I made a post on Twitter asking if anyone could recommend a good tool box to buy in Germany, because well…. i need a new tool box… (long story…) and then a few minutes later, I received a strange mention on Twitter saying:
@seanearleyrocks your tweet has been taken away.
Of course I just had to check and see just what the heck that was all about. I come to find out it’s an art project by a guy in Berlin named Jens Wunderling and his site default to public where he takes people’s random tweets, prints them out on sticker paper and posts them in public. HA! Sweet!
Of course I wrote back to say: @tweetleak Neat… next time please use the tweet that says “Please send all your money to @seanearleyrocks to pay for an Aston Martin”
All kidding aside, I thought it was a cool idea. While I of course realize my tweets are public and open for the world to see, somehow it still gives off an invasive feeling by having your info put on display out in public beyond your control. That’s the point of the project after all, I guess.
Really makes you think, though.
P.S. If anyone still wants to send money to the Sean Earley needs an Aston Martin really badly fund, by all means, feel free…
Oh yeah, and can you recommend a good toolbox while you’re at it?
First an announcement for anyone who is interested. I am in the process of polishing off the second draft of my new Twitter related ebook. (Title has yet to be determined)
I know, i know… there are a ton of them out there, but instead of regurgitating the same old crap as everyone else, I wanted to take a little different approach and hit on some of the more unconventional topics in relation to Twitter, social networking, marketing and sales.
I think people will really like it, and my hope is that it will be a valuable resource on the subject. Might shock some people, might piss a few people off too, we’ll see… sounds good huh?
Anyway, before it’s all wrapped up and spell checked to death and I spend way too much time obsessing on the cover design and promo material, etc I wanted to take a little time and ask your opinion:
What Would You like To See in A Marketing Related Twitter Book?
Are there any topics that just haven’t been covered in other products?
Are there any burning questions you want answered?
Anything new and exciting that you think should addressed that hasn’t yet?
Any skills, solutions, systems, processes, methods you would like to see addressed or defined in more detail?
Do we need another Twitter book?
My goal with this is to not only write the kind of book on the topic I personally would like to see, but others as well. so your input is really valuable to me. So please feel free to comment or shoot me an email at:
Just testing out the official WordPress app for Android.
It Works… Kind of a nice feature for microblogging, but to be honest, writing a large blog post on my little android keypad is not so fun, so I probably wont be using it much. It does have a save feature though so that is super nice.
I don’t normally post other people’s stuff on my blog, but I just had to share this really awesome video by Keiichi Matsuda featuring a scary look into the future of Augmented Reality, what he calls augmented (hyper) reality, only it’s gone completely out of hand.
If we’re not careful, this could easily happen some day. It almost gives me a seizure… ( I like the Farrah Fawcett poster on the wall though. Really nice touch)
It really makes you question what our personal limitations will be and what they will either reject or accept when technology gets to this point.
Because of the business I am in, a lot of people have been asking me about what I think about the new, long awaited Apple iPad that was just announced this week.
Well, I have to say that I am both very excited about the potential and possibilities this thing has as well as just a little disappointed, all at the same time.
Before I get into that though, first, I would like to get something off my chest and say this:
Just what is the deal with so many people publicly slamming Apple about this thing??? Why the animosity?
Just as soon as it came out, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the blogs were exploding with negative comments, even from Apple users.
Are people really that spoiled? More like completely naive, if you ask me… [click to continue…]
I just wanted to take a second and wish everyone a happy new year. Besides the fact the 2010 is a visually pleasing number, I just have a good feeling about it.
On another note, despite all the cold weather, the resulting cabin fever is providing me with a fresh wave of musical inspiration, probably more so than in the last 5 years, so since my main new years resolution was to make more music, this is a good thing. Here’s a video of the new year fireworks in front of my building.
Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that we are all doomed and the financial world is going to hell, not in a hand basket, but in a snow shovel.
Let me explain…
Last night I had the joyous experience of trudging downtown through 6 inches of dirty, slushy, sloppy snow to finish up my last minute holiday shopping.
Hoping for some relief from the muddy slop when I finally reached a dignified, more trafficked shopping area, i was shocked to find out that there would be no relief.
In the midst of all the Gucci, Prada, iPhones and Starbucks, apparently NONE of the shop keepers managed to shovel any snow outside of their businesses.
Not one!
The result was a once beautiful town square being replaced instead with a sloppy mud pit, filled with hoards of insane holiday shoppers splashing and stampeding through the shops and malls, all the while dragging the slop with them. [click to continue…]
What the heck are QR Codes? A QR Code (or Quick Response code) is a matrix style graphical code similar to a bar code, invented by the Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994, as seen in the example. They can be read using a scanner and most recently by cameras on mobile phones with special software apps.
Originally designed to track parts in warehouses, they have since become very popular in Japan in much broader contexts, where they are used for huge mobile advertising campaigns.
Since QR codes can embed all types of data, they are now being used to contain URLs, messages, personal contact data and most recently as hyperlinks to identify objects in the physical world.
QR Codes have been big in Japan due to the fact that the mobile devices there are already equipped to read them. They use them everywhere, on billboards, vending machines, websites, advertising, even popular fashion, but up until now, the west has been slow to adapt due to mobile technology restraints.
I am doing a little experiment and looking for some input specifically from online marketers regarding what your Follow Strategy and Behavior is on Twitter.
Are you a conservative follower or are you a follow whore?
Do you follow back everyone who follows you?
Do you only follow a few people whom you are interested in?
What is your criteria for following?
What is your criteria for following back?
Do you use following software? If so, what?
Do you use follow autoresponder software? If so, what?
Do you use multiple Twitter accounts for specific purposes?
Are you targeting your Follow behavior or do you just go for mass?
Please share your input via the comments, as I am really interested in your opinions.
My wife bought me an Amazon Kindle (Amazon affiliate link) ebook reader for my 40th Birthday and I spent the last week getting used to it, so I decided to share a few thoughts.
Reasons
My main reason for wanting a Kindle is due to the fact that I live in Germany and being a huge non fiction reader, and since the English sections in the book stores here are small and mostly just filled with the latest best seller, crap fiction, I am pretty much always starved for decent non fiction (in English) beyond the internet.
Since the Kindle global wireless version offers immediate, free mobile access to the entire English based Amazon Store (anywhere in the world) pretty much anything I want in kindle format (books, magazines, newspapers) are usually one click and 30seconds away (depending on my wireless connection quality)
Another reason I wanted a Kindle is because (as anyone involved in internet marketing would attest to) you end up reading a ton of ebooks and pdf’s. If you ever tried to spend the evening reading one on your glowing laptop screen, after about 20 pages, your eyes are burnt. My wife and I also like to read in bed and the thought of nestling up next to my glowing hot laptop for a good read before slipping off to sleep is not so comfortable.
Since the Kindle is thin, lightweight and has that fancy digital ink screen, reading is much easier on the eyes and hands. [click to continue…]
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First an announcement for anyone who is interested. I am in the process of polishing off the second draft of my new Twitter related ebook. (Title has yet to be determined)
Yesterday, I came to the conclusion that we are all doomed and the financial world is going to hell, not in a hand basket, but in a snow shovel.
My wife bought me an 
