The Chicken, The Egg, or Social Networking?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
WHOA!
Since when could you start recording videos through YouTube?



I saw this little button when I was uploading this completely random video I found buried within my hard drive from my days on the squad (sidenote: why are cheerleaders the only ones on a 'squad' when pretty much every other athlete is considered part of a 'team?').



Anyways, I was pretty sure this wasn't possible a few months when Aron & I concepted and submitted our future lions campaign idea for Hallmark which included mass video greeting cards on which you can upload yourself instantly.




But when I investigated further, I got stuck in YT limbo, clicking on the same two links a few times before I figured it out it wasn't going to work...Is it not functioning because I'm on a Mac or because I need to register for/download something or is it just plain not functional yet?




Can anyone enlighten me on this subject?

I ran into a similar scenario recently when I was simultaneously posting a tweet on my iPhone and driving (was technically in the backseat at the time - not literally driving) from home in South Carolina back down to Miami. I was suddenly inspired and posted this:

"Just crossed the border into Georgia! I want to invent a roadtwip app using twitter and gps/google maps!" 12:11 PM Jun 17th from TwitterFon

And out of nowhere someone replied to that tweet last week:

"KurtyD@sevenmir your roadtwip sounds fun. check out what we did http://roadtwip.us/bk.html c'mon!1:14 AM Jun 29th from web"



It's exactly the same name. I mean I guess it's not THE most original thought ever, but still. The internet is so incestuous.

Good Taste in Advertising

Being in advertising is probably going to send me to Hell, the first (and probably not the last) reason of which is it made me break my Lenten discipline that I just mentioned in my post yesterday. But this idea was worth it. And the chocolate was really small. LoL.

This chick Danielle Saltrese thought it would be a cool idea to make really weird flavors of chocolate, send them to major agencies in mystery boxes, and see how many people correctly guessed the flavors. Even though I'm still just an intern, I got to play!




Look! It matches my outfit!






No idea what my flavor was. It kind of tasted like flowers.




I was wrong. It was the taste of basil. And failure.



You can see the live results at Agency Taste. It will be more interesting once (or if) the other agencies participate.

Brand Gossip

A couple days ago, two women from the New York Times presented the brief for our final project in the Account Planning Bootcamp class. They made an interesting point. In regards to your brand, people are either talking with you, or behind your back.

They mentioned this website called Brand Tags where you can see a little bit of both. You can also voice your own opinions on various brands. The bigger the word, the more people believe that about that brand. I just wish it was a little more colorful, but it's cool nonetheless.

Here's what people are saying about Apple:




Some of my campaigns would have been much easier from concept to compeltion had I known about this website sooner!