Knowledge Hoover

The Culture Hoover is the slightly more sensible (less of a brain dump) blog that I write. It mostly features marketing, advertising, social networking and general digital stuff that might be useful. There’s a slightly music-related slant as I write it for work, but mostly it’s just a bunch of helpful hints & tips and good ideas by other people. Tweet @culturehoover if you want me to add you to the digest email, and please feel free to check out the blog: http://culturehoover.tumblr.com

Updates from week ending 15th April 2011

- Marketing Week give a different perspective on Cadbury’s long-running ‘Spots vs Stripes’ campaign and the worth of social campaigns

- Hypebot on how artists can use Facebook Questions to increase fan engagement

- SAS’s travel competition gets Facebook users to take pics of themselves grabbing the brand

-  No excuses, it’s just cool. Super slow-mo camera captures 2564 frames per second

- YouTube makes copyright school mandatory for infringers with the help of the Happy Tree Friends

- Magnum Pleasure Hunt has you chase little pieces of chocolatey awesome across the internet

- Another DIY cardboard record player. The awesome never ends.

- Spotify puts listening caps on Free and Open accounts

- Microsoft creates the world’s biggest PAC-MAN to show off HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9

- Big Bloom bubble gum sends a life-size child model into the air attached to a bubble

- Neilsen’s ‘Hyper Fragmented World of Music’ report gives some great stats on mobile, digital and a lot else

- The Guardian’s favourite 30 new music apps

- Mashable’s 9 Digital Marketing Lessons from Top Social Brands

- Soundcloud gets chatty and adds ‘Takes Questions’

- Bic’s latest viral attempt—The Human Puck

- Tourists become their own souvenir using a Kinect and a 3D printer

- Westfield launches a ‘Tweet Mirror’ for instant, social feedback

- Lastly, ever wonder where I find all the stuff that goes on the Culture Hoover? Here’s some recommended Twitter accounts to follow, and a handy list of 25 favourites full of more #WIN than Charlie Sheen.

Oh, and remember the zero-gravity flute concert on board the International Space Station from last week? Well…it now comes with added Jethro Tull. Because that is, of course, what Yuri Gagarin would’ve wanted on the anniversary of his space-flight.