AdverClast

A Chronicle of Disruptive Advertising

Top 10 Facebook Feature Wishlist

After using Facebook, attending a developer conference and speaking to advertisers, I’ve built a Facebook roadmap. Not an application, widget or API wishlist, it’s a wishlist for Facebook platform functionality. To be sure, Facebook has initiatives focused on growing site and “ecosystem” functionality. They encourage app development through the fbFund. They encourage partner interfaces through [...]

Web 2.0 Killed The PR Star

The first act ever played on MTV, “Video Killed The Radio Star” ushered in the music video age. Driven by the powerful images, musicians of all stripes began developing videos. One or more music videos were soon required for any album release. But, as we know, video didn’t kill the radio star in 1981. Albeit [...]

Select Stories, 10-Nov

Mashups Directory - ProgrammableWeb
So, there are now over 1,013 published widgets (web APIs). In fact, if you compared Programmable Web’s list with Wigipedia’s, you’d probably get 1,200+. But, in terms of getting an idea of how to use them, reading write-ups of API after API gets a bit tedious. So, don’t. Go to Programmable’s Mashup [...]

Facebook’s Social Revenues

Articles on potential Facebook revenue models run the gamut. Comments following those articles span the galaxy. The consensus on Facebook revenues falls into two general categories:

They’re like Google - They’ve got oodles of traffic and oodles of ways to monetize it.
They’re like eToys - They’ve got an unsustainable business model, users prone to flip and [...]

Selected Stories, 8-Nov

The Playmaker's Tools - Competitve Market Communications
The Playmaker’s Table – Students of competitive strategy will appreciate this “periodic table” of communications strategies. Used in conjunction w/ The Playmaker’s Process (http://snurl.com/58nwy), it presents cogent tools for formulating communications strategies in competitive markets. Originally developed in Washington D.C., the table and process are increasingly relevant to PR-heavy, [...]

Select Stories, 5-Nov

The Economy, Online Markets & Web 2.0 - Mary Meeker
Great analysis. Takes user from macro-economic trends (which aren't good) through technology diffusion trends (including mobile penetration) to online trends (including shopping and social networks) down to online advertising trends (including offline spend comparisons). While valuable from a pitch-building perspective, the underlying trends are well known [...]

Select Stories, 1-Nov

Here Come The Twitter Ads - StopTwitterSpam.com
An insightful, thorough treatment of new ad formats (some would say spam) emerging on the Twitter platform. Deals in detail w/ one form from Magpie in which up to 20% of Tweets from a subscribing author are ads from Magpie sponsors. Not surprisingly Twitter community resistant as these ads [...]

fbFund Winners, Some Killer Apps

Facebook is actively expanding platform functionality launching Facebook Connect and free classifieds in May, 2008 and redoubling efforts to build a music service in October, 2008. All point the way to a more robust platform.
Then, on October 15th 2008, Facebook announced 25 winners of its fbFund $25,000 application developer grants. Each is entered to win [...]

Applications on LinkedIn, Niiice

On October 28th, 2008 LinkedIn took a big step forward by announcing the launch of “Applications on LinkedIn” (or InApps) and officially joining MySpace, Facebook, Google and Apple’s iPhone in the “platform” business. However, unlike other open platforms, LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman focused attention on ten applications by eight companies. It appears LinkedIn is going [...]

Select Stories, 29-Oct

Right Music For Your Viral Ad - SharpNine
Tom Belton of SharpNine Music overviews considerations for use of music in your next YouTube viral advertising video. While some concepts are familiar ground for TV and radio advertisers, many of the points are not intuitive to the online-only advertisers. Tom uses a three-part framework of Entertainment, Structure [...]

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