Watch the last video that has gone viral on YouTube.
A musician plays a beautiful piece on his viola and suddently the Nokia ringtone interrupts the concert. See his reaction.
Sometimes the easiest story is the most successful in terms of marketing. Is Nokia behind this video?
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By the way, the original version of the Nokia ring tone was part of the guitar piece "Gran Vals", composed in 1902 by Spanish musician Francisco Tárrega. Play it and enjoy it. You will love the music!
In the above's 290-second video (over 1,3 Million views) you can see 6,237 pictures spliced together to create a fast-paced montage. Each two-second scene is comprised of about 40 to 60 photographs.
It is made by a San Francisco-based photographer Kien Lam, who spent 343 days traversing the globe and visiting 17 countries.
He used a Panasonic Lumix GF-1 camera and edited the footage in Adobe Lightroom, Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro.
(See more time-lapse engaging videos in this URL).
We all attend many conferences, events and shows during the year, and that means a wealth of opportunities for connecting people you only communicate via email, as well a chance to pitch your story to the media.
There are things that we busy entrepreneurs forget time after time -as a result, we spend too much time looking at other people's products:
Book as many face-to-face meetings as possible each day. When you meet someone the second or third time, and feek like you know each other, that's when the big integrations happen.
Showing up early before the event start is perfect opportunity to meet people before things get too hectic.
Be your product and your brand. If you wear your company t-shirt, you will strike up a conversation quickly and create a presence. Bring a few extras to give out.
Stick to schedule, organize, focus. Go where the people you want to meet are. Read blog posts about conferences in your field. Ask partners, journalists and VCs where they will be.
Follow-up with the connections you've made and work those relationships for when you meet them again.
Don't have a booth? Tap into your partners to see if you can share their space.
And the key rule: Never forget that it's not a holiday!
More than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 after they were injured while using a cellphone to talk or text. That had doubled each year since 2006, according to a study conducted by Ohio State University.
"Let's stop acting like hollowed-out zombies, with BlackBerrys and iPhones replacing eye contact, handshakes and face-to-face conversations," he writes.
I have discovered this app which has turned out into a viral success.
Free app Voxer is the next WhatsApp. I totally recommend it.
It turns your iPhone or Android into a live Walkie Talkie. You push to talk, text and send photos.
Once downloaded (iTuneshere, Androidhere), users can synchronize the app with their existing phone's address book or Facebook friends.
Voxer was founded by a veteran entrepreneur Tom Katis, a decorated U.S. soldier. His idea originated during an ambush in Afghanistan when he needed a medical team in the middle of a fireflight; he needed a way to talk to everyone all at once, and the government-issue walkie talkies weren't doing the trick.
Competitors to Voxer are HeyTell and TalkBox
This kind of audio messaging will replace the SMS message?
