Chemistry - The personal blog of Reggie James. http://www.reggiejames.org The personal blog of Reggie James. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:51:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Jac Holzman, founder of Elektra records shares his thoughts on YouTube and the Future of Music http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/08/jac-holzman-founder-elektra-records-shares-thoughts-youtube-future-music/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/08/jac-holzman-founder-elektra-records-shares-thoughts-youtube-future-music/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:43:04 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/?p=520 Having started his company in 1950, Jac Holzman gives his views on the changing face of music.

In the business fo 60 years and dealing with artists from Busta Rymes to Joni Mitchell, Jac gives his views on when he first confronted digital music, the exciting changes and the challenges faced by the business today.

A special micro site has been created to celebrate this milestone. Check it out here – http://www.elektra.com/elektra60/

A special thanks to Jolie O’Dell for sharing this via Mashable

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/08/jac-holzman-founder-elektra-records-shares-thoughts-youtube-future-music/feed/ 1 Can Blackberry 6 save RIM? http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/blackberry-6-save-rim/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/blackberry-6-save-rim/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:41:06 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/?p=510 With the likes of iPhone and Google’s Android platform slowly entering the corporate market, it seems that Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian company that owns the Blackberry device has one last shot at the corporate space when it releases version 6 of its operating system. The challenge for blackberry as recently highlighted by Reuters ‘Breaking Views’ and published in The New York Times, is that 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are testing or implementing iPhone. This could be a disaster for RIM who for as long as anyone can remember was the defacto weapon of choice for the corporate warrior.

So what’s changed?

How did these 2 operating systems creep into the business domain and start kicking at Blackberry’s heels. More importantly, why has Blackberry allowed this to happen when the demand for such devices are so high? Looking at the leaked promotional video, it seems that once again they have missed a trick using a generic and broad track by the Black Eyed Peas with a ‘too’ corporate feel to its visual. Make your own mind up but will British bank Standard Chartered recent announcement that it is migrating its workforce from BlackBerrys to iPhones be the beginning of an exodus?

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/blackberry-6-save-rim/feed/ 0 Will adding my Twitter feed to my website increase my PageRank? http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/will-adding-my-twitter-feed-to-my-website-increase-my-pagerank/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/will-adding-my-twitter-feed-to-my-website-increase-my-pagerank/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:35:54 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/will-adding-my-twitter-feed-to-my-website-increase-my-pagerank/ Search supremo and head of Google’s Webspam team Matt Cutts talks about how we can best capitalise on Twitter.

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/will-adding-my-twitter-feed-to-my-website-increase-my-pagerank/feed/ 1 Vega Choir – Creep http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/vega-choir-%e2%80%93-creep/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/vega-choir-%e2%80%93-creep/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:34:41 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/vega-choir-%e2%80%93-creep/ After numerous requests from people asking who the choir are singing the cover of Radiohead’s Creep for the trailer of the film The Social Network that was posted last week (http://bit.ly/9252ml), I have posted a version that I think is similar/better.

The choir who sing on the movie trailer are the Scala Choir & Kolacny brothers, a Belgian girls’ choir who are well known for doing melodic covers of contemporary music.

The clip I have posted is a version of Radiohead’s Creep that sounds very similar to the Scala Choir but is performed by the Vega Choir from Sweden and is accompanied by a rather moving if not slightly disturbing video…

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/vega-choir-%e2%80%93-creep/feed/ 1 The Swagger Wagon from Toyota http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/the-swager-wagon-from-toyota/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/the-swager-wagon-from-toyota/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:40:28 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/the-swager-wagon-from-toyota/ Toyota have released a great viral for the Sienna Minivan in the US. A clever use of parody on urban music that’s applied to everyday family life. Turn it up.

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]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/07/facebook-the-movie-the-social-network-trailer/feed/ 0 England v USA in Lego | World Cup 2010 http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/06/england-v-usa-in-lego-world-cup-2010/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/06/england-v-usa-in-lego-world-cup-2010/#comments Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:56:46 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/06/england-v-usa-in-lego-world-cup-2010/ Saw this, made me chuckle so thought ii’d share.

