Bangers & mash

Facebook connect

It's been around for a little while now, and on the face of it seems like a good idea for those brands that want to engage in the whole social networking scene without the need to develop your own community.

That's all good in my eyes, why re-invent the wheel when you can utilise already running communities.

The way connect works can be seen below, basically allows visitors comments to be also posted to your facebook wall, thus aiding the spreading of their thoughts at a click.

I also, quite like the fluid nature of this Redbull, site although the IA is a little restricting not easy to find, search etc (saleability you have to worry about). What is good is the freshness of this approach.

 

 

Check out the site www.connect.redbullusa.com

Google Mash-up: Let’s meet in the middle

We’ve all spent time on the phone trying to find a location to meet somewhere between your office and your friend’s work place, to catch up an after work beer, well now you can use MeetInBetween.us, to solve this problem. This latest google mash-up allows you to do this with a few clicks. 

Just enter 2 or more addresses and they will calculate the exact point where you should meet so that everyone walks/drives the same distance. You can even find a place to meet like coffee shops, cafés, restaurants, stores.. etc.

The Future of TV is not on TV

 

While NFL broadcasts the traditional Sunday Night games on NBC, the online show takes advantage of the technology, offering 4 extra cameras for viewers to choose desired angle.

Web TV 2.0  ;-)

You choose what you want to see, been in the offering for a while on Sky etc...

Via Slate.

The beginning of something new for advertising?

Yep, it’s Facebook time… again! Facebook’s been getting a lot of coverage… even though I think they shouldn’t have messed with it - personally I liked the old one better.

But this short post isn’t about those changes; it’s about changes in advertising! Did you notice that now you can rate ads on Facebook? Thumbs up or thumbs down? And on top of that, you can choose the reasons why you liked/disliked that particular ad…

 Well, this is a first timer for me and I think this is very fair. If you can rate just about anything on the web nowadays, why shouldn’t users be able to rate the ads that target them?

The question is: what will Facebook do with user feedback? Will it charge advertisers more for unappreciated ads? Or will it use this intelligence for upgrading its targeting capabilities, besides its demographic and interests segmentation criteria?

Your opinion is most welcome.

Note to readers, facebook love it or hate it we can't ignore it (well until something else comes along).