http://www.spiral16.com Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:38:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just over New Year's Microsoft experienced an epic failure when their Zune mp3 players automatically shut down, turning millions of their 30G products into paperweights. On New Year's Eve, we ran a quick Insight on the failure to see what the Internets were saying about the Zune blackout. In our half-day at ... http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2009/01/zune-fail-what-were-people-saying/ A new article in AdWeek paints a desolate landscape for Web and brand ads in 2009, basically saying video and social networking CPMs will tank. Unlike several industry observers who in recent weeks have cited online video as a strong spot in the online ad economy, Khan claims that the medium ... http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2009/01/avoiding-09-online-obstacles/ Want to learn more about Spiral16 and Spark? We have a new set of videos that explain a bit about us and our software. This two-minute clip introduces you to our company, but we have nine more videos you can watch on our YouTube channel. http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2009/01/videos-about-s16-spark/ If you want to follow us on YouTube then go here. If you want to be our "fan" on Facebook then go here. http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2009/01/were-on-facebook-youtube/ We added a bunch of new features to Spark last week. One of them in particular stands out to me. Now, you can export the complete Node lists (by category) to Excel. Click on the little icon under Insight Analytics and it will automatically export the data in an Excel file ... http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/new-feature-exporting-to-excel/ S16 celebrated the birthdays of Deric, Jeff C. and Mei on Monday! Happy Birthday(s)! I entrusted Justin to take a photo of their cake. He must still be on painkillers from his recent knee surgery... because that picture is messy. Like "Dr. House on Vicodin trying to cross stitch" messy. http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/i-think-thats-a-birthday-cake/ Despite some icky weather in KC, the Spiral16 crew spent a few hours at Lucky Strike Lanes hanging out, eating and being merry on Thursday night. I threw together a short pic/video blog! (Observe Justin trying to bowl on crutches. It brings the LOLs.) Happy holidays! http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/holiday-festival-phase-2-the-par-tay/ JCPenney has this cute video for the holidays. My friend Todd sent it to me after I suggested getting my mom a cleaning lady for Christmas (without any sarcasm!) Notice it has nearly 300,000 views. They even have a cute Web site that goes along with it. http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/viral-marketing-for-the-holidays/ The coffee mugs. We drink a lot of caffeine here. Why not have vessels for transporting it? http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/company-holiday-festival-phase-1/ I recently threw an Ugly Christmas Sweater Party with some friends. Proceeds went to local organization Operation Breakthrough. On a co-worker's suggestion, I submitted some pics to the USA Today PopCandy blog... AND WE GOT PUBLISHED! Check it out here. Read more about the benefit and how I used Spark to test the effectiveness ... http://www.spiral16.com/blog/2008/12/popcandy-love/