Here is a great infographics shedding some light on how many people have died since the beginning of times. Looks like that number is 106 Billion.
CNN just redesigned their website and its quite a change. I have just gotten use to the their last redesign but this one feels a bit more pronounced.
Right off the top items to note are the global navigation, led by Home, Video and Newspulse, a new digg-like news story stream.
As you scroll down you’re greeted by more New York Times reader-style content buckets each representing a content bucket.
All in all a great redesign. Curious to see what others think.
Part of Adobe Community Out Reach program, Adobe Peapods is the end result of a collaboration between Adobe, Goodby, the Black Eye Peas and Blitz.
Visit the site and create your own flower. You can import pictures from Facebook or use what we’ve provided.
Whether government 2.0 or just plain being smart within the context of social media here is a great add from the Obama administration again on Healthcare debate on linkedin. It’s brilliant on many levels. First by creating a specific message that will resonate with business owners ( an important audience in the ongoing debate), and placing it on a niche social media site where the audience in question indexes really high.
If you’re looking at creating a best-of-breed social media strategy whose goal is to create momentum around a platform, look no further than what the Obama administration continues to do.
Did you think I would let this blog go uncared for more than a few months. A recent project for a large software company in Seattle had me thinking about social media and government. This is why the Obama’s administration latest “widget” (I use the term loosely” is an excellent example of what I (and others I am sure) call Crowd Building using Twitter. That is the idea of building a vocal and pronounced social majority when it comes to a specific issue and/or cause.
What if someone decided to publish Wikipedia’s featured articles on dead trees? What would that collection look like? Well such is the question graphic artist Rob Matthews decided to answer in his portfolio.
The result is indicative of the value that digital has brought to the knowledge domain. I believe that was Rob’s very point.
Just when you thought smart advertising had become an oxymoron Showtime and their media agency OMD sign a deal with advertising deal with Amazon, giving them banners on amazon.com and wait for this, the ability to offer up a free book download on the Kindle.
There certainly has been an explosion of marketing campaigns this year which have used twitter as a key messaging point.
Michael Lebowitz is the founder and ceo of Big Spaceship, and the mind behind qapture.net. He was kind enough to take part in a little back and forth focusing on the Big Spaceship’s most recent release.
Aside from the cute name, this is the second site in seemingly the same amount of days to leverage the community and really content created by Twitter through a sponsored deal brokered by Federated Media.
This time around AT&T and not Microsoft are the sponsors of this effort. Built around March madness it’s mainly a mainly US centric campaign that seems to rally folks around their team in the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament.
The lack of being click on call to action taking me away from this “app” and unto some campaign form or page means that AT&T is seriously making an attempt at utility, by not seemingly pairing this site with any production or product.
Although a bit more constrained than Exectweets, kudos to AT&T, Federated Media and Twitter for their nod to Utility, are well deserved.