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In Jaipur at the Alsisar Haveli, I met a young puppetmaster and his ten year old brother. Together they performed puppet shows outside the main restaurant at the Haveli, with the older brother expertly controlling the puppets with every finger of both hands behind a curtained backdrop, and the younger brother playing the dholak in … Read more
For the next few weeks, I will be travelling through India on a combination of work and holiday. Rather than trying to find a guest author or some other poor sap to "hand over the keys" to the Influential Interactive Marketing blog, I have decided to hang up the equivalent of a "gone fishing" sign … Read more
On Friday last week, there was a great piece by Julia Beizer in the Washington Post Express about a different category of fantasy games that offer an alternative to Fantasy Football. Now officially giving up on my Fantasy Football team after losing my two star players in back to back weeks to season ending injuries, … Read more
The virtual world has been getting a lot of coverage in the real world these days. Second Life is becoming the new poster child for the rising popularity of avatars and virtual personalities that real people are taking on, and every day it seems there is a new development that causes those in marketing and … Read more
Add to: | blinklist | del.cio.us | digg | yahoo! | furl | rawsugar | shadows | netvouz A quick look at any marketing industry publication over the last few weeks will yield more than a few examples of how authors and publishers are getting smarter about marketing. As more and more outlets compete for … Read more
In a promotion for charity announced yesterday and noted on the Cancer Blog, Ritz Camera will partner with Carmen Electra to promote two new printing services, standard square print sizes of 5" and 6", and the ability to also get large prints in 1 hour (previously unavailable). Aside from the interesting partnership with Head for … Read more
As part of a self service egovernment initiative in Virginia, anyone who has any type of traffic (or criminal) charge in one of the many counties across Virginia has the option to log onto https://www.courts.state.va.us to see details of their case and pay a fine rather than go to court. On the surface, this is … Read more
The top two terms on Technorati all day have been Zidane and Zidane headbutt. This is the headbutt heard around the world. The headbutt that created a media circus and is, surprisingly, fueling an interest in soccer in America that hasn’t happened for the past few weeks of World Cup play or even in the … Read more
Ten years ago, a good domain name was the most important thing in the world. Companies bid millions of dollars to get the right domain name, legal battles ensued over who should rightfully own a domain, and registering the right domain name was usually the first step in launching a company, campaign or new tagline. … Read more
One of the more popular blogs on marketing and PR today is Media Orchard. Scott’s "Pick of the Orchard" are very useful daily posts on the top five or so marketing and PR related links worth reading online. Piers does the same thing on marketing news and trends on both PSFK and Marktd. Every once … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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