I’ve been hearing all about this hilarious new SAA advert on TV. I can’t find it anywhere on the web.
A lost opportunity for the power of viral i think. Probably some typical narrow-minded traditional ad agency thinking going on here.
(i also looked for 1time and kulula in case it wasn’t SAA)
Update:
Mike sent the link to [...]

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First off, Merry New Year and all that.
We’re up to 665 members and counting on the Facebook fan page. Here’s some info, useless as well as useful, and a few learnings too..
Some stats
In the last 10 days we’re getting an average of 125 pageviews / day
Sex breakdown: Predominantly male at 84% (no surprise there)
Age breakdown: [...]

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This is pretty unbelievable. A well earned 1.5 million views on YouTube..

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Much has been said about Google’s OpenSocial APIs, but for me the fact that it isn’t really a website or physical space is what makes it interesting.
Uno De Waal is someone who’s posted quite a bit about social networking platforms (or social networks) being a fad, whilst the activity of social networking is here to [...]

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If you use Firefox, and don’t have the monkey’s face staring at you from the status bar, you probably won’t know too much about Greasemonkey.
From wikipedia:
Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages.
Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functionality to web pages (for example, [...]

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My cousin Sarah-Jane Klemptner and I are quite close to launching a new venture (very part-time for me) which takes the form of an online shop. It’s all very exciting and stressful at the same time.
Babazeka will be bringing you some of the finest, and just plain nicest contemporary handmade African stuff, sourced by Miss [...]

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Scrabulous for me, is the most important application for Facebook since sliced bread.
Truth be told, for me, FB’s gravity is waining, I just don’t find that there’s much to do there anymore. I feel like a youth who’s now gotten tired hanging out in the same shopping mall.
But “the scrabulous” has brought me [...]

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See the site at BMW-web.tv.

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They’re phrases that have taken to the geek web/marketing/advertising industry like a “smash hit” that gets played every 5 minutes on the radio (disclaimer: I live on my ipod. I don’t listen to ‘music’ radio anymore, so I could be wrong, but i suspect it’s worse than ever).
In no particular order:
- Web 2.0
- Blogosphere
- “after [...]

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