Music Tuesdays with Smile Like You Mean It - Mattafix and Wiley

Big City Life by Mattafix:


Wouldn't let me embed the video, but it's here. This song was playing in Europe a few years ago, I'm not sure if it ever came over here?

C-Mac at Smile Like You Mean It has presented this song by Wiley feat. Emelie Sande which she titles I Love the 90s!

Once again, her choice totally rocks mine.

Commercial Throwdown: Small Hands, Smile, FIWK

With a list of featured bloggers longer than the featured rappers list on Lil Jon's Grand Finale, I present to you yet another commercial throwdown. Contributing their finds are our friends Grace from Small Hands, Big Ideas and Lijit and Caitlin aka C-Mac from Smile Like You Mean It.

First, here's what Grace said about her choice:

"This time I chose Evian-Roller Babies Live Young


"This commercial is not only viral in nature (spread like wild fire) but it's simple, invokes humor and is back dropped with Rappers Delight (classic!) Seeing dancing, roller babies jamming out to Rappers Delight is unique, made me laugh, pass it along to all my friends, and sub-consciously I was definitely thinking about Evian water. Mmm. I appreciate viral videos such as this and think that Evian did a great job executing this new "Live Young" campaign, while getting everyone to "talk" about the Dancing Roller Babies."

Aaron submits the following Bud Light commercial:



C-Mac has posted this Wal-Mart commercial as her submission.

And finally, I choose this Geico fiddle commercial from Geico's 'rhetorical questions' commercial series.

So there you have it, the gauntlents have been thrown - now tell us what you like.

Music Tuesdays feat. Smile Like You Mean It (remix)

I didn't find any of today's songs myself. The first I found on our friend Grace's blog:

It's Over by Milosh


The second is a mash up series that our friend Caitlin aka C-Mac - who runs the cool blog Smile Like You Mean It - sent to me. The series is titled Jaydiohead. Here are two examples:

Dirt Off Your Android


No Karma

Music Tuesdays - Under the Milky Way Tonight by The Church

This is my favorite song by The Church. Two The Church facts: 1) this song was featured in the quite enjoyable Donnie Darko Soundtrack, and 2) just like Empire of the Sun they are from Australia.

Neville Hobson: 5 Examples of Twitter Innovation

Neville Hobson, a blogger about social media (albeit from an older generation than C-Mac, et al) recently wrote about Five examples of innovation with Twitter from five major companies.

He in turn is pulling these examples from Entrepreneur magazine, as linked in his blog. To be honest there isn't a lot of analysis here beyond a vague description of the campaign. But look at the total number of followers - 6,000 for Subway, 4,700 for McDonald's, 38,000 for Dunkin' Donuts? And have you looked at what those accounts post? As Aaron explained yesterday, this is almost a lesson in how NOT to use Twitter, right?

Music Tuesdays (feat. Smile Like You Mean It)

For the record, Smile Like You Mean It is not a band, it is a blog run by Caitlin McCabe - or as we call her, C-Mac. After going toe-to-toe in last week's cool commercial throwndown (how dare you pick against us, Grace :), we'll keep it collaborative with some music picks like we've done before.

Home Workspace Ideas

Our friend C-Mac at Smile Like You Mean It wrote a very interesting blog about creating a home workspace for your personal business needs. I like a lot of her suggestions.

Music Tuesdays at Smile Like You Mean It

Speaking of running blog series, Caitlin (we call her C-Mac) over at Smile Like You Mean It consistently drops some good music links on Tuesdays. Today she has offered up 'We Are the People' by Empire of the Sun. Last week was a gem by Marina and the Diamonds called 'The Outsider'. Incidentally, that song shares the same name as one of my favorite songs by A Perfect Circle: