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Update Twitter automatically with your Playstation 3 trophies

November 23, 2009 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

Twitter and Facebook integration has come to two of the big three consoles of this generation with both the Xbox 360 and PS3 now allowing you to keep updated in between games.

Although your Playstation will automatically update Facebook when you earn a new trophy in a game, apparently that functionality is missing for Twitter (I own an Xbox 360 instead so can’t test).

But Dirk Olbertz has come to the rescue – he emailed me to say that PS3Heroes.com now allows you to update your Twitter status with your new PS3 trophies.

You’ll need to register with PS3Heroes.com, add your Twitter username, and allow access via OAuth.

And that’s it done.

I’m surprised the official auto-updates favour Facebook rather than Twitter – in terms of auto-updating accounts, you’d assume the focus would be reversed – but this will solve the problem for the time being.

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Filed Under: twitter Tagged With: auto-update, facebook, playstation, post, ps3, psn, status, trophies, trophy, update

The enduring power of a good mash-up…

March 17, 2009 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

I dashed out in my car at lunchtime to run some errands, and while I was rushing around, this famous song was being played on the radio (it’s not the official video due to all the Youtube, PRS, music industry and other licensing restrictions.

But the lyrics forming in my head, and the video being pictured in my mind as I drove along was actually:

There’s probably a lot you could imply about original creations, payment mechanisms, and music industry copyrights etc…

I’ll just sit here chuckling and thinking about the quote on a T-shirt I bought from the National Gallery (is it just me that thinks their website is shocking?) recently – ‘Bad artists copy, Good artists steal’ – Picaso.

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Filed Under: Digital Culture Tagged With: Digital Culture, Digital TV/Video, mash-up, music, ps3, radio, sony, video, youtube

The power of the dead goat

April 30, 2007 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

Interestingly, and despite the amount of competition out there, it seems like I received a bit of a traffic boost yesterday.

And it’s all thanks to Sony, God of War 2, and the ‘Dead Goat‘ PR stunt.

So as much as I’ve attacked Sony for their bizarre PR approach, and the underwhelming PS3 which seems destined to be the console for those left after the twin onslaught of the Xbox 360 (Online gamers) and Nintendo Wii (Fun gamers), I’d like to offer a heartfelt thanks to the electronic giants.

And I wouldn’t mind a PSP in return, as that’s a console I feel has been underrated by the general public. Especially as it offers quite a bit more than just gaming, if you can be intrigued enough to figure out how it all works…

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Filed Under: xbox 360 Tagged With: god of war 2, nintendo wii, pr disasters, ps3, psp, sony, xbox 360

Sony PR manage to surpass even themselves…

April 29, 2007 By Dan Thornton Leave a Comment

I had to post this as soon as I spotted it, as much as I dislike linking to the Daily Mail….

After badly misjudged PR disasters like the PSP blog, and trying to promote Gran Tourismo with Project Gotham screenshots, I really did think they might have learned, and I did have to check this wasn’t a late April Fools joke…

But no. Some PR and marketing genius decided it was a good idea to promote God of War 2 with a party at which visitors were invited to eat food from the inside of a still-warm dead goat.

Admittedly the offal inside had been procured elsewhere, as actually eating a dead goat would obviously be foolish….far better to use it as a kind of food-warmer…

There was a full feature in the official Sony Playstation mag, but now the 80,000 print run has had to be scrapped and the feature on the launch removed. You have to wonder how many PS3 buyers will be reading the Daily Mail as opposed to the official mag…

So that’s three disasters in just a few months… Can’t wait to see the next one…

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