tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102105272011-04-21T21:26:37.537ZMichael Bayler, innovation marketing strategist and founder of The Rights Marketing Company, comments on new trends in communications, media and entertainment. And other stuff ...Michael Baylerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08607431858595149602noreply@blogger.comBlogger3221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10210527.post-1137148070214047702006-01-13T10:27:00.000Z2006-01-13T10:27:50.370Z

... The Rights Marketing blog, which will explore the same issues, but focusing more on Media 2.0, and using WordPress. Metacoms will remain hosted here as an archive until I can figure out how to move it! Any ideas, please let me know, I'd love to hear from you ...

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A music label and website called Magnatune is attracting all sorts of attention in the blogosphere as the most acceptable online model. Their strapline hits the spot, while perhaps coming across as a little shrill: "We're not evil" ... now, who couldd they mean?

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BBC NEWS "The war in Vietnam is often referred to as the first war on television, and the wars in Afghanistan and now in Iraq will be known as the first wars to be blogged. A new generation of soldier bloggers in the US, known as milbloggers, are both fighting in the field and writing about their experiences. It is opening up a new window on modern warfare and is creating a new genre of war-time

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CNET News.com "Customers who exchange their XCP CD can either download three albums from a list of over 200 titles, or claim a cash payment of $7.50 and a free download of one album. To claim this compensation, customers must return their XCP CDs to Sony or provide the company with a receipt showing they returned or exchanged the CD at a retailer after Nov. 14." Wow ... talk about winning hearts

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p2pnet.net "How does Organized Music get to victims? Lawyer Ray Beckerman, who's been working with Santangelo since the begining, explains: A lawsuit is brought against a group of John Does with the corporate headquarters of the ISP as the location of the lawsuit. But, 'All the RIAA knows about the people it is suing is that they are the people who paid for an internet access acount for a

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Performancing.com "Over the holidays I had a chance to talk to John Battelle of FM Publishing, a new but much discussed blog ad network that's currently in beta. FM has a whole bunch of high profile bloggers working with it already, and from what I can see it looks near to making a formal debut, so it was good to get some answers from the man himself."

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ABC News "Surprised he was, and so was Cambra. When her son opened the box for the high-tech toy, he discovered the iPod that should have been there wasn't. It had apparently been replaced with some kind of mystery meat." I name this product the AtkinsPod.

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p2pnet.net "p2p news / p2pnet: There's a story in the Financial Times, one of Britain's most reputable and influential newspapers, which gives a completely distorted impression of what's happening in the world of online music. It could almost have been written by one or other of the Big Four record labels' many and various PR-cum-enforcement units such as the RIAA, IFPI or BPI. Reading it, one

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Pew Internet & American Life Project Report "How Women and Men Use the Internet: Women are catching up to men in most measures of online life. Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes."

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New York Times "Exploiting online message boards, music blogs and social networks, independent music companies are making big advances at the expense of the four global music conglomerates, whose established business model of blockbuster hits promoted through radio airplay now looks increasingly outdated."

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Pandora "It's hard for me to believe that it's been just 9 weeks since we launched Pandora. In that time you've created over 1 million stations, starting from 70,000 unique songs and artists. I really can't imagine a more gratifying response. Easily the best part of all of this has been interacting with many of you via email and in the blogosphere. Thanks for all the great product and music

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BBC NEWS "The over-50s are having an increasing impact on the UK music industry, a survey by the record labels' trade body and Age Concern suggests." Grumpy old farts on both sides of the table then ... :-)

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web2.wsj2.com "I know that many people are still struggling with what Web 2.0 means, are often confused by thinking it's purely a marketing term, or if you're like most folks, you haven't really heard about it yet. To those, I think this list will definitely help. And it's a good refresher for all of us Web 2.0 followers as well."

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adaptive path "Ajax isn?t a technology. It?s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. "

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WSJ.com "New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has subpoenaed at least three of the four global music companies as part of what one company described as 'an industry-wide investigation' into collusion on pricing of digitally downloaded music."

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BBC NEWS "A format war is looming and illegal downloads still outstripping legal ones by a ratio of three to one, despite a sustained legal onslaught by the music industry. For the record label, the battle is to persuade people to pay for the music they put on their machines. For consumers and critics of the way the music industry is handling the transition to digital music, the battle is to

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Free Press

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AdAge.comCourtesy of Adrants, oh glorious adbiz ...

