Contagious Media Showdown
Philipp Lenssen writes "In the Contagious Media Showdown, competitors plant addictive memes to see who's best at viral marketing. The contest pages officially launched yesterday. The grand prize (most unique visitors) is $2000, with three other prizes at $1000 each for most links, most popular entry with a Creative Commons license, or first site with an Alexa ranking higher than 20,000."
I just lost the game.
Reading this reminded me of something else that fits in the same realm as viral marketing, and that is The Game, a viral social phenomen. Confused?
William Gibon's book Pattern Recognition deals heavily with viral marketing and the creation of subcultures. It's a pretty interesting read, and a definite departure from his other stuff (his only book written in the present day).
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