Here’s today’s batch of Links You Need To Click…
- Gothamist points to some news in the NY Post about Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to “shoeprint” all footwear. Hello, CSI and L&O land!
- Congrats to Allison for finally getting to see Moby in NYC! It’s kinda nice to get to do things that you’ve wanted to for years and years.
- Plax goes to jail. Wonder if he’ll spike the ball on the field after not being touched when his knee was down on his first play in the prison yard.
- Hey look, it’s Microsoft’s Guru Bar!
- You see, I feel all cool as I’m coming to a close of Year 1 for the 365 Days Project on Flickr, and the damn stormtroopers have go to and one-up us all with Stormtroopers 365. [via Kottke]
- Look! Over there! It’s sponsored tweets from celebrities, courtesy of Ad.ly.
- Over at the Voce Nation blog, Chris Thilk asks what marketers would have to do if (shudder!) social media tools weren’t available for their programs, and he wants to hear from you.
- Speaking of Chris Thilk, wonder if he’s seen this juiced-up WALL-E.
- For those of you up for a challenge, Fred Wilson has one for you – as Tumblr.
Look at me not commenting on Facebook, haha.
Two things:
1) V. cool about the 365 project, you should do some fun stats on all the photos of you. Like shirts worn, different poses, etc. haha.
2) Fred’s post about Tumblr got the PR pro in me thinking about positioning. Since I use Tumblr to run my blog, everyone is posting about the gig in a positive light on there. They’re trying to hire someone from within the community (which is always good) and generally – as Fred states – it’s probably because they’re growing. But his use of “challenge” in language implies to me that there are problems. Maybe that’s a bit too baseline logic but if Tumblr is, in-fact, having scaling problems – it sort of makes sense. Once in a while (maybe once a week), I get a screen that says Tumblr will “be back shortly.” Granted, they’re rolling out a lot of features b/c of the arms race with Posterous – so that may be the cause. Then again, will Posterous scale better because they’ve focused on infrastructure 1st instead of design treatment? I think Tumblr is the better product at the moment but every other marketer and their mother sweats Posterous.
This probably should’ve just been a blog post. Thanks, Grande Pumpkin Spice Latte.