A new report released today from online video seeding firm Feed Company shows 70% of ad agency and media buying executives plan to increase budgets for viral video marketing in 2009. The ”Viral Video Marketing Survey: The Agency Perspective” culled insights on viral video marketing trends from 40 executives at major advertising agencies and media buying firms including Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, Wieden & Kennedy, Digitas, and McCann Erickson. - Fethi Uluak
…the researchers found that those students who scored high with the handshake experts were also considered to be the most employable by the interviewers and seen as having more extroverted personalities and greater social skills. The students with limp handshakes were judged to have less gregarious personalities and were less impressive. [From the Telegraph - Handshake key to landing a job, scientists claim by Richard Alleyne.] - Fethi Uluak
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Measures of stress in worldwide markets are so far from historical norms that they qualify as a ``black swan event.'' - Fethi Uluak
A chic London restaurant and bar called Inamo is making patrons' dining experiences digital by projecting colorful menus and aesthetic patterns onto touch-sensitive tabletops. - Fethi Uluak
The discipline of biomimicry takes its name from the greek words ‘bios’, meaning life and ‘mimesis’, meaning to imitate. as its name might suggest, biomimicry involves the study of nature’s designs and mimicking them to solve human challenges. janine benyus, one of biomimicry’s pioneers defines it as, ‘innovation inspired by nature.’ an early and well-known example of this process is evident in the invention of velcro. - Fethi Uluak
That was the general message you could pull out of the Technorati - State of the Blogosphere 2008 study that was released today. While the numbers of how many Blogs (and what is a Blog) continue to brew, here's what Technorati is telling us: - 133 million Blogs indexed since 2002. - 7.4 million Blogs had posts in the last 120 days. - 1.5 million Blogs had new posts up in the last 7 days. - 900,000 Blogs had new posts in the past 24 hours. - 76,000 Blogs have a Technorati Authority of 50+. - Fethi Uluak
Musinaut brings a whole new experience to music by redefining the way musicians record their tracks and the way listeners can listen and partly customize them to their personal taste. Artist can record songs in the MXP4 format with added ’skins’, which contain extra modifications, like more harmonies, beats, bass, etc. - Fethi Uluak
