When it comes to advertising today, things have changed. In some ways it’s due to social media. Searching for “I Love Zappos” yields 2,000,000 results. Searching for “I Love Dow Chemical Company” yields 3, according to Bob Garfield and Doug Levy at the SXSW panel titled “Cant’ Buy Me Likes”. Thanks to their presentation, this number is sure to go way up as people discuss it (such as this blog). By contrast, searching for “I Love Satan” yields 293,000. It’s not a good thing to be loved less than the prince of darkness. What has happened? Why is it that billion dollar ad branding campaigns get usurped…

We almost always get a kick out of Minute Physics. They have a knack for taking very complex concepts in science and turning them into understandable bits of information in a few minutes. This time around, their most recent video doesn’t tell us much but it’s food for thought nonetheless. How big is the universe? Understanding the difference between the observable universe and the whole universe is actually a pretty easy concept to understand once you wrap your mind around it and we covered that topic last month. They took it a little more in-depth with this video than we would have liked to have seen,…

In Russia, a huge percentage of cars on the road are equipped with dashboard cameras. The trend has spread to other countries as well as insurance fraud and law enforcement abuses prompt the need to keep a digital record of what’s happening in front of you when you’re behind the wheel. “You can get into your car without your pants on, but never get into a car without a dash cam,” Russian motorist’ rights activist Aleksei Dozorov told Radio Free Europe. Many Americans were amazed by last month’s Russian meteor footage. It wasn’t just the spectacular streaking light show itself that blew people…

Google hasn’t forgotten about its Google+ ambitions after all. It also appears they might have read my article from last month as they integrated a couple of the changes I recommended. Oh, who am I kidding. Google doesn’t read my writing! It started last week when they made the push for Google sign-in capabilities through the API (suggestion #1 in last month’s article). Today, they made three more changes: Public Google+ reviews are linked from the profile page. The image above was taken from such as review list. Your story, places, and links are now visible on your About tab. The cover photo behind…

Pinterest has grown tremendously. In December of 2011 it had 7 million users. Just a year later, there are over 20 million monthly active users. It is the third most popular social network following Facebook and Twitter. Even more interesting, it refers more traffic than Google +, LinkedIn, Bing, Yahoo, and YouTube.  Get the most out of your Pinterest today!   Is your Pinterest optimized? Use top Search Engine Optimization (SEO) keywords in your “About” section. Search engines index this page. You have 200 characters to communicate who you are and what you can do for your audience….

Apple certainly knows how to spark innovation outside of itself. Nobody outside of the lowest dungeon levels in Cupertino has any idea what the iWatch will be or if it really will actually become a reality any time soon, but that doesn’t stop artists from making concept designs, bloggers from speculating, and YouTube users from improving on it. One such user is FinalCutKing and the concept they’ve come up with is nothing short of mind blowing. It takes the basics that we assume from a hypothetical iWatch and expands it into the realm of Minority Report and beyond. Check out the video and then see some…

We are capable to promote posts and tweets on Facebook and Twitter and although Google+ is just joining the social login sphere, promotion still lies in the hands of Google Ads. However, there acquired company YouTube is giving its vloggers the opportunity to promote their videos by paying to target more people. They are called YouTube Campaigns and its intentions are to expand your videos reach within the YouTube Community. You are able to choose how much you want to spend on the campaign as well as how broadly you want to target viewers. …

Some Minecraft faithful might view the video below as an abomination, hurtling their beloved creation engine into the sordid depths of short-lived internet memes. Others will see it as a valiant use of the game to touch a mainstream world with exposure that can only help the Minecraft world grow larger by riding the coattails of the popular Harlem Shake viral video family. Most will watch the 30-second clip and spend even less time than that thinking about it. Regardless of where you fall on the Minecraft Harlem Shake desecration chart, you can appreciate the effort to make it a reality. Or, you…

There are hundreds of UFO sightings uploaded to YouTube every week. Most are pretty easy to see as either a hoax or an explainable phenomenon. The video of the UFO at Popocatépetl Volcano in Mexico on February 21st is brief, but it’s one that should be noted. It’s not the most stunning UFO video out there, but it’s proximity to the volcano is interesting. There have been other sitings of cigar-shaped UFOs at volcanoes around the world and this one gives us a straight line shot of one as it crosses over. What do you think? Real, hoax, or explainable? * * * Via: WordlessTech  …

When will corporate America learn that censorship attempts never end well for a company, particularly on social media? The insane crash at Saturday’s DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR race resulted in numerous injuries and some pretty amazing videos. One such video was flagged by NASCAR on YouTube and a DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) takedown request was sent out. YouTube initially complied, then put the video back up after manual review showed that copyright was not infringed. Now, the video is only going to get bigger than it already was. Thanks to a poor decision, NASCAR is going to shine a…