http://justinhayward.net Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:13:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I love this, Bert and Ernie the two best characters in Sesame Street by my reckoning, hit the big time with some gangsta rap.  Watch out for a late appearance by the sheep gang. Genius. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21OH0wlkfbc] http://justinhayward.net/2008/07/20/bert-and-ernie-go-sesame-street/ Forget Google Earth, that's soooo last week.  A quick search for Sky, the home entertainment provider, and i got a ppc ad from Google promoting, their new Google Sky service.  All the data is taken from the Hubble telescope and it works in the same fashion as Google Earth but also ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/06/01/google-takes-over-the-universe-with-google-sky-moon-mars/ My recent lack of blogging has been shocking.  Yes i'm still alive!  Rest assured, I will be back on form within the next week or so with lots of really cool stuff to talk about, i'm just going through a media blackout currently.... http://justinhayward.net/2008/05/23/am-i-dead/ 11 hour flight from London, and another 3 hours to go through LAX security and get my bag. Now after a few days in Santa Monica, i'm stuck in LAX again after being told my flight to Vegas has been delayed by 2 hours!  After a heavy night out, 2 hours ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/04/11/lax-sucks/ Seeing as it's April fools day, there's a lot of 'hilarious' pranks going round. To be fair they're all pretty lame apart from one which came up again today which always makes me laugh, 'rickrolling'. It's when you get a link to a video you think is a ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/04/01/have-you-been-rickrolled/ I knew it wouldn't be long until search marketing was seen as cool (ahem). But now theres proof it's hitting the underground rap scene, forget sex, drugs and drive-bys..... PPC, SEO and social are the new status symbols on the mean conference streets. Here's Poetic Prophet with PPC 101 to ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/03/30/search-is-the-new-hip-hop-word/ I've never had much fun with MySpace, but i thought i'd re-visit the tired old dog and see if their recent raft of changes would entice me into becoming more involved..... I tried updating my profile first but the UI is still as messy, the photo uploader crashed on me and ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/03/20/myspace-revisited/ I watched the amazingly funny new Keith Lemon show, Keith Lemons Very Brilliant World Tour, last night on ITV2. The character is a creation of Leigh Francis of Bo Selecta fame and has popped up in a few small doses here and there. However, this is his first ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/03/19/itv-serves-up-a-right-lemon/ Is this another nail in the coffin of real social networking? Another media giant trying to make money out of people's inbuilt intuition to communicate?  Are they going to do anything clever or just whack display ads all over bebo (genius)? I wasn't too thrilled to hear the news but bebo going ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/03/14/does-aol-bebo-asbo/ Ok this is a big one..... i've been mastering the art of Guitar Hero III on my fake Gibson (why do i feel compelled to stand up to play?) and that got me thinking about the new Rock Band game which allows you all to go air guitar, drums and singing crazy!  As ... http://justinhayward.net/2008/03/14/friday-rock-is-back/