Breaking Bad Has a Good Viral Campaign

Sam Harrelson on January 20, 2008

Breaking Bad is a new movie TV show coming out about a high school chemistry teacher who creates his own meth lab business. Sounds like a silly movie, but the viral marketing campaign is tremendous.

Here’s one I just sent over to Jim Kurkal:

http://www.waltswisdom.com/flash/waltsplayer_ext.swf?_id=2001jsfyw1

You can waste some of your own time by freely contributing to the marketing of the movie here.

Looks like this will be a hit viral campaign along the lines of that stupid “put-your-face-on-a-dancing-elf” thing from this past holiday season.

Having a Daughter is Tough These Days

Sam Harrelson on January 19, 2008

My pal Jim Kukral made this vid about a Bratz doll that his daughter received for Christmas. I just hope Mary Hudson is able to make it through the marketing messages and find her own inner beauty when she gets of “doll age.”

If you are a Digg user, please give Jim a digg here.

Cloverfield is a Rejection of “Social Media”

Sam Harrelson on January 19, 2008

Amen…

“Most of all this is a movie about how the young’uns have no tools for moral discourse and that all they can do is utter banalities and take endless pictures of each other and record their lives for no apparent purpose.”

Cloverfield is a fantastic movie for all the wrong reasons and makes you scratch your eyeballs/head/logic and reconsider who you’d go back for. Go see it for your own benefit and realize what Abrams, etc are trying to express.


Marginal Revolution: Cloverfield

Going to Affiliate Summit, Have a Mac and Need a Reservation?

Sam Harrelson on January 19, 2008

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Heading to Affiliate Summit on Feb 24-26 at the Rio Hotel (as you should be)?  Have a Mac?  Still haven’t booked a hotel room?

Then this little desktop widget is for you:

Las Vegas Travel Widget… Get travel deals on Las Vegas, Reno Nevada and Lake Tahoe. Select on back which feed you want to display. Travel deals from HotelsOnTheStrip.com which searches 28 sites using the Travelocity search engine.

Las Vegas Travel Widget: Mac Update 

Lock Down Your WP Blogs!

Sam Harrelson on January 19, 2008

Tony Hung has a tremendous reminder / tip / must-do if you’re running a blog on WordPress:

If you’re running WordPress, unless you’ve already locked down your Wp-content folder with some .htaccess fixes, you may not notice that your Wp-content/plugins folder is naked and bare to the world. That is, navigate to http://www.yourblogname.com/wp-content/plugins and you may find a directory listing of your plugins folder, files and all. How do you fix it? Easy. Just upload an empty index.html into the wp-content/plugins folder and its all fixed.

(Via Deep Jive Interests.)

Geek Marketers of the World Unite: GeekCast.fm Launch

Sam Harrelson on January 18, 2008

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I’ve teamed up with Jim Kukral and Shawn Collins to form GeekCast.fm which will be a podcast and video show aggregator for our projects as well as select others.

I’ve been doing the daily 22 minute AffiliateFortuneCookies podcast which you can find there as well as Shawn and Lisa Picarille’s AffiliateThing and Jim Kukral’s Daily Flip vidcast and VideoNinjas podcast with Magnify.net’s Steve Rosenbaum.

We’re also doing a weekly flagship show called GeekCast Gang where we’ll be discussing various issues in online marketing, video, mobile, affiliate, search, etc. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Should be a fun venture! The first episode of GeekCast Gang is below. You can grab the feed and subscribe in iTunes or your podcast player of choice here.

http://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P15a926455cc49bb2d23bf20cb2f30520Yl9wRVREYmB9&buffer=5&fc=FFFFFF&pc=CCFF33&kc=FFCC33&bc=FFFFFF&brand=1&player=ap28
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Hunter Thompson on Macs

Sam Harrelson on January 18, 2008

Awesome.

Then came this gem: In the mid-80s, tired of getting Hunter S. Thompson’s column copy late, by snail-mail, the editors of the San Francisco Examiner took the plunge and sent Thompson a new gizmo called a “Mac.” The relationship between the fabled journalist and his electronic tool was reportedly troubled from the beginning. It ended shortly thereafter, when Thompson called his editor screaming in frustration, grabbed his shotgun, and blasted the youthful Steve Jobs’s creation to smithereens. Then he sent back the pieces.

Silicon Alley Insider: Hunter S. Thompson Reviews Apple’s New Mac

GeekCast Episode 1: 3 Guys, 1 Cup

Sam Harrelson on January 17, 2008

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Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and I discuss political affiliate programs, what we hope to do with GeekCast.fm, problems the affiliate networks aren't solving and innovation in the affiliate space.

http://www.hipcast.com/playweb?audioid=P15a926455cc49bb2d23bf20cb2f30520Yl9wRVREYmB9&buffer=5&shape=6&fc=FFFFFF&pc=CCFF33&kc=FFCC33&bc=FFFFFF&brand=1&player=ap21

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