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BMW Shoots Viral Piece, Does it Hit or Miss?

Posted on June 25, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Consumer Generated Content, DVD, Facebook, Michael Durwin, MySpace, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, YouTube, advertising, blog, consumer marketing, iPhone, movies, new media, viral marketing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Earlier this year BMW launched a viral video to promote the launch of it’s new model in the U.S. The video was released as a documentary following the stories of a small Bavarian town named Oberpfaffelbachen. The town’s citizens include a stunt driver, over zealous police chief, event promoter and mayor, trying to save the [...]

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No Flash on iPhone? Is this a watered down version of the Internet?

Posted on August 28, 2007. Filed under: Web 2.0, Wi-Fi, YouTube, iPhone | Tags: |

Well, we all know by now that Flash is indeed not included on the iPhone. What’s funny is the claim the “this is not a watered down version of the Internet”:

Now, knowing that Flash has been an important part of Internet communications for 10 years, you’d think, since it is built [...]

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Live Earth Not Live on iPhone

Posted on July 7, 2007. Filed under: Apple, Duran Duran, Flash, Geri Halliwell, Live Earth, Microsoft, President Al Gore, Quicktime, YouTube, advertising, iPhone |

Once again my mind is boggled by Apple’s failure to include Flash on the iPhone. I’ll be out and about all day and was hoping to catch some of the Live Earth music festival today. No luck. Whether it’s the sponsors’ (which include Microsoft) fault for using Flash for so many of the more important [...]

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Oh, Snap! Web 2.0 is Destroying the World?

Posted on June 19, 2007. Filed under: Andrew Keen, BBC, Blair Witch Project, Boston, Boston Metro, Britney Spears, CDs, Consumer Generated Content, Dave Mathews, Fantastic Four, Grammy's, Massachusetts, Michael Durwin, NBC, Nirvana, Paris Hilton, Shrek, Tool, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, White Stripes, YouTube, advertising, new media |

Andrew Keen was interviewed in today’s Metro Boston discussing who Web2.0 was ruining the Internet and culture in general. He states in his new book “The Cult of Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture”:
“millions of millions of exuberant monkeys … are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity,”
Keen rips apart user-generated content as [...]

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Failure to Launch (Correctly)

Posted on April 4, 2007. Filed under: ABC, American Express, Boston, Chia Pet, Kate Beckinsale, Lost, Michael Durwin, OnDemand, Sony Pictures, Vacancy, YouTube, advertising, blog, broadcast, consumer marketing, movie promotion, movie trailer, new media, tv ad, viral marketing |

I just saw a preview for the new movie Vacancy. Kate Beckinsale is in it so of course I’ll see it, when it comes to OnDemand. The trailer was interesting enough, mostly because Kate Beckinsale was in it, but I was most intrigued by a bit of text at the end of the trailer under [...]

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