In honor of Pacman’s 30th anniversary, Google has made the iconic game a part of its home page and logo.
Google PacMan
Pretty cool.
Could Google’s cloud be the final frontier for gaming and yet another for @Google Advertising?
If you haven’t tried gmail’s video chat feature you ought to!
I have a pretty large house and recently discovered its much easier to reach and speak with my children via chat either text or video because they are often online too.
Video Chatting
If you have a Mac, its real easy to set up and start video chatting.
Gmail automatically grabs your camera and feeds the video into your gmail account.
Give Gmail Video Chatting a try.
Postscript: This post was originally written on May 19, 2010 yet inadvertently went unpublished.
I have posted every single day since September 1, 2009 on this blog and I’m somewhat miffed my preoccupation with other matters caused me not get this piece posted on time…
TV meets web.
Web meets tv.
Announcing Google TV…
Learn more about Google TV at www.google.com/tv.
Facebook may indeed be the perfect channel for transmitting “word of mouth marketing”.
The only problem with word of mouth marketing from a marketers perspective is that you can’t legally buy it without disclosing you bought it and word of mouth as a rule can’t be replicated or scaled.
So while Facebook may be the perfect environment for the incubation and distribution of word of mouth, marketers who rely solely on Facebook users to create and distribute positive word of mouth in their behalf may find themselves without a marketing job.
After what seemed like a year, the My Client Center in Google Adwords now resolves to the new Interface version only while no longer offering access to or use of the old interface.
New Adwords Interface Message
So whether you were ready for it or not – its the only Google Adwords interface you’ll see from this point forward.
We had a major hail storm here today and I intentionally Tweeted storm details and location data i.e., my city to see what if any type of response it generated.
Sure enough, I found myself a new follower on Twitter albeit a contractor who has followed me specifically to try drum up business.
Twitter Prospecting
Whether this approach will generate any new business for this particular contractor remains doubtful.
I recently wrote “News isn’t transactional for advertisers”.
I am not going to go out on another limb and say – “Social Media isn’t transactional for advertisers.”
I am sure there are exceptions to both, but as a rule I will stand by them.
I don’t foresee either media becoming systematically or predictably transactional for advertisers any time soon.
Via TVBR.com
Optimedia US has unveiled findings from Content Power Ratings 3.0, its third annual report that ranks network and cable programs across TV, web and mobile platforms.
A proprietary media metrics system, Content Power Ratings goes beyond traditional audience ratings to measure a show’s true commercial value and footprint. It factors in total cross-platform audience size, advocacy and involvement—providing the industry’s only TV ranking system across three screens.
New to the study this year are two additional streams: Facebook fan count and Nielsen BuzzMetrics, both of which quantify unique aspects of digital activity: the number of “friends” TV shows have on Facebook, and the sentiment of conversations on blogs and chatrooms related to those shows.
How Optimedia US creates its Content Power Rankings:
Using data culled from the agency’s own primary research, as well as from Nielsen Media Research’s NTI database, Nielsen Online Video Census, Nielsen Mobile, comScore’s Media Metrix, Facebook, Nielsen’s BuzzMetrics, E-Poll’s FastTrack™ Television, Google Trends, and Dow Jones Factiva, Optimedia’s Content Power Ratings value programs using three key criteria:
1. Audience Delivery – including average audience impressions across TV, Web and Mobile platforms
2. Involvement – overall awareness of and loyalty to program; including index of Google search volume and effort made to watch the show
3. Advocacy – overall levels of conversation and PR activity– including press mentions, recommendations and general “buzz,” in addition to personal recommendations
Content Power Rankings
If only the shows with high content power rankings could further capitalize on the equity their products hold beyond their primary television distribution channel.
I posted the following question regarding Facebook’s plans to profit from its users privacy on Google Moderator.
Facebook's Plans To Profit From Its Users Privacy
What do you think – How should Facebook users respond to Facebook’s plans to profit from its users private web viewing activities?
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