Will A Video Denial Kickstart the Video Comment Revolution?

Author: Greg  //  Category: Accountability, Branding, Moving Pictures, Social Media, Spin Cycle, seesmic

Love him or hate him, Loren Feldman may be known in the future as the one who jumpstarted the popularity of video commenting. Or maybe the correct word is the “necessity” of video commenting not the popularity of it.

This is the video that I am referring to:

Confused? Well, it started with this article on Tech Crunch today. In the post Michael Arrington reported that video blogger Loren Feldman, in response to an interview with billionaire Mark Cuban, wrote, “Mark Cuban is not a tech visionary. He is a lucky bastard. Broadcast.com was a joke,” Read more…

Will Corporate Presence on Social Networks Ruin Customer Evangelism?

Author: Greg  //  Category: Evangelism, Legitimacy, New Media, Rise in Cynicism, The New Customer, seesmic

All I wanted to do was tell someone about an amazing burger I had. So I posted this video up on Seesmic singing the praises of the Southern Smokehouse Bacon Big Mouth Burger from Chili’s.

I felt pretty good telling other bacon lovers about this burger with the amazing thick-cut bacon. After all, anyone that knows me knows that bacon is a hobby of mine. And I only hope that means an endorsement from me about the quality of the bacon on this burger, might cause others to try this thing too.

But within 2 minutes of posting my video I received this reply. In short, “Bill” asked if I worked for Chili’s. At first I was shocked that he would consider my praise to be a thinly veiled paid endorsement by Chili’s. But after re-watching my post, I realized that I don’t blame him. Read more…

Twitter is the Gateway Drug to Seesmic

Author: Greg  //  Category: Moving Pictures, seesmic

Join Seesmic (now in Alpha) and then leave me a video comment below.