As hundreds of Eurostar passengers languish, Eurostar ignores Twitter That’s the headline on Mike Butcher’s Techcrunch article – I think it is missing the point. I’m finding myself getting annoyed (probably irrationally) about the tone of certain people on Twitter … Continue reading
The Campaign Cabwise is an initiative from Transport for London which has been around for a while. Text CAB to 60835* to get the numbers of one taxi and two licensed minicab firms, in the area you are texting from. … Continue reading
To promote World AIDS Day, Twitter has turned itself red, on its home page at least. Moreover, by using the term #red in your tweets, you can turn your own tweets red. I like this corporate support and it’s an … Continue reading
I like this. A glorious rich seam of irony Via The Media Blog
Orange have released their latest ‘movie’ – plus the game of the movie. It’s Sigourney Weaver in Snake, film of the game Snake Another one of their quirky takes on the Hollywood business, I like this visualisation of the film. … Continue reading
I feel like I’ve been posting nothing but grumpy posts lately, with complaints about the product or the approach. Having been in an email exchange about the Guinness advertisement post below, I thought I’d just summarise what I think are … Continue reading
There’s a new Guinness ad being launched today. I have no idea what it’s about nor what it looks like. What I have had is a series of emails from the PR company charged with promoting the ad; the initial … Continue reading
The Campaign VSP, the US’s ‘largest eyecare service provider’ (I’m guessing that translates into health insurance in English), has decided to get more into social media. They’re doing this with ‘The Great Bernie‘, a campaign that combines a website, Facebook … Continue reading
Sitting at home yesterday morning, I saw a tweet from a friend about a Zombie Walk he was organising. He was doing work to promote Capcom’s newest game Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, which launches for the Wii at the … Continue reading
Warner Brothers are releasing a new version of Sherlock Holmes on Boxing Day this year. As part of this, they’re doing a ARG on rails – a flash based game – around the film. I signed up for the game … Continue reading