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August 2009

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Mickey Mouse vs. the Hulk? — Major Moves in Online Animation!

We just love animators and illustraors here at Ninthlink -- our participation at the San Diego ComiCon and involvement with planetillogica attents to our committment to artists of all types out there, in the physical and digital world. So this perked our ears up with great interest, when we heard that a major ad agency had found a way to crowdsource the largest community of animators on the web and help these folks with their campaigns. Social animation studio Aniboom entered…
August 31, 2009
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Online TV and Content Trends

We've been talking for some time on this blog abou the major growth online TV shows has had the past year, and how more major players are jumping head-first into a media platform that was generally left to the daredevils and high-stake gamblers of cyberspace. More people are seeing the writing on the wall -- or the images in the web-browser, and what kind of benefits these can reap and sow. Futurescape just released a new research report entitled The Birth of…
August 29, 2009
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CNBC wants Your Story!

Call for Content: This lingering, pesky recession has encouraged CNBC.com to take a look at how the crisis has affected Americans via user-generated video. Faces of the Recession, part of the site's ongoing Boom, Bust & Blame section, is soliciting UGC video tales about how the recession has impacted individual citizens -- YOUR LIVES.  We all have a recession story. Submit your video by Sept. 30 on CNBC.com, YouTube or CNBC's Facebook fan page.
August 25, 2009
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MySpace and Online Music Trends

There's no question that MySpace has revolutionized online music with its MySpace Music section, where many bands, known and unknown, have relied on to reach fans and offer representative songs.  Some bands exclusively use MySpace as a home webpage to announce news and gigs; some have been signed by record labels from their pages alone.  Partnerships with labels has helped with exposure. (more…)
August 20, 2009
Development

Hacker News

Master hcker  Albert Gonzales, 28, called by some "a true life Matrix Neo," was indicted in federal district court on Monday, August 17, 2009,  for carrying out credit card data theft from a staggering 130 million credit cards. (more…)
August 18, 2009