by Allen Weiner | February 19, 2013 | Comments Off
The recent hack on Twitter which put 250,000 user accounts at risk couldn’t have come at a worse time, preceding one of the social network’s major co-marketing efforts. Twitter’s security people say it was “the work of professionals” which is not comforting to those who contemplated, post cyberattack, to link their Twitter accounts to their Amex cards [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: American Express, Amex, digital marketing, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | July 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
The cognoscente’s meme of the day is whether or not harsh words on Twitter cut off Sasha Baron Cohen’s “Bruno’s” U.S. box office hopes at the knees. Time’s noted film critic Richard Corliss believes that a decline in opening day revenue to the following day was due in part to bad cyberword of mouth. That [...]
Category: blogging citizen media film social media Twitter Video Web 2.0 Tags: Bruno, Richard Corliss, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 15 marks my introduction to the multimedia wonders that await me at SXSW in Austin. Until Tuesday, the focus is on “interactive” followed by music from Wednesday on with film running throughout. It will be a busman’s holiday (there’s a term you just don’t hear enough) in that I will be “reporting” from [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Conferences Tags: Nokia, Now Live, SXSW, Twitter, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
As someone who vividly recalls the day JFK was sworn in, I am trying to draw parallels between 1961 and 2009 (aside from the fact that JFK’s historic day was shown only on three TV networks). I am hoping the massive online and broadcast coverage helps provide me insight. I will be deploying multiple PCs [...]
Category: broadcasting citizen media Television Web 2.0 Tags: BET, Facebook, Livestation, Obama, online coverage, TV coverage, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | October 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Now that’s a TV 2.0 experience No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, you have to point to Twitter and Current TV as two of the real winners of the VP debate. By combining a live stream of the debate with a Twitter feed, the net result was a steady stream of [...]
Category: advertising blogging broadcasting Newspapers Television Uncategorized Tags: Current, debate, Twitter
by Allen Weiner | September 17, 2008 | Comments Off
Here are some other places I hang out in the Web 2.0 world: Follow me on Twitter Check out my YouTube videos (especially if you like baseball): Go here Visit my long-standing videoblog: It lives here I also am on Facebook (just search my name) A number of my videos are on Blip.TV (high res [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting Publishing Television Uncategorized Tags: Blip.FM, Blip.TV, Facebook, Twitter, You Tube
by Allen Weiner | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
A Colorado newspaper reporter (from the Rocky Mountain News) Twittered from a three-year-old’s funeral.
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Category: broadcasting Newspapers Uncategorized Tags: newspaper, Twitter
