Video Archive

A bit sweary, but adds to the ridiculousness of what must be happening out there in marketing-land to folks who don’t read the right books or blogs!

I’ve started unfollowing and blocking anyone on Twitter who calls themselves a guru – if you can’t wrap your feet around the back of your neck and you don’t have books and films written about you – you aren’t a guru so get a life!

Thanks to Lorna for the tip!

So this is the demo of Looking Glass that Stephen Kim gave at Advertising Week in New York a few days ago.

A few hours before I’d published a post about the code-named LookingGlass which outlined its features, but more importantly that it’s a proof-of-concept and just one of a number of projects teams at Microsoft are working on to really start making sense of all the data available within the social media space and make it actionable.

I interviewed a few folks after the presentation and the reception was great. What agencies and advertisers alike were excited about was the ability to layer external data on top. So using APIs you’ll have the functionality to add in call centre numbers or sales information to really knuckle down and spot trends or potential pitfalls that you can then do something about, and quickly!

We’re excited about the great coverage on ClickZ, AdAge & TechCrunch and from Andy Beal and I know Jamey and Marc will relish more of your thoughts!

Well we’re having a blast over here in New York, working hard – 18 hour days – and playing hard for the rest of the time!

Feel very privileged to have been in the front row at Yusuf’s speech which I wrote about on Monday and there’s been a tremendous reception for my post on Ashton Kutcher’s keynote conversation yesterday.

Today we’re announcing LookingGlass and doing a ton more Tweeting and Blogging.

But check out the demo Yusuf does in this video. If you don’t have 40 minutes for the whole thing then just fast forward to the Bing demo at about 10.30 and that jaw dropping virtual reality stuff at 21 minutes!

Really pleased with this combined effort from our design/marketing/community teams at Microsoft Advertising.

We’ve just launched this Advertising Week 2009 social media hub which includes a Twitter feed of everything being talked about in relation to the event and videos of interviews we’ve done before and we’ll be doing during our time there. 

There’s a photo stream and including a very cool DeepZoom plug-in on the home page!

I’ll be in New York for the week blogging and Tweeting, so hope to catch up with a lot of you there!

If you can’t make it I hope you’ll drop by this site now and again…

Since our wedding three weeks ago, not a day has gone past without someone asking for the transcript of my friend Dom Doyle’s quite brilliant “reflection” he gave on that day.

Well we’ve gone further than that and uploaded the 8 minute video!

Dom’s a mate of mine from school who now teaches theology at Boston College in Harvard.

When we asked him a few months ago if he would say a few words, we had no idea quite how much he would wow the assembled (and make so many women swoon) with his kind words, incisive English wit, deep human insight and theological candour.

A truly gifted guy!

Snapshot of what’s available for FREE at Silverlight Streaming on Windows Live – you get 10GBs of free hosting which ain’t bad…

Just written about this over on the Microsoft Advertising Blog.

I’m the US right now so can’t watch any shows on the MSN Video Player as it’ll only work for UK IP addresses but nevertheless if you are in Blighty, how flippin’ cool?!

As well as comedy and drama it’s got a documentary channel too with shows like The Human Face, Great British Journeys and Human Instinct!

61% of us admit to regularly surfing the web while watching TV so why not just thow open a couple of IE8 windows and watch Shameless while IMing your mates and booking your holiday all at the same time?

I’m looking forward to checking it out when I get back at the end of August.

Take a peek and let me know what you think!

So I’m getting married to Ashley in 22 days – we’re going to have to get our thinking caps on to top this amazing start to a ceremony!

UPDATE!!! YouTube don’t want me to embed it anymore so check it out on their site here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0

Watch Michael Jackson’s Memorial today at 10am PST in Silverlight!!

Office Live Workspace is FREE! 😉