Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select MTV?

I admit, that was a lame title, but fair nevertheless. So if you did not know, MTV has a gaming blog site called multiplayerblog.mtv.com (http://www.multiplayerblog.mtv.com).

It is not a G4TV.com, but yet it is a good read to stay current. So far my favorite post is Top 10 Hip-Hop Video Games — Not Including ‘Shaq Fu’


Check it out yourself.

F.Y.I. - I am working on some giveaway contest. If you are interested please click "Play Now!" on the image blow.

SHOPPING THISNEXT

Are you an online shopaholic, or just need to find a general gift and don't know where to start. Maybe you have a wedding that you are attending or a High School class reunion in which you need to impress everyone with that stylish new look you have. Or maybe you're like me, and always need that new gizmo or thingamajig, like a 60 inch HD Bluetooth Flat screen TV, or a WowWee Tribot Talking Robot, or a USB Wireless Retro Microphone, or even shyt that's not sold in the U.S. or Canada. If that is you, or sounds like you, or just not even you, then check out ThisNext.com (www.thisnext.com/?ue=09E193FA).

ThisNext.com is Meta taged – "A place for you to explore great product recommendations, get personalized shopping suggestions and rave about products you like." For me, it's the easiest way to find something when you really don't know what you are looking for. People (bloggers, Public Relation firms, viral marketers, companies, your mother, your grandpa, your twelve year old brother, and your roommate) search for products, recommend products, comment on other people recommendations, share it, and link it to where you can purchase it (or at least find more information on it.)

Yeah you could go Google a product like a BCBG dress size 1 fits all, but you can't ask Google what product you should buy. If you go to a store you know that the sales person is going to say it looks hot on you, or that it's the best price in town. Forget all that mess and lies.

Things you will find on ThisNext

• Obama Sneaker

• Seven Deadly Sins Gift Set
  
• A BMW X6 Series for $63K or 34,500 in UK Pounds (F.Y.I. the American dollar is so weak - 1 UK Pound = $1.82 American Dollar)
  
• Voodoo doll toothpick holder
  
• (Pretty much every damn thing)
  

The site of course also allows you to create a simple profile, but the coolest part is that you can share your recommendation or something you found with friends via email, facebook, MySpace, (ah! you get the picture). No more wack gifts from your friends. Just send them the link or share it on Facebook or twitter.

If you are a fashion, gaming, music, sporting, or gadget blogger then this site is more for you then you might think. ThisNext also supports mavens of fashionistas and Toy fanatics and much more with their Maven program which allows the sites most influential members to have bragging rights by gaining product sneak-peaks, exclusive offers, and even VIP event invitations.

So read what people say about the product before you purchase. And make sure when you join that you add me as a friend.

P.S. I need a new cool watch.

Project L.E.O.

Hey everyone,

Like I said previously, I've been doing some big things lately. A few weeks ago I traveled to Syracuse NY (Home of Carmelo Anthony) to work with a group of inner-city youth. The project titled the L.E.O. – Leadership Education (On and Offline) prepared middle school and high school students to be ambassadors of internet safety. In a world where Myspace.com and Facebook.com are powered by youth sharing their personal life, it seems only relevant that youth step in to educate their peers on online etiquette.

Youth are now faced with cyber bullying, online predators, online stalkers, and more. I remember back in elementary school I was told not to chat with strangers. Now you can hold months and months of conversations and share pictures with a person that you never met. Times have change as they always will.

I felt privileged to work with the youth and to show them that it does not take that much to stalk someone online. They were able to find my old project building and my grandmother's name in less the 2 minutes online.

This was also a great opportunity for me to introduce the 98% female / African and Latin class on career opportunities in the interactive, mobile, and gaming space. It is very important to diversify this space by encouraging both youth and interactive companies to open their minds and explore opportunities.

I know that some of you are thinking "aww, he is helping out the minorities to broaden their scope in life." Here are some facts for you if you had that thought –

FACT: Facebook has a 55% female user base with an average age range of 12 – 17 (TEENS). There are more African Americans on Facebook than average. Myspace has a 58% female user base of female with more Hispanics than average. (Stats provided by Quantacast.com)

So interactive, mobile, and gaming companies please open your minds and doors to the thought of ethnically diversifying your company. It will only benefit you in the long run.

Thank you Mr. Joseph Saulter - CEO of Entertainment Arts Reserach, and Ms. Jasmine Crowe - Owner of Mystjazz PR for being guest speakers for the class via Skype video confrencing.

For more information please visit the following link to read the Post Standard article - http://www.syracuse.com/city/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1217667596268160.xml&coll=1

Help support youth by volunteering for your local city schools to promote higher education.

Here are some other internet safety sites that you should visit:

• http://www.isafe.org/
  

Did you get the SideKick OTA Yet?

If not, then please do not worry because you will get it soon enough.

Make sure you check out this video and you might just get it faster….might

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uwum-2gFaM&feature=related

Interactive Marketing 101

Hello Everyone,

I will be teaching a class on Interactive Marketing 101 to Syracuse City School District youth.

The class is titled L.E.O. - Leadership, Education & Etiquette (On and Offline)



Please join in on the session at http://live.yahoo.com/UrbanGeekBlog

If you have a yahoo account you will be able to chat with the class, and if you have a webcam you will be able to talk with the class.

See you guys soon.

Firefox Rings In

Internet Explorer 7
FIREFOX 3 World Record Breaker

Unless you are dedicated Internet Explorer (which I don't know why you would be) or you just don't know about other internet service such as Safari and Firefox, let me be the first to inform you the Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/), has released its 3^rd version breaking the first Guinness World Records with over 8 million most software downloads in first 24 hours.

At its peak, Firefox's Web site was serving 17,000 copies a minute. Downloads came from some 200 countries, led by the United States, Germany, Japan, Spain and Britain.

Firefox comes from Mozilla, an open-source community in which thousands of people, mostly volunteers, collectively develop free products. Firefox is the No. 2 Web browser behind Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer.

You have to make your decision on what is better Firefox or I.E.

Hey! I'd like to know what you people think, leave a comment on what you like better.

Firefox vs. Internet Explorer

Lineage Marketing’s first E-mail Newsletter

Welcome Everyone to Lineage Marketing’s first E-mail Newsletter.

Lineage Marketing is an Interactive & New-Media Marketing Company with a concentrated focus on leading edge marketing platforms – Web 2.0, Gaming and Mobile. We specialize in Gaming interactive placement and advertisement, Web 2.0 viral campaigns, digital word of mouth, Search Engine Optimization, web and social network designs, widgets, Blogs, and online media placement, in addition to Mobile sms, smtp, wap, and flashlight campaigns, applications, and mobile viral video.

Let it be known that nothing is ever standard or traditional with Lineage Marketing interactive new-media marketing.

Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Starsky J. Robinson a.k.a. Starsky (No Hutch).

I am not a believer in titles such as C.E.O., President, or King. At Lineage Marketing, all co-workers are considered partners and there is a open door policy for creativity while managing quality interactive campaigns. I am in fact the owner of Lineage Marketing, but consider my title as Interactive New-Media Consultant.

For those who might wonder what is up with the red box, the box in fact represents the concept of “Thinking inside the box”, going against the norm of the so common “thinking outside the box”. Thinking inside the box requires minimal resources with a whole lot of results, smaller budgets bigger ROI.

Amazingly, creativity and organization is produced in even the smallest of places.

Okay enough about me and let’s get to what’s new.

I would like to welcome Lineage Marketing’s newest clients:

Deuce Tre Deuce (a.k.a. DTD and 232)

An Urban-Pop music group based out of Baltimore Maryland consisting of three talented young men - Divine, Kameechi, and Sincere. Their Baltimore, Maryland and Washington D.C. top chart Go-Go music song titled: “Hands Up, Thumbs Down” started their music career with an amazing jump start.

– Lineage Marketing is spearheading a campaign for DTD consisting of online branding, MySpace design, Viral and Video Marketing and Digital Word of Mouth to generate valuable online buzz.

www.myspace.com/deucetredeuce

Magnate Music (Artist HB HollaBack)

HB (a.k.a. HollaBack) is an up and coming Watts/Los Angeles, CA hip-hop artist under the Magnate Music label.

– Lineage Marketing is providing Magnate Music with online promotions for artist HB Hollaback. Campaigns consist of Video and viral marketing, Search Engine Optimization across Google/Yahoo/MSN/AOL and more, Digital Word of Mouth, WEB 2.0 Optimization and Interactivity, measurable Analytics, and online branding. www.myspace.com/hbhollaback

(Look out soon for the redesign of HB HollaBack Myspace profile.)

Check out HB Videos at www.youtube.com/hbhollaback

ReeferPoker.com

A online poker community built around the “420” movement where users can enjoy hours and hours of videos, chats sessions, and a good hand at poker.

