As I was waiting for the bus and checking updates on Twitter and Facebook, I noticed almost everyone else at the bus were on some sort of smart phone, I’m guessing doing the same. I started to think, what the hell did we do before all of this?
Did people actually talk to people at the bus stop? How did they pass the time when they missed a bus? They didn’t have Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Instagram, email access or even multiple new sources to check. Did they strike up conversation? …

Remember back when the only way to talk with your friends when you weren’t with them was to call them on a landline phone? (I still find it weird that less than ten years ago, we still talked on phones with cords attached to the wall.) Granted, when I was a kid, most of my friends lived within walking/biking distance from my house, but it’s still amazing to think about how few communication options there were. On one hand, it’s nice that now I can easily keep up with …

Check out and be part of this incredible Twitter based campaign from Orange – UK.  Send personalized singing tweets to your friends by adding #singingtweetagrams to your messages and  if your tweet is worth the effort, have it recorded the same day and share it with your followers.

- Philipe Diao

A brand new advertising-related twitter just started. And it’s hilarious. We’ve all experienced some ridiculous clients and feedback. Here’s a place to showcase just how smart our clients can be.
“Sorry, missed everything after “I’m not trying to be a writer, but” Got distracted by thoughts of punching you in the face. You were saying?”
Click here to check it out.
- Sean Leonard

What is social media good for but those narcissists that insist on letting everyone know how cool they are by checking in to absolutely everywhere on foursquare and letting everyone on FB know what they are doing? Marketing of course, and I don’t mean those stupid get skinny quick ads on facebook.
Two weeks ago some friends and I met up for dinner and to see Lydia, the band.
We arrived at Lincoln Hall (One of Chicago’s finest venues) and all of us check into four square. I got some adverture badge, …

I find some of my best sound-bytes and links that lead to better stuff on Twitter. Here are my Top Ten people to follow on Twitter (in no particular order). Some are industry related, some are just cool and some are just funny commentary.
@anamariecox – political writer with very funny tweets and pics.
@denveregotist – if you don’t know about their site you should go…good stuff.
@designdotorg – cool looking links
@agencyspy – well obviously who doesn’t like the gossip
@Steffan1 – Steffan Postaer (ECD tweets can be really boring, Steffan is smart.)
@adamwohl – …

I’m not going to take time telling you what FourSquare is. I will say, though, that I predict it to be this year’s Twitter so you’d better do some research and find out what it is if you work in advertising.
The End.
- Jared Davis

It seems like I have been bombarded with an extraordinary number of really great videos in the past month or so. Each of these movies exhibits a staggering amount of dedication, technical craft, and unbridled creative inspiration from driven individuals more than capable of online self-promotion. Each one leaves me with a dazed but gentle expression of wonderment. I sit in the glow of my laptop, clutching a neglected beer, pupils dilated, mouthing inaudible praises to anyone involved in the creation and/or delivery of these amazing things into my life.
(After …

A non-advertising friend of mine (I still have a few of those) tweeted this great link to print ads of the past. Real ones! Not just award-winning-awesome-Lemon-VW ads. It’s broken down by years and product categories. I found it interesting to see the evolution of advertising. Like in the 30′s they wrote a TON of copy. In the 80′s it was a glossy photo with a headline that didn’t really say anything. Mostly I laughed at the horribleness and gasped at what they got away with. But,there were a few …

For those who don’t know Jack Dorsey is the creator of Twitter and now he comes with a new gadget.
Square is a mobile payment system that just had it’s first images reveled this week.   It’s supposed to be like PayPal, but with the possibility of accepting “real life” credit cards. Using the little adapter, iPhone and Android are transformed into payment machines.
Receipts are automatically generated. The digital signature and tip option are also featured on the thingy.  Seems like it can also identify the buyer by the picture as a …