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June 2009

DesignDevelopment

Get Your Brand or Trademark into Facebook Now

Facebook's vanity URL launch  is at 12:01 ET tomorrow or 9:01 PT tonight. The change will replace cumbersome geeky URL codes with place names that follow the facebook.com address; the place to stake your claim is facebook.com/username.  It is admonished  that users will want to choose their handles carefully because they will be difficult to undue. "Think of it as a cyber tattoo," says a nameless Facebook employee.  Generic names like "baseball" aren't being allowed. Also, given the increasing importance of…
June 12, 2009
DesignDevelopment

True/Slant Provides New Avenue for Infotainment

An alternate news site coined True/Slant launched in beta yesterday with $3 million in funding from Forbes Media and Fuse Capital. Led by veteran journalist/web guru and former AOL exec,  Lewis Dvorkin, True/Slant is providing a platform for more than 100 "Entrepreneurial Journalists" who desire to utilize the web to reach readers directly in exchange for a modest stipend, a share of the ad revenue the site generates or, in some cases, an equity stake in the company. (more…)
June 9, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

A Phone is Born: the World Welcomes the Apple 3G S

Apple unveiled its next generation iPhone 3G S at its annual developer's conference, slated for release with the new iPhone 3.0 OS on June 19 -- timed almost exactly two years after the release of the first iPhone model when early adopters' contracts expire. The phone is likely to spawn a new generation of mobile video and photo applications thanks to faster processing speeds, longer battery life, easy-to-use video recording software and a real 3 megapixel camera. The autofocus camera automatically…
June 9, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

Palm Pre Hits the Streets: The Reviews Are In

The early reviews were out for the Palm Pre before its street date of June 6 and the word was hot -– the multitouch, keyboard toting, app-downloading smartphone hopes to give the iPhone a run for its click and it may very well do just that.   David Pougue of the NYTimes "leaked" praise of its graceful design and the easy functionality of its Web OS. The device's  ability to run multiple applications becomes apparent when you shrink all the open apps into the…
June 6, 2009
Marketing

New Star Trek Book Recommended

Star Trek fan?  Michael Hemmingson's latest book, Star Trek: A Post-structural Critique of the Original Series, is now out in print and e-book formats. It is the first published look at the new Star Trek movie as well. Order from Amazon.com or directly from the publisher, Borgo Press. Mobipocket e-book here.
June 4, 2009