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via Who to Follow on Twitter | Tweet Top.

“If I tell my Facebook friends about your brand, it’s not because I like your brand, but rather because I like my friends.”

– Mike Arauz

via Quote of the Day – Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology.

I spent a solitary weekend watching March Madness on my own schedule. I was alone because while I waited to watch the games on TiVo, skipping through the ads, many of my friends around the country were watching them live.

via TiVo is anti-social – BusinessWeek.

Comcast’s OnDemand Reaches 11 Billion Views, Nearly Twice The Number Of iTunes Music Downloads

via Comcast’s OnDemand Reaches 11 Billion Views, Nearly Twice The Number Of iTunes Music Downloads.

Rumors of an Office client for the iPhone have been circling for over a year, as users clamor for a way to edit their Word and Excel files on the go (the iPhone allows them to view them, but doesn’t include any editing functionality).

via Is Office Finally Coming To The iPhone?.

This post is from PSFK.com. I’m still trying to figure out my google reader linking, posting in stuff…so, I did not write this post, but thought it was interesting. You should click over to PSFK.com for more interesting stuff like this. I’ll get this whole post-reposting-link-to-account-summary think working yet…

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Online tastings are hardly new. Brands such as Laphroaig have done worldwide whisky tastings over the Internet. But with the advent of Twitter we are seeing them evolve and become more popular as people find new ways to engage and educate.

Recently in London, Robert McIntosh and Bibendum wines invited a group of around a dozen food and wine bloggers to a Twitter wine tasting at the Saatchi Gallery. For an hour we tasted 3 wines which had also been sent to a bevy of wine and social media enthusiasts who couldn’t make it in person.

As we tasted the wines we were encouraged to Tweet our tasting notes and tag them with #ttl which is the code for Twitter Taste Live. By tagging all of our Tweets with this code it meant we could keep track of the conversation as it developed all around the world. At its peak #ttl became top of the Twitter trend chart which is no mean feat when you consider this was inauguration week for Obama! Things started soberly enough with tasting notes such as:

oudmouthman: #ttl seriously Dinastia is bloody gorgous. Like dating a super model and not wanting to tell your friends.

ZebraSun: #ttl I can report that 2 of us agree that “Sensations caramelised onion and balsamic chips” go well with the Delicato red.

But then as the tasting progressed things started to get a bit more out there when Dinastia Vivanco Rioja Crianza got compared to a Dinosaur.

rjbirkin: #ttl Dinastia: It’s like watching The Land Before Time after Jurassic Park

sizemore: In case anyone was wondering what dinosaur wine tastes like… imagine this in your mouth: http://tinyurl.com/9m8r7f

It was a fascinating example of the power of alcohol to bring people together even though people were spread out geographically. This is what Bibendum thought about it:

“Yes, Twitter Taste Live was the most talked about Twitter topic in the world…even bigger than Obama’s inauguration. That was pretty much the icing on the cake. What a brilliant way to educate and interact with wine enthusiasts and novices alike. In fact I think it was about the most fun I’ve ever had with my mouth closed!”

It was such a success that the format has also been extended to the world of fine dining. Fred Siriex from Galvin at Windows in London is one of the main restaurateurs to have embraced social media. He organized for Wright Brothers Oysters and Bibendum Wines to curate an oyster and champagne tasting at his 26th floor restaurant with an audience of food enthusiasts and bloggers brought together by Trusted Places and broadcast over the net by worldTV. Visit the Trusted Places blog for a detailed account and feast your eyes on the stream of Tweets that emanated from the event at #galvinw.

Both events were excellent. And it’s no surprise to see Robert McIntosh and Dan Coward (who live blogged the event here) at the heart of both events. What’s interesting is that the wine tasting seemed to spread much further and wider than the champagne and oyster tasting. This is mainly due to the fact that Bibendum kept things simple and partnered with the Twitter Taste Live platform. By doing this they were able to send the wine that was being tasted out to the bloggers who couldn’t make it. This meant that there was genuine engagement across the net, rather than the mass broadcast that seemed to happen at Galvin at Windows.

The idea of social media tastings is set to spread further as more people get to grips with Twitter and more brands wake up to the possibilities that are sitting on the plate and staring them in the face. Expect to see Twitter Taste Live at the forefront of this movement.

My twitter account did this as well. My 2cents, it’s nice but where is the group feature already. And yes, I still don’t have my linking-re-posting stuff fixed…so, this is from Techcrunch.com

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New twitter home page design spotted in the wild. Where are groups already? Groups and track are the two things they need to add more than anything.

New Twitter Homepage (March 31st, 2009) on Flickr – Photo Sharing!.

Ok, I had heard about this…and it fell of my radar screen. But this video makes the kid in me who is discovering technology for the first time – flip out.  Search, by voice? Get out of here…

So when does a brand app come along that uses this technology?

- yes, i’ll have a big mac, fries, coke and I’ll pick it up at 6pm…what is this closest McD’s to grab that at?

- I’m bored on the way home, what would be a good site seeing route…and could you send that to my GPS nav please?

YouTube – The Hotelicopter.

Fake? Real? Who cares… awesome!

Should Facebook Be Your Company’s Intranet? | Services | bMighty.com.

For at least one midsize company, the answer is “Yes!” But using Facebook as a business intranet raises some serious questions about security, privacy, and the effect on company culture. bMighty gets an inside peek at Serena Software’s social networking experiment.

So…yes, but no. I like the experiment, but no. Look, Facebook is not that functional….and to make it functional with your own apps with a waste of resources. Owyang comment in the article sums it up nicely – “There are other tools that are secure, have more robust features, and Facebook is not designed for an intranet,” cautions Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst for social computing at Forrester Research.

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more funny stuff

Now you can search Google without the computer or a mobile phone. Just write your search query on this postcard and send it to Google office via Snail Mail.

This is obviously an April Fools joke but a hilarious one. Thanks Matt.

Related: How to Send Email as Snail Mail

Google Postcard: Search the Web by Snail Mail – Published at Digital Inspiration (RSS)

I didn’t write this post, I’m trying to post some interesting stuff from my Google Reader and right now it’s throwing the whole thing in. I’ll update with who should get credit for this in a bit. I thought it was interesting because here is another example of twitter evolving.
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Some of the excellent geeks at Poke have hacked together / masterfully crafted BakerTweet. It’s a wonderful hardware / software solution for alerting people to the latest oven output from the Albion bakery.

It’s a wireless Arduino thing that can be customised via a web interface to allow for various custom messages to be Twittered at the twist of a dial and the push of a water/flour-proof button.

What’s brilliant is The Albion actually using it. And it actually works.

Fingers crossed they keep it up and they see a significant rise in flash sales.

If you live or work in the Redchurch Street / Shoreditch High Steet area you can now follow @albionsoven on Twitter and be told when the freshest baked goods have dropped. But you’ll have to be quick I just heard they’ve had a run on buns.

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Via -Visionaire 55: Magazine Turned Pop-up Book – PSFK.com.

So, what would be the digital version of this?

Via -News from the Herd: Why blog? A lesson from Fallon.

There is some good nuggests in here as to why an agency would want to blog. But the one take away I have is the fail forward…when they started blogging (and I’m guessing here)…I’m not sure they set out to have these results.