The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #18 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @socialnerdia and @somerlea talk about the latest..

Tech News: Canada makes Facebook rethink privacy, IBM’s patent for a blogging/tweeting TV remote, Microsoft’s CAPTCHA advertising patent, and YouTube’s new viral video revenue sharing.

Not-So Tech News: Searching for Jessica Biel is like searching for malware, Jason Biggs gets attacked by a Gibraltar ape (for real).

Upcoming Movie Releases: Taking Woodstock, The Final Destination, Big Fan

Randomized Topic of the Day: Bob Dylan is working with GPS companies to get his voice on your car. Bob Dylan telling you to turn right or left sounds like the beginning of GPS awesomness.

Don’t forget!
- Vote for SXSW Panel ”Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” http://bit.ly/votesxsw

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These are Diegoliath’s Top 5 Movies of 2009. The “Creative In5piration” series is a showcase some of the things that can brighten your day and re-ignite your creative thinking. In this case, it’s all movies. Leave us a comment. Share your top 5 if you feel like it. 

1. District 9
If you haven’t seen this please shut your computer down right now and head to the theaters because this is probably one of the best movies coming out this year, and probably one of the best movies you’ll see in a long time.  It’s been up in the Twitter trending topics since its release a week and a half ago, if that means anything.  What makes it even better is that it’s the first full-length film by new-comer director Neil Blomkamp (who was supposed to direct the Halo movie). 

2. Where the Wild Things Are
Narnia and Domo Kun come together in what looks to be, like, the cutest film ever by Spike Jonze.

3. Inglorious Basterds
A war film by Quentin Tarantino. Enough said.

4. Zombie Land
Looks amazing and funny. I can’t wait to see Woody Harrelson come back from the dead, to fight the undead…

5. Paper Heart
Michael Cera plays the same character in every single movie he’s ever made. Paper Heart is no different.

Gord Weisflock is a Marketing and Business Development Manager for Kodak in Asia Pacific. Working on the B2B side of Kodak, Gord focuses on demand generation and building relationships in the largest market on Earth. I was able to speak with him on The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to it below, on blogtalkradio, or as a downloadable podcast on iTunes).

I was excited about this conversation because China is going through an incredible shift from manufacturer to creator and designer, and because Kodak is a great example of a company that is thriving in social media. Gord, who called in through Skype from Shanghai, told me about doing business in China and about his role within Kodak. While most of us know Kodak for its cameras, film, and printers, the fact that 75% of the world’s newspapers use Kodak products is only one example of the impact that this company has from a commercial point of view.

Gord explained that “a lot of companies see China as a huge market, a huge opportunity, but there are definitely some unique challenges. You have to understand the market, you have to understand what it’s like to walk in the shoes of people that live and work in this country… The Olympics were a great experience for the world to see how China operates and also a great opportunity for China to show how they do things themselves.” (more…)

Welcome to the 7th edition of Random Tuesdays with Summer Rose. I’ve been wanting to do something around the idea of food as more than just something we eat. So I checked out an awesome local Japanese restaurant in Dallas, TX and concluded that yes, food is art.

Don’t forget to check in again every Tuesday for more fantabulous randomness.

And please don’t be shy! Leave a comment below with your thoughts. I know you have some.

It’s been a while since my last Top 5 post and to compensate for that, I’m bringing you two posts of creative nutrition this week. One today. One in a few days. Or else you’ll get a bit too excited. As always, I’ll be using this space on the web to showcase some of the things that brighten my day and re-ignite my creative thinking.

Enjoy!

1. Target – Every Color You Can Dream

This beautiful stop-motion campaign for Target takes you through a colorful, dreamlike journey made of fabric.  The song is “Everything & Everyone” by Boys & Girls.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4EaiSVQGWw

Oddly enough, the commercial looks very similar to Coldplay’s latest video for song Strawberry Swing.  Check it out here: http://www.coldplay.com/videostrawberry.php

2. Olympics – The Best of Us

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #16 is now available for streaming below, on blogtalkradio, or as a podcast on iTunes.

 

In this episode, @jestebanc and @somerlea talk about..

Tech News: 3D coming to a TV near you, MySpace acquires iLike, and Dell gets into the phone market.. in China.

Not-So Tech News: Reality TV contestant Ryan A. Jenkins accused of murder, Celine Dion magically prego at 41, Terminator Producers file for Bankruptcy.

Upcoming Movie Releases: Inglourious Basterds (Brad Pitt, Quentin Tarantino), Post Grad (the girl from Gilmore Girls).

Randomized Topic of the Day: Still loving the Palm Pre. The Pre ads might be creepy but some people (including ad agency Modernista) think they’re working. We’d like to see some ads showing off the phone’s awesomeness instead of a pale girl saying “Bing.”

Some announcements:
- Vote for SXSW Panel ”Here Come All the Latino Bloggers” http://bit.ly/votesxsw

- Join us at next week’s Frisco Internet Entrepreneurs Meetup http://bit.ly/howtopodcast

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David Alston is the VP of Marketing and Community at Radian6, a software firm that helps remove the barriers to effective social media monitoring and analysis. I had a great time chatting with David on the 15th episode of The Social Nerdia Show! and you can listen to the conversation in its entirety on the player below or by subscribing to our podcast on iTunes.

I checked out a demo of Radian6 before talking to David, and I must say I was impressed. Their tool looks pretty slick and comprehensive. I particularly like the fact that it integrates with Salesforce and WebTrends, which many companies already use. And, as David told me, Radian6 is going to integrate with more CRM, Business Intelligence and Analytics systems in the future.

David shared about how the young company got started by being part of the online community. He also explained how their real-time web-based solution enables companies to interact online without having to manually go to every blog and site out there. ”Once you get all that data from all over social media, from all the YouTubes of the world, Flicker, all the blogs,Twitter, Friendfeed, news, all that stuff gets pulled into one big topic profile and once it’s there you can do all kind of drill downs and look for trends.”

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