Parker Higgins and Erica Swallow Enter SurprisedSXSW

During the “How to Create a Viral Video” panel at SXSW 2010, the panelists announced a #surprisedsxsw video contest, in which participants would create viral videos based on the super popular and very viral video “Surprised Kitty“. My colleague Parker Higgins and I created three videos for the contest. Apparently, the top 20 videos will…

I $ The Price is Right

Erica Swallow, Maria Kucinski and Parker Higgins created custom “The Price is Right” t-shirts in hopes of being chosen as contestants on the game show during the March 17, 2010 taping.

State of The Internet, 2009

Thanks to Focus, the fastest-growing online business research and media company in the world, we can now consume 2009’s internet stats in neat little pie charts, bar graphs and diagrams. Thank you, Focus!

How I Became an NY Times Olympian

Above: The “NY Times Olympian” Foursquare Badge Above: The New York Times’ Foursquare Page (http://foursquare.com/nytimes) Last weekend, I took a long weekend trip to Vancouver, Canada to visit my friend, Dario. A week prior to the trip, I had no firm plans to go, but an interest in attending the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Coincidentally, that…

President and First Lady Caught in Advertising Turmoil

(Above: Michelle and Barack Obama pictured in unauthorized ads.) What’s up with publishing unauthorized images of U.S. politicians as brand endorsements? Well, it seems like a new trend. Within the past few days, the White House has issued statements about ads Michelle and Barack Obama have appeared in without consent. Above, Michelle Obama is pictured…

Bit.ly Gets Into the Holiday Spirit

Visiting bit.ly today, I noticed that th bit.ly fish icon is now accompanied by a dreidel. That’s cool of them to celebrate Chanukah with an icon change! Cheers! Update: bit.ly also broke out the stockings for Christmas! Holiday spirits all around! Update #2: It’s no surprise that bit.ly kept up the festivities with another icon…