Spinning the Web

The new McDonald’s ads are gathering online attention rather rapidly. Mostly down to the lead ad featuring a Dad and his (unbeknownst to him) gay son.

It’s quite refreshing to see, but when you break it down it’s not that controversial and wouldn’t be out of place on Tarrant on TV. More videos here & here.

I’ve only just seen the red nose day viral from Fallon and it’s pretty cool. My favourite twitter mascot Alexandr Orlov makes an appearance on video conference from Moscow.

Alongside the rest of the widgets and apps developed through the hackathon and beyond, this is one of the best non-profit social media campaigns we’ve seen (and it’s not even finished yet)

Hitler does NOT like it when Twitter goes down.

I’m in San Francisco at the moment at the global HQ of Flip Video – so will post some more relevant missives soon.

Do you know your Tweetbeep from your Twanslate?

I love Twitter. Fact. That might, in some eyes (okay – most eyes) make me appear a geek. It wasn’t always that way.

There was a time when I used to regard Twitter with confusion and disdain in equal measure – my impression of the serial tweeter was pretty close to that of the gloriously hideous Twitter Whore.

However, I am most definitely a changed man. In recent times Twitter has become an essential professional tool – connecting me with a knowledge base that literally spans the world.

I also love the fact Twitter has become defined by its users – with many tweeters using the Twitter API to create new and exceptionally useful little tools and Web 2.0 widgets.

Here my soon-to-be Twitter addicts. Here.

You can see my own tweets to the right, or, as Hitler, the Pied Piper and the Moonies have been known to say – “follow me“

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^Twitter Whore: the traditional Tweeter caricature