I love this, Bert and Ernie the two best characters in Sesame Street by my reckoning, hit the big time with some gangsta rap. Watch out for a late appearance by the sheep gang. Genius.
Add comment July 20th, 2008
Forget Google Earth, that’s soooo last week. A quick search for Sky, the home entertainment provider, and i got a ppc ad from Google promoting, their new Google Sky service. All the data is taken from the Hubble telescope and it works in the same fashion as Google Earth but also guides to you points of interest if you haven’t got a clue where to start. But why stop there?
Checkout Google Moon and Google Mars with data taken from NASA, you can now explore where the Apollo missions landed amongst other things. The really cool thing is the built in search function in each of these services.
I recommend you try it out but be prepared to be sucked in to spending loads of time looking at stuff a’la Google Earth. The only question is which planet is next?
Add comment June 1st, 2008
My recent lack of blogging has been shocking. Yes i’m still alive! Rest assured, I will be back on form within the next week or so with lots of really cool stuff to talk about, i’m just going through a media blackout currently….
Add comment May 23rd, 2008
11 hour flight from London, and another 3 hours to go through LAX security and get my bag.
Now after a few days in Santa Monica, i’m stuck in LAX again after being told my flight to Vegas has been delayed by 2 hours! After a heavy night out, 2 hours sleep and hooning it down the freeway i’m not best pleased…
Add comment April 11th, 2008
Seeing as it’s April fools day, there’s a lot of ‘hilarious’ pranks going round. To be fair they’re all pretty lame apart from one which came up again today which always makes me laugh, ‘rickrolling’. It’s when you get a link to a video you think is a cool gaming preview or something but it sends to you to a video of Rick Astley.
Childish but funny. Here’s another take on it.
Add comment April 1st, 2008
I knew it wouldn’t be long until search marketing was seen as cool (ahem). But now theres proof it’s hitting the underground rap scene, forget sex, drugs and drive-bys….. PPC, SEO and social are the new status symbols on the mean conference streets.
Here’s Poetic Prophet with PPC 101 to ease you in, also check out his other work on his youtube profile…..
Add comment March 30th, 2008
I’ve never had much fun with MySpace, but i thought i’d re-visit the tired old dog and see if their recent raft of changes would entice me into becoming more involved…..
I tried updating my profile first but the UI is still as messy, the photo uploader crashed on me and when i did manage to get a photo up it distorted my face to fit its parameters so i now look like Gollum. Not a good start.
For inspiration i went fishing around other people’s profiles and some of the new featured celebrities they’re now pushing on the homepage including a strange mix of Katie Price and Rihanna. Hmmm not the best.
However that was the tip of the iceberg, a strange thing always happens when i open a myspace page, my web connection drops out. EVERYTIME. Now is this because there’s too much crap on people’s pages? Does my ISP drop my bandwidth because it thinks i’m downloading heavy content? Or does Tiscali just hate MySpace too? Whatever it is it’s the only site the does this everytime guaranteed. So i gave up. That’s the end of my MySpace experience for now.
So Tom you can do one, you ain’t my friend.
Add comment March 20th, 2008
I watched the amazingly funny new Keith Lemon show, Keith Lemons Very Brilliant World Tour, last night on ITV2. The character is a creation of Leigh Francis of Bo Selecta fame and has popped up in a few small doses here and there. However, this is his first major series and i was in stitches. I don’t know whether it’s just the Leeds accent (being a Yorkshire fella myself) that cracks me up, the amazing way Leigh played the character or maybe i see a bit of myself in him? A bit of everything methinks. How he stopped himself from laughing i’ll never know.
Bang Tidy.
Now here’s the rub. With the success of TV broadcasters such as the BBC moving online with their iPlayer (which i Beta-tested and was very good BTW) all channels are following suit including ITV. You’ll see at the end of most of their new programmes now a web address for the show. Being as i wanted more Keith Lemon i went straight to the address they flashed on-screen, www.itv.com/keith. Awesome. ‘Page does not exist’ i was told. after checking it wasn’t my eyesight or chunky fingers still no joy. So ingeniously (ahem) i tried itv.com/keithlemon….. bingo. First sour lemon to ITV. But i was well excited when i saw they had outtake videos and extra content. Bang tidy is that.
After selecting ‘Learn Japanese with Keith’ the video player went in a constant loading loop and wouldn’t play. WTF was this a mac issue? Ah no. Amazingly ITV have chosen Microsoft Silverlight as their player of choice…. sweet jesus. So after installing the fabled Silverlight (and i was getting bored at this point) i tried again. No joy. Just a message saying they were using Silverlight to enhance the experience for mac and firefox users. And that was it! No Keith Lemon, no Japanese learnt. A couple of classic lemons from ITV. So i did the only sensible thing and went to youtube, where it worked…. so here’s learning Japanese with Keith Lemon
Add comment March 19th, 2008
Is this another nail in the coffin of real social networking? Another media giant trying to make money out of people’s inbuilt intuition to communicate? Are they going to do anything clever or just whack display ads all over bebo (genius)?
I wasn’t too thrilled to hear the news but bebo going for a more ‘realistic’ $850million shows the silly-money market for social networks calming down a little. So what are they going to do with it? Well, bebo’s users are predominantly teenagers who are heavy future influencers but cash poor and prone to dis-loyalty.
AOL’s first thought is to integrate their messenger products like AIM and ICQ into bebo, ok i can see that working…. but supported by, you guessed it, loads of display ads from their platform A system. Ugghhh. Turning it into myspace is not the right way to go!
I think we’ll see a backlash from bebo users (who are predominantly in the UK) with less usage patterns occurring and a migration to other platforms as we near the 18 month churn period. As everyone knows the worst person in the world to piss off is a teenager.
What they should be doing is nurturing this audience for the long-term in the way that banks (sometimes!) get it right. AOL need to consider this young intelligent audience and their future potential for having a positive view of AOL and it’s products over the next 5 years. If they get it right and genuinely offer more to this community now such as quality content into bebo’s Open Media platform then there might just be a glimmer of hope for turning around the ailing fortunes of AOL.
They need this to be a positive generation-shift to move away from the tarnished old AOL users like me.
*Definition: ASBO - Anti-Social Behaviour Order (For my American friends, just spend a week in the UK and see any chav worth his salt has at least one)
Add comment March 14th, 2008
Ok this is a big one….. i’ve been mastering the art of Guitar Hero III on my fake Gibson (why do i feel compelled to stand up to play?) and that got me thinking about the new Rock Band game which allows you all to go air guitar, drums and singing crazy!
As usual though the Yanks have already got it and we have to wait until May….. Want proof? I never thought i’d say this but i just watched Robert Scoble ‘rock out’ to the legendary tune of Roxanne over on Justine’s blog. See the full shame here.
Err yep, moving on quickly, my new found love (again) of the guitar means i’m considering (again) buying another guitar so while browsing around youtube for some how-to’s i came across this unbelievable guitarist called Sungha Jung… What’s worse is he’s only 11 but a genius nonetheless so this Friday Rock comeback is dedicated to some real true talent. Oh and a classic rock tune of course…. see how quickly you can guess what he’s playin’ 
Add comment March 14th, 2008
