Recently, we launched Videoblast.it. An easy way to share a favorite moment within a video! With Videoblast.it you can create a unique customized page with your video and comment. You can even control the specific time your video will start! After you create your videoblast go ahead and share it with the ones you want. Post it to your Skype chat, email it, or share it with your facebook friends and twitter followers.

Now you just have to follow 3 simple steps to make your Videoblast and share your favorite moment within a video.

1. Enter your Youtube url in the white box right on top. Not sure about the url? Click the blue link to transfer to Youtube and pick your video.

2. Decide when you want your video to start. Although this step is not necessary, the core excitement from a Videoblast is when you capture that exact moment within a video. You can test if you picked the right time by clicking the “Test Time” button and previewing your videoblast in the small screen on the right!

3. All done with the video? Add a comment that you want to attach. The comment will be shown at the top of the video when the video is played. Finally you have the opportunity to put the right title to the video you are sharing!

If you have any comments or suggestions contact us and let us know what you would like to see!

Flought, a really fun project, was the winner of this idea. You can find more about the teams that participated, here.

These are some of the pictures that I took during the event. The Startup Weekend took place at the Kicklabs Offices, a very cool place! (Look at the pictures)

It’s one of these times that you find a website that you like. You add it in your bookmarks, you watch all its videos, you buy the book and you even buy one of its notebooks. The 99 Percent is not about ideas.. It’s about making ideas happen. It started in 2009 as a conference and now is a website with videos, articles and tips on how to make your ideas happen.

The creation of 99%, which was launched with our inaugural conference in 2009, sprung from the belief that, as creative professionals, we often focus too much on idea generation and not enough on execution.

There are several inspiring videos on 99%. Seth Godin talks about quieting our fearful “lizard brains” to avoid sabotaging projects just before we finally finish them. Jack Dorsey talks about Twitter’s success and Threadless founders say: The Do-First Work Ethic. Take a look on the 99% latest videos.

Stop thinking and start making this brilliant idea come true!

This is a cool idea. It’s a brand new website that was launched 10 days ago. In Rentalic.com you can share your guitar, camping tent and iPod dock with others and get some money. Do you need some speakers for your party this weekend? Don’t buy them.. Just rent them for just few dollars.

About Rentalic.com:

Rentalic Inc. is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California. We provide an innovative web platform that enables person-to-person renting between friends, family, and communities. It is an online marketplace where owners can post items or services to rent out and borrowers can rent items or services they need. By offering a wide assortment of products and services that are conveniently located and cost effective, Rentalic.com provides a high value service to everyone!.

It’s very new and has few staff there but get there and support it! It;s a great idea that let you rent, share and be green!

Follow them on Twitter and Become a Fan on Facebook!

It was about time to see a Social Media campaign coming from the number one refreshment drink in the world. Coca-Cola Company, one of the top global advertisers (mostly in Print and Broadcast media), is going to use Social Media to promote the happiness message around the world. Three guys from Germany, Belgium and Mexico are going to travel around the world visiting 206 countries, where Coca-Cola is sold. They will have cameras, laptops and other gadgets in order to post in Social Media websites the happiness of people around the world. Expedition 206 will last one year and the team will start on January from Madrid, Spain.

Coca-Cola will track the campaign through Facebook fans and friends, Twitter followers and website pageviews. Clyde Tuggle, senior VP-global public affairs and communications says: “The challenge that we put to the communications team was to think about the social and digital media space as a new venue for driving good public relations for the company. The team, which has typically worked in the space of print media and broadcast media was suddenly challenged to go into this new media space and come up with an idea to expand our brand.” (AdAge)

Follow @x206 on twitter and become a fan of their Facebook page.

The idea of traveling around the world is not unique. Let’s see how this campaign will go..

This is a great idea. The BC Dairy Foundation (British Columbia, Canada) created a new campaign to promote the power of milk. They created ‘The Week Shop‘, an online (and offline) store that sells products for people that are ‘weak’ due to lack of milk consumption. There is a YouTube Channel, a Flickr account and a very good website that supports this campaign.

This is a funny commercial of Chair Pants.

