emergence-Media blog and I are on board. Dino is going to be DJ’ing later that night for anyone that wants to party later, not sure what music he’s going to be spinning.
I’ll update this post with any solid plans that emerge so check back, or leave a comment and i’ll email you with the time and place.
Cheers,
Karl
Video-sharing service YouTube has wiped nearly 30,000 files from its website after Japanese media companies said their copyright was being infringed.
Couple of points here, first it shows YouTube is serious about, and capable of removing copyright infringing content in pretty short order. Second, it’s a drop in the bucket of YouTube’s content, with 60,000 uploads a day, that’s half a day of uploaded content. For anyone that thinks YouTube would go away due to copyright issues think again. Yes, i’m talking to you Cuban 
Actually Mark has written a pretty interesting piece here called “YouTube Legally“
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a group post from some respected marketing focused bloggers
Crayon - A New Marketing Company Team includes some new marketing/new PR heavy hitters IMHO, Joseph Jaffe, Shel Holtz, Neville Hobson, and CC Chapman. Very exciting news guys.
More on tech crunch, although Arrington seems a little confused on the Second Life connection, Crayon is a marketing company/social media consultancy and they have a presence in SecondLife, but TechCrunch has grabbed on to Crayons claim to be the first company launched in secondLife, ironically it seems that Crayon has their first PR challenge
More from Shel himself
crayon is something of a mashup. We’re not an agency or a consulting firm, but we do bring the best of what those types of companies have to offer. We’ll approach our assignments with fresh eyes that see the new environment in which traditional marketing and advertising is failing so dismally. We understand that customers (in the broadest sense of the word) are fed up with being marketed to, communicated to, advertised to. Engagement, conversation, co-creation, involvement—these are the approaches that we are anxious to bring to our assignments. Not as an afterthought or add-on, mind you, but as the cornerstone of our work.
More on this later, this is my first day in the Nokia office, so I need to get busy with the multitude of tasks of a new hire, ordering a new computer, choosing a new phone (n95), and generally mixing it up in the office. I did actually start with Nokia a week ago, but the first week was in Finland for a multimedia conference, some wicked jetlag, and a finair strike.
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hell yeah!
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More commentry from Shel Holtz of the For Immediate Release podcast
Great Ad, but is it going to help Sony wrestle back some of it’s TV dominance from folks like Panasonic, Pioneer, and Toshiba? Probably not.
As many of you know i have a less business centric blog called Tcritic.com where I post images of interesting and cool t-shirts, it’s sort of a blog vacation that doesn’t require much thinking. Anyway, after seeing kittenwar.com i thought that would be a cool thing for t-shirts so I decided to rip it off. I did this by putting in a request at a site called RentACoder.com specifying what i needed. The quotes ranged from $120 from a guy in Pakistan to $1000 from a company in the US, so obviously I went with the Pakistani (especially as he had done a lot of projects and had an average rating of 9 out of 10). So $120 dollars later I had a rough, working prototype of t-shirt war up and running (although i should note it came with a pretty massive bug in it that I had to get some local help fixing), for $120 you can’t expect too much. Anyway, the point being, this isn’t a way to get polished software, but if you want a proof of concept this is a pretty good way to go (if your not scared of sharing a little IP… which of course if your just ripping someone else off shouldn’t be a problem).
Here’s a screenshot from tshirtwar, all you would do is click on the t-shirt you like the best and then you see how many times your shirt has won or lost:
If you liked kittenwar your going to love t-shirtwar I’m pleased to announce T-Shirt War where you can upload your t-shirt pics and have them pitted against one another.
You can go here to upload your photo’s into the tshirtwar database and get into the mix, and please send me feedback, this is beta, its a bit of fun, so let me know how I could make it better. Right now jpegs work better than gifs as the server resizing plugin doesn’t’ do gigs justice right now. BTW if your selling the shirt there is a place to put pricing and a link to the t-shirt homepage.
(there maybe a slight delay in photo’s showing up as i’m moderating them at first)
Have fun,
Karl
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Edelman, a premier PR agency in social media takes responsability for creating a “fake blog” for wal-mart
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Shel Holtz from the “For Immediate Release” podcast provides some more context and commentry
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