So my brother works for Autotrader.com and one of their clients just put some really funny commercials on YouTube so he sent the link to me. I’m not sure who produced the commercials for them but they’re awesome. I love the “wiggle room” one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlnojyrSx_g

You’re all far more savvy than I am, so you’ve probably already seen this thing, but I just found it. Wordle (http://wordle.net/), is a cool little site where you can generate a word cloud from a group of text. Here’s one I put together from some of the copy on our current site: http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/26910/TPI

I likes!

The Center’d concept is kind of an interesting enhancement to local search. It’s like local search with event planning and maps integration. Kind of like Yahoo Local meets Evite.Here’s a summary:
http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3629958

Here’s the site:
http://www.centerd.com/

Something to think about:

“Internet video will account for half of all consumer Internet traffic by 2012, according to new research from Cisco. In its Visual Networking Index (PDF), the company says video already accounts for a quarter of all consumer Internet traffic, a number that will rise to 32 percent by the end of the year.”

Here’s the article:
http://newteevee.com/2008/06/16/video-to-drive-50-of-net-traffic/

So I’ve been doing some research to prepare for the social media marketing for Black Magic, and I keep running into a story in forums, blogs, etc about a car that got 376.59 mpg back in the 70’s in a contest hosted by Shell Oil companies. They claim the car was modified a lot, and the gasoline was vaporized before entering a super-heated (and super insulated) engine. I have no idea if this is true or some internet hoax that generated a lot of buzz, but it’s kind of interesting to read.

I first came across the story in Jay Leno’s Garage forums, then saw it here:
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2007/05/01/big-oil-conspiracy-376-mpg-opel-uncovered/

then here: http://www.opel-p1.nl/custom/testcar/Shell%20Opel.htm

then here: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/souped_down_old.php#comments