Five years ago today, a bunch of youngsters at two companies called The Barbarian Group and Crispin, Porter + Bogusky launched a small minisite three days in advance of the late night running of some broadcast spots. They wanted to iron out any last minute wrinkles in the site by emailing it around to a few more friends, and get a little early buzz before the spots ran.
In the next 48 hours, before the spots even had a chance to air, the little viral site that could had already bombarded the poor XServe in Crispin’s internal data center with 25 million hits. Within days, a cultural phenomenon was spawned.
All for a creepy dude in a chicken suit with garters, who looked like he was running some sort of shady web cam operation.
And here it is, five years later. Let’s take a moment to pay tribute to this noble chicken, and let’s look at the impact he had, and where his place might be in marketing today. Man, it’s a good thing I document everything in my life. The events are getting hazy, the facts are starting to be lost to the sands of time. Some pictures I can only find as lo-res GIFs. But we shall persevere!
Lets see how this will work out this coming Saturday.
On March 28 you can VOTE EARTH by switching off your lights for one hour.
Or you can vote global warming by leaving your lights on.
The results of the election are being presented at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. We want one billion votes for Earth, to tell world leaders that we have to take action against global warming.
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In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent. To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks.
Source: Sitepoint.com
Great article published by Gamedaily on a not extreme high quality performing movie. Nevertheless very watchable according to reviews.
The new form of advertising is a so-called viral one including friendfeed, facebook, youtube and twitter. Skittles did it last week, Watchmen does it since Januay 2009 already.
Gamedaily: The original Watchmen is a comic strip of rare detail and even rarer acclaim. While the Watchmen movie isn’t likely to receive the accolades that its graphic novel counterpart has received and richly deserved for the past two decades, it certainly has been composed with a high degree of reverence for its source material. This has shown through in all of its various promotions, crafted with an unusual degree of pride for promotional media. » Continue Reading…
YouTube has updated its Annotations feature so you can now invite your friends to scrawl nonsense on your uploaded videos.
The feature was first introduced last June, and is proving very popular with self-promoters and the like, as it allows you to add speech bubbles, notes, and highlight boxes to your own videos. Read more here
If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos
have been uploaded to the site. » Continue Reading…
Facebook Terms of Use Update
“Over the past few days, we have received a lot of feedback about the new terms we posted two weeks ago. Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use while we resolve the issues that people have raised. For more information, visit the Facebook Blog.
If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”
To be or not to be….again the famous quote becomes relevant when we talk about twitter. Socialmedia insider doesn’t know either, though Biz Stone knows the anwser or….doesn’t he?
Latest news on Facebook ;
Facebook paid the founders of social networking rival ConnectU $65 million to settle litigation alleging that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the site, according to a report today in The Recorder legal publication.
Source: Mediapost
