Link Fest

There's a lot of posts I've been meaning to get to, but when time is short, a summary will just have to do.

Interesting stuff from around the way:

• Excellent play-by-play and analysis of the recent Digg fiasco. This will be a case study in surrendering to community.
• For a good case of how to mess things up, check Greg's comments on MySpace and their handling of l'affaire de widget. (I just coined that).
• Porn for planners: behind-the-scenes on the pitch for Hyundai. 
• Love this: greendeavor is a social network/shopping website that does good. And recyclebank gives you points for recycling. Win-win, everybody's happy.
• I'm loving the Chasing Cool book, and here is a good interview with one of the authors.
• Some background on a great talk by Steven Pinker at TED, who argued that things are really getting better for humanity.  We're getting nobler, that's good to know.
  
• Social Dragon: awful name, but interesting model for monetizing user-generated video: upload your video, describe it with tags, set a price, then wait for advertisers to throw money your way so that they can use it for commercials.
• Would you even be remotely interested in receiving advertising on your mobile phone? Didn't think so. So where do they get these studies from?

And some videos:

• via Buzzfeed, have you heard of Bounce, the new style of hip-hop from New Orleans? Don't say you weren't warned.

 

 

 

• Thanks to Neil for posting this, I haven't stopped talking about it today. Everyone is sick of hearing about it. (Make sure to check out Neil's weblog if you haven't recently, so much good stuff on there!).

 

Comments

[dan burgess]

what you were saying about ads on a mobile phone. there's a start up here in the uk about to launch http://blyk.com/. virtual operator funded by third party advertisers. deal is you get free airtime for responding to targetted ads sent to yer mobile. interesting concept but not sure they've really got the model or end user experience cracked.

[Dino]

sounds a bit misguided, doesn't it dan?

[dan burgess]

i think the concept i.e 'free airtime' could be interesting to teens especially. but it feels complicated and too involved for what is essentially becoming a commodity - a phone network. and its essentially interruption. sounds like you've been having some fun on the twitter recently :-)

[dinocrash@rogers.com]

I agree Dan.

You're right about the good times this weekend.

Two really good gigs, the party last night was a re-union for a club we used to play at (kind of like Canada's version of the Ministry of Sound, that closed a few years ago, called Industry). It was unbelievable, loads of people, great sound system.

After a week of work, rss feeds and powerpoint, a good night in the DJ booth is the perfect antitode :)

[Andrew Thrasher]

This is a great book; I have read it and already applied some of the things I've learned from it to my personal and business life. I'd highly recommend anyone and everyone to read it. One of my favorite aspects of the book was the chapter that talks about “growing your pond”, it’s an idea I had never really thought about or heard before. It’s very interesting that Grey Goose has such a premium image, and the majority of young people consider it the #1 in vodka. I enjoyed the story of the blind taste test and how Grey Goose was in fact not the #1, but yet it still sold as if it were….It’s amazing at how good marketing can persuade the buyers.