The Naked Marketers

Facebook gets all group-y again. Gap gets the vocal minority in a tizzy over a little blue square, helvetica, misses the jeans. ABC reaches right down into your soul with sound-sync iPad app. This week on the show, SiliconFlorist.com's Rick Turoczy joins us to talk about start-ups that get it, from clever use of social media to building communication into your business from the bottom up, inside out.

Long live local! Now you can check in at the bar, and your favorite TV show! How big is the big money big brands are spending on the Goog? Drake drops the D+ and lowers the bar in education advertising. Dane is in Portland joining us for a beer on the show this week, and Lindsey Fosse and Darnell Holloway join us from Yelp! to talk about the power of the check-in, and how you too can become a social elite!

This is a lost show. We recorded it, but never posted it. I think it's because it was somehow offensive to someone. I found the raw files, threw them in the template and ripped this out without listening through it. So, if you listen to it, and you're offended, we're all really sorry.

Women and fast food make men impatient. Shocker. Media companies go bloggy with Tumblr. Apple pulls the competitive mud-slinging vids. Kenny Powers pimps K-Swiss. Yes, they're still around. But Google says bye-bye to Wave. And Unilever drops the GPS stalker vibe in Brazilian detergent. Couldn't possibly have anything go wrong with that. Nothing at all. Props to CreatePDF.in, Producteev.com, Instapaper, and finally The Omni Group for the super-and-fully-awesome OmniFocus for iPad.

Old Spice is still king of the viral hill. Times looses 90% of readership in honor of paygate. Geo-lo marketing not yet coming of age. Digital publishers rejoice -- ebooks are actually selling. iPad users are selfish elites, apparently. This week on the show, Wordpress founding developer Matt Mullenweg joins us to talk about engagement, social, and driving adoption in open source.

Apple press conference creates mud, invites others to roll in it. Newsweek finds 10 new ways Facebook can ruin your life. ComicCon is hot in San Diego. Twitter users in New York are moody at midnight. This week on the show, Chris Skaggs, founder of Soma Games and Code Monkeys joins us to talk the App Economy, mobile, and building a brand one app at a time. Our Evernote friend Andrew Sinkov joins us to recap big changes that hit the platform last week.

Apple maintains death grip on news cycle. Old Spice gets personal, W+K continues to shine. Chatroulette: now with smut channels. iAds earns dev $1400 in a day. Surprise: turns out people may actually care about privacy after all. Creative subway advertising. This week on the show, Brian Pollei, VP Internet Strategy and Corporate Development from IKANO, joins us to talk communities in the cloud and leverage the latest tech platforms to bring your people together.

Microsoft marketing shoulders in on International iPhone Day with new retail. Electrolux shows BP how Green is done. NPR has even more music awesomeness to share. YouTube firmly plants boot to Viacom. Flickr embiggens pics! This week on the show, Brian Kurth CEO and founder of VocationVacations.com joins us to talk start-ups, organic growth, and the intervention job hunt.

Ad spending is up. You Facebook people have a real monetary value and you know what? You ain't worth much. You spend a lot of time online and you're a candidate for gambling AND gaming addiction from Virgin. iPhones sell by the boatload, and risk sinking it. This week on the show, Greg Schneider CEO and co-founder of 3BL Media joins us to talk the new calculus of media distribution in a social media economy.

The lost episode. Megan has a review of her trip to the Cause Marketing Forum in Chicago. D8 hits and Jobs talks about Flash, market-dominance, and drive. Pete talks for a long time. Zuck sweats. Facebook moves from fans to likes. Props to Dropbox and Box.net for building fantastic sharing services between people who otherwise have no common ground. Like between Portland and Vancouver (WA).