All Your O Belong to H.G. Wells! Iain Welford, September 21, 2009September 21, 2009 The Google mystery has been solved! In Google’s own bit of mysterious viral like antics, the online world has been discussing the meaning of the unusual appearance of UFO’s on Google’s homepage.First appearing on the 5th of September and crashing this site with the amount of traffic generated, Google showed a U.F.O. stealing an O form the iconic logo. The firm then used their twitter to alert us that “all your O belong to us”.The U.F.O. flew back onto their home page on the 15th, showing crop circles made by the flying saucer. They again twittered about the “phenomenon” with coordinates that related to Woodham road, here in the U.K.Well, some bright people have pieced the puzzle together and realised that Woodham road is right next to the original landing zone of the first U.F.O. in H.G. Wells “War of the Worlds,” a book that I wrote about in my first article, citing it as being responsible for first ever viral campaign, even if it was accidental.You’ll wake up today to a new Extra terrestrial themed Google logo, and if you click on it, you’ll find that it links to H.G. Wells 143th birthday which is today, 09/21/09. It’s a nice nod to one of the greatest Sci-Fi writers, and has certainly created a lot of buzz about its meaning. Plenty of conspiracy theories have been flying around since the first appearance.All I have to say is well done Google. What did you think about it all? Viral Marketing War of the Worlds
What If: Anti-Surrogates November 1, 2009January 23, 2010Last time on “What If” we had a look at how the the Surrogates viral could have been. The article explored the world prior to surrogates being a common sight and looked to explain our future and their path. We felt the film was lacking in explanation as to why… Read More
Viral Video: T.J. Miller Auditions for Yogi Bear April 3, 2010Although we’ve known about the Yogi Bear live action movie since 2008, this week we got our first images of what the CGI lead bears might look like. But what if the Warner Bros. film used real bears? Cloverfield’s T.J. Miller has a comical audition tape, originally posted last October,… Read More
Sherlockology Counts Down To A Big, Dangerous, and Fun “Sherlock” Reveal Saturday August 1, 2013August 1, 2013The BBC’s hit series Sherlock returns for its third series this Fall in the U.K. (early 2014 here in the U.S.), and fans on both sides of the Pond have been clamoring for any bit of information following the climax of the second series finale which saw the “death” of… Read More