Ypulse Essentials: User Generated iPhone Ads, 'Happy Violence,' TrueScoop
Posted by anastasia on 06-13-2007
Doritos 'does something' (by putting the winners of the Do Something BR!CK Awards on its bags)
- Teen girls voted en masse (for Mashup sponsor Gaia Online and Stardoll in the Webware Awards - thanks Karell!)
- Sneak Peek at The CW's fall season (from TV Squad)
- User generated ads (for the iPhone) (via PSFK)
- 'Happy violence' (interesting study about how much violence is allowed in PG-13 rated movies) (The Ottawa Citizen)
- TrueScoop (find a sex offender near you! I get the well meaning intensions behind this service, but there is something about people adding notes on their local sex offenders that feels a little like vigilante justice. Do we really all have time to track and monitor our local sex offenders? And what about when kids like this are in that database?)
- Teens tell Lucent they want brands on their phones (teens in Lucent Alcatel's Lab told them a lot about what they wanted from their cell phone experience — and it included being marketed to. Yet then you read posts like this.) (press release) (Mad.co.uk)
P.S. Check out my post on parental fear over at Totally Wired. And, I screwed up the time on my appearance on CN8: The Comcast Network's It's Your Call With Lynn Doyle. It's Thursday at 9 p.m. EST, not 9 a.m.
June 13th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Regarding "The CW" fall schedule, I'll probably watch at least one episode of "Aliens in America."
It's the only sitcom I know of with a Pakistani Muslim character.
The TV critic warns that there is a ton of voice-over, though. I found that annoying with "The Wonder Years" and the voice-over may stop me from liking "Aliens in America."
June 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I hate cell phone ads. I was in the UK last week and I kept getting text spam. Ticked me off.
Sigh. Oh kids. Gotta know the latest of the hotest of the bestest (yes, bestest) of the trends in marketing & licensing created for them.
Although… once again, flip.com's method of advertising rocks. Personalized advertising is cool when it's done well.
Anastasia, you are forever awesome. :)
June 13th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
I can't believe people actually ask for branding
June 14th, 2007 at 8:58 am
The Truescoop service is meant to be somewhat like a vigilante service. In order to stop all the violence there is out there parents need to band together. Adding notes that I saw so and so standing around a school bus stop or walking thru a school yard is certainly something that I would like to know about and share with other parents in my local area. The idea of me getting alerted to that is a good thing.
There more parents that get involved the lesser chance that a convicted sex offender can harm another kid.