Battle Royale?

Just heard on Radio1 that Tesco's are going to launch a new part to their website to download and buy music, it is going to provide some real competition for iTunes.

This comes just a week or so after Myspace announcing that they are going to do the same and Amazon are joining the battle soon too!

With much competition between all the social networks for traffic and users I think MySpace's recent news of selling music on myspace is genius. They needed to specialise as all these social networks are becoming so similar. I personally only bother with Myspace for music, so that looks more of a natural fit than Tesco or Amazon. But, many people have Amazon accounts and trust Tesco as a retailer. So it looks like a hell of a fight, bring on the price war!

It's back; "juice loose aboot this hoose":

Social network for Gingers!

One for Chris Reed here...spotted on five news of all places! Redhedd.com a social network for gingers!

Love the intro:
"Welcome to Redhedd.com, a new community devoted to cheerleading a beautiful noble rarified and dying breed.

Red headed or even just bearded? Enemy of the sun? "Freckleface" when you were a wee'n? Spend more on suncreen than you do on shampoo? Or maybe you're one of the "others" but just can't seem to squelch your undying affection for the copper-topped. Well then join up! Membership is free and the redhead love is overflowing."

Apparently red heads are dying out so they need to breed together to survive. It got some coverage on MTV Canada from their redhead presenter:

R.I.P Sir Ulrich von Liechtenstein

I have to say that A Knight's Tale is one of my favourite films...think that might make me a bit of a sado! So even though the new Batman film was meant to be Heath's big break I was already a fan.

I spotted Melanie's post the other day about how the "blogosphere leaked the story before everyone else". Facebook seems to be an outlet for fans to gather as lots of groups have appeared. E.G. here, here and here. His memorabilia flooded eBay and various forums have been created. A shame that he didnt cause that much of a buzz during his life, lets hope that Batman does him credit!

The film is due for release in the UK on 25th June, so that clears up some of the speculation that it wasn't finished!

Rest in peace Sir William:

A year in PR

Wadds has started the 2007 'A year in PR' reviewing session, he was followed swiftly by Ged. As a newbie to PR and only touching one specific part of the genre (online) I will do a micro version!

(1) Most important development in social media
webitpr's Social Media News Release?...it has got to be the development of Facebook.

(2) Biggest disappointment
MySpace's response to FaceBook - Maybe that will change soon!

(3) High
Cadbury's Gorilla and the Wonderbra follow up!

(4) Low
Limited in depth responses at the NMK Beers and Innovation event (Great event otherwise)

(5) Biggest cock up (in 2007 in general)
Steve McClaren - Joke list here...

(6) Predictions for 2008
Social networks being banned at work and home for steeling peoples lives...and some faddy sites/tools that will simply bob above the water and then sink without a trace. Plus more personalised and targeted advertising in 2.0 ways.

(7) Next big thing?
More and more specific social networks such as vbmaNETWORK and meandmybicycle.

(8) Most important tech development
'Mobility' the ease of going online wherever/whenever - nicely advertised here by Vodafone.

Some great Advertising methods from the year to date:
Handvertising, Shadow(vertising), On Police Cars, In 'the can', On Toast and Using Hills.

Over to Daljit and Dom for their thoughts.

Happy Christmas: A great Christmasy advert to end the year:

A social media social network

If you are "...involved in bottom up approaches to marketing (viral, buzz, word of mouth, social media, etc), business (co-creation, open innovation, etc) and social policy (participation, collaborative governance, etc)" then this social network is for you, pop along to vbmaNETWORK and sign up.