The social internet is the perfect place for exhibitionists and voyeurs to meet each other. Here are a few tools for what I would call voyeurs with a short attention span. Check out what at this very moment the world is
Except for the really crazy hair and the hilarious "Ooo! Swish! ", most of these predictions are not that bad. And they were sure right about every man carrying his personal phone.
threegirls: "We are Gini Rose, Julia and Suzy. We draw, take pictures, film, and write (in English or Dutch) about everything we are intrigued by. We are never bored. Our hobby is to search for that kind of reality which may be elusive until the right kind of imagination falls upon it. We like to go outside. We also like to party."
The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks: "Someecards is getting 20% of daily traffic from Twitter. One of the founders Brook Lundy said the following “real time is now vital to what do. Take the swine flu — within minutes of the news that a pandemic level 5 had been declared — we had an ecard out on Twitter”. Sardonic, ironic, edgy ecards — who would have thought they would go real time."
It's not always easy being a blogger. Sometimes you get in for free at trendy parties and interesting conferences. Sometimes you get a roll of toilet paper instead of a test drive in Francorchamps with the new Volkswagen Golf. Sometimes someone puts up a fake interview with you and spells your first name as Bo. And sometimes Buzzparadise sends you a wallet with some toy money in it, and apologies in the accompanying letter: "As you'll see its neither a luxurious perfume nor a trendy gadget, and its not really worth much, either..." The call to action really is "to take part in the contest at http://www.extra-argentdepoche.be/. 
The market research on how Belgian women use internet I talked about a couple of weeks ago is now finished. I'm using the results to write a booklet on Marketing to Women Online - due somewhere in the beginning of June. In the meanwhile, I've started blogging about Marketing to Women on TargetWomen.be. As you can see, TargetWomen.be is just a pointer for references in print. The blog itself is nested inside the Medialogue.be site. Since Sanoma Magazines Belgium is my employer and Medialogue is their cross-media advertising sales house, it seemed like a natural place. The blog is mostly in English, sometimes in Dutch or French, depending on where the source's content. Please subscribe to the rss feed for inspiring examples of marketing to women or the occasional market research reports.
Remember The six ages of music infograph? In Where is Everyone? Baekdal.com makes the tour of the last 210 years of information + 10 more years into the future: "In the next 5-10 years, the world of information will change quite a bit. All the traditional forms of information are essentially dead. The traditional printed newspapers no longer exists, television in the form of preset channels is replaced by single shows that you can watch whenever you like. Radio shows is replaced podcasts and vodcasts."
When I was little me and my brother had tons of lego. I still like the brand - even went to Lego Land in Denmark once with my own kids. We practically drowned in Lego bricks there - even the French fries were shaped like Lego bricks.
Why Women Hate Other Women: "In a commercial for a diet pill a woman bragged, “I am now smaller than the woman my husband left me for.” [...] The weight control commercial is blatantly telling women that they need to look a certain way in order to earn their husband's love and fidelity. It doesn't matter whether or not you cook his meals, raise his kids, and support his dreams… what matters most in a relationship is whether or not you are physically attractive enough to keep your man at home. [...] Many women believe that it is their fault when their husband or boyfriend cheats on them because they are not attractive enough to keep him faithful."
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. ~George Carlin. Other people suddenly have to write that blog post. Like Kris Hoet, geek marketer: "as of May 5th I am no longer working at Microsoft. Didn`t see that one coming? Neither did I."
This is a dream come true: I did not write a book and yet journalists Bart Lombaerts, Mark Anthierens and Brecht Decaestecker think it's brilliant. Made via www.beyondthepromise.be.
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