A day early, but good to see the Google holiday treatment isn’t confined to just logos on google.com.
While trying to find a good cafe in SF today I noticed something a bit different in google maps street view mode.
It appears to be a witch on her broomstick in place of the normal icon.
Click over to google map and select “Street View” (upper right corner) to see it in action.
Via NewTeeVee:
I wrote a couple of months ago about My favorite videos that are marketing / HR / recruiting tools.
After watching this video from my friends at Splendora, I think we can crown a new champion. Simply brilliant ! :
The crew from WallStrip (now part of CBS) was in San Francisco and interviewed the CEO of Automattic, Toni Schneider, on “the best and worst parts of Web 2.0.”
Make sure to watch until the end of the long/short segment for a WallStrip first !
Some smart companies are creating videos that not only are fun to watch, but truly act as a recruiting tool for their companies / services. So while some of these sites rely on social media / UGC, they are seeding their own services by creating content for their own site as a way to kick things off.
A few examples:
1) I saw this one a few months ago, and my first reaction was “I would love to work there”:
We did this video one night after work. We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker… and, we’re hiring: connectedventures.com/jobs.shtml
2) And this one most recently is a farce on raising money from VCs ( in hebrew, but with subtitles ), promoting their new how-to video site 5min (thanks Ouriel).
5min is a place to find short video solutions for every
practical question and is also a place for people who want to share their knowledge.
3) And of course, FunnyorDie which launched ( I believe ) with the first episode of “The Landlord”: watch video here
4) Our very own beta video player on wordpress.com was launched featuring Matt and Barry “after-hours”. Click to watch.
5) And lastly, one of my favorites, from the Gmail team, which is a cross of a screencast and a puppet show 🙂
Just in case you missed this among all the video coverage we did at the D conference this year. Colbert made this video which, for my money, was one of the funniest moments of the conference:
Raanan Bar-Cohen 