Archive for the 'Ideas' Category

Embedding Videos into Emails?

Is it worth embedding a video in an email to boost your sales? The answer seems to be a simple ‘No’ at this point for technical reasons, although an obvious ‘yes’ to email marketing mashup with video advertising.
Pure (one of the top email and SMS marketing companies in the UK) has put together a […]

Flickr Video Goes Live in Fact - for Pros at least

Just as everybody expected, Flickr Video has indeed been launched on April 9, 2008 - after a closed beta testing. It’s only for those with a pro account. Video search: videos will appear along photos in search results (with advanced search you can look for vids only), within new uploads from friends, in Explore, on […]

Google Ad Trash Revamped On a Chinese Rickshaw - Tech Art

So this is not an official Google ad, but the rickshaw (sunlunche) guy recycled a Google AdSense trash maybe to bring some technological boost to the old rickshaw or maybe he just liked the color or the message.  (via Blogoscoped via Go Too Far East). Note, Google is not the number 1 search engine in […]

Daily Motion Customizes Video Players But Not Enough

Daily Motion, Metacafe or any major video social networking sites that are still in the ring with YouTube in one way or another could increase their market share by offering truly great customization of video players. Not just colors, and thumbnails, although that’s not bad for a start.
What Daily Motion offered as customizing your video […]