Social Media Online Photo Sharing in Plain English: Common Craft You’ve probably seen this already, but it’s so good that they deserve every post they get. The Common Craft show, which dumbs down social media so everyone can do it, offers a video today on online photo sharing. The point of this is to provide motivation to share photos online. It markets Flickr so well, […] Written by David Berkowitz January 16, 2008November 26, 2020
Advertising Flubs, Gaffes, and Blunders Video Dark Spot for Brightspot (Sheep Shed Their Wool) BrightSpot.TV, a site covered here before, has shut down. I wrote back in August, “…You’d think the one thing we need a break from is advertising. Yet sheep that we are, we can’t get enough of it.” I guess we can get enough of it after all. Yesterday, BrightSpot sent members this message: “BrightSpot Media […] Written by David Berkowitz November 21, 2007November 26, 2020
Arts and Entertainment Media Video Firebrand Preview Launches during Advertising Week – Love Coverage Blogging from the launch of Firebrand, a new media company focused on entertaining ads in multiplatform environment – Web, TV (on Ion), and mobile. Official launch: October 22 Targets Millennials, 30% of US population. Firebrand: QVC for the MySpace generation, or doing for ads what MTV did for music/music videos. Bottom line: advertising supported by […] Written by David Berkowitz September 25, 2007November 26, 2020
Blogging Conferences and Events NewTeeVee Pier Screenings Live Blogging Tonight I’m blogging from NewTeeVee’s Pier Screening event in New York City, the first one it’s hosted outside of San Francisco. It’s so Bay Area, hobnobbing with NewTeeVee, Technorati, RockYou, and others, plus some of the social media elite based in Silicon Alley like Magnify.net. JUDGES Obama Girl and creator Ben Jacob of Vimeo (owned […] Written by David Berkowitz September 24, 2007November 26, 2020
Columns Video Searchers, Browsers, and Discoverers IF YOU WERE AT IHOLLYWOOD’S Search and Media event last week, you might have been surprised to find that the panelists tasked with making sense of video search kept changing the subject when it came up. Everyone wanted to talk about discovery, not search. Perhaps the best sign of what would ensue was listed on […] Written by David Berkowitz July 25, 2007November 26, 2020
Trends The Links You Need to Click I love how Matt Dickman and others do their link roundups, and there are always quite a few I want to share, though it’s so much easier to just post them to del.icio.us than actually get them on the blog (Andrew Raff used to have great link roundups on his blog before resorting to del.icio.us […] Written by David Berkowitz June 11, 2007November 26, 2020
Video Multitasking with TV and Web Video I’ve wondered quite a bit about the future of web video and how much of it anyone will be able to consume. I’ve been pretty skeptical about it, namely because it’s difficult to multitask when watching online video – you can’t really do much else, and multitasking is a huge part of the value proposition […] Written by David Berkowitz April 30, 2007November 26, 2020
