More than just an ordinary company

The FWA website featured the new website for Doritos. Rather than just being an ordianry snack company Doritos are looking to position themselves as an entertainment brand. Check out the new website at:

http://snackstrongproductions.com/

Twitter’s EarlyBird

Twitter’s EarlyBird deals. Watch the video about how Twitter is looking at making it’s savings and deal’s offering come alive.

Will changing my host affect my SEO?

If you are moving your website to a new host, but wondering about your SEO, then this video will give you an answer.

So it seems that there is nothing to worry about. As long as you are moving to a good host then the fact that you are changing your IP address should not make much difference for your ranking in search engines. If you are moving to a slower host however then that could make a difference.

The way to move hosts is the leave the old host up, while you change the dns to the new host that way the is limited interuption to the users.

Updated http://www.pianosandkeyboards.co.uk/

I have just updated our pianos and keyboards website. It has a new theme and new things that can be done including social marketing buttons and more.

Have a look and let me know your thoughts.

Youtube gets a Vuvuzela button

According to techcrunch youtube has added a vuvuzela button to the video streaming site!

If you want to have a play around with the button then visit the post below and follow the links, else just look around on youtube at the moment and find one yourselft to make the bzzzz sound yourself.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/bzzzzzz-youtube-gets-a-vuvuzela-button-seriously/

PlayStation Move

PlayStation show off their new controller, PlayStation Move. It kind of is a clone of the Wii Controller but with a faster response times so we will have to see if its really that different when its released.

Peter Crouch Augmented Reality Demo

For the world cup. An augmented reality application from Pringles. You can make Peter do his famous robot dance. Its a nice use of the augmented reality technology.

New theme for the blog

We have a new theme for the blog! Today I found a great theme that looks great and also has some social plugins that should help the blog get more links.

Mother’s Day Flower in-game advertising

In game advertising is growing at a fast rate and the latest use is Mother’s day in game promotions. The promotions are added to the social games and then players can buy and visit the stores from within in there facebook and other social network games. Mother’s day has been a boost for this kind of advertising with revenues said to be $1 million dollars a day with flowers etc for Mother’s from in-game promotions.

To read more visit:

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/social-game-publishers-hit-payday-from-mothers-day-flower-offers/

http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/02/23/eas-playfish-big-real-world-sales-in-virtual-goods-game/

LEGO digital box

I love augmented reality and any opportunity to show off another use is always welcome. So now Lego have added augmented reality to the boxes of products and using an in-store exhibit to show off what the contents make. The video is below.