marketing crumpet

IKEA and YouTube get personal

2011-08-25T21:53:00.000+10:00

IKEA has launched the first ever personalised 3D showroom on YouTube. Drawing on information from Facebook, IKEA’s tool creates a bespoke 3D bedroom that can then be explored and tailored by users to create their perfect bedroom. Customers will be shown an IKEA bedroom that will perfectly suit them based on their own Facebook information and living situation by visiting www.youtube.com/IKEAUK.

twitter: picture what's happening now

2011-06-02T04:42:00.002+10:00

here's what they had to say about it

pages I 'like'

2011-05-24T21:41:00.000+10:00

it's getting out of control.... am I missing anything good? Sainsbury'sRetail and consumer merchandise BumpTopProduct/Service ECBEducation Billy MadisonMovie Yahoo!Website Mashable - BusinessWebsite Lock, Stock and Two Smoking BarrelsMovie Mashable - StartupsCompany Aleksandr Orlov – Founder of Compare the MeerkatLocal business antiduckface.comSociety/Culture Yahoo! World

contact page

2011-05-21T01:03:00.002+10:00

I have a new one and it looks like this:

tweeting from space

2011-05-19T23:17:00.000+10:00

demographics of social media (Ad Age)

2011-05-16T10:00:00.008+10:00

61.2 percent of facebooking females list themselves as married less than a year, compared to 44.3 percent of males 71.1 percent of women on facebook say they are parents, versus 28.9 percent of men 86.5 percent of female profiles indicate cat ownership, but only 13.5 percent of males have felines. women represent a larger proportion of users over age 35 men account for more of the facebook

google +1

2011-05-11T16:44:00.001+10:00

we’ve seen a number of similar attempts by google, including: answers, bookmarks, searchwiki, sidewiki, jaiku, wave and buzz. at the close of march this year google announced the launch of +1 which was rolled out via google experiment… the concept, revolutionary enough, is that instead of trusting a search engine’s algorithm to deliver the most relevant search results, one should trust their

bringing down bin laden, tweet timeline

2011-05-05T09:52:00.005+10:00

very nice infographic of what took place. through all of this I do wish that social media commentators didn't always feel the need to have an opinion on absolutely everything. sometimes, news should just be news. (click for bigger image)

beyond the mobile web

2011-04-14T15:12:00.003+10:00

I've been a big fan of Stephanie Rieger's work with mobile for a few years... this is just a bit of it.

end of the week tweeting

2011-04-11T18:05:00.000+10:00

in the last few years I have heard many surmise about which day people are most active in social media. now the truth is officially out there. buddy Media found that engagement on thursdays and fridays was 18% higher than the rest of the week after comparing 200 brand pages, and that engagement was actually even better on thursday than on friday. meanwhile, twitter chief revenue officer Adam Bain

ben and jerry's free cone day

2011-04-11T17:05:00.003+10:00

ben & jerry’s are asking Australian ice cream fanatics (yep - that's me) to vote for their preferred flavour. 8 flavour election campaign leaders (one for each flavour that is sold in shops) has been selected to lead the race. you can get involved here and it's free cone day tomorrow! you can find out more here. hoping to bag me one of these: 4X2FERSPXU57

youtube editor tool

2011-04-04T10:30:00.001+10:00

have you used youtube's free video editor? here are great tips from one of its creators.

kill opera

2011-04-03T00:23:00.000+11:00

aparently... just listen out for these great moments: 0:00 HAVING SEX! 0:04 CHARLIE! CHARLIE! 0:07 MOTHER HAVING SEX! 0:11 GOING PSYCHO! 0:16 GINGER SPRONGEBOBBY! 0:21 HAPPY SYMPONY! 0:24 KILL OPERA!

better ads in gmail. yes please.

2011-04-01T12:07:00.002+11:00

two dogs dining

2011-03-31T22:21:00.001+11:00

i thought long and hard about not posting this... but you need to see it:

social media in australia

2011-03-31T09:00:00.000+11:00

facebook questions relaunch

2011-03-25T08:25:00.000+11:00

when facebook announced the launch of facebook questions last year commentators were predicting big things. it never really became the big thing that it was expected to be. today, facebook announced that it has launched a revamped version its questions product, making it even easier to quickly gather "the wisdom of friends," rather than the wisdom of the masses. it was trying to compete with

facebook real-time ads and sperm donation

2011-03-24T21:28:00.000+11:00

a sequence of events just took place. first. I'm swimming down my twitter stream to see a post by @njhenderson I check out the article....then I head to Facebook to see what ads I'm getting served... thank you MZ - is that order of preference?

like-spam

2011-03-24T13:26:00.001+11:00

naughty spammers never miss a trick... this one is as simple as pie. since Facebook allowed their pages to interact with other pages we're seeing more and more of this. and as usual, PR's will be following not far behind. when is it okay to interact with another page? inside Facebook said this: "Since there is no option to remove Likes or ban those who Like any Facebook feed item, a victim

pay with a tweet

2011-03-24T13:21:00.001+11:00

an absolutely genius concept... worth checking it out and hopefully more will be willing to jump on board soon. what's to stop me sharing the download link after I've paid with a tweet....? here's a gift from me to you:

twitter history of malware

2011-03-24T10:41:00.001+11:00

joker face

2011-03-23T17:53:00.002+11:00

the state of linkedIN

2011-03-23T09:10:00.004+11:00

The news comes today that LinkedIn now has 100 million users... Stack 100 million business cards and the pile would rise 98,425 feet.

what comment should you leave?

2011-03-22T23:40:00.004+11:00

love these from digiwoman.tumblr.com....

how do you use twitter?

2011-03-22T14:19:00.000+11:00