Google and FriendFeed Celebrate the New Year in Style

January 1, 2010 By 1 Comment

By now, we’re used to seeing a new Google logo on holidays or other special occasions.  But today Google has added in an extra treat.  Head over to Google and without anything in the search field, click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button.

If that wasn’t enough, visit FriendFeed for another welcome to 2010.  Once you log in to your FriendFeed account a duck celebrating 2010 will begin scrolling across your screen.  Moving your cursor over the duck will bring up cross-hairs allowing to fire a round at the duck.  The duck then flips upside down and falls off of your screen.  It definitely brings back thoughts of long hours spent playing Duck Hunt.

Have you found any other fun surprises across the interwebs today welcoming you into 2010?

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Lunch with the Pirates – Episode 1 – Welcome to Pirates TV

April 14, 2009 By 5 Comments
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Episode #1 – Wednesday, April 8, 2009
(Episode Length: 22 minutes, 21 seconds)

Intro

  • You can join us live every Wednesday at 12p ET (9a PT) over at New Marketing TV which gets hijacked and changed to Pirates TV.
  • To interact with us, you can catch up with us on Twitter: @justinlevy or @crbrowning.  Also, make sure to tag your questions, comments or feedback with #piratestv.
  • Lunch with the Pirates is jumping on board with all of the other live broadcasts.  Some of our friends include: HubSpot TV, Permission TV and Blue Sky Factory TV.  It is so easy to start and cheap to start a “TV show” nowadays but, are there companies that shouldn’t start a live online broadcast?

Pirate Marketing Moves

  • Skittles - Was it just a publicity stunt to get conversation going?  Colin doesn’t think so.  Colin believes that Skittles was turning the conversation over to their customers.  Thoughts?
  • iRoadTrip – The first iRoadTrip saw the team travel through the heartland of America to visit with true American innovators.  Next trips include an iRoadTrip sustainable innovations and education.  Disclosure: This is a New Marketing Labs project…

What’s in the Spyglass?

  • New Beta FriendFeed – Is it Twitter or is it Facebook?  I tend to think that it looks similar to the new version of Facebook.  This is very interesting because there were a lot of conversations around Facebook ripping off FriendFeed when they first released the “Like” feature.  However, this beta version of FriendFeed looks very similar to the Facebook stream.

…and with that concludes our first episode.  We actually recorded a few more minutes but realized that the camera stopped taping.  Oh well, we’ll keep improving each week, we promise :)

We know what we liked and what we want to improve upon but now we want to hear from you.  What did you think?  What can we do better?  Did you find the topics interesting?

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FriendFeed is Like Salsa

March 3, 2009 By 9 Comments

salsaOk, so I’m weird.  I have an obsession with chips and salsa.  I seriously could eat it all the time and be perfectly happy with it.  So, while thinking about some great salsa I had a couple days ago interspersed with thinking about social media, I came up with a conclusion.  FriendFeed is like salsa.  How you may ask?

friendfeedWell, it’s actually quite a simple explanation.  The reason why salsa is so great is because it generally starts with the same few basic ingredients: tomatao, onion, jalapeno, cilantro, etc.  From those basic ingredients, and with the addition of others, you can create many different forms of salsa.  Everyone has their own variations.  That’s how FriendFeed isn’t it?  You start with all the same basic ingredients: Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS or your other favorite services.  From those basic ingredients you create your own variations of FriendFeed.  That’s what so great about the service, it is a different experience for everyone that uses it.  Kinda like salsa.  Salsa is always different, even if you buy the same brand more than once.

See, told you it was a simple explanation.

Do you like salsa as much as I do?  See the connection that I’m making here?  What are your thoughts?

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