Oktoberfest 2010: 200 Years of German Beer!

September 25, 2010

Once again I put on my blogger/journalistic hat!
This time it was to cover the Oktoberfest Festival in Munich, Germany with Australian based tour company Fanatics!

As I’ve already covered the Running of the Bulls this year for them this was nothing new to me. A weekend of insanity at the opening weekend of the Festival, sampling [...]

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VMworld 2010 Raises the Standard for Social Media at Events!

September 15, 2010

Recently (As I did last year) I attended VMware’s VMworld 2010 Expo in San Francisco as a Digital Journalist, producing content for the show and for PHD Virtual. This afforded me the opportunity to meet loads of people I had only chatted to on Twitter/Skype etc, and also forge new friendships in the [...]

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I won Trainsignal DVDs at VMworld

September 9, 2010

I’ve just got back doing Social Media/Community Management/Event type stuff at this year’s VMworld 2010 expo, and I have to say that this year certainly pushed the envelope in all areas.
The social media offering, and networking opportunities were well co-ordinated by VMware! The sessions were also informative, and available online very quickly!
I even won the [...]

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Twitter Finally Launches Official iPad App

September 2, 2010

Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app.
It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter accounts.
Twitter [...]

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The Old Spice ‘Ad’ Guy Now Making Custom Videos for Fans via Social Media

July 19, 2010

How do you get bloggers, fans and random Internet folks to make your campaign go viral? Namecheck them in a personalized monologue delivered by a shirtless man, of course! That’s right, everyone’s favorite topless dude, Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa, has been tweeting just-for-you-vids to a bevy of Internet folk all day.
The [...]

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Why Social Media Is the New Source of Hollywood Talent

July 12, 2010

As reality TV continues to gain a larger share of the television and new media landscape, the Hollywood casting industry is seeing a substantially increased need for new types of talent. On-camera experts, “real people” contestants, and larger-than-life personalities are now in constant demand. Simultaneously, talent agencies are watching the demand for traditional talent like [...]

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Domino’s UK Rewards Foursquare Mayors with Free Pizza

June 29, 2010

Domino’s UK is starting a nationwide Foursquare promotion that rewards mayors with free pizza once a week, a deal similar to the one Starbucks announced last week. Those who merely check in on Foursquare will receive a free side dish for their patronage should they spend more than £10 (or around $14.50).
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Faux Ghostbusters Invade the New York Public Library

June 20, 2010

This video made us chuckle so much we just had to post it!

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Twitter to Launch Twitter Business Center

June 10, 2010

It was recently confirmed that beta testing of Twitter’s new business features, dubbed the “Twitter Business Center,” has begun.
According to the company, “only a handful of accounts have these features presently”, but it will expand on a gradual basis to more accounts. One of the biggest additions is the ability for [...]

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“World of Warcraft” on the iPad with the Help of Gaikai

May 27, 2010

Have you ever heard of Gaikai? It’s a service (currently in beta) that lets you play games in your browser, directly from the cloud. Gaikai runs and hosts the games, which are then streamed to the end-user with the help of Java, Flash or Silverlight.
Although iPad’s browser doesn’t support Flash, someone [...]

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