You’ve probably seen the Where the Hell Is Matt? videos — the main one has been viewed over 11 million times and the 2008 version (above) more than 9 million times. In today’s San Jose Mercury News, Mike Cassidy interviews dancing Matt Harding and writes about he has stumbled on the true meaning of the […]
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Amazee: ‘the world’s first social collaboration platform’
Amazee from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Dania Gerhardt, co-founder and chief of finance and operations for Amazee.com, discusses "the world’s first social collaboration platform." Her company, based in Zurich, Switzerland, launched 10 months ago and the platform went public in May 2008. She discusses Amazee in this 7-minute video interview conducted during Supernova 2008 in […]
Intel Insiders: Social media, bunny suits and the global enterprise
Spent the day Tuesday at Intel’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for the debut of a new social media advisory group called — a bit too self-importantly — the Intel Insiders. We’re not really insiders, just a bunch of bloggers who somehow got past the front guard. Those taking part: Cathy Brooks, Frank Gruber, Brian […]
NY Times to test crowdsourcing its data
From my new post at the IdeaLab blog: News about a potentially big deal in the newspaper industry broke just before the holiday weekend. No, not another story about a chain swallowing another chain, or news about the formation of yet another online advertising platform that’s doomed to underperform. Instead, this was a kind of […]
Q&A with a top social marketing expert in Israel
The favorite person I met in Israel was Ayelet Noff, who writes a social marketing blog at Blonde 2.0. I’d been following Ayelet’s blog for months, and I conducted a video interview with her that I’ll post soon. What came as a surprise was how solicitous and helpful she was in helping organize several events, […]