Neil just noticed that everyone in our office has a four letter name or nickname:
Benn
Mark
Neil
Alex
Elly
Jody
Coxy
Atko
Ross
Carl
Odd fact.
That is all people – back to work
Because the Wii girlfriend was just to subtle, Alton Towers and Ultimo combined for this viral.
“Alton Towers Resort teamed up with Britains leading underwear brand, Ultimo to make sure women don’t make a boob on the rides this summer.
A group of test-riders donned a variety of Ultimo bras and were put through their paces on ... Read more
Our summer event for I Love Design with Quark and Design Week has already sold out – 3 weeks before the event! That’s how we roll at Neoco – if we’re behind the scenes it’s going to get traction!
With a fabulous line up and some great social media coverage the event looks to be something ... Read more
Eek! Habitat screw up Social Media activity
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Posted June 23 2009 By Neoco
Furniture retailer Habitat has come under fire after it spammed Twitter users through the use of hash tags.
The retailer had been using hash tags, which help users track conversations on the microblogging site, to promote marketing messages that had no relevance to the topics used.
The company’s Twitter feed, HabitatUK, was putting out marketing messages such ... Read more
US Woman fined £1.2M for 29 song downloads
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Posted June 19 2009 By Atko
Now, I’m sure many people have many views on this, but I’m still in shock about the amount that this poor woman was fined I’m under the impression that 29 songs is about 3 albums, which I’d say is about 20 quid? I’m pretty sure these songs wern’t on special.
Now, I’m not sure if you ... Read more
Twitter delays maintenance for Iranian tweets
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Posted June 16 2009 By Atko
A search for #iranelection right now will give you a pretty long list of results, in fact in the time I wrote this about 2000 new tweets have appeared. Twitter seems to be the only way that Iranians can communicate at the moment as the government clamps down on most forms of communication.
Twitter is so ... Read more
Now, for those of you working in London, no doubt you will have had a nightmare getting to work for the last 2 days, but one cheeky chappy, with a passion for tweeting, decided to bring some cheer into people’s journeys by offering a ride on the back of his motorbike.
But Paul’s real motivation behind ... Read more
This is a photo they took for their family Christmas message that was sent out to friends via Christmas cards and a blog message.
Now look at this advert for a local grocery in Prague, Czech Republic.
It seems someone Googled something like ‘happy family’ , saw the Smiths and thought it made a great image.
Fortunately for the Smiths, they have a well-traveled assortment of friends, one of whom saw them in Prague and let them know. You can read the rest pf the story on the BBC site but the question here is one about permission. Increasingly, ‘copyright’ as a subject is being assaulted by the ‘democratisation’ of the web. Whilst many of us sit home and steal music, video and game entertainment at the expense of the large (and sometimes very small) corporates, suddenly we feel very unhappy when the shoe is on the other foot.*
Here’s a thought, instead of suing everyone, the corporations who are victims of piracy should download photos of the pirates and then use them for free in their advertising. 
*my legal disclaimer: I’m not implying the Smiths illegally download any content.
In the stampede to embrace all things social we have to understand that in the same way it enables people to expose more of their life to their friends, people are exposing more of their lives to strangers.
Meet the Smiths.
This is a photo they took for their family Christmas message that ... Read more
Christmas E-tailer event discount for Neoco followers
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Posted June 8 2009 By Neoco
Online has demonstrated non-stop growth every Christmas in the retail sector and never has this been more important than in the current economic climate. Luckily for you, it can be even more cost effective…
We’ve teamed up with SheerLuxe to offer our clients a massive discount of the full day conference… and now we’ve managed to ... Read more
Yes, it really is 4:30am – benefits of faulty burglar alarm and baby son… I’m out on a run and it seems that our local Korean butcher has updated their shop shutters. I just loved these too much not blog them!