September 29, 2008 in Connected TV, Innovation & Technology, Product & Service Reviews
What do people really want? Not TV on the Web, but TV on demand. The Web is just the only place to get it. Sure, Hulu’s grown in popularity. But ask the average person why they watch it so much versus television and you’ll likely get the answer “because I can only find that content [...]
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July 16, 2008 in Connected TV, Sponsored Items, Video Games
Dailymotion just posted new game trailers from E3 at http://www.dailymotion.com/Gametrailers. Even if you don’t like video games, the quality is amazing. If you’re a fan of CG animated movies, you’ll see how the line between movie entertainment and video games grows thinner every day.
Here’s what they have so far:
Lord of the Rings: Conquest – E3 [...]
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July 10, 2008 in Advertising, Product & Service Reviews
For bloggers and other online media publishers wanting to photos without worrying about royalties, PicApp has been a great tool with an ad supported photo bank.
Now Picapp has announced a partnership with Splash News to deliver celebrity photos. Given the numerous personal and professional (but without photo budget) blogs out there devoted to celebrity [...]
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July 6, 2008 in Advertising, Online Brand Marketing, Product & Service Reviews
We received our beta invitation to the Google Ad Planner and quickly gave it a test run. Our first impression? Intuitive, fast and easy. Once again, Google shows that while they are an engineering and advertising driven company, they know how to design and interface that keeps us productive (not frustrated). That leads to a [...]
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July 4, 2008 in Online Brand Marketing, Product & Service Reviews, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization
We’ve been testing Compete.com’s new pro search analytics. Among the more interesting functions is the ability to see the top search words for behavioral interests. We took a look at family interest and were surprised at the results. While they may not represent all family interests, as the topics lean toward online activities for children, [...]
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July 2, 2008 in Marketing, PR and Social Media, Product & Service Reviews
Imagine there was a way to know what people are thinking while they’re looking at online media like pictures and videos. Think about how useful that information could be for data mining, or even for creating highly-targeted advertising campaigns. While a tool with that kind of power may be difficult to conceive of, Entertainment Media [...]
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June 27, 2008 in Connected TV, Distribution
Sony has confirmed that the Playstation 3 will deliver downloaded movies and TV. This is probably no surprise to PS3 owners who have had an empty video store sitting on their consoles. But while everyone can assume the best (DVDs die) or worst (the store stays limited to Sony movies), the implication of this store [...]
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June 26, 2008 in Business Tools
Zoho Show, part of the Zoho suite of web applications, has updated its tool set for Web collaboration and presentations. There are several key new features for professionals using it to market in digital media format.
Export to PPT, PPS, PDF, ODP
Picasa Integration – Like many, I use Picasa to store photos from work. [...]
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June 25, 2008 in Mobile, Product & Service Reviews
Verizon announced they will offer Loopt social mapping to their wireless subscribers. Loopt’s location based service lets people share their location using mobile maps, tag content (such as photos) with location information and send information to blogs and other online properties. As we are seeing with other serivces, Loopt has privacy features to allow users [...]
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June 8, 2008 in Connected TV
When Sony announced the first original video series for the Playstation 3, the first reaction from a lot of people was “what the….” Why would anyone pay a few dollars per episode for what is essentially a video that markets Playstation 3 content? Yes, it takes you behind the scenes. But is that worth money? [...]
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