Advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy created a monster with their recent campaign of ‘Old Spice Man’ commercials, featuring the irresistible appeal of former NFL wide receiver Isaiah Mustafa. These commercials may have made their debut on television, but they really reached the apex of their popularity on the internet, thanks to their viral spread across social networks [...]
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Posted on July 7, 2010, 10:34 pm, by Tom Cheredar, under
Guest Posts.
In the eyes of TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington, Digg’s Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things. These opinions are essentially worthless even though they come from people who actually want to use a site like digg and participate in it’s community. His suggestion for how to improve digg is to assume that [...]
The Drill Down team discuss the rapid death of Microsoft Kin, Google wins landmark judgement against Viacom, .XXX gets its own domain, the new Digg V4 alpha, Steve Jobs tells users they’re “holding it wrong”, Google flicks its Android ‘killswitch’, Google’s rumored ‘Facebook-killer’, Hulu Plus, and…Wonder Woman changes her costume.
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Okay, so maybe it’s not quite as incendiary as the title suggests. After all, I have officially been a Redditor for almost a year now (and over two years if you count my first real Reddit account). In any case, I happened to be in the Downtown Los Angeles area for the Electronic Entertainment Expo [...]
The Drill Down team discusses Apple’s iPhone 4, an iPad security breach, AT & T’s new data pricing, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Nixon moment’, China blocks Foursquare, RIAA vs. Limewire, the inaccuracy of Wikipedia, Skype’s five million downloads, and Team Fortress 2 for the Mac.
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