YouTube passes 2 billion video views per day

Shortly after its 5th birthday YouTube passed its 2 billion views per day!! Crazy considering its only 5 years old. As part of the celebration, YouTube has wrapped up its 5years in the video below. We will also be posting more exciting news from Youtube soon, so stayed tuned.

Google rolls out Live Updates in New Zealand

Live Updates instantly updates Search Results with new listings as they are discovered and indexed by Google. Two days after launching on Google.com; Live Updates are available on Google.co.nz and can be seen on any topical search.  

This is a major update to Google's Search technology and brings "real-time search", the concept of all new information instantly indexed and available, one step closer. 

To see it in action just go to Google and search on anything topical, "global warming" or "tiger woods" for example, and on the results page you will notice a section labeled "Latest Results for... " that updates every few seconds with news stories, tweets, blog postings, press releases etc.  

Official Google blog post - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html

More readable New York Times story - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/technology/companies/08google.html

Ikea Facebook showroom

Really cool use of the Facebook tagging tool as a branded promotional application!! This is a great new use of the Facebook environment without being just a standard brand page. Watch the video for a full explanation:

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Great examples of Augmented Reality (AR)

Molson DRY

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Esquire's AR Issue

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Social Media ROI

Here's another great video from Eric Qualman, this time speaking to the effectiveness of Social Media. ROI is fundamental to the way in which we approach our clients business and whilst this video showcases international examples it is a good summary of some great success stories.