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Digital Digs 28/03/11

Corning Shatters Viral Ceiling With Futuristic Glass Video
For its compelling, realistic view of the future, it’s really no wonder a corporate video tops the Viral Video Chart this week.
Super Cool

Google Sets Role in Mobile Payment
Google, MasterCard and Citigroup are in a vigorous testing stage in hopes to be the first to turn paying for purchases with your Smartphone into an everyday method for monetary transactions.
Pay for It

Digital Africa
It takes more than violent anarchy to extinguish the desire of the young to stay connected.
Enlightening

PeopleBrowsr Presents A Brief Cartoon History of Social Networking 1930-2011
Entertaining and informative: The best way to receive a history lesson.
How We Got so Social

Business Turning Facebook into Marketing Network
How Facebook makes money, why corporations throw it at them, and how come we, as Canadians, over index in every aspect of Facebook engagement metrics.
How Facebook Gets Paid

Digital Digs 21/03/11

a micro-digest of what's new and emerging

The Virtuous Circle
A comprehensive study from GroupM on the role of search and social media in the purchase pathway.
From Here to There

Illuminating Cereal Boxes
This caught our collective eye this week. Fulton Innovation has been busy pushing their technology onto the packaged goods industry’s radar, so seeing these boxes on store shelves could be closer than you think. Induction charging in the home will follow close behind.
Coming Soon

The Pros and Cons Of Tumblr For Small Business
While some blogs have a defined goal and seemingly planned content, others pop up only to sit there floundering without much to say. Why’s that happen? Where’s the strategy?
What Are You Saying?

Using YouTube Comments, Tweets and IMs to Teach English Composition
Love this story of a man’s quest to teach careful consideration and critical thinking in everyday communication.
English 2.0

Rebecca Black Means The (Internet) Fame Game Has Changed
This terribly obnoxious music video made by ARK Factory for $2,000 has more views than the latest Gaga hit. For all the wrong reasons, Rebecca Black now has a name.
The Why and The How

Digital Digs 14/03/11

A micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Facebook Insights Gets Real-Time Analytics
Facebook took new steps this past week to boost advantages for those using Facebook plugins. We can now dive deeper into analytics and do so in real time, which is so much better than the previous three-day lag.
Deeper, Faster

Turning the Page: How Digital Technology is Changing the Way We Read
Sideways provides statistics and demographics for who’s using what to absorb content. This will surely be outdated in mere months, but right now it’s pretty interesting.
Read On

LinkedIn Is About To Make Headlines
A call to action for all that LinkedIn could be in this time of social network upheaval. Also look out for LinkedIn news.
LinkedIn Gets Informative

Tsunami Devastates Japan: How Social Media Reacted
A comprehensive report on what social networks’ reactions were to last week’s terrible disaster in Japan. The most progressive? Google People Finder.
How the World Reacted

SXSW 2011: 4Chan founder Christopher Poole on Anonymity and Creativity
SXSW 2011 is in full swing down in Austin. This seems to be the most talked about keynote so far. And 4Chan vs. other news sources is always a hot debate around our office.
4Chan for Good? 

 

Digital Digs 07/03/11

A micro-digest of what's new and emerging

Improving Comments Across The Web
Continuing to pull the entire Internet into its realm, Facebook updated the utilization of comments this week. This makes it easier to see what friends are into and, of course, share news at a greater pace.
Tell Them How You Feel

#Winning
Don’t know what #winning is? You’re slacking. Scott Monty has aggregated the top stories on #winning for your viewing pleasure. Link to David Armano’s “Winning the Web” to debate what the message to this madness may be.
What’s Winning?

Rethink Realizer Unleashed Online
Rethink and Nascent released a handy little app last week. The Realizer lets you view realistic prototypes of apps, which is something much needed across the industry.
Handy!

Men vs. Women on Facebook
Get up to date on your stats. You know a client’s going to ask a related question in a meeting and you’re going to wish you opened this link. So do it. Now.
Know your Facebook

YouTube Time Machine
Came across this fantastic website. It’s a great reference, full of commercials and everything else displaying the culture of the times. Careful though, you can easily get lost for hours.
Looking Back