Chemical Brothers Geo-Tagged Movie Challenge

August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Now, I have previously expressed my love for the Chemical Brothers here, so I can assure you that I am not being bias when I say their latest project is pretty impressive.  To promote their forthcoming album Brotherhood, on their website they are asking fans to submit “short video clips (2 to 20 seconds) or photograph about your favourite Chermical Brothers track”.   Users then upload their work to a Google Map and tag it.  The winning entries will then be shown on September 1st in line with the albums launch, on a Google Earth channel and also on the Chemical Brothers YouTube channel.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Music, Tagging, Video 

Muxtaping

May 26, 2008 | 1 Comment

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Muxtape is a great site that allows users to upload their MP3’s to make mixtapes for the modern era.  A particularly great one from Mr Lloyd Davis can be found here.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Music, Social Interaction 

Rickroll flash mob

April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment

So I am a little late writing this post but on Friday evening I headed over to Liverpool Street Station to take part in the Rick Astely flashmob. If you don’t know what a flashmob is then you can look here. If you don’t know what all the fuss is about with Rick Astley then you can find out here.

As flashmobs go, it wasn’t one of the greatest but it was still really fun nevertheless. 5:59pm people were loitering around the departure boards and as the final ten seconds took us to 6pm the excitement began. It is unfortunate that more people watched rather than participate as it’s not really in the spirit of flashmobs however, you can see what you think courtesy of my Qik video

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Bizarre, Blog, Community, Events, Experiential, Music, Social Interaction, Video 

Rockstar Games takes product placement through to purchase

March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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Rockstar Games (Grand Theft Auto 4) is allowing players to link through to Amazon and purchase each track they hear within the game.  The mechanism is built into the game’s mobile phone system and as the character drives around listening to the radio, they can bookmark a song by dialing the number ZIT-555-0100 to get sent a text message back with the artist and track details. Via PSFK

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Advertising, Blog, Games, Music, Product placement 

Stars launching their own social networks

March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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First Kylie and then Fiddy (50 Cent to you and I).  Stars are now starting to launch their own social networks sharing tour news and other delights that I don’t really care about (well from these two anyway).  I obviously find it hard to believe that the stars themselves are posting to these sites, but I can’t help but feeling they are nothing more than glorified websites? 50 Cents site contains a little more content than Kylie’s admittedly, and has just clocked up 160,000 users which can’t be sniffed at.  I can understand that if you are a 50 Cent fan, then this is your paradise but it leaves me feeling that this is simply an alternative to MySpace created by his PR agency.

Posted by Jamie Coomber | Filed Under Blog, Music, Social network 

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