Media + Entertainment
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Adobe, in a bid to increase the proliferation of Flash and Air installations across platforms and devices, launched “The Open Screen Project” and removed all licensing fees for the next release of their players.
The project supporters include “Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, ...
Tags: Adobe, flash, Mobile, set top boxes, wireless
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 21st, 2008
In this age of microblogging and social integration, it is nice to run across a site that has a singular purpose. Idiomag, a music magazine, combines the "web 2.0" mentality of community and integration, with the clear focus of creating a personalized music magazine.
So what exactly is Idiomag?
"Idiomag is a ...
Tags: hype machine, idiomag, itunes, last.fm, mp3, music, muxtape, myspace, pandora, purevolume
Posted in Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Web 2.0 | 4 Comments »
Friday, April 18th, 2008
ComScore came out with some interesting data around internet usage and TV viewing habits recently.
Marv Pollack, who posted his findings on the ComScore Blog, found that "during most waking hours, more people (age 15+) are using the Internet than are watching television. It is only for the last two hours ...
Tags: Advertising, Analytics, broadband, comscore, consumer behavior, graphs, statistics, tactics, tv, usage, video
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Media + Entertainment | No Comments »
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Yesterday at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, Yahoo introduced the new version of their Mobile search. This latest incarnation of mobile search lets Web Publishers integrate search into their mobile sites. In my opinion, Yahoo is the leader in the mobile web application department. At least ...
Tags: CTIA, Mobile, oneSEARCh, search, Voice, wireless, yahoo
Posted in Advertising, Media + Entertainment, Mobile | No Comments »
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Who would think that uniquely digital re-invention of the much beloved (and seriously antiquated) mix tape would be setting the music blogsphere atwitter in 2008? It's called Muxtape and it's a ridiculously simple site built around music sharing and discovery. Created by former Vimeo/IAC developer Justin Ouellete, the site allows ...
Tags: hype machine, itunes, last.fm, mp3, music, muxtape, sonic youth, thurston moore, vimeo
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Social Media, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
I woke up this morning and checked my Gmail and saw a new feature alert for “Google Custom Time":
I thought to myself ... er this could be a dangerous feature and not inline with Google’s ‘do no evil’ policy and thought no more of it. Then as the day went ...
Tags: amnesia, April Fools Day, banners, digg, google, mars, virgile, virgin, Web Jokes
Posted in Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Technology | 3 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Wired Editor Chris Anderson has had a profound effect on the internet industry with his book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. One of the key tenets of his theory, for the music industry, was that self-publishing and digital distribution via the internet ...
Tags: birdmonster, chris anderson, diy, long tail, lou reed, record labels, sales, self-publishing, sxsw, wired magazine
Posted in Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0, eCommerce | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Photo Source: Wired Blog
Referred to by some industry analysts as a train wreck interview, there is no shortage of opinions debating the merits of Sarah Lacey's keynote interview with Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook. I will leave it up to the blogosphere, twitter, Cnet and Wired to ...
Tags: facebook, keynote, social networks, sxsw interactive
Posted in Advertising, Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Monday, March 10th, 2008
I went to Jason Fried’s talk about what he’s learned from starting 37 Signals, the Chicago-based company responsible for Basecamp and Highrise. With his no nonsense and thoughtful approach to running a company it is easy to appreciate why 37 Signals is such a phenomenal success. His panel was intelligent ...
Tags: 37 signals, advice, good process
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
A lively and thought provoking panel between Henry Jenkins (MIT professor and Cultural Theorist) and Stephen Johnson, CEO of outside.in and author.
Photo Source: ArMiller
Here were some of the main takeaways:
New forms of learning are emerging and Jenkins and Johnson argued that today’s youth culture is not dumber. The youth ...
Tags: civic action, engagement, knowledge, learning, new media, Youth culture
Posted in Digital Branding, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
SxSW Interactive is now well and truly underway. The crowds have gathered. This year the Interactive Festival is expecting more than 7500 attendees drawn from all walks of life including designers, developers, usability professionals, start ups, consultants, authors, tech evangelists, cultural theorists, project managers, bloggers and journalists to name ...
Tags: 2008, sxsw, sxswinteractive
Posted in Design Tactics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Reviews, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, March 7th, 2008
Like many of you, we too are packing our bags for this years' SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. The schedule, events and party list are truly Texas-sized (i.e. ridiculously big and somewhat overwhelming). Nonetheless, we are prepared to take it all in and perhaps do some light posting.
Avenue A ...
Tags: , agency, event, interactive, iphone, Social Media, sxsw
Posted in Advertising, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Mobile, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, February 29th, 2008
From the Avenue A | Razorfish's Digital Outlook Report...my take on why marketers, advertisers and web site publishers are still placing too much emphasis on the role of the home page in the consumer experience when all of the data is telling us to do otherwise.
ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, ...
Tags: , Analytics, consumer behavior, entertainment, home page, media, publishing, tracking
Posted in Advertising, Analytics, Digital Consumer Behavior, Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
Friday, February 15th, 2008
Get ready for the next wave of digital display and video advertising. From today's New York Times:On Thursday, Google started testing video ads on some pages of search results. And it is developing ad formats with images, interactive maps and other more elaborate features.Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search ...
Tags: ads, Advertising, google, Media + Entertainment, role, search, test, video, Web 2.0
Posted in Advertising, Media + Entertainment, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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