So, drink milk if you don’t want to be the future customers of “The Weak Shop”

I guess that most of you have noticed or read about the change in Flickr‘s logo.. Yahoo recently added “from Yahoo!” next to Flickr logo in order to enhance its brand through this very successful image and video hosting service. What yahoo did is very reasonable and it might help the company’s brand. Apparently this action is a part of its new campaign. Why Yahoo chose only Flickr and some others and not all of its websites? For example Zimbra and Delicious, two very successful websites, don’t have a yahoo logo in the header or the footer. I can understand that the audience of Zimbra is much different than the one of Flickr but Delicious focuses on the similar target market that Flickr does. Interesting..

Yahoo has several websites, services and divisions. It is quite difficult to have a uniformity across its websites but it is important. I navigated through several Yahoo websites and I noticed that there are some differences in the logos (old red and new purple) and in favicons (the small icon next to the web address). Yahoo has several logos: ‘a Yahoo division’, ‘a Yahoo service’, ‘this is Yahoo’ and ‘from Yahoo’. Why all these different? Some of them in the old red and some others in new purple.

With favicons, Yahoo has not a uniformity across its websites. In most of them we see the new purple Y! and in some others the old red one.

I like that Yahoo has a very modern logo. I also like that on the web purple means Yahoo! and they chose a unique and rare color instead of using blue that most companies do! But.. They need to pay more attention in uniformity across its websites..

Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day on their own blogs with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. Blog Action Day 2009 will be the largest-ever social change event on the web. One day. One issue. Thousands of voices. October 15, 2009

The theme of this year is “Climate Change”. I think that it is overused but still important.

We encourage you to write about climate change in the context of how it relates to the topic of your blog. To help you start thinking, here are a few ideas about how you might connect climate change to things that you might already write about:

• A Technology or Business blog might write about emerging clean tech and how innovative companies might be able to help address the problem of climate change.
• A Health or Lifestyle blog might write about how climate change will affect our children’s health and daily living.
• A Nonprofit or Political blog might write about how climate change is deeply connected to many other issues – such as poverty and conflict.
• A Design blog might write about new trends in eco-friendly or sustainable design.
• A Travel blog might write about the places you want to see now before climate change makes them difficult to access or, well, under the sea.

This is also a great opportunity for companies in Sustainable Business industry to participate, promote and support this ‘online event’. ImNikos.com will participate in Blog Action Day! These are some very well-known blogs that will participate too.

Do you know Squidoo? It is a company that Seth Godin founded and “gives you a simple way to gather, share, and spread information on a topic you care about.” Visit the Squidoo.com and create your lenses! “Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest–and snap it all into focus.”

Two days ago, Seth Godin and Squidoo launched the ‘Brands in Public‘ which is a great way to track all the information (from various sources) about a brand. Why this is important? You can now easily focus on a brand and see what’s the buzz about it. There are many different groups of people that can be interested in this website such as the actual companies, fans, customers, competitors and many more.

According to Seth Godin: “You can’t control what people are saying about you. What you can do is organize that speech. You can organize it by highlighting the good stuff and rationally responding to the not-so-good stuff. You can organize it by embracing the people who love your brand and challenging them to speak up and share the good word. And you can respond to it in a thoughtful way, leaving a trail that stands up over time.”

Take a look on Brands in Public and find your favorite brand. Today there are 99 brands in Public! Here you can find some of them.

• In-N-Out Burger in Public!
• Zappos in Public
• Mini Cooper in Public!
• Apple in Public
• Microsoft in Public
• Amazon in Public
• Starbucks in Public
• BMW in Public
• Google.com in Public
• Porsche in Public
• Coca Cola in Public

There is a quite big buzz these days about the first campaign of Yahoo! The It’s You campaign will be placed on every media channel (TV, print, web etc) and it will be the first time that Yahoo is advertised globally. The cost? $100 million for the next 18 months. Apparently the new CEO, Carol Bartz, tries hard to promote the brand and its new services.

According to Adage “The goal is to boost Yahoo’s user base and to increase the amount of time visitors spend with Yahoo properties, which were once dominant in the U.S. but now compete with social networks and applications such as Facebook and Twitter for attention.”

Elisa Steele, Yahoo Chief Marketing Officer, presented the creative for the new campaign. Personally I like the ” it’s Y!ou ” logo and theme. Take a look at the video and see the TV spot and print ads of Yahoo.