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Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9

(10th Edition)

Jun 19 2008 02:45 pm | Artfulpersuasion | No Comments »

Hello New York!

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Feb 07 2008 07:00 pm | Artfulpersuasion | No Comments »

Marketing Tips From a 16 Year Old

One of the big stories in Australia over the last week has been the hilarious antics of a teenage party boy called Corey Worthington.

Corey is a 16-year-old boy from a Melbourne suburb who has brilliantly encapsulated a lot of the current advice for achieving modern marketing success:

He held a party.
He advertised his party at MySpace.
500 kids turned up.
They drank and got drunk.
They then annoyed the neighbours.
The police were called.

The media pounced on this story, giving old-timers another reason to vent about “the youth of today.” Then something unexpected happened. Corey showed he was smart … or at least that he understands modern media:

He was different.
He was outrageous (so he was noticed — he cut through the clutter).
He leveraged social media.
He branded himself (with a pair of yellow sunglasses that he refuses to take off).

Photo: Channel Seven News
Myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=319250522

Jan 24 2008 01:44 pm | Artfulpersuasion | No Comments »

I just love this creativity

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger

Jan 15 2008 09:12 am | Artfulpersuasion | No Comments »

Google goes social - OpenSocial

On November 1st Google makes an announcment using Campfire1.

Link: code.google/opensocial

“OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. Using standard JavaScript and HTML, they enable developers to create apps that access a social network’s friends and update feeds.

Common APIs mean you have less to learn to build for multiple websites. OpenSocial is being developed by Google in conjunction with members of the web community. The ultimate goal is for any social website to be able to implement the APIs and host 3rd party social applications. Watch the full announcement of OpenSocial at Campfire One.” source; Google/code

Potentially a killer strategy. Facebook has a platform to allow third parties to build applications on Facebook itself. But what Google may be planning is significantly more open - allowing third parties to both push and pull data, into and out of Google and non-Google applications.

In the long run, Google seems to be planning to add a social layer on top of the entire suite of Google services, with Orkut as their initial main source of social graph information and, as I said above, possibly adding third party networks to the back end as well. Social networks would have little choice but to participate to get additional distribution and attention.

Nov 11 2007 03:38 pm | All things Google | No Comments »

Cool browser trick!

Instructions

Go to google.com >
Search for an image…
Paste this into the address bar, hit enter and enjoy

javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.

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