Rapper Lil Wayne has broken the Guinness World Record for most Facebook likes on a single post in 24 hours — a record only too recently created (on the same day) and briefly held by Oreo. At the end of the 24-hour period, Oreo had 114,619 likes; five hours later, when the rapper’s 24-hour period had expired, his post had 588,243 likes, easily trumping Oreo’s bid for the Guinness World Record.
Film director Sebastian Guttierez plans on making his latest film the first major motion picture to be distributed via the Internet. A Girl Walks Into A Bar is set to officially debut at South By Southwest this March and will be released online for free at the same time
50 and 50 is a collective, curated project where 50 designers are invited to represent their state by illustrating its motto, a new piece is posted every week.
Google has launched major updates to Social Search, integrating information from Twitter, Flickr and Quora throughout its search engine. The first major change is that Google Social Search results will no longer appear only at the bottom of the page, but will instead be “blended” throughout the page. This is done through an annotation system that lets you know when a friend has shared a specific link or search result.
Forget Apple, Sunday Rose, Ocean and Sage Moonblood for out-of-the-ordinary, attention-grabbing names. According to an article found in the Egyptian paper Al-Ahram an Egyptian man has named his firstborn baby daughter “Facebook Jamal Ibrahim” as a way of showing his gratitude to the social networking site and the valuable role it played in helping to organize the recent protests that resulted in the eventual ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.
A fantastic overview of Twitter trends equally as insightful & relevant for prolific tweeters & non-tweeters. Set aside 10 minutes to read through this…
TED award-winning Parisian artist/activist JR, brings his method of colossal Xeroxes to the streets of L.A. Similar to Banksy, JR's identity is cloaked by a pseudonym taken from a classic American TV show (Dallas), his work, however, is remarkably distinguished from the places he posts to how he chooses his subjects, carefully, spending time with the locals shooting black-and-white portraits and then mounting his city-sized, albeit illegal, exhibits on the buildings his subjects inhabit. ‘Wrinkles In The City’ depicts older folks, mostly ethnic Angelenos. The irony of brown wrinkled faces, shot at 28 millimeter, and paper projected onto a building in this ‘Hollywood’ industry town will be inescapable.
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In an open letter to the ‘church’ (extremist Christian hatemongers famous for their "God Hates Fags" signage and protests at soldier's funerals, among other repugnant publicity stunts), Anonymous has demanded a ‘cease & desist’ from 2011 onwards or threatened significant consequences. Of course the ‘church’ wrote an open letter back entitled ‘Bring It!’ Personally, I’m on Team Anonymous & can’t wait to see what happens next…
BMW is establishing a new, sustainability-focused sub-brand called ‘BMW i’ and along with it, a venture capital fund for finding and helping the best and brightest tech startups in the fields of mobility and travel.
Nike recently released a Robert Rodriguez-directed viral ad for their basketball line and pulled out all the big stops by getting Kobe Bryant, Danny Trejo, Bruce Willis, and Kanye West to star in it, it’s pretty spectacular (but longer than I’d ever recommend a ‘viral’ video to be at 5:48)…
My favourite line “product placement gives us a bigger budget, bigger budget, bigger explosions”
