Facebook has once again shown it is playing catch-up to Twitter in the functions department, with the soft launch of its new retweet-like function: “via”.
So far, Facebook has received many criticisms for not finding their own way of doing things, however, our take is that, if it facilitates sharing and diffusing information, why not? Plus, [...]
Before everyone takes off, hopefully to sunnier climes, for their Christmas holidays, we’d like to leave you with the Waving Goodbye to 2009 video produced by Whirled Interactive. It’s a year-end review, alla Google Wave.
The video runs through some big events of 2009 (mostly from a US perspective), starting with the heroic plane crash landing [...]
We can definitely say that 2009 has seen the power of social media and technologies reach an all-time high with the increasing use of blogs, chat forums, video sharing websites, smart phones, applications/widgets and popular social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
And it is due to the climbing popularity of these services and tools [...]
It’s been a while since we featured viral videos on our 77Lab.
Don’t you sometimes wonder how a video reaches 100,000 views? Usually it’s not necessarily a natural process in which this happens, it’s precisely why we call them ‘viral’, because they spread quickly and widely throughout the Internet. People share them via emails, sms, social [...]
In the last few weeks, students, professors, researchers, and almost everyone involved in the education industry, have been protesting in the streets of Italy’s major cities expressing their opposition towards a new law put forward by Minister Mariastella Gelmini and approved by the parliament October 29th 2008.
The newly approved reforms will have an effect on [...]
Let the Motrin ad backlash be a lesson to those who think ‘viral’ is always a good thing.
Viral equals a positive message. There can be good viral campaigns and bad viral campaigns. The reputation crisis which detonated this past weekend which was witnessed by just about every single mom-blogger existent in the blogosphere gives us [...]
I am writing this post while I am in New York for the Ad:Tech conference. It is 9pm in New York and sitting on my bed I am zapping from CNN to ABC and FOX trying to gather information about who is going to be the new American President.
Then I think of Facebook and realized [...]
Will Sony Ericsson’s new thriller impulse consumers into acquiring the new, out-of-the-oven Xperia X1?
Sony Ericsson is virally streaming a short trailer introducing a man, known as Johnny X, (a hot guy) who has partially lost his memory and the only way to go about investigating on his life is through his handy Xperia X1.
Personally, after [...]
Michael Moore, the liberal filmmaker is not one to keep his mouth shut about making political statements. Oh, that much we know. Among the many efforts he’s made in addressing America on what he thinks should be the ways of politics, his second to last being: Mike’s Election Guide 2008 available at Amazon.com.
Today, the new [...]
I’m gonna leave something nice and sweet for you today. But I have to clear up one, small detail before I can go on explaining.
I stumbled upon this site for the first time last week and came back to it again today out of curiosity. It so happens something slightly changed- luckily, it still works [...]
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