On June 14, 2010 The Price is Right game is going to be a social network. People will be able to guess the prices of toasters and even be able to spin the big wheel with other real players. This game is going to have weekly tournaments and prizes, which will include all the games that are featured on the actual show such as Cliff Hangers and Plinko. Ludia which is a company based in Montreal is releasing this game as well as FremantleMedia, both have worked on other major brands in the past but have not had much success. It has not launched yet so they are unaware of the success but it sounds pretty simple and interesting to me. I knew that someday EVERYTHING would be online. Now we won’t even be able to go out to the actual show and see The Price is Right because it is online now. No one is ever going to leave their houses, what is the world coming to?

No one can walk on water . . . or can they?

Hi-Tec Sports just recently came out with the most outrageous thing people have ever heard of. Shoes that are totally water repellent. This new sport that they created is called Liquid Mountaineering which consists of these athletes take a running start and run on top of water . . . no really, it’s true. This short video clip that they made to go along with their story so people could actually see them in action is more of a documentary, at the same time they are trying to promote their product (the water repellant shoes) but they do it in a very subtle way. They are still getting their brand out to the public but they are doing it in less of an advertising way so that people are more prone to watching the video through.



The video was posted on YouTube at the end of April and it currently has over 1 million views. Not very surprising to me, there were a ton of comments on this and whether or not it was real or whether or not this can even be considered a real sport. Hi-Tec Sports has also created a blog on blogspot.com written by the men themselves that created this lovely sport. Again, just like in their video, the Hi-Tec shoes are not even mentioned in the blog at all, with the exception of a few pictures. I would have to say this is a very good way of advertising non-directly but still getting the brand name out into the public and making people aware of these shoes that “can make you walk on water.” I can guarantee at least a few people that see this video or read their blog will want to go out and get a pair of these shoes and test out the waters, no pun intended. I want to, do you??

Mashable – The Social Media Guide

So if you are really bored at home and have absolutely nothing better to do with your time, you should check out Masable.com. It is the Social Media Guide for finding the Most Watched Web Series, the Top 5 Social Media Tips, The Slowest Loading Websites in the Fortune 500 and many, many other pointless web pages with pointless information on them. Oh I’m sorry, with very important information on them. It is basically just a website that people can go on if they are looking to find out about Social Networking sites and how they operate or function. Currently, they have over 15 million monthly page views and it is the world’s largest blog focused on Web 2.0 and Social Media news.



Mashable is basically just a site that published breaking news that is all on the web and it offers social media resources and guides. They are also connected with other bloggers, Facebook and Twitter users. I think this site is interesting in a way. It reminds me of a news channel except for the Internet. I guess it could be important to everyone that bases everything off of the Internet and relies on the Internet for all of their information and news that they hear about. So in that sense I think it is very important especially if these people going on this website do not usually watch the news or hear about current events, this website will kind of keep them up to date with things that are at least happening in the online world.

Southern Strikes Again..

On May 4th, 2010 a Southern professor was arrested for public indecency when one of his neighbors actually saw him masturbating in his window. This particular neighbor said that whenever she would walk her dog the professor would run over to his window, undress, and start masturbating. When the police went with the neighbor on her normal walk, the police saw the professor actually standing in the window naked but when he saw the police officer he quickly sat down. The Professor, Jerry Dunklee said that he was, “under the impression that whatever he did in the privacy of his own home was his business." Haha yeah okay buddy. Walking around your house naked is one thing, but to purposely start undressing when this particular neighbor would walk by is a completely different thing. He clearly knew what he was doing when he was doing it so he should have some repercussions for his actions, especially masturbating in front of the window so that people could see and tell what he was doing.

If it wasn’t for the internet, not many people would have heard about this story. I happened to be on WTNH.com and saw this under the top stories for the day and when I saw that it was at Southern I had to click on it. Posting this information online gives so many people the opportunity to read about it and talk about it. If this story had been kept a secret and not posted on the internet I doubt anyone around campus or around this general area would even be talking about it. I think it is a good thing because now more people on our campus are aware of this professor and his disgusting ways. What you do in your own home is your business, but keep the windows closed next time please! Thanks.