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Adrants "As we endeavored to compile our list of the top ten sex-related advertising stories of 2005, we realized very quickly it would be impossible to limit the list to ten. After all, advertising and sex are so deeply intertwined it would be like coitus interruptus to place any limitations on such a project. So here, in no particular order, are the top sex-related advertising stories of 2005

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Read/WriteWeb

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Reuters.com"Media managers will get their hands dirty in 2006, experimenting with new and untested formats to find a better formula of reaching appropriate audiences."

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CNET News.com "International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites."

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Year in review: P2P retreat, iTunes advance | CNET News.com

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CNET News.com "The Big Picture is a CNET News.com special feature, connecting the dots between stories, companies, and topics within the News.com site." If you haven't seen this yet, go there now. Familar in concept, but great to see a big media player getting so user-value focused.

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Washingtonpost.com "There has been a lot of speculation about what Time Warner should do to increase its lagging stock price, and the media giant appears to be nearing a decision on the future of one of the Washington area's most significant enterprises: AOL. Although I played a key role in bringing AOL and Time Warner together six years ago, it's now my view that it would be best to 'undo' the

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iMedia Connection "eMarketer looks at Ad Age's list of leading national advertisers and analyzes ad spending trends." Internet still lagging badly despite big talk from big brands ... sad.

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The Dilbert Blog"I asked my fiance what she wants for Christmas and she was nice enough to e-mail me a specific suggestion for a hard-to-find item.I copied the product name from her e-mail, pasted it into the Froogle search engine, and found the cheapest one on the Internet. That took about 12 seconds. It took another minute to enter my address and credit card information.When it comes to

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog A very useful and thoughful list of key 2.0 apps. Shapes the space very nicely. Start here.

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BBC NEWS "Groundbreaking black US comedian Richard Pryor has died after almost 20 years with multiple sclerosis. He died at the age of 65 of a heart attack at Encino hospital near Los Angeles, his wife Jennifer Pryor said." RIP a great talent.

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CNET News.com "MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--If you're a rabid basketball fan who's wished you could get your hands on video of that one memorable shot by Michael Jordan from the Chicago Bulls play-off game you went to in 1989, the National Basketball Association may soon be able to help you out." This is an excellent and high-profile example of a whole new area of 2.0 activity that's going to go

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Blogads "You need to woo the early adopters that traditional media can't reach. You need to engage 500,000 opinion makers, not pester 100,000,000 nobodies. You need Blogads. Read by fanatics, pundits and journalists, blogs increasingly set the insider agenda. Use blogads to engage where opinions are made." Certainely a credible stance!

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InfoWorld "Microsoft Corp. will share a part of its advertising revenues from its search engine with users, the company's chairman Bill Gates said in a panel discussion on an Indian television channel." BG again demonstrating a combination of bold intent and online marketing naivete, as MS continues its PR blitz on Google's ad dominance. When will someone point out the the quality of user

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CNET News.com "Suddenly, Internet TV is hot. Networks like ABC offer hit shows through Apple Computer's iTunes download service, while established tech companies like America Online and Yahoo have beefed up their offerings of video that can be viewed via Web pages or transferred to a pocket-size gadget. Even mobile-phone providers like Sprint Nextel now offer live rock concerts and sports clips

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News.blog | CNET News.com "Bloggers are celebrating today's news that Yahoo has agreed to buy online bookmark and tagging site Del.icio.us. With only nine employee, Del.icio.us has gained a huge following in recent years. Its system of tagging and bookmarking has become a key part of many blogs and boasts some great industry thinkers as fans." Strong review of what the Yahoo!>delicious deal

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Rocketboom "We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways. Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a map with no additional overhead or costs. Also, Rocketboom is distributed online, all around the world and on demand, and thus has a much larger potential audience than any TV broadcast.

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InfoWorld

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WSJ.com 'Nuff said.

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WashingtonPost.com "Grabbing a bigger share of online advertising spending is 'of keen interest' to Microsoft Corp., chief executive Steven A. Ballmer told a Washington area gathering yesterday, outlining the business strategy behind his company's ongoing talks with Dulles-based America Online Inc." Can we talk? Exactly how does MS intend to innovate in this growing but also problematic space ..

