Darren Barefoot picked up on this new way to move money around. Text Pay Me allows users to send and receive payments via text messaging. No more verbal IOUs! - Split your restaurant bills right then and there! - Pay your team or club dues anywhere and anytime - Pitch in real money instead of IOUs for a shared gift - Settle your roommate's rent and utility bills on the spot Text Pay Me users can also buy and sell on …
Happy Fat Tuesday!
Noah from 88Slide wrote in. He says: 88SLIDE is a daily one minute info-challenge format (read: game show), distributed via the Internet at 88slide.com, and through iTunes as a video podcast. Cell phone users can also download the 3GP formatted series at 88slide.com. We release original episodes M-F, and outtakes and bloopers from the previous week on Saturday/Sunday. You can view the archives in the meantime. Our …
Hummer Can’t Buy A Break
From Austin 360: The Thermals, a rambunctious rock band from Portland, Ore., were en route between gigs last year when they got a phone call from their label, Sub Pop. Hummer wanted to pay them $50,000 for the right to use their song "It's Trivia" in a commercial. "We thought about it for about 15 seconds, maybe," lead singer Hutch Harris said. They said no. Washington D.C.'s Trans Am were offered $180,000 by Hummer …
Pushing Fashion To The Pod
Karl Lagerfeld is Podcasting. Lagerfeld closed New York’s Fashion Week with a runway show that one didn't need a ticket to experience. CORE’s motion design division, COREaudiovisual, created brand-oriented content that was seen by audiences both inside and outside the show’s venue, and produced a video Podcast of the event that was available minutes after the show concluded. According to Apple, this was the first …
Dethroning King Search
From Jakob Nielsen's Alterbox: I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web's value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index. There's no doubt that search engines provide a valuable service to users. The issue here is what search engines do to the companies they feed on -- the companies that fund the creation of original information. Search …
The Corporate Coffee Backlash: Coming To Your Town Soon
In a comment seeming to stary from their party line, Consumerist says: Normally we’re not into anti-consumer agitprop but this one butters the biscuit. You can't see it in the photo, but this stencil is directly adjacent to a brand-spankin'-new, soon-to-open Starbux. Click over to Consumerist for more photos. …
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Sub Millionaires’ Row
The house above is a 827 sf shack in Cupertino, CA (the peninsula town that Apple Computer calls home). The asking price is $764,900. From San Francisco Chronicle: You're not the only one dreaming of ditching the Bay Area for a Midwestern college town or a coastal city in the Southeast. Two out of five residents of the nine-county region have given serious thought to moving away -- mostly because of high housing …
Edelman ‘s Word
Courtesy of Flickr user, "edelman_talkshop" TalkShop is a blog about word-of-mouth and the Me2 Revolution, published by Edelman and hosted by Phil Gomes, the company's Senior Counsel, Online Communications. The blog pulls in thoughts and opinions from members of the worldwide Edelman network. Edelman is public relations giant. They made news recently by hiring Steve Rubel, a.k.a. Mr. Micropersuasion. …
