Mar 28

More Movie Rentals Added to Facebook

Mashable is reporting that Warner Bros has added five titles to its Facebook movie rental offerings.

Inception, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Yogi Bear and Life as We Know It are the latest movies that can be rented via the Warner Bros page for $3 each. Continue reading

Mar 27

Bing Integrates Twitter Into News Search Results

Microsoft has added Twitter search results to the news search page on its search engine, Bing. Twitter results now show up in a far right-hand column on the page just below the “most recent” section. The tweets scroll in real-time … Continue reading

Mar 26

Google Looks to Compete with iTunes

We learned from cnet recently that Google is close to launching its Google Music service. The music-streaming service seems to be very similar to iTunes.

The difference between Google Music and iTunes appears to be that Google would like to give users the ability to store their music collections online. Continue reading

Mar 22

How You Can Raise Autism Awareness On (and Off) line

Autism Speaks is working on a campaign to promote autism awareness that integrates digital and traditional marketing pretty well.

The Light it up Blue campaign encourages people to show their blue on April 1st and 2nd. Their microsite gives all the details about what you can do to help offline (wear blue, host an event, change you lightbulbs to blue, etc) and online (place a banner on your site, blog/tweet about autism, change your Facebook avatar and/or status to reflect the effort, etc). Continue reading

Mar 22

Farmville-Lite Irish Facebook Game Launches; Reviews Aren’t Pretty

Tourism Ireland just launched “Ireland Town“- a Facebook game that is basically Farmville with a greater emphasis on Potato-farming and Drinking Beer. Ireland Town is not going over well with the critics in these early days. The game is garnering … Continue reading

Mar 21

Is the New Facebook Social Inbox Here?

While checking my Facebook messages this morning, I noticed something odd…I had all of my messages (chat, message, etc) all in one place. I also had the opportunity to claim my @facebook.com email address and it noted that my text … Continue reading

Mar 20

Rebecca Black Takes ‘Friday’ to Twitter

13-year old Internet ‘sensation’ Rebecca Black burst on the scene a few weeks ago, when she posted her song ‘Friday’ on YouTube. Since then, the song has been widely-criticized, being dubbed by some as the ‘worst song ever’ and she … Continue reading

Mar 19

Its Been a Very Busy Month For Brands on Facebook

Brands are embracing Facebook apps and pages more than ever and are getting pretty darn creative in their use of the technology available. This past month has been extremely active and has yielded some pretty cool new Facebook breakthroughs. Here … Continue reading