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Insitute of Medicine of the National Acedemies"Food and beverage marketing targeted to children ages 12 and under leads them to request and consume high-calorie, low-nutrient products, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The report offers the most comprehensive review to date of the scientific evidence on the influence of food marketing on diets of children

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BBC NEWS

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WSJ.com

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WSJ.com - Real Time "Would You Pay $2.50 for a Digital-Music File? Most Wouldn't -- but They Do Email Neighbors"

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BBC NEWS "Songs by acts signed to UK indie record labels are to be made available to podcasters on a trial basis. The Association of Independent Music is selling six-month worldwide licence deals for its members' music to be used on download radio programmes."

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CNN.com "Fast forward to 2005, and Apple Computer Inc. still hasn't released a better toaster. But it has updated its all-in-one iMac G5 computer with a remote control and a program that shares many of the features of Microsoft's Media Center operating system."

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BBC NEWS"Virgin Mobile, the telecoms company backed by Sir Richard Branson, is in talks to merge with cable TV firm NTL.The deal would create a UK media and telecoms giant worth ?4.5bn ($7.8bn), with more than nine million customers."

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BusinessWeek "The Toadies broke up. It was four years ago, when Amanda Adams was 16. She drove into Dallas from suburban Plano, Tex., on a school night to hear the final two-hour set of the local rock band, which had gone national with a hit 1995 album. 'Tears were streaming down my face,' she recalls, a slight Texas lilt to her voice. During the long summer that followed, Adams turned to the Web

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p2pnet.net "Another American mother has joined the growing number of people who are refusing to be cowed by the music industry's bully-boy tactics. The Big Four Organized Music record label cartel says Debbie Foster, a registered nurse at a hospital in Oklahoma, has been sharing music without their permission. But she denies that and furthermore, says she doesn't even have a computer that works.

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adaptive path "Some of the attributes we associate with Web 2.0 were introduced and commercialized as early as the mid 1990s; let’s call these Foundation Attributes. The figure detail below is part of a PDF that separates these “significant but not sufficient” attributes from the more recent Experience Attributes, those that create the kind of value that’s caused the recent excitement over Web

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MediaPost Publications "We generate Web interaction data constantly while we're online, but this data drains into databases, never to be seen again by the average consumer. What if consumers had control over the data that site publishers and advertisers collect for behavioral targeting and countless other purposes? AttentionTrust.org believes that both consumers as well as marketers could benefit

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MediaPost Publications "AFTER A HEATED PHONE EXCHANGE with an unsatisfied customer who happened to be a blogger, PriceRitePhoto.com, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based camera e-retailer, recently found that blogosphere justice can be swift, but is rarely merciful. Thursday, around 48 hours after 'Thomas Hawk'--a pseudonymous tech and photography blogger based in San Francisco--posted a nightmare tale of hard

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MIT Advertising Lab "TiVo is beefing up their HME [home media engine] offerings by centrally hosting applications and partnering with Yahoo, whose weather, traffic, and photos are available by entering Yahoo account info on the TiVo box. Also being previewed are Internet radio (Live365), a podcasting application, Fandango movie tickets, and some games. Beta testing is scheduled to continue into

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CNET News.com "When Anita Campbell started her Web log about small-business trends two years ago, she thought it would simply be a service for her clients and help her consulting business grow. Instead, she said, the blog 'just took off,' attracting more readers than she had dreamed of. Then, companies offered to pay her to post advertisements and product mentions on her site. There were enough

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Now that's more like it!"The same device that helps TV viewers skip commercials will now be prodding them to search for ads. TiVo Inc. is partnering with several big ad firms to offer its users a system that lets them search for commercials centered around a specific topic. Expected to launch next spring, the feature comes as Madison Avenue is contemplating a number of ways to reach consumers

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Pew Internet & American Life Project Report "Some 17% of online American adults have used the internet to sell things. That amounts to approximately 25 million Americans. In addition, internet traffic data show that visits to classified ad web sites has grown 80% in the past year."

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The Codex is the definitive DIY (and award-winning) machinima poster girl. User-generated content goes postal ...

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Kaboodle is a social shopping site worth a look ...

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Pew Internet & American Life Project Report"In the aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes, 13 million Americans made donations to relief efforts online and 7 million set up their own hurricane relief efforts using the internet."

