So in a twist worthy of a hollywood movie, the US decided to flex it’s muscle and make a statement about how insignificant the SOPA/PIPA protests were, by shutting down one of the biggest fileserving sites on earth. We’re talking 4% of the ENTIRE Internet’s bandwidth. Not only did they shut the sites down, but [...]
With major sites down today such as Wikipedia, Reddit, Minecraft, Wired… even Zombo.com… could this be the most productive day ever? As the Internet goes (partially) dark in protest to SOPA/PIPA, what effect do you think this will actually have on the laws being passed? While there has been a bit of dropped support for [...]
SOPA is not just bad, it’s actually evil, and it kills not just LOLcats, but unicorns and sparkles too. Of course we hate SOPA. We’re under the age of 35. We understand the Internet. We were born into the age of Internet and our very social survival is based upon it. Every generation has its [...]
Hey kids. So, um, I want to talk to you about protection. Yes, I know, it’s an awkward subject. Don’t you roll your eyes at me! I know It’s embarrassing and you think you know it all and don’t need to hear it from me. But I’m only doing this because I care about you. [...]
In another case of “WTF PayPal?!”, a pre-WWII violin has been destroyed because of a bogus claim by a dodgy buyer. In this email to Regretsy, the seller wrote (summarised) – I sold an old French violin to a buyer in Canada, and the buyer disputed the label. Rather than have the violin returned to [...]
I don’t even know how to summarize the past days’ events of Ocean Marketting/Stratagy vs Dave and his controllers, so in case you’ve missed it, I shall link you here. Some kind of shorthand: Dude sends simple email to ask where his stuff is, PR dude has some sort of, well, meltdown implies that he [...]
Thought you’d seen Angry Birds on just about everything? Well not until now you haven’t. The last feathered frontier has just been crossed by Teija Vesterbacka, wife of Rovio’s Mighty Eagle and marketing Guru, Peter Vesterbacka. Mrs. V clearly knows the importance of standing by her man, showing up to a function at the Finnish [...]
I loves me some internet drama. Especially when it involves meatspace trying to understand online culture and it’s admittedly controversial sense of humour. We’ve seen it plenty of times. In this case, we have the perfect example of mainstream media trying to create a story using a subject they didn’t even bother researching (ever heard of Google guys?). While that’s [...]
The buzz and excitement around Apple’s Siri has served to largely sweeten the pill of bitter disappointment around the lack of an iPhone 5, with the voice controlled intelligent personal assistant winning plenty of acclaim for its innovative approach. But just how “innovative” is Siri really? Especially considering Apple had already imagined the service back in [...]
