the new uk tv ad for bogof bingo features DJ Talent from the recent ITV show Britain’s Got Talent.. the ad is cringeworthy to say the least.. very scary & wrong on so many levels..
Desperate for headlines, Google launches decaf update…
Big news in search & social media:
BIG News = Facebook buys Friendfeed
BIG News = The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
Not so big news = Google Caffeine Update
Feeling unloved in the blogosphere & tech press, we see Google push the early launch of their search update. Codenamed “caffeine” the update sees the introduction of a sandbox search engine for developers & power users to test & provide feedback.
“It’s the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits “under the hood” of Google’s search engine, which means that most users won’t notice a difference in search results.“
This kind of stuff is usually included in the regular updates we see from Google.. normally without any public notification engagement or pr…
twitter fail whale mug available from zazzle
Tagged: google update
Twitter Down… tsk…what should i do?
ok yes twitter is down.. & has been for last 30 mins or so.
conicidence or not.. my laptop went brighter as twitter went offline.. then dimmed again 5 mins later when everybody put the kettle on..
So i wonder what everybody does when twitter goes down?
- do some work?
- read the newspaper?
- read a few blogs?
- have a nap?
nah.. just moan about the downtime & write a useless post about twitter being down 
(update: 4pm ish twitter still down & their status blog now reports that Twitter is suffering a DoS attack)
Tagged: twitter down
Video of Manchester Utd’s Rio Ferdinand talking to Michael Jackson
The Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand spoke to the late Michael Jackson on the phone just a few weeks before the tragic stars death. The telephone call to Jackson was for Rio’s digital magazine #5
Alice in PR Wonderland?
I see the Alice In Wonderland trailer was pulled from youtube last week.. Disney claimed the trailer was leaked early.. Of course pulling the vid created all kinds of noise on twitter & the blogosphere.
The video was allowed back on the site the day after the caffufle & the trailer is now ranked number 5 on the viral video chart. Disney claim the leaked release could hurt ticket sales….
lol – yeah right… whatever!