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June 2009

Development

Attention Dudes! Man Cave Mania — Call for Content!

DIY Network is teaming up with MLB Network offering to put together a baseball themed "man cave" to the guy who wants do it the most. Upload a video from June 12 to July 24 explaining what you will do in your cave to DIYnetwork.com and DIY will feature the winning renovation project on a special edition of Man Caves on Sept. 29. What, ask ladies out there, is a "man cave" exactly?  Married women know. According to urban dictionary.com:…
June 4, 2009
DesignDevelopmentMarketing

Recent Trends @ Sony

As Sony is one of the leading innovators in online trend-setting, here's a look at some of the things Sony has been up to... The company is set to unveil its new smaller, lighter version of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) portable gaming device, details of which were leaked during a interview on Qore, Sony's online gaming magazine featuring Veronica Belmont. (Here's the June edition on YouTube.)  (more…)
June 4, 2009
DevelopmentMarketing

The Buzz at BeeTV — Relevance and the Consumer’s Needs

Online television recommendation engine BeeTV has raised $8 million in second round financing led by Italian VC fund Innogest. BeeTV does for TV viewers what Amazon does for readers, ingesting likes and dislikes by tracking viewing habits then curating personally contoured line-ups of programming. BeeTV's proprietary, contextual matching algorithm not only tracks favorite genres; it also attempts to anticipate moods by calling into account dayparts, context, demographics and behavior.   (more…)
June 4, 2009
Design

Wednesday’s Goldmine : TheMarkerBar.com

Sitting here in the conference room with the doors and windows closed and Jeromy architecting with a massive Sharpie marker, the fumes started flowing and Russell and I started ideating. There are all kinds of Hookah bars, right? Well, what about a Marker Bar? (more…)
June 3, 2009