Monkeynotions

*SIGH* I saw this post at Techcrunch. I know I’ve seen previous iterations of the AOL.com page, and they did not look like this…they definately had color and creativity to it. I’m not sure what happened to make the AOL.com such a copycat of Yahoo , but I’m pretty sure it’s not because of […]

Songs about your company as motivational pieces.

They took the old gospel song “Oh Happy Day” and changed the lyrics to be about Ernst & Young. I think this is borderline blasphemous. Original gospel song can be heard here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCdyGCJffhE
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… Another Video…

Here this guy takes U2’s song “One” and talks about the Bank of […]

I know Jeremiah will disagree with me, but I went onto UStream.tv and watched his live feed from Web2.0Expo, the experience was in a word … surreal.
There was a chat component to the web page where you could talk to other folks , and Jeremiah would sometimes repeat the folks back to the […]

This morning I was having lunch with a friend who has been product manager at many stellar companies which have focused on building social communities. He said something interesting:
“You don’t have to be a passionate member of that community in order to create a product for them, in fact I think passionate community members will […]

What do you think makes a rumor so viral?

Is it the content itself ? The salicious sensational titillating morsel of news?
I think a rumor has some of these characteristics that make it so viral:
1. A good rumor has a sense of privilege attached to it. I tell someone that doesn’t know or isn’t supposed to […]