Wrecked Magazine is now running a channel focused on Drifting videos at Vimeo. You can subscribe, add us, shout, or chat on the forum about general Drifting content and information at our Vimeo channel we made. If you cannot get enough of our content here at Wrecked Magazine you can head that way to really hit Drifting overload. Also note that if you have an account on Vimeo you can subscribe to our channel as well.
I have heard about all these awesome company interactions and reach outs over the past few months as the Twitter hype spreads across the globe. Well on my personal account twitter.com/joeyredmond I have an @reply from the Port of Long Beach. They told me great job on our Wrecked Magazine / Redbull Drifting Championship video and they even RT (retweet for you non tweepels) the link out to their friends. Awesome, great thanks to the Port of Long Beach twitter.com/portoflongbeach and Formula D for making the event a reality. Hopefully they let us come back next year and just maybe I won’t even have to take a bus next time, hey, I can dream right?
In case your not familiar with vimeo.com they allow for a huge resolution video to play and downloads for users (that can be disabled). If you happen to be a fan of Vimeo then please add us as a friend, Wrecked Magazine. Enjoy our Redbull Drifting video in all it’s goodness and awesomeness.
An interesting marketing concept I came across today. This girl basically wants you to send your company logo shirt and $75 and she will take to promoting your company on viddler, youtube, twitter, etc… This is quite an interesting way to communicate your brand message in a unique and viral way. How can you go wrong for $75 as well?
This is a graph Elizabeth Churchill (Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo) presented today and was snapped on TechCrunch. Green icons are users that have their photos open and red represent people who have their accounts set to private. This cluster your looking at is a sample cluster of 1,000,000 unique users on Flickr from back in 2005 and their settings on photos. It appears the United States is extremely open with the exception of the Utah area and Hawaii. Europe and India are very private while South America is a very open place. An interesting way to look at the world and Internet privacy.
The 2008 SEMA show kicks off November 4th, 2008 but the gossip, car leaks, and content is already flying around the Internet. If you will be at SEMA and want to know where the latest action is at then look no farther than the Wrecked Magazine x Twitter page. Anytime someone says the words SEMA on the microblogging service known as Twitter it will aggregate to our page. This way, you don’t have to wait for editors or reporters to crawl to their websites and let you know about the hot stuff going on during the show. Since SEMA is just around the corner we have the SEMA/twitter page live already as content is rolling in about products and cars on the way to the show. What a blast SEMA will be and make sure if your attending the show to turn on your twitterific/twitterberry or whatever mobile program you may use to connect and tweet about your week in Vegas. Just remember that if you twitter what happens in Vegas is certainly won’t stay in Vegas.
Follow everything happening at SEMA 2008 at Wrecked Magazine:
A very cool web service with a horrible name is my quick review. The name Twitrratr that took me like six times just to get it right when typing it just now for this story. The site allows you to track the current “buzz” or trends about anything over three characters mentioned in Twitter. A very cool social media service that can help agencies and PR companies find out what the true buzz about a product in real time. No reason to wait to find out if your new product launch is going well when you can just twitrratr it. The program uses keywords that push things into one of three categories. Either positive (good marks), neutral (no emotional language), or negative (bad marks). It doesn’t seem to be fool proof but a pretty good gauge for success. We ran a trial with our client NOS Energy Drink and found 50% positive and 25% negative. If you actually read the negative listing however it isn’t something bad against the product. So as it seems to be a great feedback tool, make sure you read over some of th reviews before sending that report into the client.
With our live blogging through twitter at Irwindale we joined the likes of hot topics like Obama, Sarah Palin, and SNL over the weekend with our trending topic on twitter #formulad. The live blog which was updated by our staff and open for any fans to chime in was a huge success. http://wreckedmagazine.com/twitter/formulad08/ had tons of peopled tuned in during the main event of Formula D to see what was going on in real time from a fans perspective and our staff’s. It is some pretty impressive company. We are ready to run another promo during SEMA 2008 that people can live blog activities with the #sema tag.
These were the trending topics on Saturday that we got Formula D to rank with:
SNL, Red Sox, Rays, LSU, #formulad, Sarah Palin, Obama, ACORN, #RedSox, Texas
Moderator:
Danny Sullivan: Search Engine Land (Editor-in-Chief)
Speakers:
Michael Benedek: AlmondNet (VP)
Gregory Markel: Infuse Creative (President)
Eric Papczun: Performics (Director of Natural Search Optimization)
Tom Wilde: EveryZing (CEO)
Video search marketing is a hot topic these days. Everyone is getting on the video Internet bandwagon or needs to be. I mean NBC even has videos on the Internet these days available for you to stream on a shared video site called Hulu. Your SMX packet has the Performics and EveryZing slides. Performics really caught my eye while talking about Google’s GAUDI (Google Audio Indexing) which right now is being used on youtube for politics. You can search Google Audio Indexing and find some videos they are working on in the political field. This seems great for NPR to post some boring videos that can be audio tagged but it seems as we are a long way from our “hip” videos with music and loud noise picking up words that Google’s Audio Indexing can pick up or understand. We learned about some great new marketing campaigns that plan to go public very soon at Youtube that function basically as a “Adwords” but for internal promotion to Youtube videos and channels that you can buy traffic for. Basically like a recommended videos for keywords and channels. I could keep going forever from this conference but I won’t because Tim Armstrong from Google is about to hop on the podium and speak but everyone in this section did a great job. The one negative I really saw out of this was everyone kept calling “Youtube” a wild west but refused to acknowledge worthy alternatives video sites or recommend people persue niche video websites for their market (such as the automotive network as www.streetfire.net which we love).
Moderator:
Alex Bennert: Wall Street Journal (In House SEO)
Speakers:
Brent Csutoras: Brentcsutoras.com (Online Marketing Specialist)
Adam Sherk: New York Times (Search/PR Strategy)
Chris Winfield: 10e20 (President)
This was one of my favorite sections before walking into SMX that I thought I would get the most out of and I was right. While Chris from 10e20 stole the show and provided great information about social networking the other speakers brought out some key facts. My favorite thing from this session was that Chris Winfeld dubbed social media, “a giant conversation online.” This is so true and many people tend to forget that. His agency has a great blog that you will want to check out on for social topics http://www.10e20.com/blog/. Brent brought up some very fantastic items including his thoughts on the time/value benefit on different social sites around the Internet. This section didn’t come with any powerpoints in your book but Brent also a blog that he seems to be very active on at brentcsutoras.com. Overall an amazing session that I wish could of lasted longer, just seemed to short and we had to take in way to much valuable information in such a short time but such is life.
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