Looking for a job? Don’t send out CVs before you read this!

So you’ve got the education that you needed, the knowledge that you wanted, and the position that you are interested in. Time to send out your well-structured and perfect written cover letters and CVs. Wait, have you Googled yourself yet?
According to a recent survey done by CareerBuilder.co.uk, most of the employers these days screen candidates [...]


Pepsi said No to Super Bowl Ads, Google might be doing just the Opposite

We’ve all learned that Pepsi has decided to skip the Super Bowl ads in 2010 and will be injecting 20 million dollars into Refresh Project to improve community and customer relationships mainly through social media.
Seven hours ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt posted this on Twitter:
Can’t wait to watch the Superbowl tomorrow. Be sure to watch [...]


Random Influencer – Experts aren’t cool enough anymore

I’m not a good listener in conversations, but I’m pretty sure I’m the best listener on others’ conversations in public places. I was at a dinner tonight in a local restaurant, just one of those casual Hong Kong restaurant and I got inspired by some random influencers.
So people from the table behind me were talking [...]


Be an Official Virgin: Non-profit, or Scam?

A new site was just launched with this funny campaign called “Certified Virgins” where people can get a “certificate of virginity” with US$1.00 each, they claimed that “part of” it will be donated to the Aids cure research.
This site has a very clean and official-looking design, but until it is linked to or by an [...]


Young Teens love social networking, hate Twitter

It’s not surprising that social networking sites are becoming more and more important for most Internet users. Most of the teens these days own a Facebook profile, for both networking and playing online games.
Teens are extremely active on Social Media
From a recent research conducted by Pew Internet, 63% of teens in America go online every day, [...]


If Steve Jobs is coming for lunch, what would you make?

This is a viral piece was posted on the same day as the iPad released. Jakob Hammarback and Jon Wingard created the iSandwhitch 4G as an experiment to see if it can go viral. It is a video showing how they use different ingredients all put together on a piece of bread to create the same shape [...]


Viral Campaign: A movie about YOU

There have been many viral websites lately that requires users to upload images of themselves, most of these websites have face detection script on it which allows them to add funny and special effect to the faces.
This one is a little bit different, instead of adding effects to images, this creates a movie about you. [...]


New email spamming Tool: Facebook Apps

On January 21, Facebook announced a new function on Facebook Page, this function allows Facebook Page or Facebook application creators to collect emails of their fans. I don’t know about you but I think it’s not safe at all to give out emails to companies these days, even through Facebook. Will email marketing be the [...]


Rambler: The Sneakers that Tweet

Rambler is the only pair of shoes in the world that owns a Twitter account, designed and created by artist and technology savvy Ricardo Nascimento. These’s a sensor inside the sneakers that tracks movements, then updates it’s Twitter. However, it can only tweet two words, “tap” and “.”, depending on the pressure you exert.
It’s quite [...]


Journalists and Social Media: Magazine Writers hate Twitter

Cision and Don Bates of George Washington University have recently conducted a research on Print and Web Journalists’ usage of social media for researching and reporting stories. Results are based on 371 responses from September 1, 2009 to October 13, 2009.
There are approximately two thirds of all journalists and writers using social networking sites (e.g. [...]

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Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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