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YouTube’s “Yahoo-Like” Homepage Makeover: More Ads, Professional Content

I’ve often said that you need to logout of your account to see what YouTube really looks like, since that’s what the majority of viewers are seeing. Let’s look at one of last year’s last Archive.org homepage screen shots of YouTube, and compare it to today’s. Some differences: 2008 has lots of white space and…

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“Funny or Die” Defeats Death. And Gets My Secret Sauce to a Phoenix-Like Revival.

In a brave move by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and their gang, Funny or Die has finally moved its content to YouTube. The FunnyorDie website has always had an identity-crisis. It certainly wasn’t a sage financially-driven move, but a fantastic creative outlet for spontaneous and risque comedy by Ferrell, McKay and friends. It was a…

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AppleTV & iTunes Dissintermediates Cable? Bigger Than Balloonboy Story.

Wowzer. Your’e going to want to read this post, because it’s hot news. And because I put some effort into some seriously solid metaphors that damned well better be scraped by some bigger bloggers. For years I’ve been bitching and moaning about Apple not putting its little heart into AppleTV (instead of screwing with these…

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Unconventional Marketing Tips About Twitter

I really like this piece titled “Four Reasons to Shut Up on Twitter,” and actually read the entire iMediaConnections piece despite the need to advance pages several times to read it all. Madhuri Shekar (a Sony pictures intern) provides some wisdom (some from a 140 conference) about brand best and worst-practices of Twitter, and some…

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Marketing in Your Ear & Vook as “Monkey Sewn to a Rat”

What? Hear all of these peeps at once? And they’re talking about Bluetooth marketing and VOOKS! What’s a Vook? Daisy Whitney (Queen of emerging media), Tim Street (writer of recent and free eBook, 10-things-to-do before uploading a video) the “fabulous-faced” Shira Lazar sponsored Australian warrior & Southern Comfort pitchman,  Scotty Iseri and me (Nalts) Listen…