I agree. It won’t be long before we can ‘approve’ friends who we want to share our live stream with – so they can see everything we’re doing live, as it happens. Not something I’d relish really.

However, on the plus side, it would be great to capture and relive the exact moment an artist came up with a brilliant song, or when an scientist had a Eureka moment. Imagine being able to watch the exact moment in time when Einstein wrote down the Theory of Relativity for the first time.

Thanks for the comment. I remember NoHo Digital.

I’m sure that there was a version of the ad that ran with http://www.itl.net/guinness on it. In the edit, the URL was unveiled one character at a time, typewriter style as if Joe McKinney was tapping it out with his hands. It wasn’t on every ad every time, but certainly in a later burst.

Cheers

Hope this helps put a little bit more meat on the story.

re advert with a URL? I don’t think it was the youtube version doesn’t have a URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MuEtGPXLPI – I remember the advert and the stupid URL but I don’t remember the URL appearing on the TV ad. I have a feeling the first was the Levis Babylon Zoo Spaceman advert – also 1995 – with a web site produced by Lateral. But the versions of that I’ve found also don’t seem to have a URL.

Marcus Austin

Great stuff. So was this the UK’s first TV Ad to run with a URL … I’m trying to track this down!

Best, Al cox

Ironically on Twitter and other places, the link to Metfilter tends to turn up, but I’ve seen it misattributed a couple of times in mainstream media without any correction.

With Foursquare, I think that a good percentage of people refrain from sharing EVERY check-in through Social Media channels. Facebook however, will naturally share Facebook places check-in with Facebook.

My thoughts would have been to create a separate ‘tab’ on the Facebook homepage called something like ‘Places’ and for users to be able to click into a separate stream to see where their friends are checking-in to.