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/06/england-v-usa-in-lego-world-cup-2010/feed/ 15 Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz tells TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington to “F**k off” http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/yahoo-ceo-carol-bartz-tells-techcrunch-founder-michael-arrington-to-%e2%80%9cfk-off%e2%80%9d/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/yahoo-ceo-carol-bartz-tells-techcrunch-founder-michael-arrington-to-%e2%80%9cfk-off%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 14:46:34 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/yahoo-ceo-carol-bartz-tells-techcrunch-founder-michael-arrington-to-%e2%80%9cfk-off%e2%80%9d/ Enough said!

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/yahoo-ceo-carol-bartz-tells-techcrunch-founder-michael-arrington-to-%e2%80%9cfk-off%e2%80%9d/feed/ 1 Google TV explained http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-explained/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-explained/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 07:24:41 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-explained/ A simple visual overview of what Google want to do with TV.

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-explained/feed/ 2 Google TV Keynote – Introducing Google TV http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-keynote-introducing-google-tv/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-keynote-introducing-google-tv/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 15:26:47 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-keynote-introducing-google-tv/ Rishi Chandra gives the opening address for Google TV at Google developer conference Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco. A $70 Billion business in the US alone – watch out – here comes Google…

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-tv-keynote-introducing-google-tv/feed/ 6 Nike “Write the Future” – World Cup Ad http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/nike-%e2%80%9cwrite-the-future%e2%80%9d-world-cup-ad/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/nike-%e2%80%9cwrite-the-future%e2%80%9d-world-cup-ad/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 13:40:10 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/nike-%e2%80%9cwrite-the-future%e2%80%9d-world-cup-ad/ A rather odd but brilliant advert from Nike – enjoy!

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/nike-%e2%80%9cwrite-the-future%e2%80%9d-world-cup-ad/feed/ 4 Diesel Cam – the first “mirror on the wall’ that works with Social Networks http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/diesel-cam-%e2%80%93-the-first-%e2%80%9cmirror-on-the-wall%e2%80%99-that-works-with-social-networks/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/diesel-cam-%e2%80%93-the-first-%e2%80%9cmirror-on-the-wall%e2%80%99-that-works-with-social-networks/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 19:57:15 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/diesel-cam-%e2%80%93-the-first-%e2%80%9cmirror-on-the-wall%e2%80%99-that-works-with-social-networks/ As the cultural shift toward sharing gathers pace, Brands have to put their social strategy at the centre of their marketing plan. Watch the video here:

http://bit.ly/c5XXnl

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/diesel-cam-%e2%80%93-the-first-%e2%80%9cmirror-on-the-wall%e2%80%99-that-works-with-social-networks/feed/ 0 The Parlotones interview by Maria Bunzl – Can I kick it? Yes you can! http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/the-parlotones-interview-by-maria-bunzl-%e2%80%93-can-you-kick-it-yes-you-can/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/the-parlotones-interview-by-maria-bunzl-%e2%80%93-can-you-kick-it-yes-you-can/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 13:32:44 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/the-parlotones-interview-by-maria-bunzl-%e2%80%93-can-you-kick-it-yes-you-can/ I came across a rather excellent interview on YouTube this morning and thought I would share it with all you lovely people – Darren in NYC will like it in particular.

OK, so what’s happening June 11th 2010 – like we don’t know? The FIFA World Cup in South Africa – exactly one month away. With Nelson Mandela presiding over proceedings, this is quite a significant World Cup for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is being held on the African Continent for the 1st time and secondly, in amongst artists such as Alicia Keys and the Black Eyed Peas is South Africa’s own Parlotones.
So who are the Parlotones? They kicked of their career in 2003 and today have become the biggest selling band in South Africa. Lean more here:

Marina Bunzl has conducted a wonderful and relaxed interview with the band. Unlike the contrived tosh that gets served these days as music interviews, it’s refreshing to see this London based journalist carry it off (in amongst some tweets) with such aplomb. One nil Marina!

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/the-parlotones-interview-by-maria-bunzl-%e2%80%93-can-you-kick-it-yes-you-can/feed/ 6 Is Social Sharing ‘the most important behavioural shift of the 21st century’? http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/440/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/440/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 14:40:05 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/440/ It’s polling day today in the UK and like most people I am sick to the back teeth of these individuals parading their wares to the great British public – begging for us to put a cross against their name. The reality is that, if the polls are to be believed, it will be a hung parliament and we will be doing this all over again from Friday.

One thing that has come out of this election is how politicians have uses Social Media to interact with the public at large but also with specific groups and target marginalised individuals. Social media and the willingness for people to share their thought, views and anything else is a major change in both how we live our everyday lives as well as engage with society at large. When watching Question Time on the BBC or listening to Any Answers on Radio 4, it is no longer necessary to do a double take when David Dimbleby ask us to follow the programmes ‘tweets’ or for an old colleague to Link-In to us and for them to see what we’ve been doing (sometimes in great detail) for the past few years.

As I am sharing my thoughts with you, I should point out that the original headline came from Shane Richmond of the Telegraph’s Tech blog who in turn, obtained a spin of the headline and the thrust of the piece from David Armano, of Edelman Digital who had written an article for the Harvard Business Review.

In David’s article he dives deeper into this ‘Social Sharing’ shift, citing it as being bigger than Facebook and Twitter as well as looking at elements that make this phenomenon so big. These elements include:

• Data Gathering
• Knowledge Sharing & Collaboration
• Content Distribution
• Social Currency

Read more at the Harvard Business Review: http://bit.ly/cQ5zYa

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/440/feed/ 3 Google Chrome video – Browser Speed http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-chrome-video-browser-speed/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-chrome-video-browser-speed/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 17:09:05 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-chrome-video-browser-speed/ Its to do with SPEED – enough said.

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/google-chrome-video-browser-speed/feed/ 0 Levi’s ads Social Media to its online strategy – Social Shopping http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/levi%e2%80%99s-ads-social-media-to-its-online-strategy-%e2%80%93-social-shopping/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/levi%e2%80%99s-ads-social-media-to-its-online-strategy-%e2%80%93-social-shopping/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 08:13:45 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/levi%e2%80%99s-ads-social-media-to-its-online-strategy-%e2%80%93-social-shopping/ We’ve come a long way from watching Nick Kamen wash his Levi 501’s in the laundrette – from the  excellent and iconic advertisement devised by BBH London in the 80’s.
Fast forward 20 odd years and the days of Nick Kamen are distant memory as today’s youth interact with the Social media platforms to discover the latest trends and see what their friend are buying.

What was true 20 years ago is true now and Levi has hit the Zeitgeist again and developed an integrated Social Media strategy with a plug-in for facebook. The plug-in has an integrated “like” feature with every product on the site that allows you to see the number of people on facebook who like the item – it also allows you to cast your own vote.

A big thank you to Aden Hepburn,  Head of Digital at IdeaWorks (Y&R – WPP) who is a fellow Linked In member of the Intelligent Social Media Group
http://bit.ly/cgU2c9

Reggie James

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There is no love lost with Apple and Google and it seems the tit-for-tat tech war rolls on. Google took on Apple with the development of it’s Android platform and Apple retaliated by enterening Google’s dominant space by joining the advertising market to sell ad-space on all it’s iPhone apple network – citing mobile as the next frontier in bothe search and ad platforms delivery.

Now Apple has iPad, a device that nobody really needed (remember Bill Gates at Comdex 6 years ago) and now everyone wants – mainly thanks to Apple leveraging it’s brand power with the iPhone. It seem s Google is looking to hit back. According to Wellington Financial, Google spent around $40 million buying BumpTop, a company that makes software that creates a ‘3D’ desktop – now let me guess what that could be for…?
Watch this space – in 3D if you can…

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/05/421/feed/ 0 Measuring Social Media http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/measuring-social-media/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/measuring-social-media/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:49:42 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/29/measuring-social-media/ Please feel free to read my post on Measuring Social Media on the Digital Clarity Blog

See it here:  http://www.digital-clarity.com/blog/social-media/measuring-social-media

]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/measuring-social-media/feed/ 0 How The Fortune 100 use Social Media http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/how-the-fortune-100-use-social-media/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/how-the-fortune-100-use-social-media/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:01:17 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/27/how-the-fortune-100-use-social-media/ A study by leading PR & Communication group Burson-Marsteller.

Sample of 100 Companies: 29 US Companies, 48 European Companies, 20 Asia-Pacific Companies 3 Latin America Companies.

Data collected between November 2009 and January 2010 by Burson-Marsteller’s global research team.

Global Social Media Checkup




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]]> http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/how-the-fortune-100-use-social-media/feed/ 0 Great New Google Tool – Search Stories http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/great-new-google-tool-search-stories/ http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/great-new-google-tool-search-stories/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:09:53 +0000 Reggie James http://www.reggiejames.org/2010/04/20/great-new-google-tool-search-stories/ Great new tool from google allows users to create 20 second video using search results.

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