After watching Betty White host Saturday Night Live on May 8, 2010, I thought that she looked and acted like she was in her late sixties rather than her true age of 88. She had impeccable timing, was very agile and delivered punch lines better than most comedians on television today. I only heard her stumble over words twice, but more importantly, she immediately recovered and went on with the scene like nothing happened. That was the 70 years of acting experience talking!
All the social media blogs were crammed full of articles about Twitter this week. On Tuesday, Twitter launched its new advertising strategy called Promoted Tweets. According to the Twitter website, users now see tweets that promote their partner advertisers at the top of some Twitter.com search results pages. Twitter promises their users that these sponsored tweets will be clearly labeled as “promoted” when an advertiser is paying, and that only one Promoted Tweet will be displayed on each search results page. Users can also Reply and ReTweet the Promoted Tweets like regular ones.
“We are currently going through an infrastructural change in the mobile industry that will set up the next decade of innovation,” said Josh Levison, Practice Lead for Mobile and Gaming at IPG Emerging Media Lab. He was the speaker in our Intro class on Monday, April 12, 2010. I thought that mobile was going to be a big part of how we move forward in business, entertainment and information, but after hearing Josh’s fantastic presentation on Monday, I realize that I didn’t know the half of it!
