This a a creative online app I discovered that generates music from any URL. All you have to do is to type in a URL, the program will then analyze the html script in the <body> content and generate a unique piece of music for this URL. User can share this piece of music through [...]
I just found this amazing free tool that can do some smart data visualization with the simplest sets of data comparing to other visualization tools. You can just import basic excel files or even txt files with huge chunk of data and it will categorize and visualize them. Graphics and interface might not be as sexy [...]
Around Christmas time 2009, Domino’s pizza launched this smart social campaign called The Pizza Turnaround. The main idea of the campaign is to gather feedback of the taste of their pizza through social media, and they would create new pizza recipe with the comments. Commenting on public network like Twitter would create word of mouse [...]
The annual Public Relations report card by Media magazine was out yesterday. Ogilvy Public Relations ranked 9 (10 highest) with an “Outstanding”. The team that I’m in, 360 Digital Influence, which is under Ogilvy Public Relations practice is also highlighted on the report. It looked outside the PR world to hire former journalist and blogger [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Little Something About Tim:
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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