Yesterday’s Dick Smith Games sale was something of an object lesson in how not to manage social media or sales. There’s definitely a case for better control of your information channels, but could the sale have been handled better?
Imagine, if you will, a world in which Richard Seaver or Robert Gottlieb had stomped their feet and huffed and puffed every time John Leonard forgot to give them their proper “hat tip”. Or, rather, as I joked on Twitter over the weekend about the new “Curator’s Code“, if Goethe had lived long enough to chide Mann for writing about Faust and giving a “ᔥ” to Marlowe but forgetting to give a “↬” to Goethe.
KONY 2012 was unleashed on the internet just six days ago, and it has already been viewed more than 100 million times. By some accounts that makes it the most rapidly spreading video ever, beating out the likes of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Rebecca Black, Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus.
If high school taught me anything, where you sit — and who you sit next to — in the cafeteria is absolutely imperative to your social status and future happiness. And that lesson is now being retaught by a Danish airline — they’ll let you chose your seatmate based on their social media profile.
Facebook’s made changes recently to just about everything it does, and even more changes are imminent. As if by clockwork, users of Facebook are up in arms unhappy about the privacy implications and the new interface look. This isn’t news; it’s just the latest in a long, long pattern of Facebook abuse.
Something tells me Hollywood isn’t going to ‘like’ this one bit. TorrentFreak reports that the Czech Pirate Party is launching a movie download portal that it describes as a ‘Facebook for Movies’.
Heard about the 24-hour alcohol delivery guys that had been taking orders on Facebook? Well, they were until the NSW Liquor Office slapped ‘em with a $2420 fine Wednesday. But the story may not end there. In their most recent Facebook posts, The Beer Baron says “it’s business as usual” and The Blind Pig says “The Pig lives on!”
