It started with a friend making a personal plug to the right people, and word has spread like gangbusters. Apparently, I am running for President, and the frontrunner candidates are running for their political lives.
Thanks to Andrew McKinney—the man I apparently replaced as Internet phenom—for tweeting about this great little viral marketing project by PalTalk, a online video chat community.
I first experienced this technology with the Bob Dylan album promotion last year. Engineered by social media company Techlightenment to coincide with a new release of Dylan music, that flash video allowed one to superimpose messages on the placards used in the artist’s famous “Subterranean Homesick Blues” film. The PalTalk version is quite well-crafted and in most instances, the telltale Flash shimmer is hard to detect.
Like Drew, my campaign is now in trouble. Thanks to PalTalk, anyone can be an Internet phenomenon.