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The Right Code

ryanmoede — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:46:03 +0000

So we’ve been talking a lot lately at the Lab about the close relationship of web design and marketing. Throughout our discussions, I have been trying to formulate a thoughtful and articulate blog post on this topic. But then I stumbled across this video, thanks to Adverblog, by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper). In this video he raps about “how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site.”

Weezer Rocks the Web

ryanmoede — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:09:41 +0000

Alright, so it’s Friday, and not only that, it’s the Friday before a much-needed three-day holiday weekend. With that in mind, it seems only appropriate to rock out. As such, I wanted to share the first single – Pork and Beans – off the new Weezer album. It sounds pretty awesome, and the group has put together an equally solid music video spoofing some of the most popular viral marketing stories and internet memes over the last few years.

Merry Christmas

ryanmoede — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:15:10 +0000

So I promised myself I would stay off the blog and away from a computer for this holiday season. But then I found this, and just couldn’t help but share it with you. One of my favorite artists, bringing in the Christmas season just right.

Radiohead Let’s You Pay What You Like

ryanmoede — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:31:41 +0000

After snubbing iTunes, Radiohead is making their upcoming release available for, well, whatever you want.

“The results of (Radiohead’s online, pay-what-you-wish) experiment will be hard to judge unless the band reveals how many albums it sells and what people paid. It should share that information because it could be vital to the health of the music industry. There’s a wide gap between the demand for music and the public’s willingness to pay for it, yet the most popular legal outlet for music online — Apple’s iTunes store — gives artists and labels little pricing flexibility.” (LA Times)

Social Media Index

ryanmoede — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:40:23 +0000

Sixtysecondview is a experimenting with a new way to measure online influence. Tracking the number of links was fine for a time, but that couldn’t account for the ideas and influence taking shape through Twitter, Del.icio.us or Digg.

Through a score card that measures strength of blog, Facebook ranking, mini-updates like Twitter, LinkedIn ranking, Flickr ranking and Digg score, they’ve developed a weighted index to analyze who influences the web.

“So what does this last list mean? The overwhelming majority of new entrants to this more ‘pure’ Social Media Index are individuals which is probably not surprising given that corporates or even collectives don’t really use Twitter or Facebook . . . people do. Obviously each platform has different primary functions and some are much more personal (Facebook) than others. But bloggers quite openly use Twitter and Facebook and MySpace to market their blog posts and many blogs these days have widgets cross marketing the individual’s Facebook or Twitter profiles. And the personal and the professional was a line blurred for many of us years ago.”

I’ll need more time to review their methodology, but I already raise my morning latte in their general direction for taking a creative step to more comprehensively measure social media influence.