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What’s For Dinner? Not A Feed.
SpecialsByZip.com just launched an e-mail subscription service for New Yorkers. They’ll send you a daily e-mail listing the daily specials at local restaurants. Seems a no-brainer for a…
Social Voicemail: Latest Marketing Tool?
With Social Voicemail, you call one toll-free number to leave one message for all your friends. Your friends receive a text message…
The Problem with Earth Day: No Meal
Last year I covered an interesting effort by Organic Valley Farms to align itself with Earth Day (and give the holiday a…
Official Google Blog Deleted, Blogger Registers googleblog.blogspot.com
Back in April 2004, Google launched their blog at googleblog.blogspot.com. But somehow, in the past few hours, that blog has been completely…
Feed Rinse; Filter Your RSS Feeds
Traffick reviews this cool service that filters your RSS feeds for the content you want to read. The tool is named Feed…
Melody and her Webcam
Paging all online word-of-mouth fetishists: YouTube user bowiechick (actual name: Melody) has been videoblogging about David Bowie and her Logitech webcam on…
Pepsi: Combine Media and Brand Relevance
Pepsi gets that they’re not in control. Anotonio Lucio, SVP insights and innovation, is talking CGM right now at the Conference on…
Debunked: MSN Search Box Not Allowed on Google’s BlogSpot Blogs
Nathan Weinberg reports that https://rjdohnert.blogspot.com/ received an email from Google saying you are not allowed to place the MSN Search box on…
‘Crash the Trailer’ on Road to Canonization
Last year didn’t have a breakaway viral in the way 2004 did with Subservient Chicken, but New Line’s “Crash the Trailer” edit…
WOM Wednesdays
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) plans to hold a weekly teleconference series to educate marketers on topics like blogs, ethics…
Natalie Portman Raps Again
NBC has evidently not lost all reason. After taking its 40 lashes for sending take-down letters to YouTube over two SNL rap…
BSkyB Behind Viral Simpsons Video
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is behind a fantastic viral video that recreates, with real live actors, the Simpsons introductory montage, according to…
Mary Woodbridge and Her Dog Climb Mount Everest
Sex is not a necessary ingredient for a winning viral. You can substitute quality or relevance any day. Take mountaineering gear maker…
CitiBank Gets Blogswarmed
AdFreak, Boing Boing, Consumerist and the rest of the blogosphere is abuzz about the fallout from CitiBank’s apparant fraud issues that have…
Forced Buzz
Tranparency in viral campaigns is necessary, but posting step-by-step instructions on your Web site might turn transparent into bold print. KFC said…
Technorati Adds Technorati Favorites
Technorati added a new feature Tuesday named Technorati Favorites. This feature allows you to add your favorite blogs and sources to your…
Kid-Generated Advertising
The campaign for the upcoming animated flick Doogal takes user-generated marketing to new heights (or lows). A print effort links people to…
Valentine’s Viral
Still stumped for an appropriate Valentine’s day gesture? This viral magnetic poetry game from TribeAgency might help you keep out of hot…
Filter By Authority is Added to Technorati Search
Search Engine Journal reports that Technorati added an “authority slider” to its search engine. The search slider enables you to set the…
Feedster Gets a New Look
A quick note to point out that “feed” search engine, Feedster, has undergone a makeover. Much cleaner and easier to read home…
Don Dodge Chats with Memeorandum Founder, Gabe Rivera
Via Scobleizer, a very interesting interview by Don Dodge (ex AltaVista now at MS) with the founder of Memeorandum, Gabe Rivera. From…
Mossberg Positive About Rollyo and PubSub, Rollyo Adds New Firefox Search Bar Feature
The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has positive comments about two services, PubSub and Rollyo, two services that we’ve posted about several…
Miller’s Animal Auditions
Not sure if it’s the lingering effects of lunch or the lazy ramblings of these CGI-cloaked working actors, but watching Miller’s animal…
Personal Search Vertical ZoomInfo Awarded U.S. Patent
ZoomInfo, a vertical that mines open web content for information about people (and a service we’ve written about many times) recently received…
Burger Queen
CP+B continues its Burger King/Brooke Burke paparazzi parody, begun here and furthered here. The two are now engaged, so the next logical…
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