Just Another Social Profile Really

Oh dear. Whenever I feel like I need to post something, and crave inspiration (I really wish I organically knew about as much cool/beautiful/interesting stuff as Chungaiz), I head to YouTube. Maybe I need to find a new muse… Can you see that? Middle left? They suggested this because I had, unsurprisingly, favourited this. You [...]

At the end of last week Sir Tim Berners Lee, inventor of the world wide web, finally got with the cool kids (well, the vaguely hip middle class intelligentsia) and joined Twitter. And since then I’ve seen two things that would make him proud that he did (invent the web that is, obviously he shouldn’t [...]

One of the best things I saw at Stream 09 was a video by Yossi Vardi, the Israeli tech-legend who co-hosts the event with WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. It’s a spoof of the excellent Kobe Bryant Nike viral and got a big laugh when he showed it on the last night. The Kobe video [...]

So yesterday, as I continue to try to nail down the songs of the decade, I carried out a poll at work to try to find just that. You can see the resulting list* here (if you’re on Spotify) which includes two songs by Daft Punk, including Harder Better Faster Stronger. Ignoring the fact that [...]

Browsing through Twitter earlier I came across the rather splendid Apple Store Kid, otherwise known as Nicholi White or nicholifavs. It seems that he wanders into the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in New York and lip syncs to hip hop & R&B tracks, all the while looking pretty cool and then uploads them to [...]

It often seems that these days most of the best (and the worst ads) on TV are ‘inspired’ by things found on YouTube. Well now, in an admirable case of YouTube giving something back to the sector that keeps taking so much from it, it’s holding a competition for young ad creatives where the prize [...]

I love the internet, I really do. Not just the fact that it comes up with things like this & this but because it really is a way of meeting new people and finding things you never would have done otherwise. For instance last year I spoke at SMX London (where I’ll be again in [...]

Every so often I get emails from a company that gives brands access to bloggers who might want to write about their ads; in return the bloggers can receive payments for views/clicks. Normally I don’t pay much attention to these, but for the new T-Mobile ad I thought I’d make an exception. Following on from [...]

So, apparently Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP for South East England (and therefore one of my representatives), told the PM what’s what in a display that has people from New York to Norwich proclaiming how amazing he is (I’m not going to do him the favour of putting the video on this site). Well, perhaps [...]

I presume that you’ve all seen this by now? It’s from the DJ Shadow of YouTube, Kutiman, who blends clips of ‘amateur’ musicians from YouTube (amateur only in the fact that they don’t make a living out of playing music – some of these guys have major talent) as part of his ThruYOU project. There [...]