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HSBC backdown after FaceBook campaign:

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Film Friday:

I just wanted to thank Alex and Henki from Airside and Al from Mother for coming into my Missus' place Whitespace on Friday and previewing their Live Earth films; 'A Beginners Guide to giving a damn...' and 'Penguin in a pickle' prior to their afternoon show at the EIFF.

Loved it, as I think everybody at whitespace did.

If you haven't seen the films, I wrote a piece here a while back which hopefully should fill in the blanks.

Frasr, also put up a photoset on flickr here.

(Oh and a special thanks to Rig, for scouring Edinburgh for some appropriate, ethically sourced, organic pop-corn for the filums.)

Dept of: 'No surprises there then':

via: BrandRepublic.

How flipping wonderful is this?:

Al MacCuish, another of my young nephews at Mother, recommended this film to me.

He didn't make the film, Kit and Tom at wcrs did, but Al's done enough classy stuff to; 'know about these things'.

Which is good enough for me, hope you enjoy it:

More info here (be sure to click show more credits):

Google's new Embed Map feature:

Now embedding a Google amp into your blog is as easy as dropping in a YouTube video, with just a snippet of code available on the 'link to', er, link? on the appropriate Goog map page:

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That's a relief:

(Click article for full story.)

Cool:

Prescient/Done-deal comment by engineer at the end?

LinkedOut?:

 
Is it just me, but is LinkedIn, dare I say, just a teeny-weeny bit old-fashioned nowadays?

Indeed, was it ever the high powered business networking tool it was cracked up to be?

Maybe for some, but not, I'm sorry to say, for me. (Which may, I hasten to add, say for more about me, than the power of LinkedIn, but I'll leave that sensitive discourse for another post if I may ;-)

It made sense to sign-up in the early days of course, (how else do we figure out the usefulness, or not, of online tools), but compared to FaceBook and the contact, network and introductions it facilitates; no contest.

LinkedIn always seemed a bit cold and mercenary to me, and strictly business.

Whereas a big chunk of FB is social, and it kind of neatly/seamlessly blends business and personal in a way that appeals to me.

Over the years clients have become friends, (though I'm not sure it's always a good idea for friends to become clients.)

A profile on FaceBook can work as a fast-track cv, a friends list can be seen as an ever-expanding team of  'benign' referees, photo's' a snap shot of a life, (or a business, more usually both), and as The Master of 500 Hats points out:

'Notes' are pretty much the equivalent of 'Blogs' for Facebook (see my earlier brief post on Status = Twitter, Share = Del.icio.us).

FB+BB:

I'm not a huge fan of BB, but if you are I think this is a great idea and a very switched on/shrewd move from C4. Thanks as always to the ever alert Robin at Brand Republic for spotting this:

'Embedded' marketing in FaceBook:

I found this interesting.

This morning, I sent a message within FaceBook to a pal of mine.

In it, I linked one of my client's flickr sets.

What I noticed was; that as well as sending my friend my message and link, FaceBook also appended the equivalent of a classified ad, (remember them) at the end of my message.

I can't decide whether that's cool,intrusive or naughty.

On balance, I'd go with the first.

My guess, is that this is FaceBook's take on the Google sponsored links behemoth.

And I wonder if it's part of the FaceBook plan to sell brand keywords to all comers, to tag along with a users sent messages?

Or am I just showing how little I actually know about FaceBook?

Probably.