2 days ago
deusx : Burger King Has Dropped Their Wallet | So Good - "It appears that in the last few days, there are a handful of bloggers who, by finding wallets on the ground, have unwittingly stumbled across the latest under-the-radar Burger King promotion. The fast food chain has dispensed agents across major U.S
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2 month ago
nelson : Viral virtual lighter - Nice analysis of a silly toy app
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3 month ago
Linkorama : To Reach Prolific Content Sharers, Lay Off the Humor - the most savvy and prolific viral sharers prefer spreading news more than humor.
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4 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : Internet Memes Timeline
Linkorama : Internet Memes - a collaborative timeline
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6 month ago
Linkorama : How not to be viral - If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system
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6 month ago
nelson : Viral meme data - Waxy gives us server stats for his role in the Star Wars Kid video
Andy Baio : Star Wars Kid: The Data Dump - This Friday, I'll be speaking at the Webvisions conference in Portland about Internet memes, how they spread, and how their distribution's changed over time. As part of that research, I've been digging into my original server logs from the Star Wars Kid
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8 month ago
nelson : South Park v. Youtube - Decoder ring for the brilliant episode. I love that about 1/3 of these videos were greatly enhanced by Waxy's researches
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Dipdive.com - Seriously great mashup of Obama's speech and some celebrity musicians
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10 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Is the Tipping Point Toast?: maybe influentials aren't after all?
WillPate : The tipping point theory gets more complicated
Linkorama : Is the Tipping Point Toast? - Yet, if you believe Watts, all that money and effort is being wasted. Because according to him, Influentials have no such effect. Indeed, they have no special role in trends at all.
philgyford : Is the Tipping Point Toast? -- Duncan Watts -- Trendsetting - Much-linked-to article saying that Influentials aren't as influential as 'The Tipping Point' would have us believe."When you test the way marketers say the world works, it falls apart."
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10 month ago
Linkorama : You Suck at Photoshop - Hilarious Tutorials by Donnie Hoyle | Laughing Squid
Rod Begbie : You Suck at Photoshop - Excellently silly melodrama under the guise of photoshop tutorials. Ace! [via] #
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12 month ago
Linkorama : How to help Kiva more Viral - Similar to the Giving Tree app on Facebook, which is unfortunately so buggy it is useless
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Linkorama : Business Idea of the Day - Will donate to Kiva to match every idea
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Rod Begbie : Glass and a Half Full Productions - Best use of a Phil Collins soundtrack EVAR! Quality bit of viral advertising from Cadbury's. [via] #
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15 month ago
nelson : Fuzzwich Mini-vids. - Clever little animation creation toy, one of the Y-Combinator crop
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20 month ago
Milo Vermeulen : No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July [via]
Andy Baio : No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July's extremely creative website for her new book [via]
Rod Begbie : No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July - "OK, here I go, I'm going to make this whole website right now on this dry-erase board." [via] #
philgyford : No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July - Wonderful site that shows breaking all the rules can work if you do it with a flourish. (via Daring Fireball)
Khoi Vinh : No One Belongs Here More Than You - Web site for the new Miranda July movie is as clever and cute as her previous work, for better or worse.
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24 month ago
cameron : Viral Learning Center - "How to make viral internet videos," which appears to be a a viral internet video to promote ziddeo.com, Comcast's UGC channel
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26 month ago
joshua : Christine.net: David Hornik Learns About Marketing from Syphilis - good summary of virality
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27 month ago
cameron : Viral Ads: It's an Epidemic - October 2, 2006 - The recent Smirnoff ice tea ad was apparently not posted on YouTube (users did the work)
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27 month ago
Andy Baio : Viral Video Chart - tracking the most popular on Youtube, Google Video, and Myspace [via]
Nelson Minar : Viral video chart - Currently popular Internet videos (via Waxy)
cameron : Viral Video Chart - Aggregation of popular videos from Google, YouTube and MySpace.
Rod Begbie : Viral Video Chart - What videos on YouTube and Google Video are getting the most links from blogs. Alternatively, your guide to what the hell those strange noises are you're hearing from neighbouring cubicles at work. [via] #
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28 month ago
deusx : YouTube - Going to Work for SUBWAY: Part 1 - Remember kids: Viral doesn't mean good. Mocking and derision are viral vectors. And sometimes, there is a such thing as bad publicity.
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31 month ago
Rod Begbie : IconBuffet | Stock Icons for Digital Professionals - Royalty-free icon site, builiding community with a free fun line in viral icon "trading". Anyone want to offer me 'Helsinki Hi-Fi' in exchange for 'Oslo Finance'? [via] #
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38 month ago
Linkorama : What makes an idea viral? - Nietzsche is hard to understand and risky to spread, so it moves slowly among people willing to invest the time. Numa Numa, on the other hand, spread like a toxic waste spill because it was so transparent, reasonably funny and easy to share.
WillPate : What makes an idea viral?
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40 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : BBC punks Wikipedia in marketing ploy?
Linkorama : BBC Marketing punks Wikipedia? - Funny.
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