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*michael parekh on IT*

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Michael McDerment Blog "Has Web 2.0 brought an end to the sustainable competitive advantage? Look at Flickr, Delicious, even Salesforce.com (read their prospectus and they admit to have no patents and no sustainable competitive advantage) none of these companies has a defensible technology position. When I speak with savvy business people they ask: 'What is 2ndSite's sustainable competitive

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PBS | I, Cringely "Oscar Wilde said that the only thing worse than people talking about you is people NOT talking about you, and it must have been with this in mind that Microsoft recently 'leaked' two company-wide memos concerning the Redmond's new strategic direction -- its so-called Live strategy that I wrote about last week. My plan for this column had been to detail what I believe will be

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PBS | I, Cringely "Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company's strengths is key if they are going to do what I think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won't steal it or strong-arm us. They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure

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New Scientist Breaking News"Californian company TiVo plans to make life even easier for couch potatoes. The company already sells Personal Video Recorders (PVR), which can record hundreds of hours of TV and learn what programmes a person most likes in order to record future episodes. Patents filed in the US show that TiVo plans to take personalised television even further. The company is working

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New York Times "SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 - TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, plans to announce a new feature on Monday that will let TiVo owners watch recorded television shows on Apple's video iPods and on Sony's handheld PSP game machine."

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MIT Advertising Lab "'Slingbox enables consumers to watch their cable, satellite, or digital video recorder (DVR) programming from wherever they are, turning any Internet-connected laptop or desktop PC into a personal TV."

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CNET News.com "Sports broadcaster ESPN fleshed out the details of a long-planned mobile phone service on Tuesday, announcing that it will use Sanyo handsets to launch the service by the end of the year. Mobile ESPN, in the works for nearly a year, will deliver sports scores, audio and video clips, and headlines to subscribers via their cell phones, the network said. Walt Disney's ESPN first

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I was much pleased to read Ray Ozzie's point re advertiser funding of seamless services for the user. An implication here is something I articulated (largely to myself ...) a little while ago from the other side of this rickety table, the brand and agency side ... that in order to retain and maintain (indeed regain!) any kind of useful traction with the desirable customer, brands need to shift

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CNET News.com article on the new Sprint music service - sounds pretty fresh.

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CNET News.com report on the death of a powerful thinker, and a summary of his unique legacy. RIP.

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Sony BMG has been forced to back down on its DRM software, as reported in WSJ.com article ... make of it what you will.

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... by Root. Take this very seriously - these guys understand one of the very big plays in Media 2.0.

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Handy wake-up call from Real Tech News "There has been plenty of pontificating about Web 2.0 from the high-profile crowd (Nicholas Carr, Tim O%u2019Reilly and, most recently, Ray Ozzie) but what about the entrepreneurs working away with little recognition? How do they view the whole Web 2.0 phenomena as they work to to build businesses in a market where the barriers to entry are fairly low? How

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... that's consumer-generated media to you, bub ... see Intelliseek

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... detailed in intellagencia.com article. I think avatars are due for a major resurgence, but not as we currently know them, Jim.

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Very useful thoughts in Slate column by Ivan Askwith which re-assess the impact on TV of the Video iPod. Media students read this.

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Perhaps one of the wilder swings from the big boys in their bid for 2.0 glory, detailed in MIT Advertising Lab blog.

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Website for the book and its author ... looks good, I'll be coming back with review soon. Generally books on this subject are disappointing to me, but hope this is different.

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Very important and as usual thorough report, downloadable as pdf, from Pew Internet & American Life Project: "American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original

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Via Steve Rubel, a Podcasting News article lays out up and coming specs for the PSP ... loads of social potential ... maybe games will yet be good for kids!

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Useful Micro Persuasion piece from ever-reliable Steve Rubel on a startling stat for those of us following micromedia ... planners and buyers take note!

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Creating Passionate Users piece with simple "old vs new" chart lays out the new deal. Good food for thought, although knowing the marketing community they'll fuss about it and change ... sweet FA!

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Important and mercifully brief (32 pages) report from New Politics Institute ... will come back with review soon.

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MIT Advertising Lab on Fruitcast, that inserts ads into Podcasts ... interesting to see progress on this.

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LooksAtBooksI've just built a tag-based book recommendation application of my own, LooksAtBooks, for folks who want to share and gather new books on the subject of 2.0. If I can do this ...

