Archive for the 'Trends' Category

What the heck is going on in ad land? How come, that several creatives are touring from one end of the nation to another? (While documenting their pilgrimmage online on Facebook). Santiago Cosme and Victor Blanco, two advertising students, are travelling from NY, where they landed, to the HQ of CPB in Colorado. In Germany, [...]

Digital Trends for Media View more presentations from frog design. For your bookmarks:

Simon Sinek has written a book about a brilliant idea: “Start with why“. Now he has written a semi-good blogpost about the ad industry titled “I hate you: a tale about the advertising industry“.  His main take out: agencies knowingly produce stuff people don’t want to see, so they look for ways to make people [...]

I really enjoyed the presentation below published by Kai Platschke provocatively titled “Digital is dead”. It isn’t nonsense, of course, instead Kai argues that soon enough, everything is digital. So it won’t make sense any longer to differentiate between digital and non-digital. I strongly agree! Well, see for yourself: Digital is dead View more presentations [...]

Erik Qualman just released a “refresh” of the socialnomics video published a few months ago. Since the numbers in social media developments are so quickly evolving, this refresh seems about time. If you just want to see the numbers and stats, you can visit Eriks blogpost here. If you’re from outside the US, chances are [...]

Foursquare and Gowalla are continously improving and updating their services. Latest news: Foursquare is cracking down on cheaters. If your phone’s GPS determines that you’re not close to where you want to check in, you are not rewarded any points or mayorships. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work with my iPhone, it won’t let me check into [...]

In a blobpost by Leander I was linked to some statistics published by emarketer.com about the growth of Second Life in the last 3 years. It’s amazing to see how their user base has grown round about 30% since their “hype” in 2007, and time spent within the world increased by ca. 20% during the [...]

There is a lot of talk about augmented reality. But the following stuff is way beyond anything I have seen sofar, it looks more like science fiction. Pranav Mistry about the thrilling potential of SixthSense Technology: Let’s hope that technology makes it mainstream within this decade… For your bookmarks:

Continuing on blogging about trends for the upcoming year/decade I just stumbled upon a paper by Edelman about ten ideas for the new decade. Steve Rubel has an embedde scribd in his lifestream, as well as a short video about 4 of the main points underlying the 10 ideas mentioned in the paper: Global (technology, [...]

Happy new year (almost “belated”, since I haven’t posted anything in two weeks…). First post should hence be about new year resolutions. But not mine, which do in fact include the obvious (more sports, loose weight, etc.), but some listed by the viralblog: 1. Make Social Media marketing line budget item (so that it gets [...]

Every year around this time one can find many predictions about the new year in terms of tech & social media trends. So in order to get an overview myself, I have started this post with a collection and summary of the various predictions I could find: Jackie Huba predicts that Social Media will get [...]

You know it’s getting closer to a years end, when people start forecasting trends for the following year. This time it’s really early. It’s only the beginning of November and the first selection of six trends is already online. David Armano writes about these 6 trends: Social Media begins to look less social: as more [...]

A guy named gary has produced a widget which demonstrates in “real time” the explosion of the social web. As you can see below, the rate of new content and interaction on the various social sites and applications is enormous! He writes about it: I quickly built and coded the app based on data culled from [...]

ok, it’s been around for a week already now, but nevertheless, this video again features some interesting stats: For your bookmarks:

The year the media died… This video is great. almost 10 minutes long, like the original song by Don Mclean, and in bits seemingly redundant, but fun to watch and listen to nevertheless – well done! For your bookmarks: