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On Friday last week, there was a great piece by Julia Beizer in the Washington Post Express about a different category of fantasy games that offer an alternative to Fantasy Football. Now officially giving up on my Fantasy Football team after losing my two star players in back to back weeks to season ending injuries, … Read more
In this month’s issued of Wired Magazine, there was a profile of Soundbombs, an innovative new concept designed to merge audio with physical experiences to bring a new dimension to just about anything from billboards to art. As unique as the concept is, the distribution strategy is even more so … with Felix Beck, creator … Read more
As more and more content gets posted online by organizations and individuals, the barriers to finding the content that truly matters are getting higher. Search algorithms are valuable for helping to sort through this information, but unfortunately the automated approach can only go so far and falls short when it comes to less well recognized … Read more
One of the more popular blogs on marketing and PR today is Media Orchard. Scott’s "Pick of the Orchard" are very useful daily posts on the top five or so marketing and PR related links worth reading online. Piers does the same thing on marketing news and trends on both PSFK and Marktd. Every once … Read more
After much fanfare over the last few weeks, The Da Vinci Code opens in theaters across the US today. Though some early reviews from the Cannes Film Festival premier have been less than perfect, there is no denying that the marketing machine behind the film has generated buzzworthy firsts, from partnering with Google to open … Read more
Anyone in the marketing and advertising industry has probably followed the evolution of product placement on TV and in films with interest. With the Tivo phenomenon changing how consumers view (or skip) the 30 second spot, some say the future of television is in product placements. But what about product placement and sponsorship on blogs? … Read more
The phenomenon of Internet users sharing their opinions about products and services online is well into the mainstream now, with large etailers like Amazon.com encouraging customer reviews, sites like TripAdvisor asking travellers to review lodging in destinations around the world and ratings systems for buyers to evaluate sellers on sites like ebay and others. Online, … Read more
One of the things I have noted over the past year of blogging is that this blog receives a significant amount of traffic from locations outside of the US. Intended or not, this blog has a global audience. But like most of my fellow bloggers based in a single country, I don’t do much to … Read more
The Trend:The same perceived lack of structure on the web that originally led Jerry Yang to create the first Yahoo Internet Directory is causing one of the most prevalent trends online today, the rise of human search filters. Search engines are getting more sophisticated as algorithms get refined for every new spammers trick – to … Read more
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