Brandopia

• The Super Ad Bowl – Two Decades of Players – Interactive Graphic …
  20 years of Superbowl ads brought together! Excellent.
  (tags: Superbowl Advertising)

• Facebook's Big Day: 1.5 Million Obama-Related Status Updates
  Since this morning more than 1.5 million status updates have been posted through the feed (there were 200,000 b 8:30 am PST). During the broadcast an average of 4,000 status updates were written every minute, and 8,500 were written every minute during Obama’s speech.
  (tags: Facebook CNN Obama)
• Marketing, Microsoft taps Sina for CNY mobile push, HONG KONG, e-Marketing, Mobile marketing, 3G, | Market-interactive.com
  When mobile users send their greetings (couplet sentences) in SMS form to Sina's server running Microsoft's Chinese couplet generation engine, the engine will will automatically build two lines and horizontal scroll bearing an inscription to users in multimedia message service and SMS formats when mobile users send their greetings (couplet sentences) in SMS form.
  (tags: Microsoft Research China Sina Mobile)
• Marketing, Microsoft names jury for Mouse debut, ASIA, Advertising, Appointments, Brand reputation, Awards – effectiveness, Awards other, Online advertising, Alliances, | Market-interactive.com
  The Mouse Awards are Microsoft Advertising's annual creative advertising awards that recognises best online advertising that has been featured on the Microsoft Advertising network over from the past 12 months. Apart from a cash prize, winners of the Mouse Awards 2009 will gain entry into the Cyber Lions and be taken to the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in June as guests of Microsoft Advertising.
  (tags: Microsoft advertising mouse awards)

• Nothing is original
  …Jean Luc Godard:" It's not where you take things from – it's where you take them to."
  (tags: Quote Jarmusch Godard)
• Welcome to Singapore Media Academy | Talent Development
  Nice coverage of the asiatvforum where I spoke in December.
  (tags: Asiatvforum tv online Microsoft)
• report from the Asia Television Forum, Singapore
  review of my presentation during this forum
  (tags: Microsoft TV online Asiatvforum)
• Windows Live adds enhancements
  Interview while I was in Manila.
  (tags: Microsoft Windows Live Manila)
• Microsoft Bid to Beat Google Builds on a History of Misses – WSJ.com
  Nice to know!
  (tags: Microsoft Yahoo Google Search)
• Social Media Conference organizers; Here's what I want to see
  A good checklist for organizing social media events.
  (tags: Social media event)

A few weeks ago i gave a presentation on the future of television. You can find the presentation here.

And I found a nice review here:”On the future of TV, by far the most informative speaker at one seminar was Geert Desager of Microsoft, who said: "half an hour after broadcast, the file will appear somewhere for download."

• Palm did what Nokia, RIM, and Microsoft couldn’t: build a better experience than Apple
  …Palm just did what Nokia and Microsoft and RIM couldn’t do: deliver a better experience than Steve Jobs did…
  (tags: Palm Pre iPhone)

• Mr. Microphone 2.0: Microsoft Songsmith Puts Even the Worst Lyrics to Music
  Like to sing in the shower or in the car? Want to subject others to your incoherent warblings as if they were a real song? Microsoft Songsmith may be for you. And if you're a professional lyricist, musician, or someone with real musical talent? Songsmith may be incredibly helpful for you, too.
  (tags: Microsoft Songsmith)
• New business ideas for 2009
  Nice list of ideas for 2009
  (tags: Springwise trends)
• Three Reasons the Internet is Eroding Apple's Mojo
  …I am convinced the Internet is slowly eroding Apple's PR mojo. They are still having a good run, but the times are changing. Here are three reasons why Apple may not make the turn like it did before. There's a lot of lessons here for PR professionals….
  (tags: Apple PR Social Media)

• Singapore stays wired
  Of the 52 countries surveyed, Singapore ranked second as the country with the highest entertainment technology ownership and eleventh for highest media consumption – taking the country to an overall second position.
  (tags: Singapore Technology)
• News | Spend on Xbox Live breaks $1bn barrier – NMA
  Spend on Xbox Live, Microsoft Xbox's online community and marketplace, has exceeded $1bn (£680m) since its launch in 2005, the company has revealed.
  (tags: Xbox Live Microsoft)

• Scoble Blindness at MP Daily Fix
  there’s an equally insidious syndrome affecting the tech community: Scoble Blindness
  (tags: Scoble social media Twitter)
• The end of IPTV as we know it ?
  interesting post on the latest announcement from Netflix and LG.
  (tags: IPTV Netflix LG)

• Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father
  The first time I was truly moved by watching a website. Sad but brilliant and beautiful!
  (tags: Toledano)

• Ballmer’s big moment
  Nice posting! I would add one thing: showing that we mean it in the online advertising industry!
  (tags: CES Microsoft Jobs Ballmer)