Month: September 2006
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The Rise of DiggNation
Yesterday evening after I got a call from Jeremiah, we decided to head over to the DIGG party in San Francisco, which was held to launch a new series of lifestyle online video shows. The event was quite successful, upcoming.org had over 300 signed up and most of them seemed to have showed up. Quite…
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Scoby-Doo & Gang
Quick Update: Post-mortem of ScobleShow by Scoble. As I’d mentioned in this post, he agrees that RSS feeds was one of the things that needed to be corrected and has remedied that situation (RSS feed – Scoble Show). He also solicits inputs for tech luminaries who could be interviewed on his show. I think Guy…
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In search of Tecca
Tech+Mecca = Tecca (get it?). Hehe. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before on this blog, but I’ve a fascination for everything Silicon Valley. I’m enamored of its technological history, the luminaries who continue to make history from within its confines and the “geeks 2.0” who populate the landscape, attempting to re-write history. I…
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“Podcast” Naming Debate – Part Deux
What’s up with the podcast name debate. It keeps raging on, in different forms… If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed my coverage of a similar debate a few months ago that was initiated by Mark Ramsey’s comments. Here’s a snapshot of what transpired then: Step 1: Mark Ramsey…
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//del.icio.us/an event to savor
Well, I always thought that my blogger friends are divided into 2 categories the EC & WC bloggers…you know like the east coast and west coast hip-hop artists! Just kidding… And I have always wondered what’d happen when “the twain did meet”. Last week, our friends from the Bay Area — Jeremiah Owyang and Robert…
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It’s Podcastic!
A lot has been happening in the world of vlogging and podcasts and I haven’t been talking about them as much as I want to. One of the most interesting articles I read recently on podcasting was by Gregory Galant, CEO of Radio Tail (blog), where he attempts to debunk 5 myths that plague our…
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Take 5: More Videos
You’ve got to forgive me, readers, I’m on an uncontrollable video viewing spree and to give YouTube’s competitors some blog-time as well, I browsed the archives of Google Video, AOL Video to unearth a few Marketing and Tech pearls of wisdom for your viewing pleasure. But these are extremely long and educative, so they are…
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Top 10 YouTube Videos
What you’re going to find below is a mix of some of the most popular YouTube (YT) videos (user created) as well as regular TV clips hosted on YT that have entertained us over the past few months enumerated in order of my preference. However be warned some of the videos are addictive & LONG…
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What is a Web 2.0 Brand?
From among the thousands of information technology companies how do you identify the great brands. This is a question that obviously bedevils all of us marketers, including Michael Krauss, veteran strategic matter, whose column “Tech Matters” appears in the Chicago Sun Times. In his latest article in Marketing News – AMA’s monthly magazine, Michael contemplates…
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Into the Hundreds…
I’m glad to be writing Marketing Nirvana’s 100th Blog Post, as we move into the fifth month since inception. I’m also super-excited about the blog retaining its position within Viral Garden’s Top 25 Marketing Blogs. Woohoo! On a different note, here are a couple of articles that caught my eye over the past few days:…