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I found this little presentation on how to build your personal brand online over at digital tip. It’s a neat little pres highlighting brand engagement in the socialsphere, along with an overview on how to build a personal brand online. Building a personal brand is perhaps one of the most important things to do online though your [...]

Skype iPhone App Launches Today!

30. March 2009

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Get ready to make free calls, Skype (owned by eBay) is set to launch it’s first iPhone App today that will make calls from your iPhone free to other Skype users, via any Wi-Fi access point (possibly via 3G if Apples other deals don’t stand it the way) or users can make much cheaper calls to [...]

Skimmer: Fallon’s Social Media Application

29. March 2009

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It’s here, finally, “Skimmer” is a social media application that lets you stream all your social media content into one sleek skimmer interface where you can hook up all your facebook, twitter, flickr, youtube & blogger accounts together so you save bucketloads of time managing them all. Plus, it’s built with the new Adobe Air, which will greatly [...]

Social Networking Wars Viral Video

29. March 2009

I’m sure a lot of you have seen this from Current, but I love their work (like this one) so much I thought I’d better post it up anyway to make sure EVERYONE gets to enjoy it! This is the Social Networking Wars video from Current/Supernews – a TV station that allows you to influence [...]

Flashmob Virals Getting Old?

29. March 2009

I found this post over at ViralBlog (love it), but Is it just me or are these flashmob virals getting a little old and over done? Last week VTM, a Belgium TV channel staged a flashmobin yet another train station, essentially copying about 3-4 previous public viral concepts in London and the US. This time, the central [...]

Google Chrome Experiments

27. March 2009

Google has launched a website dedicated to Google Chrome Experiments - and, it’s not even in their usual style! However, the site is amazing, with videos of some very fancy technology that is activated with javascript and the Google Chrome Web Browser. Check it out here. If you’re a Google Addict, you can develop and [...]

INQ1: A Social Media Mobile Phone!

27. March 2009

One of the newest mobile brands on the market – INQ – has just won the Global Mobile Award for Best Handset 2009 with their INQ1, a social media based mobile phone! Hailed as the first mobile of its kind, it features a range of fully integrated social networking applications, features and widgets. Interestingly, it’s in the [...]

McDonald’s Viral Ad With Pharrell Williams

26. March 2009

McDonald’s seems to have launched an interesting viral ad with Pharrell Williams? It was discovered just 2 days ago and already has about 500,000 views and thousands of comments. Not sure what to make of it at the moment, but the second I have an opinion, i’ll be sure to let you know! Viral Campaign [...]

MINI Clubman Viral Ad “Fake”

26. March 2009

It’s been a little while since we’ve seen new work for MINI, but here comes the MINI Clubman Viral. In what is actually not your standard style of viral, MINI actually take you into a car trailing a pair of MINI Clubman cars and start to talk about how this ad is actually a viral… [...]

Chlorophyllo: French “Airwaves” Advergame

24. March 2009

I was just reading this post over at Adverblog, and clicked through to a new Airwaves chewing gum advergame created by Tribal DDB France. It’s a full video game where you interact directly with the video as you play Chlorophyllo, a Mexican wrestler that gets his power from the main ingredient in Airwaves. The art direction and [...]

The 100th Digital Buzz Post!

24. March 2009

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Well, tonight marks the 100th Digital Buzz post, kind of crazy when I think that it’s only been up for 3 months with 100 posts notched up, plus it’s already getting over 1000 visitors a day and has 750 people subscribed! Probably more so to wonder how much time has been spent on the blog so far, but [...]

Easier Than Reading Viral Site

23. March 2009

On the FWA I found a funny little attempted viral site has been launched this week called Easier Than Reading. It’s kind of like elf yourself, only it’s anything but Christmas time! You can select a puppet from a range of famous people, choose an appropriate background and then create a custom puppet dance for [...]

FWAPhoto – One photo a day

23. March 2009

TheFWA‘s owner Rob Ford, launched a new website FWAPhoto. It’s another daily showcase website but this one highlights some of the world’s best photography. You can check out the special sneak peak with this login details: Username: FWAPH / Password: oto94 at the new FWAPhoto website. Click here to check out the new site.

Twouble With Twitters Viral Video

23. March 2009

While I’m on virals today, here is a good one for all Twitter junkies out there. A great little play on Twitter from a TV series called SuperNews. Forgive me if it’s not exactly on topic for the blog, but none the less you’ll probably enjoy if you use, or hate using twitter! Enjoy. This [...]

Stefan The Swopper: Social Media & Viral Campaign

22. March 2009

Meet Stefan Kits, the young Swedish guy that just needed a change. How much of a change? Well Stefan decided to swap everything he owned for something different, with any random person out there willing to give it a shot – in a single month! Ok, so not entirly true, Stefan was part of the [...]

What’s In The Box?

20. March 2009

Last night when I was surfing on the net, I saw a strange message on Youtube: ”Hurry up, this is an early temp version, will be deleted soon.” I watched this 9 minute long P.O.V short film with a bunch of assests from Halflife 2, looks cool and well produced as a viral. It’s obviously [...]

2009 AIMIA Award Winners List

20. March 2009

The 2009 AIMIA Award Winners List has been revealed, showcasing a range of great digital work downunder across about 25 AIMIA award categories for 2009. It was hoted by Adam Spencer and Airlie Walsh which kept the audience entertained! Click here to check out all the winners. The Quantum Code campaign picked up two awards (Euro [...]

Pepsico Zeigeist: Twitter Widget @ SXSW

19. March 2009

At SXSW, Pepsico (the major sponsor) created “Zeigeist”, a twitter widget that aggregates tweets & keywords, transforming them into visual groups based on activity like eating, partying, travelling, drinking, connecting .etc then streaming their tweets via a very slick interface to so that the entire event is summarised for anyone that couldn’t attend! Very cool app, it was [...]

Email Marketing Benchmark Report 2009

18. March 2009