Archive for the 'social ideas' Category
Marriage 2.0: How to pick a spouse!
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello December 14th, 2007 in Entertainment, Foolishness, Humor, Vlogs, commerce, great ideas, monetization, social ideas.I was getting caught-up with Josh Spear this morning and came across an amazing stunt site TV show vlog, called 2 Husbands. At first blush the concept isnt that interesting. Two single guys want to get hitched and they have turned to the Internet for help. On their site women can upload videos of themselves [...]
Trendwatching: Eco-fatigue, Gen Z and Pet-Passe the future of marketing!
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello November 7th, 2007 in A-List Blogs, Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious, Conjecture, Fun with PR, Futurist, Humor, Innovation, Market Research & Intelligence, Research, Research Summary, TrendSpotting, Viral marketing, a-list, great ideas, parody, social ideas, tech humor.As someone who watches for trends in technology one of the many sites I frequent is Trendwatching.com. They offer a bevy of free research reports on global Trends with pithy insightful commentary and links. If your not getting their free reports or buying the paid stuff, then your missing out. Their most recent Trend Briefing [...]
UK Music Industry Threatens Prince Over Music Promotions
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 29th, 2007 in Digital Music, Music Musings, NARM, Prince, Record stores, TAFKAP, great ideas, pyrrhic victories, social ideas.The Brit tabloid, Mail on Sunday, has come under attack from British music retailers over a promotion its running with Prince (TAFKAP). It seems that the retailers have gotten all bent out of shape because the paper, with 2 million weekly readers, was smart enough to sign a deal with the Purple One to give [...]
Research Tuesday: Research from around the web
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 28th, 2007 in Conjecture, Gadgets, Long Tail, Market Research & Intelligence, Online TV, Quantification, Research, Research Summary, SMF, Tech Musings, Technology & Entertainment, TrendSpotting, User Generated Content, Web Resources, Zune, horrible headlines, mobile, mobile phone, social ideas, trend, video.Ok, so research Tuesday became research Wednesday Thursday.
Males Love Video Long Time
It’s been a reading week for me. Lots of great stuff to mull over and help shape ones thinking about digital media. Lets start with a report by consultancy Frank N. Magid & Associates with the irresistibly tantalizing header “80% of 18 - 24 [...]
ZapMeals: Closing the Gap Betwen Mouse and Tummy
3 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 22nd, 2007 in Foodie, Foolishness, Humor, Innovation, Start-ups, Web 2.0, great companies, hot betas, hot launches, social ideas.A great new Web 2.0 launch that plans on revolutionizing the restaurant and take-out industries. The start-up has an amazingly ambitious plan to help restaurants and home cooks monetize they excess capacity and inventory while delivering quality, low-cost food options. This is an amazing long-tail opportunity that I never even saw coming. Basically the company [...]
Vivoleum: The Yes Men Light Up Oil Industry
1 Comment Published by Siddiq Bello June 15th, 2007 in Conjecture, Humor, parody, social ideas, tech humor, vivoleum.It looks like the logo for a cool new Web 2.0 company and sounds like the name of a pill to stop geriatric incontinence but Vivoleum is a lot more. Postioned, by the non-evil good guys at ExxonMobil, as a renewable non-polluting energy source, Vivoleum is a major step towards ending American energy dependence. [...]
Whats happened? Lots…
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 5th, 2007 in Start-ups, Tech 2.0, TrendSpotting, Web 2.0, Web Resources, round-up, social ideas, social media, trend, twitter.Garry Trudeau became an RIAA shill…
The New York Times finds new ways to say the record labels are dead: With the hyperbolic headline “Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels” the NYT outlines the approved list symptoms contributing the labels demise but steadfastly avoids stating any causes.
The software police at the BSA put out [...]
Whats happened? Lots…
0 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello June 5th, 2007 in Start-ups, Tech 2.0, TrendSpotting, Web 2.0, Web Resources, round-up, social ideas, social media, trend, twitter.Garry Trudeau became an RIAA shill…
The New York Times finds new ways to say the record labels are dead: With the hyperbolic headline “Plunge in CD Sales Shakes Up Big Labels” the NYT outlines the approved list symptoms contributing the labels demise but steadfastly avoids stating any causes.
The software police at the BSA put out [...]
I’ve been a Prosper lender since October of last year and in January I started lending on Kiva as well but my online lending trifecta wont be complete until I can gamble on human hope using Zopa. Zopa is an online market place for lending to other folks much like Prosper in reverse. I’ve been anxiously awaiting the coming of Zopa but despite all the funding noise and media attention they havent made it to the US.
Well that may be about to change. According to an email they sent out this morning they are getting ready to launch, not just in the California as they originally stated, but nationally. With Zopa I’ll be able to loan money for as little as 6 months and further diversity my portfolio of person to person loans. From purely social lending on Kiva to the modestly social lending on Prosper and wholly economic lending on Zopa, I am becoming a banking institution $100 at a time.
Why I love Public Access TV
2 Comments Published by Siddiq Bello April 19th, 2007 in Digital Orgasms, Great English, Humor, NSFW, PeopleTV, Social and Politics, User Generated Content, social ideas.Its the original YouTube. The precursor to Vlog’s and it’s everywhere. Yes folks I’m talking about public access TV. There are few better methods for getting the tenor of a community then the local public access station. It the one location where anyone form your grandma to your pet snake can have their own soap [...]
