Several weeks ago, Google announced their new privacy policy, and on March 1st, they’ll begin to consolidate the policies of their separate entities, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Plus, Blogspot, etc… What this means is that Google will now be able to use data it collects from users in one area across all of its […]
Here’s the latest Pluggedin episode, Google+ vs Facebook. How is Google+ relevant for brands when Facebook has the un-deniable monopoly? Video Roundtable OUR PANEL Brian McDaniel– Web and graphic designer. Jay Baer– Social media strategist. Bianca Bosker– Senior Tech editor at the Huffington Post Dean Levitt-Partner at Mad Mimi and the reason you are reading […]
Wondering what your teen wants this Holiday season? Here’s a list of the top Fall/Winter 2011 Teen Internet pop culture phenomenas to help you get them appropriate gifts based on the trends they follow. Our teen’s wish list includes a variety of gift ideas from the freebies to some more pricey options. 1. Cyber Nostalgia […]
Since the early 2000s reality shows have completely taken over not only television but pop culture as a whole. MTV has been slowly changing their network into a reality based free-for-all since the 1990s when the The Real World was established, but the 2000s were really the origin of a mass across the board reality […]
Drake looking all super warm and cozy The Internet and especially new web culture have completely ushered in a new era of cultural reinterpretation and repurposing. A large part of the underground artistic movements that are occurring online are sourced from previously existing culture. The idea of sampling or remixing has become so commonplace for […]
As pop culture evolves, so does the context of how we frame and categorize culture, and the more rapidly it changes, sometimes the harder it becomes to exactly define what we’re talking about. A great example of this new conceptual pop culture are the #HDBoyz. Who or exactly what are the #HDBoyz? Are they […]
In an article David Keenan wrote in The Wire magazine Issue #306, he coined the term “hypnagogic pop” in reference to an underground music movement that utilized the concept of memory and revisionist nostalgia as a launching point for an entire sub-genre. Hypnagogic is defined as “Inducing sleep” or “Of, relating to, or occurring in […]
I’m so excited to be featured in an interview for WeAreNYTech. It’s a really informative and comprehensive website that showcases some of the best people working in the technology industry in New York City. I was happy to talk about my background in digital marketing and the different projects I’m currently working on. There’s a […]
It’s funny how various brands measure their success by how many fans or likes they have on Twitter and Facebook. It’s not unheard of for a brand to have thousands of fans and still get limited to zero engagement for their products. What is it that they’re doing wrong? Do they care about your message? […]
This month on PluggedIn our guests took part of the ongoing debate Rdio vs Spotify and discussing which is a better music streaming service. This episode features Grammy.com blogger Arjan Writes. Designer and musician Bisc 1. Producer DJ rapper Dances with White Girls, and Xfm dj, Zeena Koda. Make sure to vote for a winner on […]