Better Never than Late
Good blogs are hard to come by. Ironically, I think I’m bit of a ‘better late than never’ in this case (I saw it in the bloody Guardian, for God’s sake) but I’m still going to shout it from the rooftops.
Better Never than Late is as simple as it gets. Aggregate the posts from several excellent bloggers with their nose close to ground in UK street trends, and hey presto!
Get your Basketball on
Brands can be very serious sometimes. So it’s nice to see a campaign which is, well, just an awful lot of silly fun.
This from Nike, merges Mr Motivater and Rick James into a fully fictional basketball player called Leeroy Smith.
And it’s great. Loads of very funny content, games, opportunities to get involved across all social platforms etc.
And it’s fun to see a real story being built around this one fictional character – fingers crossed it will continue and evolve for a period of time. My only complaint; not enough people participation. Surely this is crying out for a full and proper Leeroy James fitness videos, Leeroy James gym partnerships, 2 on 2 competition etc etc
Maybe I’d even be willing to get involved…
Enjoy it here
Go (Wild)cats!
A girl at work has entered her cat into a Whiskas competition. I’m sure she is going to win. Neh, certain. Her name is Gypsy, and I really hope she talks
Oh, vote for her here!
I like this..
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
Not to be horribly corporate – but it would be an awesome partner for a brand. Coffee? Possibly. Any ideas?
Investment Bank Converters
So, the banking crisis and the internet. If there is anything to be learnt from this sorry mess, it is that when it comes to financial nouse, skill and knowledge, the banking sector knows as much, or as little, as we do. Paying a hedge fund manager or investment banker to blindly stumble from disaster to disaster would make me somewhat peeved. No doubt, those with substantial pensions or other investment funds may be feeling this way already.
So why not make these mistakes ourselves? If anything, failure would be easier to swallow…
And as such, the beauty of online commerce rises once again with a solution. Disintermediation – the idea that two parties can engage directly in profitable exchange without needlessly lining the pockets of incompetent third parties – manifests itself within such excellent sites as ebay and betfair. And for those looking to invest, Zopa may provide the answer. Well, according to Rory Sutherland anyway. And he’s right about quite a lot really
Zopa allows you to lend money to people at a rate and level of risk you chose. You can spread your investment across a wide range of borrowers, with healthy returns reported. More interestingly, and in the spirirt of Dragon’s Den, you can also invest in individual projects and borrowers, whose loan requests come complete with photographs and short biographies. Far from being just a good potential investment vehicle, I also looks great fun.
I wonder if Zopa could do for Morgan Stanley what Ebay did for Cash Converters. I do hope so
My favourite in this new p2p investment world comes in the form of Kiva. Kiva is a charitable organisation which allows you to make interest free loans to 100’s of small businesses all over the world. Rather ironically, accoridng to the site, defaults are genuinely rare.
Can’t help but think that if the internet is all about cutting out incompetent, annoying, self important middle men, then I can think of few more worthy of the chopping block than charities and bankers.
New series… yay!
Flight of the Conchords meet animals. Only dressing them as c19th gents, pipes and monocles included, would improve this…
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