I wonder what happened to Frente?

I wonder what happened to Frente?



man i used to burn this cd up repeating it over and over and over and over.....


Cheers,
Dean

Formular 1 Bahrain

Ladies and Gentlemen start your engines......  http://www.livef1chat.com/  is now live.

Please go and register at http://www.livef1chat.com/ today and look forward to seeing you this Sunday for the Bahrain F1 for live in the race chat with your friends and F1 fans from all around the world.

Also if you haven't already please friend us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/LiveF1Chat/262295689336 and forward this page to your facebook friends to get them there this Sunday as well.

Cheers
http://www.livechatconcepts.com/

This is the most powerful think i have read on Twitter

http://jr.ly/z97v 


You think the web is cool.... we're only at V 0.14 at best.


Cheers,
Dean

BMW pulls off an old tablecloth trick

WOWWW !! - now this is how you do viral marketing.

"Ah yes, the old pull-the-tablecloth-off-the-table-without-sending-dishes-flying routine".



I wish they mentioned the name of the agency that came up with this marketing concept, this is brilliant. Expect it to be forwarded by every gear head this side of Pluto to at least 10 of their friends.

Viral marketing concepts like this are marketing dollars to the power of 1 gadrillion.

I'm calling it now, someone is winning an award for this ad campaign.


Cheers,
Dean

Idea Inertia

I love this blog post http://blog.asmartbear.com/your-idea-sucks-now-go-do-it-anyway.html

"My idea isn't good enough yet" explained a friend who is thinking of starting his own company. He was waiting for the idea to be completely fleshed our before taking the leap.
Here's a newsflash: Your idea probably sucks, and it doesn't matter because your business will probably turn out to be something completely different.

Check out the examples in the post about how Paypal and Flickr got started, wow, who's kicking themselves they missed out on those opportunities because the ideas were still embryonic.

Guy Kawasaki has a similar principle in his "Art Of The Start" which is basically get started, your first few attempts you are going to screw them up anyway and the sooner you start the sooner you can get them out of the way.

Great words to live by.


Cheers,
Dean

Banner ads on www.LiveNascarChat.com

The first few weeks for banner ads on www.LiveNascarChat.com are now in.

It's been pretty reasonable, still needs to scale a lot more, but as a baseline, the percentages are exactly where we thought they would be.

For the first 2 weeks of www.LiveNascarChat.com

Impr.     Clicks     CTR
10,912     37        0.34%

Basically across all the sites we seem to be averaging around half to three quarters of one percent in click through rates, which is good and about on target (i think i estimated the click through would be about 1% in the original business plans - especially as most of the ads are awareness ads and you wouldn't expect people to click away from a live chat as often as a website (think tv ads while watching a tv show, you'll notice them, and be aware of them, but might not go straight to the url that very minute).

Also as a comparison for www.LiveBaseballChat.com last season we did

Impr.    Clicks    CTR
60,611   275     0.45%

So in the first 2 weeks of Nascar we did 1/10th of all ads for the baseball season, not bad.

Basically the primary concepts appear solid and now it's just a mater of scaling. We have held off turning on a "viral switch" function for a while as we wanted to make sure the software code was stable and ready for prime time.

It's the same reason why so far we've only spent $50 in facebook ads and $50 in google ads on test spends, we really want to make sure it's stable before we get slammed trying to fix problems - you only get once chance to make a first impression.

(we're still only at about V 0.4 of where we want to be by the end of this year so gives you an idea how much is still out in front).

We'll probably still hold out doing a lot of advertising/press work but with the IPL Cricket tournament/Formula 1/Aussie Rules/Rugby League web sites about to launch it's a good time at  www.LiveChatConcepts.com  :)


Cheers,
Dean

Big Love finale

Wow i cant believe how they finished the season for Big Love. (Dont worry not going to give it away).

Cant wait for next season to start, it's killing me it's another 8 months away.


Cheers,
Dean

Lions for Lambs

I just watched Lions for Lambs, I'm still not sure how I feel about the story, the movie and the acting are great, there were a few weak scenes, but people should definitely watch it.

I'm just surprised I had never heard about it before? Being made in 2007 you think i would have seen it during the cinema release due to it's controversial nature but I honestly haven’t heard of it before I just happened to stumble across it after it had started 5 mins earlier.

Also – don’t do it before you see the movie but after you’ve seen it go check out some of the comments about it on IMDB. It’s almost as interesting an insight into people positions as the movie.


Cheers,
Dean

Apple sucks

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-patents-apple-hopes-will-crush-its-smartphone-competition-2010-3#system-and-method-for-performing-an-action-on-a-structure-in-computer-generated-data-15

My Comments:
Just because the US patent office wants to hand out patents like they are candy doesn't mean the rest of us should care.


None of these patents are worth worrying about until Apple invests the money in defending them in court. Wake me up when this matters.
 
I love this comment from someone else:
"The other option for Apple was to release a phone that would be faster and sexier than the Nexus One or the HTC Desire. But no, they have to go the bully way and keep their new-phones-only-once-in-an-year schedule"
 
 
 
so when does Apple overtake Microsoft as being the bad guys?
 
Cheers,
Dean

Peaches concert in Hamburg

I just noticed Peaches is playing a concert in Hamburg a week before i'm flying to Paris for a month in May..... wonder if i can convince Jodie to fly to Germany for a few days first  :)


If you haven't spent an hour on YouTube watching some of her video clips you haven't experienced true androgynous raunch.


Cheers,
Dean
P.S. Awsome video editing of this Muppets version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aGTNS13SDU oh Miss Piggy you tramp.