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Adver-Belt "This new world of point-of-sale advertising for checkout counter tops is undoubtedly the prime non-utilized, rentable space in the supermarket that can generate unequal profit. They can be instantly removed and reapplied for different advertising campaigns."

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MIT Advertising Lab "Coupons Inc launched Concordance, a program that places context-sensitive coupons on publishers' sites by scanning the pages for keywords and linking them to available offers. Jeff Weitzman, Coupons' president: 'When a site visitor clicks a Concordance link, they are taken to that site's own coupon section, and that offer is sorted to the front of the microsite, but the rest

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SMSBible "SMSBible allows you to send Bible verses of your choice together with your own personal message (up to about 150 characters total) to groups of people."

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MIT Advertising Lab "The screenshot may not look like much, but you have to try Netvibes for yourself to see the future of the web. It's an Ajax application that is as graceful as Google Maps or Flickr and lets you build your own gateway to the online world in no time, with no effort, no ads and no login info. The guys just beta-launched it a couple of weeks ago, and it is going to be big."

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Opinion from PC Magazine "So what's next for advertising? It's becoming more and more apparent that mass-market advertising is so sickeningly ubiquitous that it's become an offense to many, myself included. Half-hour TV shows have only 20 minutes of content, with the rest commercials and promotions. People flock to HBO to get away from this problem. The biggest feature of TiVo and DVRs is the

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MIT Advertising Lab "The good people of Toronto got furious over their transit authority's plans to bring narrowcast television to their subway, started a campaign, put up a website claiming that 'video ads would be an additional intrusion as well as being distracting for people who are trying to relax, be social, read or think!' I am yet to see any social and relaxing people in Boston's T, but

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Yahoo! Finance "At my blinkx.tv, users can upload and store their video blogs free of charge; they can also enter a search and save it as a 'channel', which will be automatically and perpetually updated with relevant footage. This personal 'channel' can then be viewed as a single, uninterrupted media stream, either online, or when downloaded to their desktops or portable video player. In this

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MocoNews.net "UK-based Inspired Broadcast Networks has signed a deal with Coca-Cola to distribute digital content from its soft drink vending machines: this is the first such deal and Europe. These machines will sell mobile phone top-ups, ringtones and music..th content will be transferred to the purchaser's phone through their mobile operator's network, or may also be transferred directly to the

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MIT Advertising Lab "The long post in a nutshell: I think eBay wants to use Skype as a distribution platform for content, micro-paid for through PayPal and accessible on a wide range of devices."

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Yahoo! News "Advertisers are using new Web syndication technology to build ads that entice users to interact with real-time news feeds. The BBC plans to break a U.S. ad campaign next week that streams BBC.com headlines in ad units. The RSS (Really Simple Syndication) news feeds are targeted to specific media placements. For example, ad units running on entertainment sites would carry BBC

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MIT Advertising Lab "The price of memory has fallen dramatically - one megabyte cost around $7000 in 1956 when IBM launched the RAMAC 305 - and now its a matter of cents. The consequence of this? The CTO of Liberty predicts that a high-end PC or laptop in 2010 will have 60 terabytes of memory. To put that in perspective, you could save two hours of TV programming everyday for 75 years and still

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FeedTree"FeedTree brings news feed updates to users, instead of the other way around. FeedTree users work together to share news as soon as it is available. Feed updates arrive immediately, instead of on a polling schedule, making RSS as instantaneous as e-mail.FeedTree helps publishers control bandwidth. Peers in the FeedTree network cooperate to share the burden of delivering news, allowing

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Embracing the Monkeys "As this our inaugural post, in (what you'll find over time) keeping with Monkey Style, we figured that we'd go ahead and just lob the grenade right into the middle of the room and let it grow and evolve from there. That's what this is all about isn't it? We're eating our own Web 2.0 dog food here so this will seem familiar in spots since we're mashing up, collaborating and

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O'Reilly Radar"Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in

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Loomia "As more and more audio and video make their way to the Internet, it has become increasingly difficult to find things that you like. Loomia is a podcast and videocast search engine plus much more. Our goal is to help you discover, share, and manage things of interest to you. We make use of the likes and dislikes of an ever-increasing community to filter through thousands of channels to

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The Social Software Weblog I think this is one of the most useful analyses of key issues, can just about grasp it.

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A cognitive analysis of tagging "A cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular)"

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