Google Logo Celebrates Sesame Street

Google logo design honors the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.

A familiar pair!
Pink bands round long orange legs
brands yellow torso.

Where would we be without the inquisitive Big Bird?

Google and Sesame Street: a fitting mashup of two familiar brands. You would know their images anywhere.

Today, Google published a logo honoring the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.

The home of Big Bird, Ernie and Bert, Gordon, Bob, Snuffleupagus, Elmo, and their beloved creator, Jim Henson, Sesame Street has created some of the worlds most familiar brand images.

A global brand giant and online source for inquiries, Google is considered the Top Global Brand by Millward Brown and 7th in an Interbrand 2009  Report.

When have you changed your brand to recognize others?

Learn more about Google’s Holiday Logos.
www.google.com/logos/index.html

Take a walk down memory lane on Sesame Street.
www.sesamestreet.org

Watch Sesame Street’s 40th celebration on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/user/sesamestreet#p/u

Search YouTube for Sesame Street videos.
www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sesame+street

Watch Sesame Street on Hulu. 
www.hulu.com/sesame-street

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Amos White is a Social Media Marketing Evangelist and public speaker.
Follow Amos on Twitter @Mos42

Mashup: The Winning Combination

I was once told that “progress” is the combination of elements or events in to one, to where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

There is an evolution of information happening by way of the Internet. Whole new effects, ideas and solutions are being produced. New ways of looking at old problems, new collaborative opportunities to co-develop, borrow and share enable the production of effects, ideas and solutions that used to take enormous amounts of resources to produce before.

A “mashup” is the manifestation of progress in the Information Age.

By combining information that is bought, found, shared, borrowed or collaboratively developed, we can now produce ideas, solutions and products at an alarming rate. Think Google Maps overlaid with houses for sale, or a video of Dora the Explorer mashed with the music of Soulja Boy.

Progress. We can create more and faster than ever before.

The below video is a brilliant example of a video mashup.

Employing “user-submitted” YouTube content as his sole building blocks, Israeli musician and producer Kutiman’s ThruYOU — a mini-album’s worth of A/V material with revelatory results.

It’s a tribute to bedroom musicians. Kutiman carefully credits all of the musicians he samples, giving many unknowns a good 15 minutes of fame.

-from Kelly McKnight’s FaceBook review of Kutiman’s “ThruYou.”

See: Kutiman-Thru-you – 01 – Mother of All Funk Chords on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

Twitter Data Vizualization in Marketing

How do you visualize a tweet?

Tropicana is now marketing their orange stuff with a cool data visualization over live tweets.

Watch the graph change in scope and design with each post.

http://anorangenation.com/