Entries from June 2006

Oxfam Shop on eBay

June 22nd, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
In Stories

Oxfam opened a shop on eBay. Recently, they sold the Vera Wang dress that Keira Knightly wore to the Oscars. It went for £4,301.01. But there’s nothing there now…
Here’s a graph of activity on Oxfam’s eBay account. Looks like it got cold…

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The hardest question to answer.

June 20th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
In Social media · Stories

Jeff Dachis says wha?

This is an excerpt from an September 2000 article in Wired magazine. It was written by Warren St. John (now at the NYT) and describes an interview on CBS 60 minutes between Bob Simon and Razorfish’s Jeff Dachis and Craig Kanarick in 2000. This is - in many ways - one of [...]

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Teenager repellent becomes ringtone

June 16th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
In New technologies

Ringtonia reports teenagers are using “teenager-only” frequencies developed as a deterrant as ringtones. Nice.

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Worldwide Partners

June 16th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
In Stories

Worldwide Partners offers the benefits of a global network to small agencies. 80 offices in 35 countries. Hmmm.

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Blog Product Placement

June 16th, 2006 by Mat Morrison · No Comments
In Blogging · Customer conversations · Influencer marketing · Stories

Dan at Jack Of All Blogs notes a new “brute force” SEO tactic: “a marketer with an ecom site finds a bunch of blogs [...] and offers them some cash to write an ad in a post, with a link back to the advertiser’s site.” Combine this with Onalytica’s citation-indexing and there’s the beginning of [...]

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