Posts Tagged ‘Google’
april 1: fool’s day virals
April 2nd, 2010 by lifeproof
This year April 1st has been a festival for virals on the internet since many agencies, firms and companies have released viral videos as a joke. One of them is Google. Google has launched a service: Google translate for animals, which helps you understand what animals are saying to you by holding your phone (made [...]
Tags: April 1st, Fool's Day, Google, google translate for animals, Qualcomm, stolen prototypes of mirasol display devices, The Viral Factory, viral marketing, viral video
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share 2.0: culture of sharing
February 21st, 2010 by lifeproof
Last year in May, we were having an informal talk with Jonathan D. Schwartz, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Cablevision Systems and previous General Counsel of Napster (remember Napster vs. Metallica), as a group of international media scholars in New York City. We talked about his current occupation and his past career activities, but [...]
Tags: Apple, blogger is the new marketer, BookCrossing, Bruce Nussbaum, Cablevision Systems, change of consumer culture, Channel Thirteen, consumer, consumer culture, consumer dynamics, CouchSurfing, CrowdSpirit, culture of sharing, Design Thinking Class, dynamics of sharing, dynamics of sharing in web 2.0, facebook, file sharing, filesharing, Google, IBM, ICQ, internet, iPad, IRC, Jonathan D. Schwartz, Kindle, Mac, Metallica, Microsoft, MP3, MSN, napster, New York City, PirateBay, Robin Chase, share 2.0, sharing dynamics, social media, social media analysis, social media consulting, the culture of sharing, The New School, The Pirate Bay, web 2.0, wikipedia, Windows, zipcar
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, Reminder
google is a country: indeed
February 1st, 2010 by lifeproof
I thought that this topic would have already been saturated in the blogosphere and the social-media-sphere, but in contrary, except for The Huffington Post and The Guardian almost no other outstanding media has issued the subject. Alan Rusbridger from The Guardian reports: Google is not a country. Eric Schmidt – who would be prime minister if [...]
Tags: Advertising Age, Alan Rusbridger, Chad Hurley, China, Craig Newmark, David Drummond, Davos, Davos Economic Forum, Eric Schmidt, existence of virtual beings, Google, Google is a country, Google vs. China, Googledom, Hal Varian, Marissa Mayer, Newspaper Association of America, Nikesh Arora, Pew Research Center, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, UC Berkeley, virtual existence, virtual existence of real beings
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles
virtual protest march on google maps
January 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I have written an article on the dispute between Google and China for a Turkish newspaper the last week. I stated that The Great Firewall of China was not much different than the firewall that the Turkish conservative government has built around us. When I first returned to Turkey this summer after spending two years [...]
Tags: AKP, ban on YouTube, bobiler.org, China, Google, Google Docs, google maps, Istanbul, New York, New York City, ReadWriteWeb, Tayyip Erdogan, The Great Firewall of China, Turkey, virtual protest, virtual protest march, YouTube
Posted in Black Yogurt Chronicles, PinPoint