– Lineage Marketing is proud to introduce its first, and not the last, online gaming client. We are currently providing online cross promotions with a variety of business-to-business relationships while growing user acquisition to the ReeferPoker community site and tournaments. www.reeferpoker.com

Thank you all for being a valued client, we look forward to harnessing professional and measurable results for you.

LINEAGE MARKETING OFFICIAL BLOG “Strictly for the Urban Geek”

www.LineageMarketing.blogspot.com Ya-Dig!

Ya-Dig is all about New-Media and Interactive Marketing for the urban Geek and the people that are new to this online world wanting to find more. From Gaming to Web 2.0 and Mobile, stay up to date on what’s hot and what’s not in the tech industry. Don't get left behind.

Are you having a sexual relationship with your mobile phone?

Hey everyone,

please bear with me as I catch up on a lot of things. Man it sucks re-installing your entire program after your computer has crashed, but enough with my lame excuses.

Recently I did a little survey to see how many people are having sexual relationships with their mobile phones. Okay it's not really sexual relationships, but more of an unconscious interdependency. The survey was more for fun to see what people had to say. But I found that people are really dependent on their cell phone.

I ask the following questions to people, (and all those who would like to, please feel free to respond by commenting on my blog with your own responses).

What’s up friends from the past and the present day, I am doing a study to see how many of us are cheating on our partners and am having SEX with our cell phones?

I ask that you all answer my questions honestly, and don't be ashamed because you might find out that we all do it.

Have you ever slept with your cell phone in your bed?

Do you sometimes hop out of the shower just to answer you cell phone?

Have you ever text, instant message, or talk to someone on your cell phone while you sat on the toilet?

Do you ride in your car with your cell phone in your lap?

Would get upset if (girlfriend or boyfriend) was looking through your cell phone?

What other………………let’s say different things do you do with your cell phone?

I was surprise to find that more people use their phones as alarm clocks, (yet they try to deny that the phone is in the bed with them), That they use their cell phones to store music and listen to music on their cell phones while on trains, buses, or when they are board, their cell phone is usually at arm's length at all times, and it's a true split between what would make a person more upset - finding their boyfriend or girlfriend cheating or losing a very expensive cell phone with all your data and contacts.

For many working-class and the "discretionary" poor (those whom have enough money to buy that iphone, new sneakers, and designer bags but can't afford rent, or monthly bills), their cell phones are in away their only personal computers.

Household income in the United States

So just like Dru Hill
Lyrics to Sleeping In My Bed, be careful because you might wake up to your love one only to notice that you are separated by a glowing blue light – ringing – ringing – ringing

DRU HILL LYRICS

"In My Bed"

I got this feeling, and I just can't turn it loose
That somebody's been getting next to you
I don't want to walk around knowin' I was your fool
'Cuz being the man that I am
I just can't lose my cool

My friends keep telling me about the things that's going on babe
But deep in my heart baby I hope that I'm wrong
Yes I hope I'm wrong but I know it babe

Somebody's sleeping in my bed, my bed baby
Somebody's takin' my place (baby)
Somebody's sleeping in my bed baby
And you know just what I mean, oh oh oh oh oh!

Holy Shyt!! Kyte.com beats live communities to the mobile punch!

Okay peoplez, this is the first time I had to combine segments, but this is too much of a coincidence.

Kyte.tv Kyte.com must be reading my thoughts, or they are just forward thinking and understand that the U.S. is in the ice ages when it comes to mobile while other countries like Korea and Japan are five years ahead of the game.

Japanese Mobile TV phone - Viera (Not available in the USA)

In my previous blog titled -

The incredible not eatable LIVE video community

I spoke about the idea of a live video streaming from both mobile phones and Webcams. Well guess what. Kyte.com has beaten the live community .com industry to the punch. (Sorry Scott, I guess I was a little to late with that idea.)



Up till now, Kyte allowed people to create their own personal TV channels on the Web by uploading videos from their cell phones to various widgets and to Kyte.tv. Today, Kyte is adding live video streaming from both mobile phones and Webcams, which is broadcast through your personal Kyte channel and archived for later viewing. So no matter if your at home or at the mall you can chat live with live video streaming. This achievement is so big and so hot that even Curtis James Jackson also known as 50 Cent lifted a eyebrow and decided to test Kyte.com out with his ThisIs50 campaign.




So there you have it Jetsons. A mobile live video community. What's next, flying skateboards?

Recommended movie for tonight - Back to the Future