Read on for an ongoing recap of all the practical jokes. Smells like April Fools' Day. You know, immature and cheesy, with a quick, bright finish. At least according to Google Nose, one of the latest additions to Google's long line of new...
And as in other gathering places, commerce happens too (and jokes and art-making and debating, and - you get the idea). Twitter turned 7 years old today. The social network now has 200 million active users – up from 140 million active users last year.
This will probably lead to some original and creative campaigns, but also to commercial spam on user-created topics, such as the Twitter trending topics based on jokes, that brands often use in a clumsy way to try and look cool," Gaudette said.
So while I'll follow your tweet stream and laugh at your jokes, I will never ever do business with you. Let's be real: Microsoft is no stranger to bad advertising campaigns. However, its recent campaign may just be the worst yet.
Funny photos, memes, jokes, anecdotes or deals are shared and reshared on Facebook at an alarming rate. Setting yourself up for success will make all the difference. That, coupled with realistic expectations, is the pathway to a successful social...
It has also been the butt of jokes and suggestive oddities that leave searchers wondering about the state of humanity more so than the state of search. Many search marketers have fixated on Panda and Penguin updates from Google this year.
The Legends and Jokes section refers to requests such as “Obama’s birth certificate,” “Obama as a muslim,” “Mitt Romney dog on roof,” and so on. We are able to elect our leaders and live without limitation.
Industry observers have recognized that Sloof Lirpa is "April Fools" spelled backwards, but the search engine industry issues covered in this exclusive interview aren’t jokes. Dr. Lirpa received his PhD from Cornell University, where he studied...
Google’s practical jokes began a day early in 2012, with 8-Bit Google Maps, Chrome Multitask Mode making their debut, then continued early this morning with the YouTube Collection, Google Racing, Click-to-Teleport search ads, and much more.
Following Siri's witty reference to Monty Python, we had high hopes of finding a talent for telling jokes. Siri couldn't tell jokes but had demonstrated a sense of likes and dislikes so, like a modern day Cyrano de Bergerac, my next tack was to...
Practical jokers are still alive and well in the real world and some jokes are meaner than others. "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. In keeping with the tradition of "skip a week and all hell breaks loose", here we go again.
So, the moral of the story is, if you want to get noticed online or more links to your blog, one strategy might be to make jokes out of current events. All eyes have been on the live investigation of the phone hacking scandal surrounding Rupert...
Lame jokes. Video posted this week offers a trip back in time to the early startup days of Google. The vintage footage, posted by ex-Googler Doug Edwards, who was director of consumer marketing and brand management for Google from 1999 to 2005...
Stephen Colbert suggests that Sheen is endorsing Naked Juice and DirecTV based on his twitpics, and jokes that he is endorsing Lithium too. I was lucky enough to get tickets to the taping of The Colbert Report last night and was pleased to find...
For quite some time, LinkedIn Direct Ads were the butt of PPC marketers' jokes, sporting terrible ROI, high CPC, and abysmal CTR. As predicted, LinkedIn, pre-IPO, rolled out features that many had been waiting on for quite some time: the ability to...
People came out on both sides - with a lot in between making jokes - on Twitter, but responses like "mention of Taco Bell wants me to go there right now" were also prevalent. Using its own tag line Taco Bell has gone outside the bun to counter...
His "jokes" about privacy gave Google foes plenty of ammunition. The speculation has already begun. Was CEO Eric Schmidt really forced out and why? Was there friction among the Google triumvirate? Will the introverted Larry Page be a good face of...
After the round of jokes about his name settled down (it took a while), the speculation began in earnest about what he was going to bring to the table, having come from EA. Happy 2011, gang! I hope everyone had a terrific break and a wonderful new...
They don't want any "fake people" using the service (the jokes write themselves, folks.the jokes write themselves. Or the bunnies. Possibly, the vampire bunnies. At least that's what it looks like Linden Lab is banking on.
This had the audience riveted to their seats -- when they weren't laughing at his jokes. The opening keynote by Jeff Hayzlett, the bestselling author, and former Koday CMO, pulled no punches at SES San Francisco.
