Fresh Chat

Here are just a few snippets from all that’s happened in the world of digital and social media in the past month.

• Sydney agency criticised in the blogosphere for launching a fake viral video to promote a men’s clothing line launch
• Tourism Queensland launched a great ‘Best job in the world’ competition but garnered criticism for a fake viral video
• Burger King launched the ‘Whopper Sacrifice‘ application on Facebook, giving away a whopper to those who culled 10 people from their friends list
• Social media continues to experience rapid growth, more so than traditional media
• Hitwise statistics showed that social networking is now more popular than porn
• Recent research indicated that Australian businesses are happy to adopt new technology early, but still lag in adopting social media
• The ABS announced a new generation, under 20s tagged as the iGeneration
• Gartner released this interesting report: Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010