Digital Product Placement (incl. Twitter) in David Guetta’s new video

As a keen YouTube and dance music fan I was watching David Guetta & Chris Willis ft Fergie & LMFAO – Gettin’ Over You music video and was almost surprised to see how three products i.e. Samsung Wave (iPhone competitor), Twitter and EverestPoker.com were embedded in the video, watch the video below. Impressive how the product [...]

YouTube, tool for talent spotting?

I’m impressed how YouTube is opening up opportunities for new talent like Ilana Yahav. Who knew that a sand artist from Israel would make it to the Twining Tea Commercial. There are thousands of examples of this sort of finds. Is YouTube opening doors to upcoming artists? Twinings English Breakfast Tea Commercial: Ilana Yahav other [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks

Reblogged from the Kwiqq.com Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat I believe 2009 was the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly [...]

Radical innovation ESSENTIAL to grow online users [kwiqq]

Perhaps one of the most obvious statements but worth making innovation is key to get customers coming back to your website. A quick look at graph 1 and 2 show that companies like AOL.com, with their established brand still need to innovate internally to get members coming to their site. AOL although made numerous acquisitions [...]

A Day in the Life of a Social Media Entrepreneur [kwiqq]

In this post I’m describing how I spend my day indulging in social media. My name is Raj Anand and I’m the founder of a UK based startup called Kwiqq. You can look me up on Wikipedia (Raj Anand). Starting my day: 0750 – Alarm rings and I open my Macbook to turn on a [...]

Growing Social Networks: How Facebook, Twitter… grew their network [kwiqq]

The white paper is for marketers interested in  digital marketing and growing their brand’s social network.  The paper contains real case studies of successful social networks, which gives you a perspective of how others did it. The paper looks at how sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flixster, RockYou, Slide and Plaxo grew their Online [...]

Should I upload Multimedia content, on Social Networks or My Server ? [kwiqq]

A good online marketing campaign often means several initiatives like blogs, white papers, viral videos, images etc. The question often arises, where should marketers upload this data ? Lets take an example, say a second hand car dealership writes a blog on the latest cars. In order to make it more interactive they insert pictures [...]

List of APIs for your Social Networks [kwiqq]

Updated (18/02/2009) the Instant Messenger / Voice Chat We believe 2009 is the year of the APIs (Application Programming Interface). Whether it is to login using OpenID, Facebook Connect or just to easily uploading videos to YouTube. The obvious advantages are: lower the barrier to entry for niche social network, quickly build content (on your [...]

Video Sharing website’s success relies on its API [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia Recently we conducted a research on the 15 top video API’s (Application Programming Interface). some interesting facts came out of the research: Most video APIs (actually all) allow users to embed videos in some form or another. Generally by copying a bit of HTML. (Second) most common use of the APIs is [...]

Startups disrupting news agencies. Viva La Revolucion! [kwiqq]

Image via Wikipedia A recent trip to Kuwait made me realised how people might have followed news in the 70s. A stack of the 4-5 most popular newspapers over coffee and a pastry, nodding head in despair. Almost wondering if they could receive the news instantly. Fast forward to 1990s, watching live news on television, [...]